We are going old-school today – in song, but not in links
Category: links
The next linkspam already!
[Sad confession: we have no song this week. “The next linkspam already!” is the placeholder title I put in when I created this draft on Friday afternoon last week. We’re just really busy, okay?]
25 Years On, Melina Marchetta Tells Us Everything You Want To Know About ‘Looking For Alibrandi’ (She also discusses Dance Academy!)
Wellness, Womanhood, and the West: How Goop Profits From Endless Illness
Highlight:
(In Goop’s framing, “the East,” a place that’s never identified as an actual geographic location, doesn’t have cardiologists or pharmaceuticals. It is also, the literature implies, free of disease.)
Tracey Thorn: the unbearable whiteness of Britpop
Books For Girls – Kill Your Darlings looks at The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas and the dismissal of YA as a category with potential literary merit.
It shouldn’t be surprising that a novel about a teenage girl might have something interesting or insightful to say.
Shop owner says cashless welfare card has left him $100,000 short
Why the Reef will never be the same again
Video Explores Sci-Fi Trope Of Women Who Are ‘Born Sexy Yesterday’
sick with links
That Robyn Loau didn’t go on to a long, successful career is one of the great injustices of Australian music.
ride this linkspam
Look, if Stephanie keeps leaving the choice of linkspam song in my hands, I’m just gonna keep on raiding the Dance Academy soundtrack.
links for rent
Iiiiit’s Friday! Did we forget all about linkspam last week? STOP JUDGING US.
pieces of the linkspam
Yes, I am going through the Dance Academy soundtrack, how clever of you to notice!
…I wonder if the movie’s going to get a soundtrack? And if the budget extends to Lorde, the unintentional narrator of Tara Webster’s life?
those great whites, they have big links
For once, we had this week’s song chosen more than five minutes before the post went live … and then Lorde released her new song, and it’s about sharks.
(It mentions sharks once.)
(The shark is a metaphor.)
I like your old links better than your new links
Have we done this song before? Doesn’t matter, it’s a classic.
Continue reading “I like your old links better than your new links”
now I’m linking for you again
Remember when Sia was an indie type best known for mid-level rotation on Triple J? How far she’s come!
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