Blogger Confidential

So this post should really be called Blogger Confidentiality but I thought blogger confidential sounded better. Call me vain and throw me in a pot of boiling water. So be it.

Anyway, I grapple with the blogger thing. I would like to do outfit posts but am worried about revealing too much of myself via the internet. To put this in perspective, I nearly died last week when I realised my privacy settings on facebook were not, in fact, very private at all. This problem was quickly rectified.

This is why I found the latest post by Stylelines really refreshing - the lovely Kat George posted a 'normal' yet very pretty picture of herself. I'm sick of the uber polished, dressed to perfection photos common on many fashion blogs and just want to see some normal people wearing normal outfits. I'm sure most style bloggers photoshop and 'fix up' their outfit photos before posting.

While these are two distinct issues, I feel they are connected. Are fashion blogs, and other social media mediums just a means for us to show others how perfect our lives are? How much should we reveal of ourselves on the internet?

To all the bloggers out there, tell me, how do you decide what is and what is not appropriate to reveal on the net?

Splendour in the grass 2010

So the Splendour line up was announced yesterday and I can describe it in one word, ok maybe two: freakishly amazing! So many great Australian and international artists! Then i sussed out ticket prices: freakishly expensive! So my dream of attending Splendour 2010 was shortlived when tickets, flights, accomodation were all factored in. Oh well, the feeling was good while it lasted!

Anyone planning on trying to get a ticket?

I want ...

I want ...  this jacket. I know I can't have it. It is probably too 'out there' for me anyhow. There's just something about it, a Victorian vibe that I get.

Pic: violentgreen.blogspot.com

xoxo

Love: Popular Penguins

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen. - Lady Chatterley's Lover

I love books. Especially books I am excited and motivated to read unlike the oversized casebooks and water management textbooks currently cluttering up my desk! Sigh, the joys of studenthood.

Since the middle of last year I have been developing quite the collection of Popular Penguins, both new and old. At $9.95 a pop, they are truly affordable. I try to pick out one new book a week, in addition to scouring opp shops and savers for bargain books. Was excited to hear that the new range of Popular Penguins is being released in July 2010 - not long to go now! Some fantastic titles and new discoveries are to be found. 

Here is a list of my picks: 

The Beautiful and the Damned (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The Poems of John Keats (J. Keats maybe)

Scoop (Evelyn Waugh - this is my favourite book - incredibly funny!)

Washington Square (Henry James)

any many many more! Check them out here!

Currently reading: Lady Chatterley's Lover