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You Sexy Thing / T Shirt

Calling a band a "one hit wonder" is very rude, as they usually have a string of hits unknown to the common man, but T Shirt are one of those strange acceptions where they actually ARE a one hit wonder band. They literally dropped one single only and then peaced out.

One of the members Miranda Cooper is part of the successful song writing collective Xenomania who has worked with Aussie talents Kylie and Dannii Minogue, and Gabriella Cilmi, as well as international artists such as The Pet Shop Boys, Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Cher.

So, while their own band only had one hit, Miranda has helped to write many hits for many people.

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Dolly Mag April 2008

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Popstars The Making of Bardot (2000) VHS Sleeve

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Mixed Cds vs Mixed Tapes

I am a purest when it comes to making a mixed compilation. I believe that my first point of contact for doing this is to painstakingly make a mixed cassette before a mixed CD. Preferably making the art while the tape is recording.

I've been known to make mix CDs, heck it was how I flirted with my partner way back when. We would make artworks for them and exchange our mixes with lengthy notes about what the songs meant to us. At this point in my life, I was into living like a lead in an 2000s/2010's indie flick and making mixes was my lifestyle. Then at some point, I got back into recording onto cassette tapes.

Before this era of making proper mixed tapes, I was too young to get the concept and used them to attempt recording off the radio. I didn't really get into recording from CD's to tape as I already had those songs. It seemed redundant. Then somewhere around 2013, I realized I could plug the aux cord from my laptop into the stereo and record from iTunes and Youtube, and in a few years later, record straight from Spotify.

My obsession with making great mixed tapes went on from there. The artwork is a crucial part of the process. It is integral that you have great artwork for your mix. It is a must. I had to get the timing right, or as close to right as I could. Pressing "record" at the right time to ensure there was enough space for each song on each side. Trying to find a short as possible song that wasn't annoying to end on if there wasn't enough space for the preferred song. A few tapes have error sounds and click sounds from my computer whilst recording and I kind of like that. Perfect imperfections.

My main rule is to try to not have the same songs on each mix (accidentally putting on is forgiven, but it is disappointing). If is already on another mixed CD or Cassette, don't add it into the mix unless absolutely necessary.

This was because in my days of childhood, I would burn the same songs onto so many CDs, and often songs from my parents CD collection and songs from other burnt CDs that friends would make me on sleepovers. This meant you would get the theme from "Footloose" in between the same four High School Musical songs, the Grease mega mix, half of Avril Lavigne's first album and Hilary Duff songs from her compilation CD. All the while being mixed in-between the same songs from my Pepsi Hits of 2004 CD and various B.E.P songs. This makes for a terrible mixed CD. I didn't even like the theme from "Footloose".

That style of mixed taping segwayed into me discovering Limewire and going completely bananas filling up the computer with thousands of songs for my MP3 player, which I had to burn onto CDs to save their lives because my Dad wanted me to delete the music so we could free the space up again.

The love and care I put into these mixes was so tiring that they were a biannual occurrence. A delicacy only to be enjoyed at the right time.

Quite recently my parent's stereo that we've had in the family for an estimated 24 years decided to stop holding down the record button for me. Perhaps this is something to do with the band inside the machine. Call me crazy, but I am the kind of person who only wants to pay a professional to fix these type of machines, and not root around with it myself. What if I break it more? That would really stuff things up for me then. But where are all of the professionals? Retired. Nobody seems to value old technology the way I do. Not in my town.

So, on Friday I bought myself a new disk drive because my cheap one from eBay is cactus and have decided to get back into making mixed CDs.

I am still trying to force myself to design the cardboard slip cases in photoshop, but that excitement I have for making a mixed cassette hasn't fallen onto making a mixed CD yet. For whatever reason, it feels like I am cheating to do it this way. Despite knowing that older mixed cassette makers will probably think my method of plugging my laptop into the aux cord is a cheats way of making a mix because technically I can just load up a Spotify playlist and hit play, then stop it at the right time, and then press record again to finish side B.

I suppose we all have our little quirks when it comes to making a mixed whatever. Cassette, CD, minidisk... At the end of the day, it's all piracy baby and no method is superior to the other.

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Feeling bored? Peruse my DVD shelves.

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My Teenage iPod Years Playlist

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Bratz Liptunes MP3 Player - 2007

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fav terrible outfits 💖

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Your NYE style based on if you’re naughty or nice (CosmoGirl! - Dec 2000/Jan 2001)

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Holly Candy’s (nèe Valance) spray at Australia and Greta Thunberg | news.com.au — Australia’s leading news site

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/holly-candy-issues-scathing-takedown-of-greta-thunberg-in-rare-tv-interview/news-story/375f781d153c75d76777d2e487d151bd

The older I get, the worse her opinions become. Holly Candy (nèe Valance) isn't content with not being trash. I don't know if she has always been trashy or if something flipped in her. Bitchtits could have kept her shit together, and the gay community would have celebrated her mediocre 2000s career and we could have gotten a few vinyl reissues... But she just wants to run her mouth over and over.

As for Kyle Sandilands, I am absolutely sick of this asshole opening his mouth and farting into the mic.

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Dolly Mag March 2009

Faustina "Fuzzy" Agolley was everywhere at some point, hosting Video Hits and Channel [V] and repping Bonds. She wore bright colours and a beautiful smile. One day she was in all the magazines and then the next she wasn't. You don't know what you've got till they're gone. For me, Fuzzy represents "TV culture"; knowing who a presenter is because I would see them regularly because I watched TV on the reg. Now I only "watch TV" via streaming apps. I know of no one, now. TV personalities and presenters are terms that have lost meaning and significance. I suppose TikTok took over this profession.

Side note, I love how everyone was so obsessed with the 80s back in the late 2000s. In the early 2000s there was a 70s phase, in the 90s there was a 60s phase. It all comes back with a vengeance.

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I was obsessed with having a Veronica B party as a kid, but a) we lived 3.5 hrs away from the closest big city (at that point, the freeway to Melbourne didn't exist) amd b) we were a single income household and probably more importantly c) Mum could buy cheap shit bits for my parties in the local Dimmies store so why fork out elsewhere?

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Hula Hair Barbie’s and Style Me Pretty Styling Heads (1996 & 1997)

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Dolly Mag Sep, 2002

I've been collecting clothes to dress like this lately. It's 2000s indie sleaze and this style was still pretty hip up to late 2007, thanks to shows like Veronica Mars and The O.C.

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Total Girl Magazine October 03

Total Girl and Barbie Mag probably had shares in Nikki Webster with the amount of times they published her.

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Total Girl Magazine October 03

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Make You Own Music Video! - Total Girl Magazine Jan '03

The aesthetic for this spread is so awesome and of the time. I want those little photographic promo cards. They look like they come as a set from what I assume is Sony records.