Category Archive: lifestyle

How to go to a festival and not be a fuckwit

Going to a festival is HARD WORK. There’s set times to balance, mental weather conditions to endure, potent beverages to be consumed in dangerous quantities, police dogs to avoid, fake tan to be applied,… Read More

Top 10 craziest ever proposals

Before your dream wedding can flawlessly unfold there must be a proposal. And after too many Hugh Grant rom-coms during our teenage years, we’ve all come to expect the perfect engagement. It isn’t… Read More

Kinder, Star Wars & forced perspective

Imagine if Yoda landed in Australia today? Would he head to Circular Quay? Check out all those hippy-dippy shops in Newtown? What about if Darth Vader found himself Downunder? What would he do? To… Read More

Art: Venice and the Biennale

Somethingyousaid.com’s Carol Bowditch checked out the 55th incarnation of the Biennale in Italy’s watery city: The romance of a city drowned in water, with neat winding lanes, no cars and chocolate shops in excess had initially… Read More

Arriving soon: Smirnoff Double Black

You know frustrating it is when you see interminable trailers at the cinema which essentially reveal the movie’s entire plot, to the extent that you probably don’t have to bother seeing it anymore?… Read More

A meditation on joy via a Welsh Elvis Festival

Somethingyousaid.com’s Tom Spooner spends quality time in Wales with some Elvis impersonators: Joy takes you by surprise. It can hit you like a freight train or rise up inside you like bubbles blown in… Read More

We won a Pedestrian Blogster Award!

Somethingyousaid.com’s Founder and Editor, Bobby Townsend, enjoys the sweet smell of victory: I was thirteen when I last won something. It was at a football camp. I won the keepy-up competition. So for… Read More

Travel: Berlin for Cheapskates

While recently covering the Berlin Festival for Something You Said, Carol Bowditch set aside a few days to take in the German capital. Follow her comprehensive list of grand things to do and you’ll still have… Read More

Flowers: An Expression of Love

Flowers: An Expression of Love Not Reserved for Valentine’s Day Flowers, one of nature’s most beautiful offerings, are a tried-and-true gift idea for many occasions. However, while giving them for holidays is a… Read More

My ill-fated run-ins with flying

The premier sat cross-legged on a leather couch ensconced within the Queensland Government’s private hangar on the outskirts of Brisbane, her attention too often focused on her left forearm as she repeatedly gauged… Read More

Gay or Nay? How to have good Gaydar

According to Something You Said’s Tammy Potakh and Ty Tong, having a good Gaydar is important these days if you’re in the single-and-struggling-to-mingle gang. Here are their thoughts on how to improve your… Read More

How To: Decorate on a budget

One of the many joys of Sydney’s rental market (alongside such delights as having to provide a comprehensive life-history and the promise of your first-born to secure a lease), is the fact that… Read More