Category Archive: opinion

Music: a game of Truth or Dare

Ever found yourself reluctantly admitting to loving a band you just didn’t? Or praising the incredibly unique composition of your then-boyfriend’s all time favorite song? Or how’s about going so far as to… Read More

Joy Division. Play Loud Or Perish

THE BEST ALBUM NEVER MADE? – by g. william rex We all have “defining” moments of varying intensity in our lives. One of mine occurred thirty-three years ago. I had just finished law… Read More

Alcohol and the Wonderful Decline

Somethingyousaid.com’s Elfy Scott questions her love/hate relationship with booze.  I wake to debilitating nausea and the sense that I’m not entirely sure which one of my orifices is about to erupt. My morning… Read More

How to completely fail at detoxing

Somethingyousaid.com’s Sonia Clarke promises to treat her body like a temple, but the struggle continues. Residing in Sydney – global centre for body fascism – many is the Monday morning when I solemnly… Read More

Hey, don’t call models floozies!

Oliver Heath looks at the culture of accepted sexism that was illustrated by his experiences at Fashion Week: I love making fashion videos. Occasionally it’s avant garde, but mostly it’s like being at… Read More

Read This Before You Play Music In Public

These are the rules. I didn’t make them up. These are inalienable truths, a part of the divine spectrum of unquestionable constants that hold our universe together. There might be those who feel… Read More

How to buy a drink & not be an idiot

Right, listen up, because bartender Jess Matthews is dispensing invaluable advice on the etiquette of ordering drinks: The world of hospitality spins on a completely different axis to the rest of the ‘normal’… Read More

The Commercialism of Valentine’s Day

The Commercialism of Valentine’s Day, and why I’ll be spending it alone this year… Everyone knows that February the fourteenth is Valentine’s Day, a time to show your loved one just how much… Read More

Is desire essential to the human experience?

Just like The Rolling Stones, Tammy Potakh can’t always get what she wants, which made her wonder about the nature of desire. Here are her thoughts: I often hear the words “you always… Read More

“I’m a Part-time Model,” by Elfy Scott

Elfy Scott takes us into the world of a part time model, which is less Paris, New York or Milan glamour and more chasing that Google Maps blue dot around inner city streets: Speaking with… Read More

Cunts vs Sluts, by Elfy Scott

Today, Elfy Scott discusses language in a very not safe for work way. If curse words offend you, stay away. If they don’t, then get stuck in to this fine piece of writing: … Read More

When innovative music was the norm

Every now and then my father will email me a Youtube clip of some wildly inspiring live footage from the 1960’s 0r 70s. Be it an obscure yet reverent folk guitarist, such as… Read More