How to share a hostel room & not be an idiot
Hostel rooms are not for the faint-hearted. Here are some tips to help maintain your sanity and not piss everyone off.
Tag Archive: opinion
Love’s voice is louder than hate. #lovewins
The colours of the rainbow brightened our Facebook newsfeeds last week as users updated their profile pictures in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in favour of marriage equality. Same-sex couples can… Read More
Only Lovers Left Alive, the beauty of being
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbxI_oRSKI Only a side-effect, but already quite some achievement: With his latest movie, Jim Jarmusch saved the genre of vampire movies from hyped over-produced teen-kitsch… Only Lovers Left Alive is much more a road-movie… Read More
Cheap Living Vs Being a Dirty Hipster
Part One: The Ownership of Cool. Poor is cool, you know, as long as it’s the right kind. The ‘correct’ type of poor in the West usually involves being young, educated, not-on-too-many-drugs and… Read More
Breaking up with American Apparel
When you write a break-up letter and don’t hear back you know it’s really over, as somethingyousaid’s Oliver Heath discovers: We were done, and I’d decided to pull the plug in a letter,… Read More
Opinion: The Whole Food Contradiction
Katherine Helps has a tongue-in-cheek rant… An Open Letter to Self-Satisfied Yogis Everywhere, Dear Enlightened One, I see you. In that blouse that you bought from Free People at an exorbitant price regardless… Read More
Guangzhou, pollution & nature paraphernalia
Australian Stephanie Cobon is currently living in China. Following last week’s eventful visit to the hospital, this week she’s getting mighty confused by nature paraphernalia: Back in Sydney, my old housemate puts on workshops… Read More
Why I went vegan, by Keely Thurecht
When we interviewed Brisbane-based model Keely Thurecht recently, she mentioned how she changed from being a BLT, milk and ice cream lover to being a fully committed vegan. We asked her to tell us more: … Read More
Why Secrets & Lies should be Secrets & Live
The Internet exploded and HBO GO crashed during the much-hyped season finale of True Detective in the US yesterday. In Australia, fans were watching it last night either on Showcase where it was… Read More
Thoughts on being here and now
Lisa Says is currently playing serious catch-up with popular culture, but wonders if staying up-to-date is worth the required effort: All yesterday’s parties. Things that happened in 2013 and everybody knew about except me…… Read More