Life, Love and the Everyday

Kasey Chambers is my favourite Australian singer. The first song I ever heard was "Am I Not Pretty Enough?" and that song really resonated with me throughout my teen years because I battled with body-image and self-consciousness. In my early twenties I changed my tune to "Rattlin' Bones" because for me that song was about paying my dues and facing my past. The Captain - feeling unworthy in the eyes of someone else, a song played off and on these past few years. We're All Gonna Die Someday is my all-time karaoke favourite and I cried the first time I heard Summer-Pillow. But my song of the year is The Quiet Life, Kasey Chambers wrote it with her ex-husband Shane Nicholson. It's a song about two people finding happiness in the wide open space of the country-side and contentment in the everyday with each other. It has beautiful lyrics and a soothing, sweet harmony. When I first listened to the song a few months ago, I found myself craving a more sim...

Many years ago at the tender age of thirteen, I went on my first date and saw Big Fat Liar starring Frankie Muniz. I had such a big crush on him back in the day! Big Fat Liar is about this kid who tells tall-tales and writes a story called Big Fat Liar for summer school home-work and somehow the story ends up in the hands of a big-time producer with the grin of a shark who steals the story and turns it into a script for a movie and Frankie Muniz's character has to prove that he was the real writer. One of the lines I got from that movie is 'The truth is overrated.' At the time I thought there was nothing scarier than having your Mum and kid-sister sitting three rows back to chaperone. Sixteen years is a lot of time to contemplate on things that scare me more. There are lots of things that scare me. Real and imagined. But what scares me more these days is the truth. Sometimes what we believe is the truth, isn't the truth. The truth isn't overr...