I must admit that I was very late in purchasing the bi-monthly Frankie. Usually I would purchase it as soon as it arrives fresh on the stands of my local Newsagency but not this time. I think most of it has to do with the model on the cover - I find her a bit creepy than the usual sweet models they have on the cover. Then there is the issue of whether my love for Frankie is waning. I have thoroughly enjoyed Frankie, but I admit that I am getting tired of the Grandma-esque related articles and the lack of fashion styling in comparison to other mags. However, I’m willing to still give Frankie a go (I have recently stopped purchasing Yen). These are just a few of my favourite things from Frankie this month:

1. I definitely need to get me one of these tree beds, retailing at $15,000 after 250 hours of work by the Jealous Curator. The bed was made for a gardener who wanted to sleep in something organic.

2. I love the Frankie posters that come ready to be ripped out. Reminds me of as a teenager and buying Smash/TV Hits with all those band posters. Back then it was all about these posters. The artist this month is Ghost Patrol. I adore the fine ink drawing.

3. Designer, Black Milk, devoted to tights will have me as their biggest customer since I practically live in tights. I love these spider ones:

4. Angus Stone from Aussie band Angus & Julia Stone talks mushrooms and suggests getting high on love and other things…

5. Jenny Wilson inspired to play music after hearing PJ Harvey.

6. An insight into self-taught photographer, Alex Prager’s plastic world.

7. PJ Harvey is her own biggest critic “It would be srange if I liked everything I wrote when I was a young lady. All these years later, song lyrics do lose their resonance with the writer. I mean, a lot of authors completely disown books they’ve written”

8. Peaches has a crotch gallery on her website. I am proud to declare that I too am one of the many that have seen her hairs down there!

9. Discover creative types that have left the big smoke of the city for the cleaner fresh air of the country. The coffee ain’t as nice as in Sydney but a simple life awaits you.

10.  Audrey Tatou likes to shoot her interviewers with her Leica. It is her trademark and tradition.

11. Even books are not your average book club. Add some booze and you have yourself a book party. Funny how everything becomes exciting when booze is involved.

12. Groups across the world are taking things slow even as far as to create a Slow Blog Manifesto - “speaking like it matters, like the pixels that give your words form are precious and rare”. Forget Twitter.

13. I adore Amanda Austins photo with her dream like composition.

14. An article for the geeks on the evolution of robots claiming that the Orgasmatron 3000 should just be around the corner.

15. Can you live on No Frills food for 7 days? One writer shows that it is a lot complicated than he thought, especially when he craves the advertising and bright marketing that makes frills food taste that extra better.

16. Adore Stephen Wilde’s kiddie snaps of his 18-month old son in odd places

17. I can empathise with Sarah Blasko’s dwelling especially with the no room to fit a table, but lets all eat on the floor, picnic style dinners for friends.

18. Marieke Hardy dwells on why great literary drunks are all men who write exceptional passages such as this:

Drinking is an emotional thing. It juggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you’re allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It’s the killing yourself, and the you’re reborn. I guess I’ve lived about 10 or 15 thousand lives now.

19. Benjamin Law, one of my favourite writers of Frankie, provides a frank account of being back on the dole, “there was a Bible-sized stack of indecipherable paperwork to churn through which, one completed, was promptly lost by Centrelink staff. There were mandatory interrogations and psychological assaults.”

20. Like your independent aussie music? Listen to something new today at who the bloody hell are they?

21. Pikaland have started their very own zine called “Good to Know” available to download via a small fee available here.