Been listening to Hillsong United's new album Empires since it came out last week. Agh! I love it!
Each song takes you on a journey of musical buildups, raw emotions, melodic layers, and waves of synth that I'm really digging.

It's a very fresh and intricate synthy sound, with great lyrics and amazing vocals (specially from Taya, the only girl in the group) Give it a listen! I recommend the tracks "Here Now (Madness)," "Say the Word" and "Rule."

Start with this one, but listen from top to bottom. Just trust me :

If you're reading this blog, there's a good chance you enjoy fashion, and if you enjoy fashion, there's also a good chance you've grown up reading magazines, and still do so!

I fall into that category. More often than I would like to admit, I find myself lurking into news agencies... just to stare at magazine covers, and have a look at their spreads –their lookbooks, articles, layout and graphic design. And all this fuels my ultimate goal, which is to work for a magazine.

If you're a bit like me in this, and you enjoy day-dreaming about writing for a fashion magazine, you might want to (not) use your free time wisely and do a movie/documentary marathon filled with fashion magazine goodness!

Here's my top 10 pick! (*)

COIN, one of my favourite bands at the moment, have just released a new single! – www.thisiscoin.com

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In Japan, it is custom (after the polite bow) to offer your business card as your presentation on first time meetings. Thus, the introductory ceremony begins. Now all parties know the other person's full name, work title, and contact details, and they officially become acquainted.

Sometimes I see a ritualistic parallelism between Japanese business cards and our iPod (*).

(*) And when I say iPod, I'm not trying to shamelessly promote an inexistent alliance with Apple. I'm talking about your music taste (and wherever you might store it, be it folders in your computer, media players, CD cases, vinyls or phones).

For our generation, a generation of blog-reading and internet-sailing, your music taste is a statement. It's something that defines you. It is often used to label you.

"Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane, opens you up like a book. All somebody needs to do, is scroll through your library {...}, and musically speaking, you're naked. 

It's not just what you like –it's who you are."

I was reading through Steve Job's latest biography when I stumbled upon this statement. And I found it interesting. It is true that iPods were sort of revolutionary –music is important for human kind since forever, and with that invention, people were able to select and take with them what spoke to their soul.

But how does this make you feel? Would showing your IPod (*) to someone mean a sudden shiver? Would that be getting too personal for your own comfort? Maybe you'd feel indifferent about it?

And can you say that, if you grabbed your iPod (*) right now, it would mirror who you are well?

When I first got mine, I had recently entered the adult world, and I felt I had to fill up my iPod with what was hip, because it would be expected of me to be like that. And so I started filling it up with music I didn't quite enjoy. One day I came to the realisation that I was being stupid. And I started a musical purge. I deleted music I wasn't even listening to, and left the good bits in. Since that day I've been really critical and selective every time I sync it with my media player.

I guess that gesture in itself explains a bit of who I am.

And on that note, I will leave you with the latest addition to my iPod. In case you're curious.