You're scarin' me, Katy Perry

"She's an aliennnnn..."

Literally, she really is!

Released through the Katy Perry Facebook page, these are the pics from Katy's latest song E.T. that will give little boys nightmares in their sleep. Little girls will dream of the green contacts and wonder where they can get themselves a pair to wear to school.

Check out those nails! I wouldn't like to run into this ET in an intergalactic alley way...

Feeling a little brave and weird? Check out this tutorial and you too can look outta this world (NB possibly not the best thing to wear to weddings/funerals/family reunions/anywhere)

What do you guys think of this getup? Verging too much over the border of Lady-GaGa-Crazy-Town?

Smell ya later

x.

Justin Bieber is off to rehab! (But he said no, no, no)

Well, that's where 30% of a bunch of folks surveyed thought the Biebs would be by the time he was 30.
The poll conducted by 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair found that 20% reckon he will be still playing packed arenas to screaming girls (or would they be women by then?) and 18% think he'll be tucked away in a house somewhere with a wife and perhaps a baby (baby, baby, ooooohhh).

No, Justin, you're 17. *scruffs hair and shakes head*

The telephone survey covered 11, 000 peeps and proved to boast some pretty interesting results!
I wonder where the swishy-haired floozy will in 2024. Let me tell you One Time (Justin Bieber pun #1...I love these puns). If you think about where most child actors/recording artists end up...odds are he will have a problem or two. Let's Pray (#2) he stays on the straight and narrow.
But just for shits and giggles, here's a list of possible roads:

• He'll be in rehab for alcoholism/drugs/overeating
• He'll be working at 7eleven
• He'll be Dancing With the Stars
• He'll be Joan Collins' 23rd Husband, which makes One Less Lonely Girl (#3)
• He'll just be looking for Somebody To Love (#4, this is getting silly)

So, Eenie Meenie (#5) take your pic, Biebs...which one will it be?
Where do you think he will be...will he still be making U Smile?(#6) (Okay, Justin Bieber Puns are harder thanBrian McFadden ones)
Let's take a look at some other child stars that had a punt at being a tad naughty...

Well...he's technically still in the middle

"What have I become?!"

I can't wait to see where this rapscallion ends up...

Smell ya later

x.

Image Credit: Justin Bieber pic courtesy of CrazyInSane, Home Alone from byfaithonly. All others completely authorised for reuse.

Dear University...

You are wearing thin.

Yes, I still love you, but I'm just not in love with you anymore. You tricked me into giving away all my emotions and my heart wholly with your first year course load. Yes, you did warn me you would only turn mean after a while, and yes, you did make me pay for my textbooks on several occasions without offering to at least pay half. But I thought we had something real. Something that would last.

University and I during happier times

My love for you was always going to be temporary, I know that, we knew that. But I fear, with only 'til December until I leave you permanently, I just have no more love for you.

You kinda make my head hurt. You make all your assessments due at the same time and you don't even hug me when I cry about this. You just point to your stupid unit guide and shrug.

Your buildings are also hurtful. They punish me when I go in to do some extra work on Sunday mornings by setting off alarms that prompt ex-pro-wrestlers to interrogate me. I'm 5 foot 1, what am I possibly going to steal from the computer labs at warp speed? You never stuck up for me.

Although I love your residences, I just feel I need a bit of time apart from you for the moment. That's why i'm going to Noosa this week to hang out with ma mamma at home. That's right, I think we should see other people for a little bit.

I'm sure we will have it all worked out by the time week nine comes along. I just know it.



God help me when I get a full-time job.

Smell ya later

x.

Just because you think you've got a hit- doesn't always mean you do...

[PUBLISHED AT MY OTHER BLOG]

I'm sure by now Rebecca Black is old news and you're all thinking "gosh Mel, get with it, this chick is as old as Madonna".

But I really, really, super really can't get over this song!

Have you seen it?

You haven't? Well aren't you glad i'm about to post it.





Amazing, right? It has nothing on 'Born this Way'.

So the story goes something like this:

13 year-old Becky Black goes into a sing-song booth (like in Tenacious D's 'Tribute' filmclip), records her song, puts it on Youtube and gets 21 million hits plus.

She then becomes the number one trending topic on Twitter...yep, Bec Black trumped Japan. I guess the song kinda is a national disaster in itself (you were waiting for it, you knew I couldn't resist).

I gotta get me one of those booths...

Smell ya later

x.

A Tale of Two (Completely Different) Work Experience Girls

[N.B. Published at my 'Grown Up' blog. Visit it here]

Work experience. Pretty much the only thing that will get you into a career in magazines. Sure, you can drive a fancy car and know how to do your own acrylic nails, but without work experience all you have is a fancy car and acrylic nails. (Which is actually kinda bad).

Interacting with work experience girls every week, I've come to discover that while there are those lovely ones that jump at every task (I was one of them, and still am as an intern) there are the ones that won't even go and get the editor a coffee ("Um, i'm really busy at the moment"- work experience girl.)

So, when I read this post from Emma over at http://wasteofspace1.wordpress.com/ I was soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo (times a BILLION) excited to see a girl generally thrilled to not only be in the ACP building but to be working alongside her idols. (If you are a loyal whosthatsmell reader then you will remember back to my piece on nabbing that internship or job in magazines, when I interviewed my editor over at Dolly, Tiffany Dunk.)

Not a Waste of Space

Obviously not one reading my blog is the Anonymous Work Experience Girl who posted on the media blog, Early Bird Catches The Worm. Her post was quite the buzz within ACP and I believe even the Dalai Lama read the post and scoffed (albeit in a very spiritual and polite manner).

*clears throat* I would now like to draw the main differences between these two posts, which I found so amazingly hilarious.

Emma at Wasteofspace1 says:

"After telling the security man my name and why I was there, I was instructed to sit on a seat full of other nervous-looking girls. We all ended up discussing what magazines we were going to do work experience for – Shop Til’ You Drop, Madison, Dolly and Cleo were all mentioned. It was pretty exciting. I ended up sitting next to the lovely Cassandra who I would be doing work experience with all week at Cosmo!"

"Belle de Work Experience" says:
"As I sat waiting in the foyer, I was quietly hoping the young teenage girl sitting nervously next to me with her parents was not also doing work experience at Cosmo."

Am I putting my foot in it?

Emma loved the Cosmo girls:
"I’ve already booked another weeks worth of work experience with Cosmopolitan – that’s just how awesome it was. And despite the prejudice provoked by Snobbery, pretentiousness, rudeness, unfriendliness—whatever you like to call it, has disappointingly appeared to me this week. I blame Freedman: her warm and friendly writing style and video posts have made me create a world in my head where I imagined all magazine editors are very friendly, nurturing mentors.The Devil Wears Prada the ladies in the office were very friendly! Rachelle Mackintosh, the Chief Subeditor of Cosmo was lovely and hilarious, and Jessica Parry, Acting Editor, even recognised me from Twitter! Melanie Senior was also full of incredibly helpful advice!"

"Belle de Work Experience, not so much":
"Snobbery, pretentiousness, rudeness, unfriendliness—whatever you like to call it, has disappointingly appeared to me this week. I blame Freedman: her warm and friendly writing style and video posts have made me create a world in my head where I imagined all magazine editors are very friendly, nurturing mentors."

They were the main ones, but just by reading these two posts, you are entering a world where some workies are happy to photocopy the latest masthead of US Glamor while her work experience partner scoffs at transcribing an interview with Blake Lively. (This actually happened*, the scoffing girl was quickly exiled to the remote tip of Gibraltar and she is now living out her life as a slave girl.)

Okay, I've bashed about this post enough today. And I'm sure my blog will get bashed about in return.

I feel like Ros Reines.

*Didn't even come close to happening.

DISCLAIMER: My posts and opinions in no way reflect the collective opinion of ACP, Dolly magazine and Cosmopolitan magazine.  They are my own weird, wacky and wonderful (maybe) jives.

Kim Kardashian: Inaugural Cover Model...really?

There was no one better?

No woman of substance that actually lives in Armenia, not just has Armenian blood?

Heck, not even a woman that has visited Armenia?

Yet again, it seems that Hurricane Kardashian is taking over another country, one magazine article and fitness DVD at a time.

In a move that i'm sure delights some, but totally baffles people like me, Armenian Cosmopolitan mag launches this month (that's not the bit that baffles me, COSMO is the biggest selling woman's mag in.the.world) with none other that girl with the abnormally long and luscious lashes, Kim Kardashian.

Nice belt

“The Cosmopolitan brand has been very successful around the world and we’re pleased to be rolling out our 63rd edition this spring in Armenia,” said CEO of Hearst Magazines, Duncan Edwards. “Working with Media Partners, a very well-respected local publisher, we are confident that Cosmo will do well with Armenian women.”

I'm a little disappointed. Millions of woman around the world read this fabulous glossy (do I get a job by selling the mag right now?) and the lunch issue should be one of the best.

'But what is Kim Kardashian famous for?' I hear you ask
Ha, my thoughts exactly.

'No, but seriously, what makes her launch issue material?'
Yeah, righto, let me get to it and stop asking so many questions!

So back in the day Kimoo made a sex-tape with her boyf at the time. She was also BFF with Paris. She also has the Mumager of all Mumagers (apparently that helps). This is what has made her famous. Scatter some endorsements, a pop career and the ability to fit one's whole fist in their mouth and you have a million dollars, right there.

And as the Armenian ambassador for Rodeo Drive, she was "an obvious cover choice".

Okay, perhaps I am super duper jealous of how much moolah this chick is rolling in just for well, selling things. I sell magazines and newspapers and pens, but I only get paid $15 an hour. (Yeah, I know, you're jealous of me now, huh). She probably has toilet paper and tissues made out of money. Probably.

In the name of research I found this page of famous Armenians. Did you know Princess Diana was 1/64th Armenian? Hold up! Also you will find that Kim Kardashian IS the best looking out of all of them. Andre Agassi probably isn't a good cover choice.

End rant.

Smell ya later

x.