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pinkelephent54 · 8 months
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The Ultimate Guide to Womens Nightwear Sets
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Women Pajamas Sets
Sleepwear sets for women have long been considered the go-to sleepwear option: they are comfortable, breathable and come in various lengths and fabrics that cater to every taste imaginable - from classic cotton nightgowns to wintry flannel PJs; these sets make an excellent way to achieve an elegant, romantic aesthetic when sleeping soundly. Thanks to responsible brands there's now even more choice.
As well as Lake's minimally designed striped styles and Eberjey's Gisele pajamas (which have quickly become cult favorites), Amazon reviewers love Maison Essentiele's silk 3-piece for its "softness" and "cuteness in a cool Gen Z way." This off-the-shoulder top and shorts pair features temperature regulation while naturally antimicrobial and odor fighting capabilities make this set ideal.
Hill House Home's organic cotton set will keep you comfortable from head to toe! It features a long-sleeve button-up notch collar top and matching drawstring pants with pockets in sizes S to XXL for optimal wear, as well as monogramable bottoms to complete your ensemble in style.
Bhumi offers this short-sleeve organic sateen set as another fantastic option for colder months, crafted with lower impact dyes and made of buttery-soft organic fabric that's both temperature regulating and odor fighting. Plus, its roomy oversized top makes this piece comfortable enough to wear as a robe or wear open as a shirtdress!
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TAMGA Designs' playful lounge set, constructed using lower-impact dyes and organic sateen fabric for a soft yet breathable fit, may cost $250 but is sure to remain an asset in your drawer for many years to come.
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mycarecrewco · 2 years
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Bamboo Womens Pajamas: My Carecrew
Who is Ham&Sam? We are a mature brand with 20 years of clothing experience.Ham&Sam was established by Ham(Bussniess manager) and Sam(Senior designer) in 2001.Our clothes are sold to Australia, South Korea and other countries. Create your second skin. We currently specialize in close-fitting clothing for everyone to feel the same comfort in different seasons and on different occasions.Each of our products has been continuously optimized, using the most comfortable materials and the most accurate process. why choose Ham&Sam? The materials of each of our products are developed by Ham, and the cutting design is led and checked by Master Sam.Nearly thirty years of experience in large customer service has prevented us from reducing costs to make low-quality clothes,and this is the promise we made before sales. Visit the link to buy it now - https://store.mycarecrew.co/products/ham-sam-bamboo-womens-pajamas-set-sleepwear-jersey-knit-long-sleeve-breathable-button-down-nightgown-soft-pjs-lounge-sets-navy?_pos=1&_sid=a3682e4af&_ss=r
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gree-nsky · 2 years
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cachiashop61 · 2 years
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Women unique nightdresses in Australia
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kit10phish · 5 years
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Be nosy
1. What’s your sexual orientation?
Love gals
2. What are you obsessed with right now?
Songland
3. Ever done any drugs?
Weed is legal in WA
4. What piercings do you want?
vertical industrial--tho I’d rather work on my tats.
5. How many people have you kissed?
6.
6. Describe your dream home.
One that I own.
7. Who are you jealous of?
my cat
8. What’s your favorite show to binge?
I’m a TV junkie,, this could take all night.  Disappeared is one of my faves.
9. Do you watch porn?
I don’t care for objectification of women for setting up dudes’ expectations for all of that.
10. Do you have a secret sideblog?
Secret from my real life--it’s my online alter ego, same as most of my social media.
11. If you could teleport anywhere in the world right now, where would you go?
Australia!  I gotta hold a koala.
12. What’s one of your fantasies?
Having a for real conversation to any of the artists/famous/celebrities I already like.  
13. Do you have/would you get your nipples pierced?
I do not.  I’m already concerned about nipping out-so no.
14. How would you spend a million dollars?
Pay off my student loans.  If there’s any left buy a modest house (with a casita for my parents).
15. Are you in a relationship?
10 years.
16. Do you follow porn blogs?
I did not know there was such a thing--see above.
17. Are you angry with anyone right now?
No.
18. What tattoos do you want?
I want to add onto my Cancer crab, finish my dragonfly scene, & get song lyrics.
19. If you could change your name, would you? What would you change it to?
Absolutely not.
20. What is something you’re obsessed with?
Kaylor.  I am always reading and reposting the evidence.  It’s like a living mystery.  And it makes me happy.
21. Describe your best friend.
My mate is my best friend.  She is funny, spontaneous, and also loves animals.
22. Tag someone you think is hot.
23. Who are five of your favorite bands/musical artists?
Indigo Girls, Brandi Carlile, Taylor Swift, DMB, Lord Huron, Young the Giant.
24. What are three places you want to travel?
Every state (Chicago and Memphis and Atlanta as the 1st cities), Brisbane Australia, and Churchill Manitoba to see the polar bears.
25. Describe your perfect Friday night.
TGIF!  PJs, movies, pizza, ice cream sundaes and I am with my mate on the couch with the kitties on our laps.
26. What’s your favorite season?
Depends where.  In Arizona it’s spring when the temp is mild.  In Missouri and Washington, fall.  Nevada summer.  
27. What’s your pet peeve?
I have so many!  Tapping, people who poop in public bathrooms, drivers that weave, it goes on...
28. Who is the funniest person you know?
My dad--he has a lot of things that just he says and does:  Example:  when around any little kid saying, “you remind me of me when I was a boy.”  And the kids never know what to do with that.
29. What’s the most overrated movie?
Any rom-com.  They are very sexist and cliche and really reinforce stereotypes.
30. Tag someone you want to talk to but have been too shy to message.
All the celebrities I admire.
31. Do you like paper books or ebooks better?
PAPER.  No contest.
32. If you could live in a fictional world, what world would you pick?
Lisa Frank’s world or Egalia’s Daughters.
33. If money was no object, what would your wardrobe be like?
Something for every occasion.  Not designer, but I’d never again have a skirt but no shirt to match it (a chronic problem of mine).
34. What’s your coffee order?
Either nitro cold brew or around the holidays PSL!  and White Chocolate Peppermint Mocha.
35. Do you have a crush on anyone?
Kaylor.
36. Do you still have feelings for any of your exes?
No!  Not other than animosity.
37. Have any tattoos?
Yes-all works in progress.
38. Do you drink?
Yes I do--I’m 36.
39. Are you a virgin?
No I’m not--I’m 36.
40. Do you have a crush on any of your mutuals?
No.  I don’t know anybody.
41. How many followers do you have?
24?  But I don’t think it’s anyone I recognize.
42. Describe the hottest person you know.
Know in real life?  I mean, my mate is a cute-stuff...  Symmetrical face, blue eyes, short stature.
43. What’s your guilty pleasure?
ANTM marathons, Days of Our Lives. 
44. Do you read erotica?
Sometimes.  If it’s good.
45. What’s the worst date you’ve ever been on?
Just any date where I can tell she’s hung up on her ex, best friend, or someone else...
46. How many people do you follow?
All Kaylors that I think post relevant stuff on Tumblr, animals and beer and Iceland on Instagram, and lots on Twitter.
47. If you could marry any celebrity, who would you pick?
Somebody down to Earth and honest who would treat me well.  It’s not that kinda thing though.  I love my mate.  I would just like to have a conversation and picture with the celebs I admire (for their work).
48. Describe your ideal partner.
Trustworthy, helpful, loving, honest, active, compassionate to animals, cute...
49. Who do you text the most?
My mate and my mom.
50. What’s your favorite kind of weather?
Sunny so I can walk around outside and sit on patios.
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killingthebuddha · 5 years
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“All of us become pilgrims at one time or another, even though we may not give ourselves the name.” –Richard Niebuhr
PJ, who presides over Dublin’s dusty shop Sweny’s, has read Joyce’s Ulysses 51 times in 6 different languages. Over a dark pint of Guinness, with the mist from the glass melting on his fingertips, PJ speaks about the lines from the book that are making his pulse race that minute. He doesn’t try to persuade you of their sacredness or its genius. He just smiles slightly, revealing coffee-stained and wayward teeth, and nods as he cites whole paragraphs. PJ loves Joyce. To PJ, Sweny’s, the shop where Leopold Bloom bought lemon soap for his wife Molly in Joyce’s epic, is an invaluable relic of Joyce’s Dublin, and he would do anything to protect its legacy. Even as rent steadily increases, PJ continues to sell bars of lemon soap in the chemist’s shop, now cluttered with old photographs, various editions of Ulysses, and hundreds of small glass bottles. PJ says with a wry smile, “the soap cleans the body while the book corrupts the mind.” 
Every year on June 16, the same date that marked Leopold Bloom’s walk around Dublin in 1904, a host of literary pilgrims visit the city to pay tribute to Joyce. Sweny’s was a sacred stop on the tour for people I met last Bloomsday, people who came from Australia, Japan, Bosnia, South Korea, the United States, Germany, Spain, Argentina, England, France, and Switzerland. 
In the Catholic tradition of pilgrimage, a location that is considered sacred is often referred to as a “thin place,” a place where the space between heaven and earth wanes, and becomes rarefied or thin. Such places typically mark the site of a saint’s ascension, a miraculous act, or some epiphanic moment. In other religions, places may be considered sacred because they have been saturated with meaning by God. What might a thin place be in a conversation about literary pilgrimage? Perhaps where the distance between an author’s imagination and a reader’s lived reality narrows and eventually collapses. And where the human being who generated meaning in the place—the author, the artist, the genius—begins to acquire divine status. Joyce certainly seems to assume deific qualities every year on Bloomsday as devotees travel to Dublin and re-enact the events from Bloom’s life, visit the places he walked, and read excerpts of Ulysses aloud.
In the home I grew up in, we consider all books sacred, and one of my family’s South Indian traditions has become practically reflexive for me. When someone accidentally drops a book or grazes one with a foot, we place our hand on the cover and gently touch our closed eyelids. We thus symbolically ask forgiveness for treating a book with inadvertent disregard. My parents instilled in me a deep appreciation for written words. Literary pilgrimage provides an opportunity to reflect on that appreciation, and on what happens when it extends beyond an individual gesture to a collective expression of reverence. Why do people become dedicated to one author, or one text? And how does that dedication evolve from fleeting infatuation to persistent devotion? 
Last summer, on a quest to reckon with these questions, I attended the Bloomsday festival, which is primarily organized by the James Joyce Center on Dublin’s North Great George’s Street. Deirdre Ellis-King, the chair of the board of the James Joyce Center, notes that the center is committed to providing “different points of entry” into the text, be it “music and song, drama, costume, or food.” The entry points Ellis-King referred to are visible throughout Dublin on Bloomsday. As I walked down North Great George’s Street, people were dressed for the trends of 1904—most men sported black top hats, and carried walking sticks, while women donned petticoats, lace gloves, and parasols. One man even tipped his hat, saluted me, and said with a melancholic tinge, “what a shame, poor fellow, Paddy Dignam,” referencing the character whose funeral in Ulysses occurs on June 16. 
When I arrived at Davy Byrne’s, a central pub in the novel, I witnessed a joyful uproar of Irish anthems and songs from the book. There were productions of Ulysses all over Dublin, from the Abbey’s adaptation of the entire epic to the Bewley Café’s staged reading of Molly Bloom’s monologue, and her famed finale, “and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.” There were pub crawls across Dublin, not to mention food tours that took visitors down Bloom’s bizarre trajectory of consumption, from kidneys for breakfast to gorgonzola sandwiches and burgundy for lunch. All these events were meant to challenge the notion that Ulysses ought to be abstruse and abstract for readers. Bloomsday participants come with varying levels of Ulysses knowledge, but even if you haven’t read the book, you can still down a pint or digest a kidney. 
Sam Slote, a professor at Trinity College Dublin, who has organized an academic symposium on Ulysses, cites Joyce’s remark, “If I can get to the heart of Dublin, I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world.” Slote comments that in order “to get to the heart of Dublin, Joyce represents the city in all its specificities.” In this way, he “gets to everywhere else and all their specificities.” Deirdre Ellis-King agrees, remarking that “Joyce and Dublin are synonymous, it’s any-man and every-man, you could be in any city in the world and enjoy the same kind of experiences of the streetscape.” Paradoxically, by being so precise, the text becomes universal. This stylistic technique is analogous to the character of Bloom. “It’s not that every man likes kidneys for breakfast, but every man has his particularities,” Slote says. It is in this way that Ulysses speaks to any reader, any person in motion, any pilgrim—not in the specifics of every human being, but in the specificity with which any human being can be represented. No one is special. Everyone is special. Stephen Dedalus, the other main character in the novel, has a line, “every life is many days, day after day.” This could be the motto for not only the epic, but also the festival commemorating June 16—any day, in any life, could be Bloomsday. The annual convergence of time and place restores significance to every ordinary and individual encounter, to every overlooked dollop of time. 
Jessica Yates, who oversees the Bloomsday festival and manages the James Joyce Center, tells me she “converted” to Joyce (her word) because of Bloomsday.  Unlike people who embark on a pilgrimage to honor the text they love, Yates casually went out to a pub on Bloomsday eleven years ago without any prior knowledge of Ulysses. It was there that she met “someone special,” and they set out on a project to read Ulysses before their first anniversary. She says with a trill of laughter, “I got so into Bloomsday.”      
She recommends I sit in on one of the storied reading circles at Sweny’s. I do, and am struck by the variety of voices present. Some readers sit with a cane or walker leaning against theirs chairs, and others sprint over to the shop after class. As Joycean phrases echo in the small confines of Sweny’s, I hear accents from Argentina, South Korea, and France. One Dubliner named Paddy has been attending the reading circle on and off for about a decade. Paddy wears long trousers, a light blue button down shirt, and round reading glasses. He seems serious, but he also has a toothy grin. While some wanderers came into the bookshop after one or two beers, Paddy arrives early, eager to pour over the text he deems so valuable. He has read the book in 6-month cycles about ten or eleven times—he can’t recall exactly. He views Ulysses as a vessel through which he can access his own ancestors, a thin place with miraculous possibility. He explains, “I am from Dublin. My parents, my grandparents too. I have no non-Irish connections. I think I am deeply of Dublin, and there are few books deeply of Dublin. Ulysses is one of them.” He explains why the book resonates with him emotionally by pointing to its melodic qualities: “There is a music in the language, a rhythm in the speech. I can hear my parents who are now dead, my grandparents who are now dead, I can hear them talking, when I read it, I can hear their voices.” 
Yet another regular at Sweny’s is Finon, a former student at Trinity College. He has been attending readings of Ulysses for four years, and he loves how Sweny’s regulars move “in a loop,” how the book itself is like a “carousel, no fun unless you get to do the whole thing.” “After all,” he chuckles, “if you haven’t finished, it’s not worth the money.” Like many sacred texts, Ulysses contains philosophical reflections, surprising imagery, and beautiful poetry. And like many religious holidays, which draw pilgrims from all over the world to a holy site, Bloomsday too, according to Finon, becomes a “spawning day,” to which “a lot of people return.” Both re-reading and pilgrimage are rituals of returning.
Attempts to disavow the sacred aspects of the festival sometimes sound inadvertently religious. When Finon describes the goal of Bloomsday, he seems a bit like a defensive missionary: “The attempt to popularize the text is really an attempt to create an invitation into it. I mean nobody’s looking to actively spread it onto people, but to keep it as welcoming as possible.” Similarly, Jessica Yates says she wants to get people excited about the text, but she insists, “I don’t want to impose it on everyone.” They are enthusiasts who hesitate to proselytize.
Indeed, Professor Slote of Trinity College Dublin notes with a hint of smug amusement that many people were asking him what he thought of Bloomsday from a scholarly perspective and he was “about to say something,” until he realized, “I’m not going to be this guy.” It would be understandable, from an academic standpoint, to scoff at some of what unfolds. For starters, many of the most devoted participants have never read the book. Take John, the James Joyce lookalike who has stood outside the James Joyce Center every June 16 for the last seven years. He carries a cane, and wears a black top hat, a suit, a healthy gray moustache and a tiny square beard. He peers through large circular spectacles, and takes photographs with tourists. Originally a hat-maker, John grew up in Dublin. He explains the mass of people at the James Joyce Center in an assured tone: “People don’t have to be readers to enjoy Bloomsday, people just like the association.” When I asked John what he thought when he read Ulysses for the first time, his eyes stretched open, and he raised his brows: “Read it? I wrote it!” I smiled, and he conceded, “I’m afraid I didn’t read it.”
For Joyce, a writer who said that if “Ulysses isn’t worth reading, then life isn’t worth living,” John’s confession could be considered blasphemous. But returning to Professor Slote’s less judgmental perspective, it’s unnecessary to “be that guy” who reads and analyzes Ulysses in order to have a genuine relationship with the text. Slote analogizes criticism of Bloomsday to what “we have in America—the [rhetoric of the] war against Christmas … the secularization of Bloomsday is not a bad thing.” 
Is Bloomsday a sign that the religion of Joyce is somehow being compromised, challenged, thinned out in the public’s touristic, commercial and dangerously superficial imagination? Or is Bloomsday’s existence reaffirming the sacredness of Ulysses to its readers? After all, not everyone who travels to Lourdes has read the Bible, and not everyone who journeys to Mecca has read the Qur’an. The mastery of a text is not necessary, or at the very least, not a prerequisite for meaningful motivations. Pilgrimage provides a different kind of proof of faith.
As Slote elaborates on not wanting to be the Grinch of Bloomsday, he says, Bloomsday “is not a bad thing—usually it falls on nice, sunny weather,” and it’s “a pleasant excuse to have a bit of a lark.” He concurs with the organizers of the Bloomsday festival that it’s good to get people interested, and even though he says “my job is generally not to think about popularizing Ulysses,” he believes offering various points of entry for readers is noble. He elaborates on Joyce’s mission with Ulysses: “While it is a book that is studied at universities, it’s not just for those people. It has a wider audience. The way culture has moved, these things tend to be more academicized, [and] something like [Bloomsday] is a good counterbalance.”
Leslie Daugherty, from the North Side of Dublin, plays Leopold Bloom in the James Joyce Center productions of Ulysses, and he agrees that the so-called “secularization” of Joyce is a good thing. He describes the text as “a fabulous read,” but takes issue with some of the academics who treat Ulysses with the wrong kind of “reverence,” effectively “making Ulysses unattainable.” He objects to the notion that Ulysses is for “the posh people,” and shook his head as he said, in a throaty voice, “No. Ulysses is for everyone who has a mind of his own.” 
 Marty, a man from Donegal, Ireland, who is a marketing and events coordinator at the James Joyce Center, first encountered Joyce when he read A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and he says with a chuckle that “a lot of teenage Catholic dudes in Ireland identified with it.” He describes being deeply moved by the part where Stephen is called to the priesthood but says, instead, that he is an artist. The tensions between religious tradition, devotion, expectation, and the inclination towards the life of an artist resonate with Marty. 
Leopold Bloom, Ulysses, and Bloomsday itself are all fraught with similar tensions. Bloom is a man who loves his wife and preaches love but deceives her and behaves disloyally. Ulysses contains styles that contradict and challenge one another—clean prose, experimental stream-of-consciousness, advertisement jargon, and saccharine romantic-novel satire. Bloomsday has attendees who have read the text 51 times and people who have never heard of Joyce. The idea of “literary pilgrimage,” too, brims with ambiguity. Are books meant to be read, or to be revered? And does a book find its meaning in an isolated experience, or in a collective celebration? 
In 1996, Jonathan Franzen revised an essay initially published as “The Harper’s Essay” and retitled it “Why Bother.” In it, Franzen laments the demise of a reading-culture, and describes his “despair about the American novel.” He writes about one novel he read in reverent prose, marking his gratitude “that someone besides me had suffered from these ambiguities and had seen light on their far side—that Fox’s book had been published and preserved; that I could find company and consolation and hope in an object pulled almost at random from a bookshelf—felt akin to an instance of religious grace.” The experience of literature, of reading as an act of worship, is often seen as an individual one, as it is in this passage. Indeed, the collection for which Franzen revised his essay is called How to be Alone. 
 Yet Bloomsday’s beauty is in its social activity. As many literary pilgrims have pointed out, Joyce wanted his text to be democratic. The point of Bloomsday is for “any man and every man,” and the text is about bringing reverence to our everyday. Ulysses itself, in various bodily and granular descriptions elevates the profane to an esteemed status. For example, in one instance, Joyce satirically describes a man seated at the foot of a large tower as a “broad-shouldered, deep-chested, strong-limbed, frank-eyed, red-haired, freely-freckled, shaggy-bearded, wide-mouthed, large-nosed, long-headed, deep-voiced, bare-kneed, brawny-handed, hair-legged, ruddy-faced, sinew-armed hero.” And just as Joyce plays with his characters, gifting them gallant qualities (albeit in a sardonic tone), so does Bloomsday toy with its visitors and their expectations, until people find communion in a collective, at times gimmicky, at times reverent experience. Ulysses motivates its readers enough that they want to change their physical circumstances, embark on an embodied passage, and develop another vantage-point—beyond the systems of logic and reason that we so often subscribe to. The book inspires people to find one another, to derive solace and soul, from an admittedly kooky community. This somewhat paradoxical combination of the sacred and the irreverent is what permeates Dublin on Bloomsday. There are pub crawls and exclamations of Joycean passages made shriller by grand glasses of Guinness. But there is also something reminiscent of what we see in churches and memorials—pilgrims, persons in motion—seeking answers, inspired by something that has no neat ending, maybe realizing as they wander, that they too, will never be complete. 
Despite all the ambiguity and insecurity that is present when one sets out on a pilgrimage, there is also a yearning. People embark on a pilgrimage in search of something, be it healing, obligation, or understanding. And whether it is religious or literary pilgrimage, we can discover havens in vagrancy the way we do in words. As Franzen puts it, “to write sentences of such authenticity that refuge can be taken in them: Isn’t this enough? Isn’t it a lot?” There are not often clear answers in literature, but when paragraphs protect you, it doesn’t so much matter, does it? There are not clear lines drawn between the drawbacks and merits of Bloomsday either. Tourist Destination or Holy Site? One could easily say that the merits of Bloomsday are inits campiness, its accessibility, and its rendering a “thin place” palpable to readers. Franzen ends his essay with the image of a character discovering in a broken ink bottle “both perdition and salvation.” He writes, at peace without real resolution, “The world was ending then, it’s ending still, and I’m happy to belong to it again.”
Finon, one of the regular members of the Sweny’s reading circle, also embraces contradiction in Bloomsday. He believes that the festival is meaningful, but remarks with a knowing smirk that “on Bloomsday people like to drink and eat strange meat … [but] no one’s really talking about metempsychosis” (a concept of great significance in the novel). Finon asks if I had read Station Island by Seamus Heaney when I press him on the benefits and caveats of literary pilgrimage. I answer that I have not. He is keen to explain, “it’s a poem about revisiting a Catholic pilgrimage site, a catholic shrine …based on the idea that St. Patrick had a vision of purgatory there.” Finon outlines the context of the poem. “He was revisiting the place as a secularized figure … returning to a place he no longer believed in.” This raises an interesting question within a framework of literary pilgrimage. Is it possible to have a jarring return to a place you have lost faith in if all you have lost faith in is the sanctity of the literature (and not, for instance, the existence of God?) 
In Heaney’s poem, various characters appear from disparate significant moments in the history of Ireland. And at the “dead center,” Finon narrates in a thrilled whisper, “he meets the ghost of the dead James Joyce.” Heaney doesn’t name him. He refers only to the storied image of Joyce that impersonators and photographers and readers and writers have memorialized for a century: a tall man with a cane, and the voice of a singer. Heaney writes that the figure held out his hand— “whether to guide or be guided I could not be certain,” because the man seemed blind. In this poem, an itinerant soul reckons with the loss of meaning in a formerly faithful location. That a hero of literature, a genius, artist, poet, is ambiguous in his leadership—that it is unclear whether he wants to lead or be led, demonstrates the deterioration and dismantling of Joyce as an idol, of Joyce as a God. Here Joyce’s hand is “fish-cold and bony,” and the onlooker knows him “in the flesh …wintered hard and sharp as a blackthorn bush.” This is a weathered, human being, a worn body, tired, old, nothing divine or eternal-seeming about him. 
In many ways, this encounter could represent the ultimate challenge, a revisiting and reckoning with the sacred ground on which a metaphorical shrine to Ulysses was erected. In Station Island the character of Joyce does not seem wholly self-assured. He says, “your obligation / is not discharged by any common rite. / What you do you must do on your own … You’ve listened long enough. Now strike your note.” In this imagination of Joyce, the source of Ulysses’s genius, is not, on the surface, a divine force, because he feels entirely human. Yet, isn’t there something god-like in the command to strike out alone, to stop “listening,” and to embrace a new “rite”?
Considering Joyce as a simultaneously godly and ghostly figure is pertinent to the paradoxes of Bloomsday. Finon notes some logical dilemmas he observed on June 16 every year: “It’s a strange map in itself. I came to the real pub where a fictional character didn’t set foot. I came to the place where nobody bought the bar of soap. (laughs) It’s quite odd.”
Nonetheless, it seems hard to contend with the fact that Ulysses renders Dublin “a thin place.” It is the destination for wandering minds and bodies to relish and find refuge in words that feel mimetic of reality: the ugly, disturbing, devastating, and remedial stories that make up most of our lives. Letting Bloomsday be a thin place extracts communal joy from that solitary act of reading (or even of not-reading!) which can at times be isolating, and that private worship of Joyce, which can at times be embarrassing. A shared human soul pieced together from infinitely complex and individual particularities. One may plumb the mundane for miracles. 
Niebuhr describes pilgrims as people “passing through territories not their own—seeking something we might call completion, or perhaps the word clarity will do as well.” I was passing through a territory not my own, and when I walked the streets of Dublin on Bloomsday, I felt both spiritual and giddy. 
My very first interview, in the early morning of June 16, 2018, was with a couple from Trieste, and it felt like a moment of grace. I saw them loitering by the James Joyce Statue on the main street of the north side of Dublin. They were smiling and taking photos. It turned out that the man had read Ulysses as a young academic forty years ago. He matter-of-factly stated, “It was the text that inspired me to become a professor of literature.” As he spoke, his wife started laughing. I turned to her quizzically. She said, “Oh I’m sorry, it’s just my husband is really downplaying what this book means to him.” I asked her what she meant. “Well, when my first son was born—when I went into labor, what does my husband take along to the hospital? The thick fat book—Ulysses! He read it to me for twelve hours.” I turned to the man, now in his late 70s, a small smile playing on his lips, while a plum flush spread across his cheeks in patches. “Well,” he stuttered, “it’s sizzling…and brilliant…and so human.” This man wanted the very first words his son heard to be those of Joyce. What better anecdote could I have to demonstrate worship of this text? Yet, when I asked if he believed visiting Dublin for Bloomsday would lead to a more intimate understanding of Ulysses, he said, as his forehead creased slightly, “that would be too much, too big a claim.” His wife nodded knowingly. He added, “We’re here for more profane reasons.” 
Literature enables both profane pleasure and reverence. On Bloomsday, no one has to choose. 
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5 Ways Women's Pyjamas Will Make Your Travel Much More Comfortable
Did you know that pyjamas are the perfect travel accessory? They can help you stay comfortable and free from bugs and other unwanted pests while on your travels. Pyjamas not only keep you warm and dry, but they also protect your skin from sunburn and other skin irritations. 
There are plenty of good reasons to always bring a pyjama sets with you when travelling, so make sure to read on for more information!
Stay Comfortable During Every Trip
No matter where you're going, it's always a good idea to pack a few extra clothes and a pyjama set. This way, you'll be able to stay comfortable and relaxed during your trip. Not to mention, you'll avoid any pesky wardrobe malfunctions.
When travelling, always bring along some good books and movies to keep you entertained. And, of course, make sure to pack your trusty pyjamas for when the boredom kicks in!
Treat Yourself to a Goodnight's Sleep
Travelling can be a great experience, but it can also be exhausting. Make sure to take care of yourself by bringing along a good night's sleep. This can be ensured by packing a PJ set and making sure to pack your favourite pillow. 
More importantly, make sure to take some travel-sized toiletries with you in case of any problems while away from home. As a last resort, remember to sleep on the plane!
Travel Freely with Lighter Luggage
Travelling can be daunting, but it's much easier with lighter luggage by your side. Not to mention, it's much more comfortable for you and your luggage. Packing everything in one heavy suitcase is risky for your health and can be quite tiring. Instead, try packing a few essentials in small cases. 
This way, you can avoid the hassle of carrying a lot of heavy luggage and get to your destination hassle-free. If you're looking for a good way to ease into travelling after a long flight, consider putting on a pyjama-themed outfit!
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Promote Better Hygiene and Protection
When travelling, it's important to be hygienic and comfortable at the same time. Pyjamas make it easy to get ready in the morning without having to worry about clothes or sleeping in messy sheets. 
They're also a great way to avoid being too cold at night or feeling self-conscious about your sleepwear. There are many different styles of pyjamas to choose from, so find one that fits your mood and style. And last but not least, always bring a set of pyjamas with you to make sure you're always prepared for a good night's sleep.
Look Presentable
Travelling can be tough, but it's so much easier when you pack light but stylish clothing. Avoid getting sweaty by packing clothing like yoga pants or leggings. 
In case you forget something, pack any necessary beauty products, so you look polished and put-together when you arrive. And if you're feeling extra comfortable, bring a pair of satin pyjamas!
Conclusion
Pyjamas are one of the most versatile travel accessories you can bring with you. They can be used for a variety of purposes, such as staying comfortable during the daytime, sleeping well at night, and maintaining good hygiene and protection. 
Not only that, but they also make you look more presentable while travelling. So, why not pack some pyjamas for your next trip? You won't regret it!
Source: https://gingerlilly-women-sleepwear.blogspot.com/2022/09/5-ways-womens-pyjamas-will-make-your.html
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Everyone who owns a set of photo pajamas knows exactly
Everyone who owns a set of photo pajamas knows exactly why these sleepwear are so popular! Made with either stretchy, soft lounge pants (interchangeably polyester and cotton), or snug, breathable cotton, these fantastic, comfortable pajamas are the perfect way to wind down before heading off to bed. For a super comfortable fit and lightweight, these photo pajamas are ideal for any season, but especially for those who wear them when camping.
Personalized photo pajamas make a great gift! Give a pair or more as a gift for a special someone in your life. They'll be sure to love and enjoy them, as these great pajamas make a great nightshirt gift. A great idea for men, consider purchasing a photo pajamas set, consisting of a shirt, a matching bottom, and a photo. You can even have the shirt and bottom personalized with the men's name or a funny saying of his choosing. Imagine the look on his face when he walks into his dad's favorite barbershop and slips on that shirt! custom pjs australia
For women, personalized pajamas make a great gift for mother, daughters, or friend. You could give mom cute photo pajamas set made especially for her by having her sign her own name on the front and add her other kids' names as accents. The girls could be given matching photo pajamas bottoms. The photo would appear on their receipt as proof of a family vacation, and they'd love to show off their new outfits!
Another fun idea for women is to create a collage of favorite images of your children, yourself, or your spouse, using a grid of photos and type in your choice of custom text on every square in the grid. Place a nightshirt or light pajamas pattern over top of each square - for example, if your wife wears a plain light pajama with white polka dots, place a nightshirt with pink polka dots overtop. This will make a beautiful collage and you'll get a great gift at the same time.
Another idea for custom text for photo pajamas is to create a cute personalized face print. Purchase a baby photo or have one taken professionally and have the kids make a face print of themselves using a camera or the digital imaging software available at most baby photography studios. Then have the photo pajamas company add a little message to their collection of post - maybe something like, "The kids make me so happy!" personalised pyjamas
Some companies also offer photo prints as part of their basic service. Many companies now offer personalized and customized nightshirts, hats, scarves, slippers and other garments. You can choose from an array of designs - from cartoons, funny sayings, hearts, cherubs, motivational quotes and more. Nightshirts and other clothing items are usually available in solid colors, but for those who prefer a more unique look, many nightwear and other apparel items are available in plaid, paisley, diamond, stripes and other patterns that look terrific when paired with beautiful handbags, shoes, and jewelry. If you want your kids to wear a pajama set that represents their favorite sports team, there are several popular choices available - from Cleveland Cavs to the Boston Bruins.
Personalized nightshirts, hats and scarves are ideal for giving as gifts, or to give as a surprise. For moms and dads who want to give something special for Father's Day, a personalized picture frame would be a great gift for any occasion. Another great idea is a set of personalized pajamas for your children - they can be given with or without a matching nightshirt. Another great idea for Father's Day is to give Dad a set of photo pajamas in the same design and color scheme as the ones he gave to mom - this will definitely be appreciated and put to good use throughout the year! custom underwear
To make Father's day even more special, why not create a collage of the most memorable pictures of your boys, and have them turned into a personalized frame with a personalized message on each picture? Why not turn one of your favorite childhood photographs into a collage with a unique saying? A great choice for kids, this will certainly be appreciated and put to good use this Father's Day!
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77 Valentine's Day Gifts You Can Get on Amazon Prime
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If going to the mall during the holidays drove you nuts before 2020, then Amazon Prime will save your soul now more than ever. Where else can you buy a wool Mackage coat, a sculpted bust of a greek god, a cardboard turntable for cats, and toilet paper? From the comfort of your couch. Naked.
Because there are millions of choices on Amazon and going through the results for even a single inquiry can be exhausting, we went through tens of thousands of items and put together a definitive list of the best gifts you can shop this year with Prime. Our non-negotiable criteria? Items had to be unique, high-quality, practical or chic, because nobody has time for anything else these days. Below, our top picks on Amazon Prime to add to your cart now.
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Ocean Mist & Sea Salt Candle
NEST Fragrances amazon.com
$42.00
With notes of sea salt, white tea and coconut, this ocean mist-scented candle is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser. (Something that can’t be said for most candles out there.)
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Gabbi Vegan Leather Handbag
If you follow any fashion accounts, you’ve probably seen JW Pei all over your Instagram feed. What’s less known about the affordable brand is that their bags are made from 50 percent recycled materials and 10 percent of all profits are donated to animal sanctuaries around the world.
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Polaroid Pop Instant 3×4 Photo Printer & Digital Camera
Being able to hold photos of special moments hits different. Polaroid’s wireless Pop Instant camera is a game-changer for making it possible to take, preview, edit and print 3.5 x 4.25 photos. The easily transportable device also offers WiFi connectivity, so users can upload their pictures straight to the ‘gram if they please.
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Acrylic Sheep-Shaped Containers
Agirlvct amazon.com
$12.99
Whether you’re shopping for the aunt that does her own thing or your friend with the ironic instagram aesthetic, these sheep-shaped cotton swab containers will just hit different.
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SLIP Silk Pillowcase
Anti-aging and crease minimizing benefits aside, a silk pillowcase simply just looks and feels luxurious. Because falling asleep these days isn’t easy, this queen size pillowcase makes for a thoughtful gift.
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14k Gold Three Diamond Amigos Curve Post Earrings
Adina Reyter amazon.com
$675.00
If these diamond curve post earrings look familiar, it’s because Meghan Markle wears them on repeat. To give you a sense of just how versatile these beauties are, the Duchess wore these to Commonwealth Day 2018, throughout her and Harry’s Royal Tour of Australia, and numerous royal engagements in London.
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The Archisutra: The handbook’s Final Chapter
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform amazon.com
$9.99
This creative Kama Sutra from London-based architect Miguel Bolivar is a good gift for cultured significant others. Each sex position is inspired by a famous building or furniture design with detailed data and annotated scale drawings.
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Handmade Love Bracelets for Men & Women
Ubuntu Life amazon.com
$19.00
Ubuntu Life, which was included in Oprah’s Favorite Things 2020, provides employment to artisans in Kenya, in addition to running programs that support social inclusion for Kenyan children with educational and physical needs. A handful of colors are still in stock at the time of publication.
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Premium Bamboo Bathtub Tray Caddy
For a fancy-feeling gift that’s actually affordable, look to this bathtub tray caddy. It has a stand that can be propped to read a book or display a tablet, plus a wine glass holder.
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Fair Trade-Certified Chocolate Gift Set
Chuao Chocolatier amazon.com
$16.95
This dark and milk chocolate gift set from Whole Foods-carried brand Chuao Chocolatier contains innovative flavors the chocolate lover in your life won’t be expecting. Think: potato chip, honeycomb, salted chocolate crunch and more. 
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Open Back Lace Teddy Bodysuit Lingerie
Spice things up with this surprisingly affordable lingerie find. Its delicate lace details and open back lend a glamorous touch.
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Nonslip Hair Claw Clips (Pack of 4)
Claw clips were already having a moment in fashion before the pandemic. Now that we’re working from home and wearing our hair up every day, they’re all the more useful. These reviewer-obsessed clips boast 3k reviews and counting with an average rating of 4.8k stars.
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Flex Wireless Earphones
I obtained a pair of the latest Beats (the brand’s most affordable headphones to date) for testing a few months back and haven’t stopped using them since. Delivering crystal clear sound, 12 hours of battery life, and a rapid fast charge, these bluetooth wireless headphones are overall better than headphones I’ve spent at least 4x more on over the years.
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7/8 Jogger Travel Pants
Editor’s note: I own these joggers and am in love with them. What first sold me on these was that reviewers mentioned how similar these are to Lululemon’s On The Fly jogger, which cost about three times more. Fast forward to me owning 4 pairs and recently FaceTiming with my grandma who was rocking her own pair as well. A great gift for any woman who likes comfortable, flattering pants.
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Reversible Zebra Bathmat in Grey
Jonathan Adler amazon.com
$63.34
Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side… Not when you’re getting out of the tub though. That’s dangerous in an ER-kind of way. Anyway, here’s a cute, dryer-friendly bathmat. 
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Le Specs. Air Heart Sunglasses
Le Specs. amazon.com
$67.90
If these glamorous and slightly oversized sunnies look familiar it’s because Meghan Markle sported this exact pair during her 2019 baby shower. Shoppers, note that these fan-favorite shades have a track record for selling out fast. 
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OPRAH’S FAVORITE THINGS 2020
‘Tis The Season Huggie Set
Stella & Haas amazon.com
$29.97
This trio of hypoallergenic freshwater pearl huggies is another covetable find from Oprah’s Favorite Things List this year. Considering how versatile these earrings are, I don’t blame you if you opt to keep a pair for yourself.
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UGG Fluffita Slipper
Have a shoe lover on your shopping list? Change their life with UGG’s Fluffita slippers. These fuzzy-feeling platform slippers will elevate all of their favorite loungewear ‘fits.
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Mayberry Sheepskin Slipper
EMU Australia amazon.com
$59.95
Cozy gifts remain a failsafe move in 2021, so here’s another pair of chic sheepskin slippers certain to delight. 
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Emmanuelle Initial Necklace
Jennifer Zeuner Jewelry amazon.com
$154.00
A personalized touch goes a long way in making it look like you didn’t wait until the last minute to pick something out and panic while doing so. Here, a gothic initial pendant from Jennifer Zeuner that subtly channels Regina George’s ‘R’ necklace. More letters are available as well.
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Dachsie Ring Holder
This dachshund ring holder takes cute jewelry organization to another level. Perfect for the dog lover who’s constantly rotating her stack.
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Layla Bamboo Bed Sheets
Layla Sleep amazon.com
$175.00
$125.00 (29% off)
A sheet upgrade is the gift that keeps on giving. Suitable for sensitive skin types and hot sleepers, Layla Sleep’s 300-thread count Bamboo sheets are soft to the touch and eco-friendly. (Bamboo uses 200x less water than cotton and doesn’t require harsh chemicals in the production process.) The set includes a fitted sheet, top sheet and 2 pillowcases.
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PhoneSoap Pro UV Smartphone Sanitizer & Universal Charger
PhoneSoap amazon.com
$119.95
File PhoneSoap’s Pro UV smartphone sanitizer under universally practical gift ideas. In just five minutes, this device is able to kill up to 99.99% of germs thanks to its powerful UV-C light.
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Plush Slipper Socks Women
Toes Home amazon.com
$14.99
Amazon reviewers are obsessed with this set of fuzzy socks, which happens to be a steal at this price. (Think 2.4k ratings and counting, with an average of 4.6/5 stars.) A handful of designs are available, but the heart motifs here are especially kitschy-chic.
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Alix Mini Top Handle Satchel
3.1 Phillip Lim amazon.com
$695.00
They say the best gifts are the ones you’d want for yourself. Phillip Lim’s versatile Alix Mini top handle bag is proof.
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Supreme Glamour
Thames & Hudson amazon.com
Anyone who loves The Supremes or retro glamour will swoon over this new coffee table book, which chronicles the fashion history of the beloved 1960s Motown group. Founding member Mary Wilson tells her friend and co-author, Mark Begu, the whole story of the band.
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Gisele Long PJ Set
Eberjey amazon.com
$120.00
Eberjey is practically synonymous with great pajamas. Made from modal and spandex jersey (no polyester!), these PJs are breathable, ridiculously soft and hot sleeper-friendly. Unlike cheaper options out there, you can be sure these will last for years to come.
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EDITOR’S FAVORITE
Power Workout Leggings in Black
Sweaty Betty amazon.com
$100.00
To give you a sense of how beloved British brand Sweaty Betty’s power leggings are, one pair has sold every 90 seconds this year. (Editor’s note: I own these and don’t stop talking about how I think they’re the most comfortable and flattering leggings of all time.) New to Amazon Prime, these are still in stock in every size at the time of publication. 
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Women’s Asili Stacking Rings
Women-founded and sustainably sourced, SOKO makes some of the coolest, vintage-feeling costume jewelry around. Their pieces are handcrafted by artisans Kenya who use recycled brass, upcycled horns and traditional techniques.
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Leather Touchscreen Texting and Driving Gloves
If you’re bougie on a budget, check out these Italian cashmere-lined leather gloves which boast over 1.7k ratings. As one reviewer put it: “They are great, and actually fit very well. Beautifully packaged. Could be a gift but I am keeping them!” 
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Women’s Duality Reversible Sherpa Jacket
Alo Yoga amazon.com
$179.89
Not only is Alo Yoga’s best-selling Duality jacket fun and practical in equal measure, it’s reversible and one side is sherpa. Five other colorways are available too.
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Drinking Animals Coloring and Cocktail Recipe Book
Each page in this delightful coloring book opens up to a different animal and new cocktail recipe. 
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Tombow Dual Brush Pen Art Markers
Editor’s note: I’m a lifelong doodler and Tomboy’s dual tip brush pens are unrivaled when it comes to ease of use and vibrancy. Several color palettes are available in case you’re after something louder too. PS: A bunch are on sale right now, which is rare for the brand.
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Apple AirPods with Wireless Charging Case
Few tech gadgets, if any, look as suave as AirPods. Of all the headphones carried on Amazon, these remain the #1 best-selling pair (no exaggeration), and for a limited time only, they’re currently on sale.
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No Bounds Wireless Outdoor Speaker
House of Marley amazon.com
$58.78
These aux input speakers from House of Marley (which, fun fact, was founded by Bob Marley’s son, Rohan) boast an impressive ten hours of battery life. Even better? Because they’re dust-proof and waterproof, you and your partner will be able to enjoy these on outdoor adventures and road trips.
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Retro Bluetooth Speaker
This ultra-compact speaker is sure to be a crowdpleaser. The indoor/outdoor speaker not only connects with bluetooth, but can be used as an FM radio with AUX connectivity as well, all while delivering impressive sound and 10 hours of battery life. A carrying strap and dust bag are also included, which makes for a sleek presentation.
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Bose SoundLink Revolve Wireless Bluetooth Speaker
This sleek indoor/outdoor speaker delivers crystal clear sound quality and long battery life (16 hours!) certain to enhance any user’s listening experience. From true crime podcasts to Netflix to electronic music experiences, these will be a game-changer. 
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Boy Smells Beeswax & Coconut Wax Kush Candle
Boy Smells amazon.com
$36.00
This Boy Smells best seller doesn’t actually contain any psychoactive hemp-derived extracts, but it’s still lit. Paying homage to the cannabis flower, the scent is warm, fresh and floral.
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EDITOR’S FAVORITE
Hand and Skincare Amenity Kit
Grown Alchemist amazon.com
$25.00
Editor’s note: I’m never more than a few feet away from my Grown Alchemist hand creams in the winter. Containing a vanilla and orange peel hand cream, vanilla and geranium day cream and watermelon lip balm, I’d argue this is the most affordable fancy-feeling beauty gift on Amazon. Fun fact, clean Gwyneth Paltrow is a huge fan of this lipgloss. 
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EltaMD Mineral-Based UV Clear Facial Sunscreen (1.7 oz)
Sunscreen as a gift? Only if it’s from EltaMD’s product line. If you or a loved one who spends a lot of time in the sun hasn’t tried this dermatologist-loved sunscreen line before, ELLE.com highly recommends. (Read Beauty Director Chloe Hall’s full review here.)
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Sparkling Water Machine
sodastream amazon.com
$159.95
Kiss wasteful plastic bottles of seltzer from the grocery store goodbye. Set in a sleek monochromatic design, this SodaStream kit includes everything you need to make seltzer at home, including a carbonator.
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14k Yellow Gold Hoop Earrings
Tilo Jewelry amazon.com
$69.99
Gold hoops go with everything and somehow always feel cool wearing. Here, a 14k gold pair made in the US that won’t slim down your holiday shopping budget. 
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Sherpa Trucker Jacket
Levi’s sherpa jackets have been worn by every fashion girl from Gigi Hadid to Zendaya. The denim staple is not only a godsend for complicated transitional temps, but a cozy piece to throw on at home.
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Visual Feast: Contemporary Food Photography and Styling
Earning its moniker, Visual Feast is a coffee table fixture that explores food presentation in a myriad of Art forms. From witty jello dishes to painted lobsters, the foodie in your life will find the book’s photography drool-worthy.
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Classic Greek Michelangelo David Bust Statue
Beonueni amazon.com
$29.00
Nothing subtly says ‘I’m an Intellectual’ louder than having a decorative bust of a Greek god on display in one’s home. Your loved one won’t see this gift coming, but they’ll love it all the same. (Editor’s note: This is the only item on our list where you have to pay for shipping, but it’s only $2.99.) 
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Women’s Natural Lace Trim Vest
Iris & Lilly amazon.com
$16.30
White tank tops have defined Tik Tok-era fashion more than any other article of clothing. Gift a set for the culture. 
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Mentone Half-Zip Sweater
Varley amazon.com
$148.00
This half zip from British athleisure brand Varley is practically dripping in cozy appeal.
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Women’s Nori-K Coat
Mackage amazon.com
$790.00
Kindly sidestep the puddle of drool that formed while I gazed at this wool coat. That leather waist belt! The removable bib (!!!). The feminine silhouette that doesn’t sacrifice warmth! She’ll love this because how could anybody not?
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Squeaky Parody Plush Dog Toy
Haute Diggity Dog amazon.com
$15.99
A fabulous squeaky toy for a fabulous pup. (Editor’s note: hi, Freddy!!) 
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Juicy Couture DIY Bracelet Making Kit
Make It Real amazon.com
$19.99
*Puts on Maneater by Nelly Furtado for a quick journey to 2006.* This kitschy DIY bracelet kit will pull at the heart strings of anyone who owned a velour tracksuit in the early oughts. Technically speaking, this set was probably intended for pre-teens, which makes it a good gift youngins who weren’t around for Juicy’s heyday all the same.
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14k Gold Linked Diamond Stud Earring
Zoe Chicco amazon.com
$480.00
This 0.13ct diamond stud earring (yes, it’s sold individually and I’m sorry) will be her new favorite earring if she has more than one piercing. 
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Kitty Espresso Coffee Maker
Stainless steel espresso coffee makers don’t get any chicer than the Bialetti Kitty.  
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Walkie Talkies
These retro-looking walkie talkies are technically for kids aged 4 through 14; however, these will make a useful gift for any family quarantining together in the suburbs in lieu of a fancy intercom system. These boast a 3 mile range for outside, camping and hiking, as well as a backlit LCD flashlight. 
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Modern Glass Globe Table Desk Lamp
This sculptural table lamp injects instant modernity and warmth. It includes an LED bulb too, so the design lover you gift this too will be able to set it up and enjoy right away. 
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Clear Acrylic Bookends (Set of 4)
CY craft amazon.com
$16.97
If you’re after a gift for a book lover that isn’t books, this top-rated set of acrylic bookends works for any decor style. 
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Enameled Cast Iron Signature Dutch Oven
Le Creuset amazon.com
$349.95
Le Creuset is the gold standard of cookware and their dutch ovens are the lightest on the market. Here, the legendary brand’s signature enameled cast iron Dutch Oven in a gradient motif that brings to mind sunsets and Prada’s fall-winter 2018 collection.
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BoostIQ RoboVac 15C MAX
eufy by Anker amazon.com
$279.99
$175.99 (37% off)
It’s hard to come by a list of best robot vacuums online (written by experts who actually tested hundreds of models) where eufy’s RoboVac 15C MAX isn’t included as a budget-friendly mention. The RoboVac 15C MAX has wifi and Alexa voice connectivity, which makes it easy breezy to set up and use. Reviewers love how it delivers an impressive clean with strong suction and self-charges after a clean. 
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Table Tiles
Areaware amazon.com
$20.98
There’s no such thing as too many coasters, though there is such thing as really tacky coasters. Trust me, I went through over 200 before finding this cool geometric set. These have a cork-lined base which further helps to protect furniture.
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Sherpa and Fleece Throw Blanket
Green Orange amazon.com
$20.99
Sherpa on one side and plush on the other, this reviewer-loved throw blanket measures 50×60 inches, which means it’s large enough for two to comfortably snuggle during Netflix nights.
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EDITOR’S FAVORITE
Men’s Sherpa-Lined Puffer Jacket
Amazon Essentials amazon.com
$50.10
Editor’s note: I got my dad this jacket for his birthday a few weeks ago because I figured it looked warm and practical. Turns out, this $42 coat is the softest-feeling men’s jacket anyone in my family has ever come across. Besides looking way more expensive than its price tag, this coat is warm and has a sherpa-lined hood which feels cloud-like. (Amazon, if you’re reading this, please make this coat in women’s.)
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Men’s Figaro Chain Necklace
Miansai amazon.com
$125.00
In case you’re still thinking about how hot Connell’s chain was in Normal People. Same.
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Men’s Memory Foam Slippers
These comfy slippers are machine washable, which means if he’s prone to having sweaty feet… you can gift these without any worry you might later regret it.
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Polo Ralph Lauren Outdoor Bear Scarf
Polo Ralph Lauren amazon.com
For a guy in your life who’s a nightmare to shop for, look no further than this ribbed knit scarf featuring Ralph Lauren’s iconic, well-dressed bear.
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Essential Crewneck Sweater
State Cashmere amazon.com
$140.00
Editor-loved brand State Cashmere makes 100% pure hypoallergenic cashmere for a fraction of what I see a lot of other brands charging. Here, a failsafe crewneck he’ll have for years to come.
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Starter Shaving Kit for Men
Intro him to his new favorite grooming brand with a set that includes everything from a shave brush to priming oil to a safety razor and more. This shaving kit boasts over 400 reviews, with several mentioning how Bevel’s products help prevent razor bumps. 
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Hidden Comfort No-Show Socks
Runners swear by the support and durability of Balega socks. Take it from the 7k reviews this no-show unisex pair has, these will be a hit.
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Grand Court Sneaker
If you’re shopping for a boyfriend who’s an amazing person but just not the best dresser, start with his shoes. Prince Harry has been photographed in a similar pair (Sdidas’s Gazelle trainer) in a similar grey, suede color on countless occasions. This color looks sharp with everything.
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DiamondClean Classic Rechargeable Electric Toothbrush
Philips Sonicare amazon.com
$199.99
$166.95 (17% off)
Rumored users of the prestigious DiamondClean toothbrush include Beyoncé and Kim K. Per Philips, this luxe toothbrush removes up to 7x more plaque than a manual toothbrush, whitens teeth after 1 week of use, and improves gum health in only 2 weeks.
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Pet Cardboard Turntable & DJ Mixer
Suck UK amazon.com
$35.00
For the cat person who loves a good RAC remix. To quote an epic review on Amazon: “By 9pm, DJ Kitty was in beast mode as the rave kicked off in the living room. As the sun came up, DJ Kitty refused to part with the deck… Yes, a bit expensive for [sic]carboard, but we are considering selling tickets to the next show to make up the difference.”
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OPRAH’S FAVORITE THINGS 2020
Footnanny Hemp Extract Spa Treatment Set
Footnanny amazon.com
$69.99
Footnanny has been on Oprah’s Favorite Things list for seven years and counting, though the foot-care brand is loved by many, many more. Here, a trio that will help with exfoliating, soothing and relieving targeted areas of the body that often get neglected. 
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Foam Roller
Trigger Point Performance amazon.com
To give you a sense of how beloved TriggerPoint’s GRID foam roller is, it has 11.4k global ratings and an average score of 4.7 stars. It comes with free online videos so users can learn the best ways to utilize it for stretching and relieving tension. 
73
Fully Adjustable Desk Folding Exercise Bike
Exerpeutic amazon.com
$299.99
$255.86 (15% off)
If they’re a fitness lover who’s working from home right now, this foldable stationary bike desk will make staying active during the day an easier pursuit. Reviewers agree it’s easy to assemble and sturdy, with one reviewer even saying this has changed their life.
74
Essential Oil and Aromatherapy Diffuser
Victsing amazon.com
$25.59
Shopping for a dedicated yogi or someone who could use a little serenity right now? Meet VicTsing’s popular essential oil diffuser that boasts 11.3k ratings and counting. The diffuser offers 2 modes, 4 different timers and 7 different color lights, which makes for a personalized zen experience. 
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Jenga
Jenga is fun whether you’re 6-years-old or 42.
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Posh Peanut Pajamas Set (Newborn to Toddler Sizes)
Posh Peanut amazon.com
$30.00
Made from soft viscose bamboo, these pajamas will be super soft for any baby, toddler or eager young mind on your shopping list. A variety of prints are available in sizes spanning 0-3 months to 6 years.
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Grippy Non-Slip Socks for Kids
Resilience Gives amazon.com
$10.00
The story behind this cheerful sock brand will move you (and the recipient). Resilience Gives was founded by Jake Teitebaum, a Hodgkin’s lymphoma survivor who was frustrated with poorly-made socks during his stem cell transplant, and is co-owned by Andee Wallace, whose father survived non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. For each pair of socks purchased, the brand donates a pair to a child with cancer who’s undergoing treatment in a hospital. (Women’s and men’s sizes are also available in case you also want to get yourself a pair.)
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Explore Wide Collection of Women Sleepwear in Australia
Are you looking forward to adding sleepwear to your wardrobe so that you can have a good night's sleep? Well, if you are thinking so, then you must consider buying good quality nightdresses from one right online store like Cachia. Read the full blog at https://cachiashop61.blogspot.com/2022/04/explore-wide-collection-of-women.html
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Home For The Holidays In Stylish Pajamas And Lounge Wear
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Home For The Holidays In Stylish Pajamas And Lounge Wear
Sleeper’s Iconic Party Pajama set with detachable ostrich feathers.
Holiday season usually requires a full wardrobe for countless celebrations, get-togethers and even pre party preparations. There’s the annual girls’ night out, which has become the one night each year we go full on with sparkle and paint the town red. Hosting at home has become the highlight of my holiday season in the past years. Its on nights like these when those closest and dearest gather around a lovingly prepared spread to look back on the year that was. Last year, colleagues and I did a pajama themed dinner for six. It was a fitting dress code for one memorable evening that went on till the wee hours of the morning.
A year ago, nobody sitting on that Christmas table had a clue that holidays in 2020 will most likely be spent in pajamas—again. This year has unceremoniously cancelled all plans, major celebrations, included. This is not to say that Christmas will be any less special compared to past years. There are online cocktails with close friends marked in red now on the agenda. An intimate afternoon with members of the immediate family (following guidelines for social distancing and limited number of guests, of course) are currently being finalized for Christmas day up in the mountains. Plans for Christmas Eve and New Year, which are usually large and grand, are admittedly still up in the air. It will most likely be just as low-key and pared-down as all other occasions from the last 300 days. But one thing holds true. It will remain meaningful and elegant in its simplicity.
As you prepare for your most memorable holiday at home, start with this tried-and-tested edit of chic and comfy pajamas.
Papinelle and Karen Walker’s Limited Edition Love Letter Collection
Papinelle X Karen Walker Love Letter Nightie
PAPINELLE is a sustainable sleepwear brand from Australia that creates garments you wish you never had to get out of. The brand uses natural fabrics, including washable silks, that “enhance your down time and bring a little luxury to the bedroom.” Prints from the label transport one to dreamy landscapes and horizons. PAPINELLE’s latest collaboration with designer Karen Walker features iconic botanical prints done on natural washable silk. Called the Love Letter, these prints are set against a soothing palette of pinks and blues. Apart from classic pajamas, these stunning fabrics are also done on strappy nighties, boxers and robes. PAPINELLE sleepwear is made such that you’ll want to wear them for extended periods of time. Christmas mornings that last all day are likely to be extra cozy in pair from the brand’s latest collection.
Party Pajama Holiday Collection from SLEEPER
Shearling Lulu Ballet Slippers from SLEEPER
There are several SLEEPER pajamas in the wardrobe. They are classified as garments I love to bring out on special occasions that call for sleepwear that makes a statement. My feathered black and white PJs are all-time favorites that traveling roomies and pajama dance party mates never fail to compliment. This year, the “world’s first walking sleepwear” re-launched its signature dance party pajamas to feature detachable ostrich feather trimmings, for easier care and wear. There are new colors for these PJs including: beige, red and pink gingham. SLEEPER has also just recently introduced its shearling LULU Ballet Flats for added flair as you hop on to your next holiday pajama party online.  
Odyssey Pyjamas from PHRIYA
Odyssey Pyjamas from PHRIYA
PHRIYA is a sustainable luxury sleepwear brand that “celebrates the full time dreamers.” Its founders Hans and Patricia are themselves dreamers who explain that, “we combine passion, imagination, art, creativity, innovation and social responsibility to push the boundaries of what dreams can be.” The label works with natural materials such as cotton and linen to reimagine the traditional “pyjama.” Hand-painted prints by artist Anna Glover make each set in special and truly unique. Everything from the brand is done in small batches and with close attention to detail. The Odyssey pyjama, for instance, features rounded collar lapels, lots of room for movement as well as cuffs and deep pockets with piping. There have been some days throughout this quarantine year when my Odyssey long pyjama set kept me company from sun up to a several Zoom meetings at midday and kitchen raids at midnight.
Cropped sweater and runner shorts in shade Stone from PATTON STUDIO
A classic white cropped sweater and joggers in a shade of pine from PATTON STUDIO
PATTON STUDIO is a new retail concept from the Philippines that encourages the stylish set to buy less with better design and quality. The ready-to-wear label is anchored on the idea that timeless, simple and versatile pieces are foundations of a clever wardrobe edit. Designs at PATTON STUDIO are decidedly straightforward allowing one to build from existing garments already in the closet. Pieces are also created so “you can approach your day with ease and comfort…letting you make the most out of your day, everyday.” Sets like PATTON STUDIO’s Cropped Sweaters and Runner Shorts or joggers go beyond conventional lounge wear, extending its function to cover light workouts, afternoon naps and yes, intimate holiday celebrations at home. I love how you can pair your shorts with cotton bralettes for quick yoga flow then mix it up with a cropped tee or sweater later in the day.  
Pictou Skirt made using VIRAL OFF antimicrobial copper fabric from YOYA
YOYA’s Dover Shrug is made using VIRAL OFF treated antibacterial copper infused pleated cotton.
YOYA is intellectual in its approach to fashion design. Pieces are conceived with contrasts and juxtaposition as its take off point. The brand positions itself as “a challenger of conventional notions and norms…both familiar and startling at the same time.” Its creations are classified as “uniform for the thinking woman.” This year, YOYA partnered with Polygiene Technology company, VIRAL OFF, in the creation of its Armoured Awakening collection. Garments made using VIRAL OFF’s copper infused cottons are translated into easy, versatile pieces to suit style in our times. Most designs from the collection also offer a variety of styling options so that they can transition from lounging to stepping out for errands and even a digital Christmas fete. The Dover Shrug with its micro pleating details, gathered neckline and draw cord details, can be worn in countless ways depending on occasion and mood. I love to wear this over workout gear, allowing me to transition from mat to Zoom meetings. The Pictou skirt, similarly, is a beautiful style staple this season that brings decadence and off-duty ease to your holiday at home fashion repertoire. Light pleated fabrics gathered asymmetric detail make it a piece you can actually look and feel good in.
Bagheera Long Pajama Set from PRINTFRESH
Bagheera Shorts in Forest by PRINTFRESH
PRINTFRESH was founded by textile designer and entrepreneur Amy Voloshin to reflect a love for décor, plants, pets, 70s hippie and surf culture. Its Philadelphia- based atelier works closely with socially and environmentally conscious suppliers in India. Garments from PrintFresh are made using 100% cotton poplin as canvas for whimsical prints and bold colors that “step up the WFH and lounge uniform.” Lively prints on pajama sets, robes and separates also make for beautiful statement pieces for a holiday at home ensemble. The Bagheera set, for instance, is a striking piece to wear for opening gifts and a warm cup of chocolate on Christmas morning. You may also want to wear them throughout most of the day, which isn’t such a bad idea.
Silk reversible Muse robe with artwork by Alina Zamanova from LESSLESS
Peignoir style silk robe with print from LESSLESS
LESSLESS pays homage to the art of wearing dressing gowns and 90s minimalism. As a child of the 90s, I’ve always enjoyed putting on a dressing gown—either as a style statement or for days when the only plan is relax and to stay in. Robes from this emerging brand work for both men and women. They are designed to complement an understated style sensibility punctuated with artful prints by notable female painters like Alina Zamanova. Since its launch in 2019, the well dressed set has picked up on impeccably crafted and exquisite designs from LESSLESS. Its founders, Alya and Tim Gonta write: “The dressing gown essence of the collection are silk wrap-dresses and robes a-la peignoir which freely float around the body. Their creation was driven by the Hollywood inspiration—and that is the feeling LESSLESS strives to create with their clothes.” Their reversible silk robes are style investments that make dressing up, even for small holiday celebrations at home, feel like the special occasions that truly are. Take your queue from style icon, Maye Musk who’s been spotted in LESSLESS’s linen robes.
The Kendal Pant and Athena Sweater from LEZE THE LABLE
LEZE THE LABEL is a lifestyle brand that aims to empower women through garments that help them move through days with ease. Women behind the team share that “through the comfort and styling ease of each garment, we seek to inspire women of all professions to navigate career paths freely.” Beyond the confines of a WFH set up, pieces from the brand are also great style choices for cozy Christmas mornings with family and loved ones. The Kendall Pant and Athena Sweater, for instance, is a season-less staple that feels like butter on skin. Made using recycled fishing nets, garments also feature sweat-wicking and anti-wrinkle technology. With color options in bone, black and gray, these loungewear finds are keepers for individuals with preference for a clean, contemporary and streamlined holiday look.
The Essential Belted Dress from LONDRE is made using soft, breathable and sustainably sourced … [] fabric.
The Essential Pant and Cropped Sweater are key pieces from LONDRE’s Loungewear Line.
LONDRE is an inspired ethical swimwear brand that makes women feel good. Through pieces that flatter the female form while the lowest possible impact, the company is able to connect through sincere, powerful messaging. They also resonate with women through designs that celebrate body positivity and self love. Pieces arrive to their new owners with lovingly written notes cards and tags empower through words like: “Remember that you are beautiful” and “Body Type: “So ******* Beautiful.” Its latest collection of loungewear is yet another nod to women uplifting other women. Made using sustainably harvested wood pulp and organic cotton, pieces from the range are made with comfort, movement and confidence as the main goal. In a season and year when many us find ourselves reassessing that things that truly matter, investing in essential pieces that convey hope, kindness, acceptance and positivity could just as well be the best gift you can give yourself.
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GAY MUSIC CHART – 2018 week 07
 Welcome to the Gay Music Chart, the LGBTQA related music videos TOP 50 actuality and most request.
Vote for your favourite LGBTQA related music videos by leaving a comment for this post on :
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 Here is the recap for this week :
 OUT : Namuel - Joven de Corazón (LW: 18 / WO: 13 / PEAK: 10)
OUT : Michele Bravi - Diamanti (LW: 24 / WO: 20 / PEAK: 04)
OUT : Jão - Imaturo (LW: 29 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 29)
OUT : ဆိုေတး So Tay - အသစ္ေတြ႔ခဲ့ရင္ A Thit Twayt Khae Yin (LW: 32 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 32)
OUT : Eu sou Filho do Arco-Íris (LW: 34 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 34)
OUT : HEIDRIK - Monster (LW: 35 / WO: 11 / PEAK: 05)
OUT : Pabllo Vittar feat. Diplo - Então Vai (LW: 37 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 37)
OUT : Fischerspooner - TopBrazil (LW: 42 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 24)
OUT : Sam Vance-Law - Gayby (LW: 43 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 43)
OUT : Michele Bravi - Tanto Per Cominciare (LW: 44 / WO: 13 / PEAK: 14)
OUT : Tim Arnold - Que Désire l'Amour (LW: 45 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 45)
OUT : Jinkx Monsoon - Cartoons and Vodka (LW: 47 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 29)
OUT : Boy Radio - Champagne Wishes (LW: 48 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 48)
OUT : Rui Andrade - Confia Em Mim (LW: 49 / WO: 6 / PEAK: 25)
OUT : Brendan Velasquez - Dress 2 Impress (LW: 50 / WO: 1 / PEAK: 48)
  01 (+ 1) : Trevor Moran - Sinner (LW: 02 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 01 (x1))
USA - 2017
 02 (- 1) : Troye Sivan - My My My! (LW: 01 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 01 (x3))
Australia - 2018
The first track of his upcoming album has topped at #3 at the Worldwide iTunes Song Chart. It's the eighth single of the Australian singer in a row to be #1 in our chart.
 03 (+ 8) : Kylie Minogue - Dancing (LW: 11 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 03)
Australia - 2018 / from the upcoming album "Golden"
 04 (- 1) : Francisco Victoria - Marinos (LW: 03 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 03)
Chile - 2017
This is the first single of the Chilean singer, produced by Alex Anwandter. A revelation.
 05 (+ 1) : Sufjan Stevens - Mystery of Love ("Call Me By Your Name" OST) (LW: 06 / WO: 14 / PEAK: 01 (x1))
USA - 2017 / from the album ("Call Me By Your Name" OST)
The song is nominated for the Oscar of Best Original Song at the Academy Awards 2018.
 06 (- 1) : La Prohibida - Baloncesto (LW: 05 / WO: 29 / PEAK: 03)
Spain / from the album "100K años de luz"
The drag queen joined Madrid’s Three Kings float, but traditionalists didn't like it.
 07 (+ 39) : Patrick Wolf - The Days (fan video) (LW: 46 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 07)
UK - 2017 / from the album "God’s Own Country OST"
The multi-awarded movie is nominated in 2 categories at the BAFTA Awards 2017, including Best Outstanding British Film.
 08 (=) : Virgin Suicide - Evil Eyes (LW: 08 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 08)
Denmark - 2017
This Danish music video is like a short movie, telling the struggles of a closeted gay teen taken by his father to a fathers-sons's camp.
 09 (+ 11) : Matt Palmer - Solo Act (LW: 20 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 09)
USA - 2018 / from the EP "Get Lost"
 10 (+ 5) : Allie X feat. VÉRITÉ - Casanova (LW: 15 / WO: 7 / PEAK: 10)
Canada - 2017 / from the album "CollXtion II"
 11 (- 7) : Calum Scott - You Are The Reason (LW: 04 / WO: 12 / PEAK: 04)
UK - 2017
 12 (- 5) : PJ Brennan - Tease (LW: 07 / WO: 14 / PEAK: 01 (x2))
USA - 2016
PJ Brennan is well known for his role as Doug Carter in the British television soap opera Hollyoaks.
 13 (+ 14) : Troye Sivan - The Good Side (Live on SNL) (LW: 27 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 13)
Australia - 2018
 14 (- 1) : Eli Lieb - Next To You (LW: 13 / WO: 9 / PEAK: 02)
USA - 2017
 15 (- 1) : SAKIMA - Daddy (LW: 14 / WO: 9 / PEAK: 14)
UK - 2017
 16 (- 7) : Tokio Hotel - Boy Don't Cry (LW: 09 / WO: 15 / PEAK: 04)
Germany - 2017 / from the album "Dream Machine"
The lead singer Bill Kaulitz becomes a beautiful drag queen in the new music video of the German band.
 17 (NEW) : Openside - I Feel Nothing (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 17)
New Zealand - 2017  
Lead singer Possum Plows, who is gender non-binary, raises the transgender flag in this music video.
 18 (+ 10) : Hayley Kiyoko - Curious (LW: 28 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 11)
USA - 2018 / from the album "Expectations"
In her new song, Hayley is wondering why the girl she's dating is dating also another guy in the same time. "Expectations" will be released on March 30, 2018.
 19 (+ 20) : Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy (Arnaud Rebotini Remix) (LW: 39 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 19)
UK / France - 2017 / from the album "120 battements par minute OST"
This classic gay anthem from Bronski Beat is a remix for the OST of the French movie "120 battements par minute", which depicts a group of HIV/AIDS activists in the early 1990s. The movie won the Grand Prix at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival, and is nomited 13 times at the Cesars 2018, including for Best Movie and Best original Soundtrack for Arnaud Rebotini.
 20 (NEW) : Saara Aalto - Monsters (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 20)
Finland - 2018
Saara Alto will represent Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. This is the first song of three which will be presented to the public for voting at the UMK 2018.
 21 (+ 17) : Abisha Uhl - Better (LW: 38 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 21)
USA - 2018
The music video recreates famous scenes of movies.
 22 (NEW) : Зианджа / Ziandzha  - Smashed into you (Live @ Blind Audition – The Voice of Ukraine – season 8) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 22)
Ukraine - 2018
The video of the transgender singer made the buzz in Ukraine.
 23 (- 1) : Alfie Arcuri - If They Only Knew (LW: 22 / WO: 32 / PEAK: 01 (x7))
Australia - 2017
This is the new music video of the winner of The Voice Australia 2016. What must do a gay man when he's in love with his best male friend, who's dating his best female friend?
 24 (+ 16) : The Greatest Showman - This Is Me [Official Lyric Video] (LW: 40 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 19)
USA - 2018 / from the album "The Greatest Showman OST"
The song, composed by out songwriter Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, won the 2017 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song and has been nominated for the Academy Award 2017 for Best Original Song.
 25 (NEW) : Sannie - Boys on Girls (live @ Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2018) (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 25)
Denmark - 2018
 26 (- 5) : Lucas Lucco e Pabllo Vittar - Paraíso (LW: 21 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 21)
Brazil - 2018
 27 (+ 14) : Lady Gaga - Joanne (Where Do You Think You’re Goin’?) (Piano Version) (LW: 41 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 27)
USA - 2018
 28 (- 18) : Bagarre - Danser seul (ne suffit pas) (LW: 10 / WO: 5 / PEAK: 10)
France - 2018 / from the album "Club 12345"
Several drag queens are featuring in the music video of this French Touch house music.
 29 (- 4) : Smashby - Ringleader (LW: 25 / WO: 8 / PEAK: 13)
UK - 2017
 30 (- 11) : Leon Else - What I Won't Do (Lyric Video) (LW: 19 / WO: 35 / PEAK: 02)
UK - 2017
The British singer has came out on Facebook last May.
 31 (=) : Huntington - Love Is Love (LW: 31 / WO: 20 / PEAK: 02)
Australia / Germany - 2017
Three years after "Secret", this is their new original song. It was released specially for the Australian debate about marriage equality. Every cent made from this song went go to the Yes campaign. Now that the debate is over, finaly, LGBT can now get marry : congratulations Australia !
 32 (RE-ENTRY) : Charlotte Gainsbourg - Deadly Valentine (LW: - / WO: 3 / PEAK: 21)
France - 2017 / from the album "Rest"
Charlotte Gainsbourg & Dev Hynes are lifelong lovers for this music video from the French actress and singer, who won the Victoire de la Musique 2018 for Female Singer of the year.
 33 (- 7) : Ferras - Coming Back Around (LW: 26 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 26)
USA - 2018
 34 (- 17) : Conchita Wurst & Ina Regen - Heast as Net (Hubert Von Goisern Cover) (LW: 17 / WO: 10 / PEAK: 09)
Austria - 2017
The power of yodeling, but in a classy way.
 35 (+ 1) : Echo V - Let You Go (LW: 36 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 35)
USA - 2017
Echo V is a new boy band from Los Angeles. All the members are gay. This is their first single.
 36 (- 20) : Matt Fishel - LGBTQ (A New Generation) (LW: 16 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 16)
UK - 2018 / from the album "M/F"
This song is an tribute for the older LGBTQIA generation who had fight for their rights against homophobia and discriminations, which allowed the emergence of a freer and open-minded generation.
 37 (NEW) : Strange Names - UFO (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 37)
USA - 2018 / from the album "Data"
 38 (NEW) : Matt Palmer - Inevitably (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 38)
USA - 2018 / from the EP "Get Lost"
 39 (NEW) : Hoshi - Ta Marinière (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 39)
France - 2017
This sweater makes you fall in love with people around you, men or women.
 40 (NEW) : Lo Stato Sociale - Una Vita In Vacanza (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 40)
Italy - 2018
This song was competiting in the Sanremo 2018 music festival.
 41 (- 18) : Sam Tsui - Trust (LW: 23 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 23)
USA - 2018 / from the album "Trust"
 42 (- 12) : Rainbow Riots feat. Kowa Tigs and D Black - Set Me Free (LW: 30 / WO: 2 / PEAK: 30)
Sweden / Uganda - 2018 / from the album "Rainbow Riots"
This is the third single of this album project composed and produced by Petter Wallenberg, featuring queer voices from some of the world’s most dangerous countries for LGBTQ people. All proceeds go towards fighting inequalities towards LGBTQ people in Uganda.
 43 (RE-ENTRY) : Parson James - Only You (LW: - / WO: 2 / PEAK: 43)
USA - 2018
 44 (RE-ENTRY) : Hayley Kiyoko - Feelings (LW: - / WO: 15 / PEAK: 04)
USA - 2017
The singer flirts with another woman while she’s dancing in her new music video.
 45 (NEW) : Wilder Daze - Better Off (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 45)
USA - 2018
 46 (RE-ENTRY) : Conchita - This is Me (Influencer's Cover) (LW: - / WO: 3 / PEAK: 35)
Austria - 2017
 47 (- 35) : Holland(홀랜드) - Neverland (네버랜드) (LW: 12 / WO: 3 / PEAK: 12)
South Korea - 2018
This is the first South Korean music video showing a gay couple kissing in a romantic way.
 48 (NEW) : Eden Iris - The Problem (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 48)
USA - 2018
 49 (- 16) : Cub Sport - Good Guys Go (LW: 33 / WO: 4 / PEAK: 26)
Australia - 2018 / from the album "Bats"
 50 (NEW) : Phonoamorous - Bye Bye (LW: - / WO: 1 / PEAK: 50)
Germany - 2018
  ALSO NEW THIS WEEK
 Hercules & Love Affair - My Curse And Cure
USA - 2018 / from the album "Omnion"
 The Hungry Hearts - Vagina Anthem
Norway - 2018
A feminist song in the #MeToo movement.
 CoCoSoRi (코코소리) - MiAmor
South Korea - 2018
The two singers kiss each other at the end of the music video, but it's because they dream about the same guy.
 Sajsi MC - Kod Tvoje Devojke
Serbia - 2018
 Raphael - I Get What I Want (d4rk w3b v3r$10n)
USA - 2018
 See you next week and don’t forget to vote for your best LGBTQA music videos ! Here are the rules :
1 ) You can vote for many videos as you want under the videos on YouTube in the comment section. It could be recent or past music videos, which must provide at least one among the following conditions:
- the music video has LGBTQA related content, in the lyrics or the music video
- the artist is LGBTQA, an LGBTQA icon or eventually ally
- LGBTQA medias talked about it.
2 ) You can’t vote more than 3 songs of a same artist per week.
3 ) In case of an artist who receive votes mostly by a fan base, we will count only one song, in a limited time of 10 weeks of presence in the top.
4 ) You can vote with only one account.
5 ) If you make 5 votes or less, your first vote will represent 5 points, your second vote 4 points, etc… until your last vote and following 1 point. If you make 6 to 10 votes, your first vote will represent 10 points, your second vote 9 points, etc… If you make more than 10 votes, your first vote will represent 20 points, your second vote 19 points, etc…
6 ) People who make 1 to 5 votes form the amateur ranking, those who make 6 to 10 votes form the fan ranking, those who make more than 10 votes form the expert ranking. We form the jury ranking. And we count now the ranking of minutes of views of our weekly playlist of the previous week. The Gay Music Chart is the addition of the five charts. In case of equality, the number of votes and the dates of votes will count.
7 ) The votes will close on Thursday, 8 PM, European time.
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A lovely French review of Emily Fairlight’s “Mother of Gloom”. Rough translation:
“We never tire of repeating the extent to which the New Zealand folk scene deserves all our attention. Indeed, year after year, it’s one revelation after another, offering our delighted ears so many incredibly precious musical discoveries - Tiny Ruins, Aldous Harding, Marlon Williams, Nadia Reid… and now Emily Fairlight, whose second album, the magnificent Mother Of Gloom, is being reissued this month on the British independent label Occultation Recordings, a year after being initially released to almost total indifference (the record was financed by a local crowd-funding campaign). So this is a welcome reissue for anyone who loves good music – it's an album that’ll knock you out with the emotion that dwells within and whose astonishing beauty casts a lasting spell.This beauty is both raw and timeless, embodied primarily by the absolutely incredible voice of singer-songwriter, Emily Fairlight Peters. She has a sublime voice which appears to emerge from another world and another time, grabbing you with its intensity and unusual emotional power. Like other unique talents such as Karen Dalton, PJ Harvey and Vera Sola, Emily’s voice pierces hearts whilst at the same time touching the soul with its unusual - and utterly captivating - vibrato. It sounds infinitely lived-in and authentic; echoing the thousand lives already lived by the 36-year-old New Zealander - from her hometown of Christchurch to Dunedin by way of Australia, India and Wellington, she was a circus school student, sold sex toys for women and worked as a barista before embarking on a musical career in around 2010/2011, although it almost came to a sudden end in 2016 when she suffered a bad fall which led to a serious brain injury. The accident left her with a few residual memory problems and was the starting point for the writing of the album, seven long years after a stripped-down but very convincing debut.The lyrics to the new songs are poetic and actually draw their inspiration from the Ms Fairlight’s traumatic experience but also - and more conventionally – from the personal torture caused by a painful romantic break-up. Emily’s words bear the marks of a certain melancholy, very intensely capturing the essence of a moment or the power of an emotion whilst tracing an assured path towards resilience. They are impeccably served by the New Zealander’s bewitching folk, which uses the sound of her acoustic guitar to produce a fresh blend of delicious touches of Americana and mariachi. This is probably as a result of the conditions under which the album was made; it was recorded at her friend Doug Walseth’s studio, The Cat’s Eye, in Austin (Texas), before being mixed at Ben Edwards’s studio, The Sitting Room, in Lyttelton (Christchurch), famous for working with a who's-who of the new Kiwi folk scene (Aldous Harding, Nadia Reid, Marlon Williams, etc).Out of the Texan work sessions and Kiwi post-production comes music which is deeply cinematographic, being both rich in terms of its contents (violin, banjo, trumpet, omnichord, vibraphone and accordion accompany the traditional guitar, bass and drums) and delicate in terms of the performances. This is music impeccably produced by the six talented artists invited by Walseth to play with Emily, including percussionist Cully Symington (Conor Oberst, Okkervil River, Shearwater) and multi-instrumentalist Kullen Fuchs. It is music that draws its primary essence from a kind of folk which is both lived-in (“The Escape”, “Water Water”, “Time’s Unfaithful Wife”) and heart-rending (“Body Below”, “Drag The Night In”, “Private Apocalypse”, “Sinking Ship”), sometimes reminiscent of Joan Baez (“Nurture The Wild”) at others of Calexico (“The Bed”, “Loneliest Race”). Unstoppable.With the twelve tracks (including a very fine instrumental) on Mother Of Gloom (the record's title refers to Martha Wainwright’s moving “Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole”), Emily Fairlight offers us a truly majestic album. A serious, radiant record which – once I’d fallen instantly in love with the artist’s voice - is a genuine musical revelation. Marlon Williams, is a great admirer of Ms Fairlight’s work, invited her to open for him on the first part of his South Pacific tour before she flew off to the famous SXSW (South By South-West) Festival. Next stop Europe? Now that’s a prospect to set this fan’s heart aflutter…“
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Wine & Sympathy - Episode 3: Back At It Again [Transcript]
Show Notes:
We sit down with actress and make-up artist, Jennifer Holt, who discusses getting back into the acting game after taking some time off. We talk about what it's like to raise a child actor, being back in the audition seat, and how the corona virus has been affecting her daily life.
Co-host: Asabi Goodman
Co-host: Vanessa "Ness" Bristow
Guest: Jennifer Holt
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[START]
AG  
And hello!
VB
Hi everybody, this is Vanessa.
AG
And this is Asabi and together we are...
BOTH  
Wine and Sympathy!
VB  
Well today we actually have one of our famous special guests that we keep talking about.
AG
Yes, such a treat, such a treat and I'm excited to get to know this person.
VB
I know.
AG
Yes.
VB
Okay, I'll do a little bit of an intro. So today our special guest via phone, due to COVID-19, is Miss Jennifer Holt.
AG
Woohoo!
VB  
Jennifer is known for her roles in Flipper, Pacific Drive, Beverly Hills Family Robinson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and is currently in pre-production for the new indie production, The Witches Knight, which is so cool.
AG
It looks cool.
VB
I like witches!
AG  
Yes, and it's not like NIGHT, it's KNIGHT like a Knight.
VB  
Knight!
AG
Yes. As in swashbuckling. Ha ha ha!
VB  
She's also...a little bit of history about Jen...she was in the running to be Miss Saigon for Andrew Lloyd Webber when he first brought Miss Saigon to Australia. Now that's kind of how we know each other from our musical theatre history. She's also a working hair & makeup artist in many productions, and is the mother of the fabulous teen actor, PJ Holt. So, recent changes, Jen, you've decided to jump back in front of the camera. Can you tell us why?
JH  
Why? Well, actually my son has been pushing me to go back in front of the camera. He actually found old videos of my musical theatre time. You know, the old VHS?
BOTH
YES!?
VB
I am currently doing that, VHS to DVDs lately.
AG  
She has some shocking stuff.
JH
Well, he found a couple of them when he was younger, and he's been asking me why don't I do it since he does it? And my old agent, Peter Glover, who is a producer now. His daughter is actually one of the producers of "Tidelands" and what was the other one? Oh my gosh.
AG  
The Witches Knight?
JH
Oh, no, no. She's a producer for ABC. Oh, sure. Harrow. Yes, she is part of Hoodlum.
AG
Harrow? I've been on that show. Yes, Hoodlum. I know them very well
VB  
And they just convinced you to jump back in front...
JH
Yes. Yeah. So she and Peter are father and daughter, and they used to be my agents.
AG  
Okay.
JH  
And Peter Glover actually used to say, "get your butt into gear, Jen, and get back in front of the camera."
AG  
That’s fantastic!
VB  
That's good, too, because you are a woman of the same age as us.
AG
Yes.
VB  
And that's one of the things about this podcast that we're talking about. What it is like to be a woman in her 40s.
AG
Prime! Just say it, a woman in her 40s.
BOTH  
[Laughter] The new 20s!
VB  
Okay so double 20s! What's it like to be in the performing arts? As you? How do you feel going back into it now?
JH  
Okay, it's been a while since... Well, it hasn’t been a while. But to start going back there and putting myself out and auditioning. It's kind of daunting. Yeah?
BOTH
Yeah.
JH
Because the fact that I think to myself, “Oh my god, I'm old.”
AG  
You're not old, but we know how you feel.
VB  
You're experienced, NOT old!
JH
Yeah but do you know what I mean? Yeah. What can I...What roles can I play? And sometimes I don't get to play the role that I like to play anymore. Does that make sense?
AG  
Yeah, definitely. Definitely.
JH
Yeah. And then sometimes, though, there is one that I would like to play, ones that I'd like to play a certain age, our age group, and then sometimes they say, "No. You don't look old enough to play that part.” But I am that old.
AG  
Yeah, that's right. We get that.
VB
Because we don't look our age. It’s super weird.
AG  
Well, I mean, I think it's that the "powers that be" have this idea of what a woman in their 40s looks like. And you know, when women in their actual 40s rock up. They're like "Oh, you're not exactly what we had in mind. We need somebody who looks a little bit... "
BOTH  
Older!
VB  
Well, they should open it and make it women in their 50s instead of women in their 40s.
AG
Exactly.
VB
I think it's marketing's fault or advertising.
AG  
Who knows? I think people just see someone on television and they go, “Oh, that person must be in their 40s,” because...Let's be honest, when you were in your 20s what did you think a 40 year old looked like?
VB
Old.
AG
Yeah, exactly. [Laugh]
VB  
And wrinkly. Hey, Jennifer. Tell me about The Witches Knight.
JH  
Oh, at the moment I can't really say anything.
AG  
NDA [Non Disclosure Agreement].
VB  
Well that was a little bit of a "boom boom"....
AG  
Now Jennifer, this is Asabi here, and I know we haven't met, but you know I did a little bit of IMDb stalking on you. And it turns out that we worked on the same project together - Project One Shot - back in the day. Remember that? I played one of the Real Housewives of Sanctuary Cove.
JH
Oh yes, you guys would have been at that table in the restaurant. Yes. The really stuck up housewives!
AG  
Yes, that's right. And they gave us free food and free champagne. It was really nice.
VB  
It sounds like a great gig!
JH
You guys got the best spot, just so you know; no one else got to eat, in the whole production!
AG
They put tonnes of food in front of us all day long. And it was just like little finger foods. But still, it was nice. And they were like "Eat, eat it. We made it just for you!" So it was really good.
JH
Well then we would've met then, for sure.
AG  
Yeah, definitely.
JH
I was actually in that section.
AG  
Oh, okay. Then, yes. So we would have met each other.
VB
That's what's so crazy about Brisbane, or Queensland, but Brisbane specifically. We all kind of know each other. It's like, you know, the 12 degrees or seven degrees of Kevin Bacon. The seven degrees of BrisVegas.
AG  
Yeah, that's right. We should make that a game.
VB
We should make that a thing?
AG
We Should.
VB
Well, we’ll figure it out, and we'll get back to you.
AG
With each guest, we’re like, “so how are we connected?”
VB  
Now, Jennifer, tell me as a female artist, how do you do everything that you do? You're a mom, you obviously have a job. You're obviously pushing your career and doing everything that we do to survive. How do you do it? How do you cope?
JH  
How do I cope? Good question. Do you want me to lie a little bit? I'm kidding. Seriously? Um, it's a really good question. I just do, I focus on well, most of my focus is helping my son cause he gets more auditions than I do, due to his age, and his look, he is better looking than me.
AG
Never.
JH
We do have the same agent.
AG  
Oh, well see...
VB
That’s cute.
JH  
So... but he is...but coping with everything, it's... Ohhh, it's a lot of reorganizing beforehand. Does that make sense? I have to think of everything that needs to be done at least a day, a week ahead.
VB
It's all about time planning, isn't it?
JH  
Does that make sense? It's, it's, and it’s not fun.
AG  
No, I can only imagine your calendar must be crazy. Just completely chock full of appointments here and there for you and your son.
JH
Yes, it's basically getting up in the morning. Okay, remind myself what's on my agenda. So I have to prepare everything. If something like, well, my son’s gotta go to school, so I got to take him to school and do everything else. I mean, he's only 13, he should go to, you know, make his own lunch. However, I'm a bit pedantic about what he eats. So, I wake up early in the morning and I make and cook his breakfast. I cook all his lunches so he goes to school with proper food, and then I come back home after dropping him off and I go into the computer and I'm on the phone.
VB  
And you are doing stuff like our podcast! In your history of everything that you've done, which everyone knows about and we can also check you out you've got a Facebook page don't you? What’s...what's your link to that?
JH  
Oh it's my name is Jennifer Holt, oh my gosh what is my Facebook page?
AG  
That's okay we don't promote ourselves well either. That's all good. We will we will definitely put a link to your Facebook and your socials.
VB  
[Laughter] What's your best experience in your career to date? What would, in your mind, is like, the first thing that comes to your mind as being like the best experience so far?
JH  
Best experience? Ah, just one?
VB  
Okay, give us a couple.
AG  
Give us your top ten!
JH  
I mean, to me, working with amazing other talents is, I think...I can't really say I liked working on Dr Jekyll & Hyde over, over Flipper or anything like that. I just...I don't know. I just love just working with creative people. Yeah, you know what I mean? Yeah, definitely. It's like my son the other day he received a trophy from Texas for his little film that he wrote. I was more excited than he was. And I said, “Oh My God, honey you won!” And he goes "Oh, thanks Mom". So I said “okay great, don't jump out of your skin” stop...
AG  
I think he realizes that it's from Texas. [Laughter] Not to degrade any of our Texas listeners, if we have any but...I'm from Oklahoma. So you know... [Laughter]
JH
You know, I said to him, aren't you happy? He says, "But Mummy, I don't actually do it for the trophy. I like the trophy, but I do it because I really love what I do."  That's the same thing; I think that's the feeling that I have as well. I enjoy being on set. It's my happy place. It's my son's happy place. We actually get on really well when we're both on set. Funnily enough.
AG  
Have you ever done anything together?
JH  
Oh, there was a Commonwealth Games commercial. I was...They wanted me to drive him...pretending I'm driving him to his swimming training. That was one. Oh! He's actually in The Witches Knight, as well.
VB  
Oh, fantastic. The one that we can't talk about. Yeah.
JH
Yeah, well, he got cast before I did.
AG  
And see there is already a picture for it up on IMDb.
JH  
Oh. Did you see the picture?
AG
I did, yeah.
JH  
Which one? Of me looking really glamorous?
AG
Let me see. I’ll have to look at it again.
JH
Oh the actual or the mock up poster?
AG
Yeah, I think it’s the mock poster, which is very cool. Very, very cool.
VB  
It is cool. Now obviously being part of this crazy BrisVegas community that we're in, how do you find it for casting? You said before that your son got more auditions than you did.
JH
Okay, with PJ he doesn't get a lot of Australian auditions. He gets some more of American, because he has an agent in Australia, as well as LA, and all his auditions are all American/Canadian based auditions.
AG  
And why do you think that is?
JH
Because he doesn't have an Aussie accent.
AG  
Right. See? And I think that's a very important insight for Australia. Because I suffer from the same thing. I don't have an Australian accent either.
JH
Yeah. He has your accent.
AG
Yeah, yeah. And I get a lot of auditions for American based shows that are filming here, but rarely do I get auditions for the Australian shows that are here. Or I just get cast as an extra. And I love...I love being on set as you said, you know, there's just something about being around creative people...
VB
But, you’re more than just an extra.
AG
Exactly. And what sucks is that they see me and they're like, "Oh! Let's put the camera on her." So then I get seen...
JH  
And then you open your mouth!
AG  
That's right! I get seen in that one little thing and then I can't get cast as anything else because, you know, I've played plain-clothes detective on Harrow for the last three seasons, and I'm like, “Give me one line. I can say no. I can say no. I can say it like an Australian. I could say NO [in Australian accent].” And there you go.
VB  
That was so "Aussie."
JH
That was a bit Aussie. It was a bit scary!
VB  
You have a bit of an accent too, Jennifer.
JH
Accents. I do. I can have her accent as well.
AG  
A little bit. Yeah, not bad. Not bad at all.
JH  
Now with a Southern accent anybody can do a Southern accent...
AG
I agree with that girl, anybody can do a Southern accent. It's so simple.
VB
We will leave that one over there...
JH
But yeah, so with auditions and stuff even with myself because Australia - we're talking 20 years ago, yeah. More than 20 years ago - it wasn't as multicultural or multi-ethnic when it comes to television or film. Vanessa, you would agree to this, unless it was musical theatre because no one really sees you up close.
AG
Yeah, that's right and they could put paint on your face to make you look white.
JH  
But for Films & TV, as you may have seen on my IMDb, all my stuff is all American as well, because I played Mexican.
AG  
Oh, a hot mess. A hot Mexican mess. So, what do you feel the state of Australian Film & TV productions are now? Do you feel that they are becoming more diverse?
JH
Yes, I think so. They're getting there. They are getting there but it's extremely slow. It took over 20 years.
AG  
Yeah. And I think it's you know, I get...this might make me sound racist, I don't know. But sometimes I get turned off when all I see is just white people on a show and I'm like, “Oh, another one. Another one,” because I look around Australia and Australia is a very diverse place. You know, you've got people from all over the world here in Australia. And it's amazing and gorgeous and beautiful and the relationships that we all have because of the diversity and then you go on to television and you just see this really...
VB  
Whitewash
AG  
I'm not gonna say whitewash...
VB  
But I can ‘cause I am white, its one dimensional bullshit.
AG  
Yeah. It's just kind of like the same stories over and over, and, you know, there's no diverse perspective that you're getting from Australian Film & TV. I'm saddened that your son doesn't get more rolls because they're over 10,000 Americans that live here. I don't know how many Canadians live here. But you know, our accents aren't that far apart from each other.
JH  
They're very similar until they start saying "going out."
AG  
Yeah, that's right. There are places in America if you get along the border, that American/ Canadian border where they all have the same accent. America is just as diverse in accents as the UK. Well, maybe not as much as the UK. The UK is crazy. But America is just as diverse in its accents. And just because, you know, we don't all sound exactly the same coming from America. And I think there's a tonne of us here. There's a tonne of diversity here in Australia, and I feel that it needs to be reflected in our Film & TV.
VB  
I agree. Hey, Jennifer, what's your favourite wine?
JH  
Church Block.
VB
Church Block? Nice. Red or white?
JH
Red. I'm actually on my alcohol fasting. I do it every year.
AG
Oh! Tell us about that.
JH
Every year, I don't touch alcohol for six months.
AG  
Six months?
VB
Well, we're not hanging out until you are done.
AG  
That's not...no...wait a minute. Okay. Wait, wait, wait. So, you spend half a year fasting? That's half a year.
VB
That's a long time [general mumbles and laughter]. Why do you do that?
JH  
Just to get my body back and rejuvenate.
AG  
Okay, how much do you drink in the other six months?
JH
[Laughter] That's a different podcast.
AG  
[Laughter] Well this is Wine & Sympathy.
VB  
I'm sympathizing with you. What are you three months in? What, do you start on New Year's and then just go through to June or July?
JH
Well actually, no. I was supposed to start after New Year's, but at the time I was still overseas stuck in a hotel. So what else can you do in a hotel room?
AG
MINIBAR!
JH  
And then you get to the sky lounge. I started, actually...I came home in January. So once I finished my bottle of gin that I brought back, I thought okay, that's it. Six months it is. So I've got until July.
AG  
Oh, that's a long time.
VB  
So, I'll come over in July and we'll have...you can make your favourite dish...
AG  
Or we’ll have you over to do another podcast.
VB
She is a really good cook.
JH  
Yeah. While drunk!
VB  
I will drink while you cook for me, that sounds like a plan.
AG  
I love how Ness just invites herself over, “And you will do the cooking. Thank you.” [Laughter]
VB  
I love to cook, she knows that.
AG  
That's awesome. Well, our podcast equipment is mobile so it can go anywhere.
VB  
So you just invited yourself? [Laughter]
BOTH  
[Laughter] I sure did. Oh, well, I invited Jen to do another podcast.
JH  
End of July, hopefully we'll be allowed to have gatherings then.
VB  
Gosh, how are you coping during this crazy COVID-19 time?
JH  
I'm okay, um, it gives me time. I've cleaned the house several times over. Every morning, I don't know why, I just, every morning, I disinfect every door handle. (mumbles of agreement) I catch myself and what are you doing? There's no one else here, you haven’t left the house.
AG  
Oh but it's good. You never know, germs can just, you know, it's like osmosis or something...
JH  
We've been...we've been okay. We've been okay. We’ve just been laying low. PJ is...I'm helping PJ write his script. A script idea that he has, because he wants to film it. So I said, “Okay, well let's just...we've got plenty of time to write it.”
VB  
Got any roles for two 40 year old women? One called Asabi. One called Ness.
AG  
Hey? [Laughter] Write us in. Write us in as 30 somethings. [Laughter]
JH  
Ha ha - early 30s, thank you, and all the 40s women come. So, anyway, we've been doing that and I’ve been gardening. I've been cooking a lot. Honestly, if I was drinking and cooking the way I've been, I need a liposuction at the end of this covid!
AG  
Oh my god! What’s your favourite...What’s your favourite thing to cook?
JH  
Japanese.
AG  
Japanese food. I love Japanese food. Chawanmushi is probably my favourite Japanese dish. Do you know that dish?
JH
No.
AG
It’s like an egg custard and it has a little bit of vegetables in it.
JH  
It’s a dessert?
AG  
No. It’s not a dessert.
VB  
It’s weird.
AG  
What?
VB
You said egg custard.
AG
Yeah. It's delicious. It's actually very savoury. It's very savoury. And it has a little roasted chestnut in the middle. It's kind of like hidden in the middle. Yeah, it's my favourite, favourite Japanese dish. And yeah, it's great. You can't get it outside of Japan.
JH  
We can't have any nuts in the house.
VB
Nut allergies?
AG
Oh no, that's sad.
JH  
Full on nut allergies.
VB  
Yeah, that's hectic. Do you have an epi pen, because I love hitting people with needles. That's another podcast.
AG  
That is a very different podcast. [Laughter]
JH
Yeah. We have an epi pen in every room, so we're good. We've got that covered.
VB
Oh that’s good. Nice, nice. Alright, so we're gonna finish up here. But I'm going to have a beautiful photo of you on our Facebook page.
AG
Yes.
VB
...and some links to your Insta and your Facebook. And we're going to check in again in a couple of months’ time, actually in six months when you're cooking for us, because I wanna know, I mean, you're only just stepping back into the spotlight, so to speak. I want to know how you go. This is really fascinating for me, and obviously, I love you. And I just think it's really important that, as females, that we stay connected, and we lift each other up and support one another. And I do support you 100%.
AG  
Yeah. Thank you so much for having a chat with us. Yeah, and we definitely look forward to seeing all that you have coming up.
JH  
Thank you. Thanks for having me, guys. That was fun.
VB
It was improv!
AG  
But we are actors, that's right. Improv. Yeah. [Laughter]
JH  
What happened to method acting?
AG  
Oh, well, you know. [Laughter] I think we're always method acting.
VB  
Yeah, I think that went away when we had a glass of wine!
AG  
I think we become method actors.
VB
Alright. Thanks very much to our wine sponsors this evening. Me.
ALL
[Laugh]
VB
Thanks a lot to Jennifer Holt for being part of Wine & Sympathy.
AG  
Thanks, Jennifer.
VB  
Bye bye!
[END]
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