Update - We WILL Be Back

The Coco Maria dream team has been separated and are now countries apart. The Coco Maria blog will be on hiatus until our sweet sweet reunion one glorious day. Hopefully we wont keep you waiting too long. If you ever get sad waiting watch our tribute video made by a fan (me).

xxx Maria

I Present To You...

The Cape

After years and years of waiting the fabulous cape is allegedly one of THE hottest fashion items of 2010. It's like wearing a comfortable blanket that makes you look impressive, old-timey and cutting edge all at once. Way hotter than ugly cousin pashmina. Get involved!

Art

While I'm on the whole recycling trip, have a look at this polar bear from artist Joshua Allen Harris. This happy fellow (the bear) is made from recycled plastic bags and hovers over New York subway grates so he comes to life whenever a train passes by.

He is so CUTE!

Joshua says that his use of disposed shopping bags and wind as mediums "just seemed to fit — the subway system could inflate the unused bags giving them a new purpose and I could experiment with the wind... Some people have suggested that the polar bear is an icon of global warming and that the wind is an example of a renewable energy. When the bear is animated, he looks happy, and when the resource is gone, the bear slowly dies. I find this explanation encouraging"

Sweet

Mildy's Bubble & Squeak Burrito

Food wasting makes me sad. If it doesn't make you sad spend some time being really, really hungry. You'll change yo' tune.

Anyway, because I always have a mish mash of leftover crap in the fridge I've found great ways to repackage it. If you're not familliar with the term Bubble & Squeak it basically means throwing all the leftover food you have into a frypan and frying it up with some butter. Sounds good yeah?

For todays burrito I used:

Half a piece of lebanese bread (you could use burrito bread or just plain old toast)
Chicken schnitzel, cut into cubes
Steamed potato & pumpkin, sliced
San Choy Bow mince & rice (from 3 nights ago - I'll take my chances cos it's so delicious)
A few bits of ham
Mushrooms
Shallots
An egg

Fry all that junk up (minus bread) with w touch of butter if you're feeling nasty, adding whatever you have on hand that you think sounds tasty.

Wrap it up, toast it with cheese, squish it in a sandwich press, smother itwith BBQ sauce, whatever. It will be the BEST breakfast you've ever had, it didn't cost you money you hadn't already spent and you saved those lovely foods from going in the bin. Hooray!

Conspiracy

The world is riddled with it. If you care to become more involved (or more paranoid) perhaps check out WikiLeaks. It's a Sweden or Iceland (I assume no-one knows) based operation of some 800 or-so volunteers that work to anonymously publish leaked sensitive documents from Government and other organisations documents with (I believe) the intention of keeping them honest. It's too much for me (I'm more of a watch-the-grass-grow type) but you may be interested. It's definitely interesting.

Man murdered at Major Lazer show

A man was murdered outside a Major Lazer gig in Atlanta last week. Major Lazer being the truly shithouse side collaborative project of superstar producers Diplo and Switch. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that two men got into an altercation outside the The Masquerade in Atlanta as the band(?) took the stage, leading in one of the men getting shot. I imagine it happened when the two were fighting to get out the door first after OD'ing on airhorns and dancehall. Sound effects will drive a man to the edge.

I think death would of been far more pleasant than enduring a two hour set of musical bullshit, so I think this can be filed under feelgood/human interest.

It's almost here...

Surry Hills Festival. Yeah! Crowds and overpriced wares mixed with music and plenty of booze. A recipe for greatness!

Please do check it out, if this year follows it's predecessors you'll find me watching the kids air guitar comp around 4:00pm, pissed as a lord. Get there early for the fabulous fancy dress dog comps. This Sat 10th April.

PLEASE NOTE: The festivus has moved this year due to Albert Park being renovated. So:

The 2010 festival will be creative, intimate and have a community picnic feel with the entertainment stages limited to two small parks - Ward Park (Devonshire Street) & Shannon Reserve (Crown Street), and possibly other satellite venues.

Crown Street will not be closed, so from what I can gather it's going to be a bit of a patchwork event. Anyway I can't really figure it out but head to the website for more deets! http://www.shnc.org/festival/index.htm

HOT

Competitive Wood Chopping. It's an amazingly manly and challenging competition without involving ridiculous concepts like guns or dead animals or beating up other people or working out your pecs in the mirror for hours on end.

Just man and his axe.

Sigh

Say It Ain't So

Jlo to star in a remake of the 1987 Goldie Hawn classic Overboard. Please. Lord. No.

God Goldie is fabulous..

Oh how my heart longs for you

Beast Rat leggings. Sass and bide. Heaven. Updating the popular ruched Black Rats with a snappy and very "now" metallic animal print. Is $200 + too much to spend on lycra? Can you really put a price on the freedom and comfort of an elasticated waistband??

HOT

Unemployment. I can't be sure, but I'm pretty confident I'm going to enjoy this. Down with 'the man', free love, equality and all that.

Hey.. Biggie Smalls IS the illest!

In the spirit of Danger Mouse's The Grey Album (p.s hated it) The Notorious xx is a full length mash up mixtape from Californian DJ Wait What mixing the chilled and vibey first album from The xx with the best of Biggie's rhymes. All signs are pointing to radness. I imagine that if Biggie were still alive today he'd smell a little bit of wee and Salt and Vinegar chips.. Download here - Only the last link works.

Would you eat KFC naked with Biggie?

Monday Morning

Enjoy

Tobacco - Maniac Meat

I've never picked a trend and I have shit taste in music. That said, I'm predicting Tobacco's new album 'Maniac Meat' is going to be huge. (Tobacco being Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman Tom Fec's side project). It's sadistic, disturbed, delayed electro and it drops in May. Beck will feature on two tracks making the deal even sweeter.

Check out the insanity of 'Sweatmother' below. It's been described as "what Satan would listen to while he's getting ready for the club". Nuff said.

Easter Haul

Happy Easter everyone! I've done well this year, not one but TWO Lindt Bunnys from a very handsome man, a box of lindor from mum and a south coast escape. Beats the cuff on the ear I get most years YEOW! What did you get? x

Get Yourself

To Surry Hills Markets! on today (Saturday)

I'll be there eatin up all the Gozleme