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I made a mixtape, because really I've either been playing 90s hip hop (the playlist for this one some other time) or smoother-than-the-smoothest funk and soul non-stop for the past 6 months and I think this deserves some kind of recognition. And also because I just got home from seeing The Sapphires, and I feel pretty good. That's what a couple of hours of good soul music will do for you. And a little bit of Chris O'Dowd doesn't hurt either. If you want to see something that doesn't pretend to be anything other than a bit of fun - and you like all that 60s motown-y stuff like me (I was grooving to Sugar pie hunny bunch at the end with the baby boomers, much to my friend's horror), then see it. I'm not sure what kind of release it's going to get overseas, but it's out now in Sydney. And, no Jessica Mauboy can't really act, but oh boy, can she sing.

one. Get Up (I feel like doing my own thing, Sex Machine) - James Brown

two. Thank you (for lettin me be myself) - Sly and the Family Stone

three. God Put A Smile Upon Your Face - Mark Ronson ft. the Daptone Horns

four. Superstitious - Stevie Wonder

five. Pass the Peas - the JB's

six. If I'm In Luck I Might Get Picked Up - Betty Davis

seven. Shakey Ground - The Temptations

eight. Baby, I love you - Aretha Franklin

nine. Knock on Wood - Eddie Floyd

ten. Ain't Too Proud to Beg - The Temptations

eleven. What A Man - Linda Lyndell

twelve. Son of a Preacher Man - Dusty Springfield

thirteen. Say It Loud (I'm Black and I'm Proud) - James Brown

fourteen. In the Basement (Pt.1) - Etta James

fifteen. Please Don't Hurt My Baby - Stevie Wonder

sixteen. Love Man - Otis Redding

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It took a little while, but I've gotten used to my short hair. Most of my friends have seen it and gasped and commented and commiserated and now I've gotten so comfortable with it that I can't really remember what it was like to have long hair. I don't really remember the sensation of tieing it back and twisting it up and plaiting it down. For me, now, life is so much simpler. I wash it, it dries. That's it. I sleep with it out or in a bun, and in the morning I pull it down and head out the door. When I had long hair I had to throw all sorts of deep, leave-in conditioners at it just to make it behave. It was dry. The colour was starting to fade. Now it's back to my natural colour, which is dark dark dark, and that was a shock at first, but I don't really miss the blonde at all. I don't miss the dry ends and the coarseness of dyed hair. I don't even really miss the length - except when I see girls with luscious long locks flick them around. But, as with all things you lose, the longer you live without it the less it hurts. There's something so easy and simple and totally uncomplicated about this slightly too-long bob that's all one length. I tuck a strand or two behind my ear and that's all. It's so healthy now that I don't need to do anything else, which I think is the way hair really ought to be. And because the bottom line of my style was, is, and always will be comfort and ease, I couldn't think of a better hairstyle to match it.

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