The human condition...EVERYTHING about it, books, booze, shoes, afterparties, coffee, wearing short shorts in winter, Jack Kerouac, NYLON, Rainer Maria Rilke, dirty electro, even dirtier house, reading all night, dancing till 8AM, DIY fashion,
jazz, Annie Leibovitz photos, Patrick Demarchelier photos, yellow pumps, used bookstores, summer tans, poetry readings, book readings, mind games, drinking vodka-m150 at Blizzarts,
first dates, first kisses, Norah Jones on the ipod when it's snowing, Grey's Anatomy, Christopher Kane dresses, Joyce Johnson, Chicago dreaming, SoHo walking, St. Laurent living, St. Denis shopping, strange conversations with old ladies at the pastry shop, pink lipstick, orange nail polish, astrology, trying to plan my life...but secretly enjoying the uncertainty.
To go on a pilgrimage, I discovered,
you do not need to know what you are looking for,
only that you are looking for something,
and need urgently to find it.
It is the urgency that does the work,
a readiness to receive that finds the answers.
~janine pommy vega
Also, all of the epiphanies I had during the invincible ages of 17, 18, 19, 20 during solitary bike rides along Chicago's lakefront. Absolutely priceless days of my life!
Other good times:
sashaaaa+digweed at cro, back in nyc
I'd like to meet:
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Thinkers, drinkers, dreamers, dancers, writers,
part-time philosophers.
People who understand the difference between Fashion and Style.
People who look beyond the day-to-day routine for that elusive "something more" (whatever that may be).
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"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition."
-- Helen Keller
"All the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see."
--Kerouac....of course!
"Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex without proper preliminary talk.
NOT COURTING TALK- but REAL STRAIGHT TALK ABOUT SOULS, FOR LIFE IS HOLY AND EVERY MOMENT IS PRECIOUS."
--Kerouac
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it FOR you.
-Jim Morrison (good god, he was beautiful!)
Music:
Chicane, Sasha+Digweed (for old times' sake), Carl Cox, Nick Warren, Desyn Masiello, the Global Underground CDs, Miguel Migs, Justin Long, Armin Van Helden, Derrick Carter, Mark Farina, David Guetta, Pheek, Stacey Kidd, Ian Pooley, Timo Maas, Dave Seaman, Richie Hawtin, Deep Dish, Infected Mushroom, Martin Solveig, Mylo, Sander Kleinenberg, Derrick May, Dubstar, Sandra Collins, Ivy, Paul Johnson...and all the kickass underground DJs in Chicago and NYC
Also, dirty dirty dirty electro that makes me want to touch myself.
THE STROKES, Rachael Yamagata, The Verve, Miles Davis, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Yeah yeah yeahs, Radiohead, Supergrass, U2, Hot Hot Heat, Placebo, Audioslave, Interpol, The Killers, Depeche Mode, Franz Ferdinand, Foo, Weezer, Bush, Ani Di Franco, Kate Earl, Postal Service, Semisonic, Noooo Doubt, Hole, Garbage, Michelle Featherstone, Dishwalla, Cornershop, Ash, Madonna, Gwen Stefani, Alanis, Zero 7, Air, Thelonious Monk, Nirvana, Jet, Suede, The Used, Fi-OH-na Apple, Sarah McLachlan, Cardigans, Sheryl Crow, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, Incubus, 311, Chilli Peppers, Morcheeeeba, Massive Attack, and yes, The Spice Girls.
'90s Madonna = Ridiculously Gorgeous
Movies:
COFFEE AND CIGARETTES!!, Good Will Hunting, Breakfast at Tiffany's (
Television:
I haven't watched TV in about 6/7 years. Waste of good time. However, last week I began watching Grey's Anatomy because.....because well, holy fuck, it's SUCH A GOOD SHOW!!
Books:
Off the Road -- Carolyn Cassady
The Five People you meet in Heaven -- Mitch Albom,
The Power of Flow,
Random Writings of Aldous Huxley,
Three Black Skirts -- Anna Johnson;
To Kill A Mockingbird -- Harper Lee;
Mags:
Heroes:
* MY PARENTS -- they have the biggest, most unselfish hearts -- I LOOOOOVE them!
* Jack Kerouac -- Whether or not he [Kerouac] ever completed his own vision quest is irrelevant in that he gave us a starting point and the first corner edge of a map to our own often lonely-road-search for soul and self.
