writing, design, golden hill, dancing, this american life, creative people, le mot juste, shoes, long drives with good scenery and soundtracks, swimming, waitresses who call me anna-mija, bells&whistles , wabi-sabi, biba, bunnies, birdies, boiled egg and soldiers, anthropologie, thumbcracking, pimping plus ones, la vita italiana, loco for mo-co, baked , erdem, sarah vowell, jon ronson, my new sister-in-law, the exploratorium, dahlias (the look), gardenias (the fragrance), adam gnade , lost on subways, sofia coppola, ponies, pizza and slutcakes, corn pone, thrift scores, bonny doon, built by wendy, public radio guest spots, naughtiness, fishing, green plastic army men, amy sedaris, globetrotting, architecture, learning to silkscreen, talking all night, boutique hotels, my fat kitties, westehlin design , brooklyn, marc jacobs, gold havaianas, daydreaming, museums, 2008, believers, doubters, crusaders for justice, zero population growth, synonyms, sounds eclectic, polka dots and plaids, backstage wristbands, kiln enamel , demetri martin, southern accents, snuggling under the covers, steph ashmore , my imac, hardwood floors, hot sauce, power tools, secretly punk as f**k, josh bernstein (so dreamy!), raffinatezza, late nights in nyc, cooking dinner at the turf club, kicking playerhaters in the keister, paint-by-numbers, arranging furniture, throwing parties, BFFs, boys who wear their hearts on their sleeves, the happy exhaustion that all these interests cause at the end of the day.
more random ...
bands get all kinds of free crap; why don't i? i would really like for moleskine to sponsor me. these notebooks--nothing else comes close--are expensive.
i am quite fond of this cover. it's amusing to think of nin as erotic now. her writing seems almost tame in an age where anything goes. but it's still hot..
"And everything with wings is restless, aimless, drunk and dour
The butterflies and birds collide at hot, ungodly hours."
"It's lovely," said Oedipa, "but why do you sing with an English accent when you don't talk that way?"
"It's this group I'm in," Miles explained. "the Paranoids. We're new yet. Our manager says we should sing like that. We watch English movies a lot, for the accent."
in no particular order: stereolab, the shins, the arcade fire, the dismemberment plan, sea and cake, the walkmen, interpol, antony and the johnsons, jolie holland, mates of state, flaming lips, devendra banhart, nick drake, rufus wainwright, eels, iron&wine, low, tim buckley, jeff buckley, boards of canada, keren ann, migala, caribou, neutral milk hotel, luna, postal service, death cab for cutie, elliott smith, smog, magnetic fields, sufjan stevens, archer prewitt, broken social scene, of montreal, leonard cohen, cat power, crooked fingers, lucinda williams, johnny cash, tom waits, nina simone, sonic youth, sparklehorse, modest mouse, fugazi, the makeup, the smiths, my bloody valentine, slowdive, beulah, wilco, will oldham, elliott smith, big star, the yardbirds, the zombies, beach boys, the beatles, bowie, velvet underground, psychic tv, depeche mode, the cure, echo and the bunnymen, joy division, x, the buzzcocks, bow wow wow, patti smith, yeah yeah yeahs, gang of four, !!!, the rapture, ladytron, rjd2, the faint, dfa releases, cocorosie, pulp, nick cave, supergrass, super furry animals, portishead, massive attack, radiohead, unkle, prefuse 73, amon tobin, j dilla, edan, dj shadow, j5, blackalicious, lyrics born, cut chemist, thievery corp, AND (sd peeps) uv tigers, kill me tomorrow, joanie mendenhall, matt curreri, bunky, grand ole party, pinback, black heart procession, album leaf, hot snakes, via satellite, the locust, castanets, adam gnade, three mile pilot. and so on and so on.
i gravitate to the artsy, but have a few guilty favorites that i might not mention in public. some of them involve drew barrymore. she's just lovely.
stephen colbert. bill maher.
i ♥ reading: old books, new books, art books, fashion books, new york times, harper's, new yorker, salon.com, nylon, bust, magnet, paste, dwell, readymade, elle deco uk, mcsweeney's, the believer, smart zines.
"as you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary." -- mr. e. hemingway