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goings on in my pretty little world of music, fashion, beauty, pop culture: it might mean nothing to some, but it's everything to meFollowing
This is one of the best fashion teaser videos I’ve ever seen. I really like it, and I can’t explain why. The color coordination? The pleats? The makeup? The home decor? Just wow. (c/o Alice & Olivia Summer ‘11)
This sort of feels like my life sometimes. Being in a social situation with strangers when you’re stuck working at home alone all the time can be interesting. lol
It’s a lot of fun to say you’re a “freelancer.” It sounds like a really cool futuristic job where you make your own hours and thumb your nose at The Man while eating ice cream for breakfast.
The actual truth has more to do with applying constantly to full-time gigs to save up enough money so I…
I first really got to hear The Duke Spirit when they collaborated with Alexander McQueen and Target almost two years ago and performed in New York at the pop-up shop opening. They’ve just released a new single, “Everybody’s Under Your Spell,” from their forthcoming Kusama EP… You can sample it above, or d/l for free from www.thedukespirit.com
Thoughts?
I used to use this tumblr account as a means of “finding inspiration.” I’d started it when I lived in New York, and I’d scour the interwebs (mostly researching for the day job), looking for something fresh and exciting, write about it with no regard for punctuation, grammar or capitalizing, and I’d be inspired to write something else. It was a nice little chain reaction, a comfortable pattern I’d developed. But then, I didn’t need it anymore. I was so surrounded by non-stop concerts, music festivals, art exhibits, and galavanting friends that it just came naturally. Then the concerts slowed down in South Florida a bit, friends stopped traveling and started settling down, and I got a little bored of going out every weekend.
Well, for some odd reason (unbeknownst to me), I’ve hit a bit of a writer’s block as of late. I find myself waking up at 2am with inspiration (but no energy), then waking up at 6am with energy, but no inspiration. So I’m back … sort of. Expect lots of videos, images, quotes of anything fashion and/or music related. Hey, it’s a process.
-C
So I missed John Waters at the Miami Book Fair on Wednesday… Not because I didn’t have a ticket, but because of the sheer bad luck of me running on “Miami Time” for the first time ever, my printer malfunctioning and kinkos being closed. Pffft.
But I agree wholeheartedly with the quote below. People without books shouldn’t be allowed to procreate. And no, Kindles shouldn’t count as a “book collection,” I don’t care what anyone says.
“We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.”
The new video for the Dead Weather’s “Blue Blood Blues;” looks like Photoshop run amok.
New Politics just signed with RCA last November, and now they’re working on their debut album. The video for the Danish band’s first single, “Yeah, Yeah, Yeah” is above. Pretty catchy.
In my book, Broken Bells can do no wrong. The James Mercer and Danger Mouse duo cover Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s “Insane Lullaby” in the video above, off of Sparklehorse’s Dark Night of the Soul, which will finally be released on July 13.
Florence and the Machine cover Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love.” Can’t really decide if I like it more or less than the original. It’s just sounds so different with a woman on vox.
Warning! Shoe porn! I’m all about combining music and fashion, but is this going too far? In a collaboration between Chicks on Speed and Max Kibardin and Hangar, they make a shoe that doubles as an electric guitar—and you can actually play it. It’s a part of Chicks on Speed’s collection “Objekt Instruments,” where they include other stuff like cigar-box synthesizers and hats with microphones and speakers. I’m picturing a band made entirely of wearable instruments—and I’m not sure if I like it.
