Song of the Day: Big Big Love (Fig. 2)-Foals

I had heard this song somewhere I don't remember a while back, but Romy really got me into it. It was actually a very nice time; it was her birthday and we were driving down Sunset and, as she said, the beginning is very beautiful and there is something about it makes you feel very, I can't really describe it, alive and like you're seeing the world for the first time.

the image is Meg White photographed by Jurgen Teller for Marc Jacobs

Mutual Love

I heard about the collocation between old line shoe company Bass and the up-and-coming dress designer Rachel Antonoff many months ago and I was...I was struck! Every pair is just soooo beautiful! Making everything even more fabulous (a near impossible task) the lookbook (shown above) tells the story of an adorable white kitten named Marshmellow who lives in the shoes and his best friend, the ever-cool Tennessee Thomas, who have a lemonade stand that nobody comes to so they have milkshakes and end up getting jobs at the soda shop...it's just so wonderful, ahahah!!!! (sorry those are my happy noises)

I waited for all of those months until I could finally have a pair of my own, until one day while stalking Rachel Antonoff's clothing via polyvore I found out that they were being sold at Free People. I had never actually been to Free People, but many of the girls in my grade shop there, so I had no trouble finding one that was very near my school. I begged my brother to take me after school on Friday (I was just soooo excited), but then they didn't have them at the store!!!! I was crushed, but with the help of "Eye of the Tiger" I was "pumped" again and my dad and I ordered them online. Oh I wish that was where the story ended, but no! The shoes didn't show up! My dad kept calling them (probably because I asked him about them everyday) and every time he called the shipping date got later and later. I was defeated, I was in a glass case of emotion, but then one day as I looked up from my homework I saw the the ever-trusty UPS man throwing down a box and there they were! Oh and they are perfect! (see them above)

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Birthday Song: In an Aeroplane over the Sea-Neutral Milk Hotel

Today is my birthday and in spirit of it being a (surprisingly) nice day I am sharing In an Aeroplane over the Sea, which may very well be my favourite song ever! This song is like a beautiful world...enough said

image Agyness Deyn photographed by Tim Walker

Song of the Day: Hero-Regina Spektor

it radiates sadness...

song of the day: Not in Love-Crystal Castles

I started listening to Crystal Castles because I needed some new music and they are one of those bands that seeing their name as I scroll through the artists on my Ipod makes me very happy, and I learned from Romy that their lead singer is very cool. Admittedly, these aren't the best reasons for listening to a band, but it worked out for me because their music turned out to be aaammmmaaazzzzzingggg!

I particularly like this song Not in Love, it's a great song for everything from a crazy rave dance party to slogging through homework.

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"Into the Bleak"

I went today to see Clare Roja's show at Prism Gallery, very excited and eagerly anticipating, but nothing could have prepared me for what I saw...It was literally one of the best shows I have seen! She had these gigantic wonderful paintings with abstract shapes and these fantastic very small paintings of women and flowers, that all just made me melt. Also, the installation was fantastic, with art covering every surface including the stair railing and the ceiling piping.

I could not recommend going to see this more!

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Song of the Day: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part 1-the Flaming Lips

After my dad continually making fun of me for having 49 "on the go" playlists, I finally got my act together and cleaned out my Itunes library. I am sure glad I did because it gave me a good chance to listen to some music that I hadn't heard for a while because I tend to go through stages where I listen to the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again until I get really sick of it.

Among my rediscoveries was Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part 1 which is a super quirky and funny song, but also has a somewhat sad, though beautiful, undertone.

The image is by Yosuke Ueno

"I Bet She Bangs Like a Fairy on Acid"

A little while ago I started watching Skins (the UK version) and I became OBSESSED. I mean, REALLY OBSESSED; I went to sleep thinking about it and woke up and thinking about it, and at one point I dreamed about it. While each eposide gets me more addicted, the one that I have and (think) always will, is the one about Cassie.

Admittedly, Cass is a little crazy, but she is also seriously unique. All her quirkiness and adorableness are shown through her style which is seriously amazing (as witnessed above). Who else could pull off Kurt Cobain sunglasses, wearing a watch around their ankle, and a dog print skirt?

Song of the Day: Flash Delirium-MGMT

Sorry that my posting has been pretty erratic, I am trying to work harder in school and be efficient so I can at one point go to a certain university, that will remain unnamed, but is the place of my dreams. For a little hint: it has a connection to this song!

Flash Delirium was the first song I heard from MGMT's second album, and while it is VERY different then album número uno, it has a totally great unique sound. The song is very mysterious, but because it is it reminds me of a combination of the following:

the scene from the movie version of "The Time Machine", where he goes into the super-technological future.


The REALLY awesome song "Kiss Off" by the Violent Femmes


And one of Aya Takano's super trippy future cities

Song of the Day: Ooh la La-The Faces

Sorry, I seem to be doing a lot of old music, soon I'll probably be back to "young people's music" (as my dad calls it), but for now, these are really amazing songs that I want to prevent from being lost to time.

My brother started playing "Ooh la La" on the guitar after he heard it at the end of the film Rushmore, directed by my hero Wes Anderson. I didn't may attention to the song much, but then my dad started listening to it and got me so hooked.

It's a really beautiful song, with a folky feel that for some reason reminds me of the stitching on an old blanket. It's sad and sweet, and makes the moment you listen to it feel very sentimental for reason that I cannot explain. I want to say 'it touches your heart', but I feel that I have been saying that a lot, and it sounds super pretentious...BUT REALLY, that's how I feel when I see/hear/experience something this beautiful, it's like my heart is being sucked up into a little radiating pin hole! Damn, that sounded a thousands times more pretentious...Okay, I'm putting that aside, it's just a good song!!!

The photo is Sarah Silverman in the Boy. by Band of Outsiders lookbook froom 2009 and was shot at Canter's Deli...seriously so pop culture infused! Their lookbooks are really awesome...maybe more on that later

It does look like an elephant....

I am a little late delivering the news, but Banksy was in Los Angeles!!! This is actually like a dream come true for me, hence the all the exclamation points, which correctly indicate my having a little personal freak out moment. Originally seven pieces went up (you can see them all on Banksy's website) but only three have already been taken down---I think it's much like the TV show "Lost"; 'which Banksy can last the longest on the island?!' I've already photographed three of them and there is one more still standing which has been put behind Plexiglas (something I have mixed feelings about).

I'm pretty much going to start bitching about everything wrong with the world, so feel free to stop reading: The stencil above was (I think) the first piece to go up so it was getting a lot of attention, and when I went to photograph it, there was a literally a crowd of people, most of whom did not actually know what they were looking at. I find it really funny, though actually somewhat sad, that the more Banksy tries to distance himself from these art snobs and poser hipsters, the more attention he gets from them for his rebellious work. In my post about "Shelter From the Storm" I mentioned that Bob Dylan seems to have become more known for being him, then for his music, which seems to be a common trend not only for music, but for everything, which now includes Banksy. Maybe though, this is just my reaction to the thing that "ticks me off" most: people whom I hate, or feel that I am the antithesis of, suddenly liking something I have liked forever. Okay, that pretty much makes me sound like a crabby old lady with cat eye glasses, a cane, and an omnipresent sneer, which doubles not only as a look of self-content, but also one of world contempt.

The post title references a piece he put up on the Pacific Coast Highway.

Song of the Day: Hey You-Pink Floyd

I have been wanting to watch the movie "The Squid and the Whale" for so long, and I finally did, and it more then met my expectations...it was seriously one of the best movies I have ever seen. Noah Baumbach is an amazing writer, and thus, now, my idol! And if I wasn't in love with the adorableness of Jesse Eisenburg before, now...well, words can't describe.

I won't ruin it, but one of my favourite songs, Hey You by Pink Floyd plays a big (and amazing, though creepy) part in the film.

This song will reach out its claws and touch your heart!!!

the first image is by Marcel Dzama, my newest artist obsession (maybe more on him later)
and the second is actually from the movie

Song of the Day: Shelter From the Storm-Bob Dylan

Joining Courtney Love and Betty Page, Bob Dylan has become one of those people whose face can be seen winking, blowing smoking rings, or wearing some sort of ridiculous vest on the tumblr of every indie teenager and whose photograph litters the walls of kids who do things like bite their fingernails or toss their hair.

I think in all this his music has really been quite forgotten...It's odd that I am the one saying this, for several years ago my disdain for his music began, due to personal enmity. As much as I like to keep up my strong-willed, opposing the norm views, the day other day I played one of my old favourites "Shelter from the Storm" , and I must admit, it made me feel so alive and happy....

"He don't want to rule the world. He wants the world to rule itself!"

When you go to an extremely rigorous school, staying home sick is usually a negative, but the one part I will always enjoy about being sick is the ability to watch all sorts of movies.

Yesterday, I watched "The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus", which I have been meaning to see for a long time because it stars some of my favourite people and is just so utterly beautiful! If you don't believe me look at the image below:

I was initially not sure how I felt about the movie, just because it takes a rather large (though positive) toll on your head, but after some reflection, I have found that I rather liked it and would highly recommend it to those with broad and colourful imaginations!

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Song of the Day: Angeles-Elliott Smith

I really love what I usually think of as Elliott Smith, soft and tragically beautiful, but Angeles has a totally different feel and one that is extremely captivating, if not slightly angry.

This could be very wrong, but I feel like Angeles is a girl representative of the city Los Angeles, where Elliott lived (and tragically died). The girl seems to be like a runaway---a scared beauty---with a sad mystery...but I don't know. Sorry, that sounds VERY pretentious

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