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Friday, May 15, 2009

Jingle Jangle


I'm still working on getting my new room organized.  I have at least one box that I never unpacked (notice the pile of clutter under my Paper Moon poster) but I did manage to set up this little jewelry/vanity alcove in my oddly shaped room.  Which led me to obsess over how other people store/display their jewelry.  


The Cherry Blossom Girl 

UPDATE:

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Cake

Have you heard? Cake is back, cupcakes are over. I think about cake a lot lately, maybe because I work in an office. Office life really is like that episode of Seinfeld where it is always somebody's birthday, and though you dread the forced socializing you come to depend on the 4pm sugar rush.
I've long been obsessed with the fact that kids don't really like cake. At birthday parties it seems like the parents are always so excited about the cake and making a huge deal about it and interrupting the kids who are having fun to corral them to the cake and then the kids never seem that into it. ADULTS on the other hand, adults love cake. I know, I'm around them all day. I was in a 99 cent store the other day and I saw this little girl and her mom who appeared to be shopping for plates and stuff for a party. From a distance I heard the little girl say "I don't think that many people are going to eat cake."
Melanie with a her Tattoo cake

Tommy Thornhill

I want to be the girl with the most cake, from Debaser.
oh eddie... I love this quote from
Cute Boys!!!:
"They are mean and will judge me and make me eat cake because at least cake will kiss me on the mouth."
not sure what to say about this one
Holly Coley with Sarah Records Cake
Nylon Magazine Chloe cake


via Ready to Disco

sarah applebaum: crochet wonderland

I love these crochet installations by sarah moli newton applebaum. Madeline and I have actually been working on a similar (though not nearly as epic) project for the nook. I will post photos soon.

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Bell Jar Revisited

I generally refuse to accept as legitimate any editions of The Bell Jar besides the Bantham Books version that I read as a teen. (One exception being  the cheesy movie version with the hand, ps. has anyone ever seen that movie? It is impossible to find.) The bastardized contemporary nonpocket-sized versions with "artsy" black and white photos of a girl in a frilly dress or wearing mary janes, just won't do.  
I am though, quite impressed with the images I was able to find of some of the  early editions including the original with the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. I bought a (pocket-sized of course) copy on the street last weekend and I have been rereading it for the first time in ten years or so.
 IT'S SO GOOD!
 I know this is very TweEmo of me, but what can I say Tweemo is in fashion. (Have you even heard of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart). 
Images accompanied by a few of my favorite quotes:
"I'm stupid about executions." 
"I thought about crawling in between the bed sheets and trying to sleep, but that appealed to me about as much as stuffing a dirty, scrawled-over letter into a fresh, clean envelope."
"`I don't really know,' I heard myself say.... It sounded true, and I recognized it, the way you recognize some nondescript person that's been hanging around your door for ages and then suddenly comes up and introduces himself as your real father and looks exactly like you, so you know he really is your father, and the person you thought all your life was your father is a sham"
ps. remember in Reality Bites when Janeane Garofalo says to Winona Ryder "Man, you are IN The Bell Jar."  BEST.

Thursday, May 7, 2009

blending in


via stepedama
uggh....

Zach Braff in Garden State

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Sylvia Plath's Copy of The Great Gatsby

I'm aware that it is not uncommon for people of my generation to not have outgrown their high school interests, but oh what I wouldn't do for a time machine to transport me to Leti circa junior year of high school and show her these pages from Sylvia Plath's copy of The Great Gatsby.
via fuck yeah sylvia plathI had this photo on my wall in college. It always reminds me of a boy I had a disastrously self destructive crush on throughout the end of high school and most of college. I remember him scrambling out of my room the morning after one of our few encounters and stopping suddenly to ask me who that photo was of. I replayed that moment again and again dissecting it for 'meaning'. Uggh maybe I haven't changed at all. He also told me he was a virgin. He had the same name as an old folk singer who became very popular among during the last decade among people 'in the know' about these things and is thus ungoogleable.
Further Reading
L'ennui by Sylvia Plath
Princess Daisy:A Description of Sylvia Plath’s Copy of The Great Gatsby

Monday, May 4, 2009

Eyeballz




lil cousin Christina Ruiz via Daniel Minnick
Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin via By The Way
Linda Aldridge via lets sail away
UPDATE: