Spinster

n.

1. A woman who has remained single beyond the conventional age for marrying.
2. A single woman.
3. A person whose occupation is spinning.

[Middle English spinnestere, female spinner of thread : spinnen, to spin; see spin + -estere, -ster, -ster.]

Lightening and Vinegar

Crystal Castles video:

J’taime Marc Jacobs…

I fall in love with people and things all the time. A prefectley constructed hand bag, a beautiful blue eyed man on the bus, a song, a film, a place, a meal or a feeling. Upon discovering and expriencing these pleasures no matter how permanant or temporary I feel little pangs of love.
This past Tuesday, I went on a little adventure for winter gear in an area of Chicago called Wicker Park.
As I was riding the bus I som how became magnetically drawn to new Marc Jacobs store on Damen.
As I got off the bus and headed down the street to the store a small pouf of love shoot straight from my eyes. I knew that this was gonna be good.
I walked in and the decor, the music, the handsome and friendly all male staff, the genuine Marc Jacobs garments and frocs lining the walls all gave me a sense of mid afternoon euphoria.
As I browsed the racks of beautiful garments I was not discouraged, because similar to the way flirtation turns into mutual admiration there were bowls and racks full of accessories ranging from $5 to $25 throughout the store. I imagined that Marc himself had the idea that “everyone should be able to go home with something…” and for that I love him more…
I got a few little treasures including a killer pair of taupe knee high wellies and a rhinestone skull and cross bones.
After I got home and and unpacked my accomplishments for the day I did a quick search on these here inter-webs and was pleasantly suprised to find that the Marc by Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer 09 runway show featured Rhapsody in Blue. This is a tun that was established years ago to be my wedding march:
And so behold the genius that is Marc by Marc Jacobs Spring/Summer ‘09
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It’s been a while…

Sorry for the long delay, but I’ve been riding this craaaazzy train called life. It has been a lot of fun, but I feel like, in regard to this blog, I am so far behind I’m first.
While I catch you up over the next couple of weeks you can browse the archives, and to hold you over here are the highlights of some of the greatness I’ve discovered over the last 10 months:
The new French Kicks album “Swimming” :
The new Walkmen album “You & Me” :
A new addiction = Yogi Ginger Tea : http://www.drsoda.com/yogigingertea.html
Julitte Macina is amazing in “Nights of Cabiria” :
Good stuff morning, noon, or night (even better closer to midnight):
The Last Shadow Puppets

in case you missed it…

here is the Alexander McQueen Hexigram featuring Kate Moss:
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TheScience of Sleep

I fell in love with Gael Garcia Bernal because of this film. Despite the fact that his voice is dubbed throughout the whole thing.

c’est parfaitement…

Delicatessen “Bed Springs”

and um…it’s turkey day

so I found out today (thanksgiving day)  that this girl…from america’s next top model …

was dating one of these guys from the shins

 and lost interest as soon as I started searching despite the fact that she is quite possibly one of the only interesting people who have ever appeared on that stupid show… so happy gobble gobble…

The first to use their arms loses…

I was addicted to Kenny vs. Spenny from the first episode.

Wim Wenders predicts the future…

“Until the End of the World” was released in 1991 and, as fear mounted about Y2K at the turn of the century, it was possible that the film was a preminition of the future. Despite the fact that “the” sattelite didn’t crash and ruin us as a modern culture, this film was on point in terms of technology. All of it’s gadgets at the time seemed so mind blowing at the time and each one came to be part of our daily lives less than a decade after it’s release. Video phones, virtual image cameras, sleep chambers in Japan, watches that can take your picture, digital cameras, heat sensors, and night vision. Wim Wenders vision has manifest ten-fold. The only thing that remains to be seen is the ability to record our dreams.

Oh and the U2 song for the film is still pretty great.