Carousel -- Week Ending 12th June 2009
[ 12 June 2009 ]
It’s a pipsqueak today!
Down & Dirty Designs is having a colouring contest! Fun!
Twitter on Paper. Oh my. (Thanks, s.!)
Stop Talking Yourself Out Of Things. Big ups Sean Bonner!
This piece was written by an intersexed woman & it is VERY interesting.
You Are Jeff by Richard Siken. I like this poem. It is mind-bendy.
The Vampire & The Nun from Oyster. Helloooooo beautiful.
Yeah, old man… Too funny.
Ruven Afanador is an amazing photographer. Yes please!
Photos of Coco Chanel. “The androgynous look works well here, should you ever be stuck for an outfit when boar-hunting with a British prime minister.”
I told you ears were going to be big. More proof.
Sarah Kane is amazing.
I love you Tim Walker, I love you Tim Walker, I love you Tim Walker!
Want to win a Hello Kitty Pretty hair accessory? Click click!
Thanks, Miss B.!
Have a simply mahhhhhhvellous weekend, dahhhhling.
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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Ah I have quite a few Afanador pics hanging right above my computer here. They’re so bold and gorgeous and inspirational!
Just as an aside Gala, are you planning to install a spam filter on your comments here any time soon? I’ve noticed you’ve been getting a tonne of them coming through recently and they must drive you totally crazy!
“You Are Jeff” is one of the loveliest poems ever. I carry Siken’s book ‘Crush’ with me EVERYWHERE.
Gala, I just discovered your site and it’s by far the best complement to my morning coffee! Thank you :)))
I wish I had the initiative to write out my tweets like that. They’d be so much more meaningful (and, in turn, I’m sure there would be far fewer!)
“Stop Talking Yourself Out of Things” seems like it was meant for me. I spent all day yesterday doubting my ability to take on this elusive project – lots of “I’m not good enough“s and “I can’t“s. Thank you for pointing me in this article’s direction. I’m going to print it out and tack it over my desk. Thank you for being such a source of inspiration for me.
Sarah Kane is one of the authors I’m studying right now for my Drama course exam on monday. The description of how she committed suicide would be most inappropriate on this blog, but think “shoelaces” and “toilet ceiling”. Even though the quotes you quoted are rather cute, her play “Blasted” involves rape, sucking out eyeballs ànd eating dead babies (!). She has such interesting views on how domestic violence is civil war on a smaller scale, but I’m still a bit too shocked to really appreciate her style.
my job doesn’t generally like when I cry at my desk…but that bird thing had me crying like a BITCH.
too bad it’s for the lottery ha.
And this is something that I would like to add to this Carousel !
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbk980…
It’s an amazing little story, and in a way it has a bit of iCING in it !
Wow I love the Richard Silken poems! Thanks for sharing!
Excellent carousel this week :]
Grease has been playing on VH1 alllllllll week and it makes me happy.
Have a fantastical weekend, toots. xo
About the ears…that has always been in style. If you ever go to an anime convention, there is always at least one table in the dealers room or in “artist alley”. They are normally cat or fox ears, and for a while, accompanied with a tale. The New York Anime Festival is going to be at the Javits center September 25-27. Check out the array of hair accessories!
particularly fantastic post miss darling!
i directed a production of crave this past fall. very intense and tragically beautiful!
peace
Hello, beautiful!
Just so you know — Twitter On Paper is officially over. It ended yesterday. He hadn’t expected such a crazy rush of requests, I guess. (I got mine in the mail on Wednesday, and it is AWESOME!!!)
However, his regular website is still absolutely worth a look, as he does some brilliant work.
Bisous…
s.
love your blog! you inspire me :)
thisisme
stay beautiful,
k
far out, that last vid reminded me of the pepsi commercial with the penguin! it’s so cute. www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7c_Y3… thanks G-unit xoxo
I wish I had my Grease DVD still.
Was surprised to see Sarah Kane on your list – as Eve mentions, her style of drama is particularly shocking. She was part of the In Your Face drama movement of 90s British theatre, and as someone who has taught her plays to students at university, I can confirm that many who experience her work find it disturbing and more than a little unsettling. However, once you get over the shock, you begin to appreciate her wonderful talent for words. The violent brutality that her particular brand of theatre is known for, is juxtaposed with a brilliant and beautiful fragility. I was fortunate enough to see a production of Psychosis 4:48 last year and was just completely blown away by her ability to articulate the unspeakable. She captured the subjective experience of a psychotic episode with such honesty and creativity. A truly outstanding dramatist who left this world all too soon.
Thank you, Gala, for including her here. Difficult & disturbing content, certainly, but also heartbreakingly honest.
Eve – try and push past the violent content, and if you want to chat to me about Blasted before Monday’s exam, you can either find me at my blog or @amypalko on twitter. Would be more than happy to help!
Amy
xx
yeah, echoing what was said above: ears are sooo anime conventions, ack! i wore ears a lot in college, i don’t think i could ever again, tbh. haha!
um wow the Chanel photos were…amazing. despite my love of the Karl, i never thought of myself as a Chanel lover, but this may change my mind. lovely
That photo in the Devon Aoki editorial, the one where she’s licking the back of her hand in front of an exit sign – it might just be the hottest thing ever.
‘You Are Jeff’ was quite profound, and weirdly I felt like crying afterwards.
If you liked that penguin, you might like this, being an NZ expat and all! =)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5…
that was my uniform in high school!
Gala, thank you so much for linking to that article about being intersex. It’s something I as a cisgendered woman don’t think about very often, but I bet I’m not the only person here who could use the reminder every now and then that gender is not a binary system.
Hahaha… Overheard in New York will never get old. Once I was in London and an Evangelist with signs like that was preaching, and yelled the part about “PREMARITAL SEX” at my boyfriend and I, who were holding hands. We’d only been together for about 3 days!
You have a wonderful blog. I love the dessert themed pictures!
i love the list!
p.s. this would look adorable on you: www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?...
Grease is the SHIT didnt like Grease 2 as much though
Hey Gala
Thought this was super cool… and thought you might think so too….
www.bobbinbicycles.co.uk/epage…
i thought it said pimpsqueak and i cracked up for ages.
great list this week i reckon.
“You Are Jeff” Was one of the most engaging tales I’ve ever read.
the intersex one too really opened my eyes. I had never even though of it like that, for some reason.