Carousel -- Week Ending 24th July 2009
[ 24 July 2009 ]
It’s Friday!
It’s Friday!
Let’s celebrate!
It’s Friday!
That was my Friday song… Hope you liked it! As always, on Friday, I round up the funniest, weirdest, cutest & most delicious things on the neenernet for your cerebral pleasure. This week is no exception. Take a seat, grab some fairy floss & blow kisses to passersby as you take a trip on the Carousel!
Et voilà!
I wrote this piece on the Dr. Marten Revolution for ChinaShop! It’s all about the resurgence of the iconic boot & it was very fun to write, which I think came through!
What exactly is Robert Smith trying to promote? I love you Boner Party, especially because you called Myspace the Detroit of the internet.
Free music? Yes please. The Los Angeles Leakers & Murs Present: Damn, It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta (Mixtape). I have been listening to this almost non-stop since I got it.
The Steve Martin Method: A Master Comedian’s Advice for Becoming Famous. Mostly it boils down to, “Be so good they can’t ignore you”.
The Dream Walking Society is all beautiful pictures all the time.
I love this song. BIG! (& you can download it here, Skream released it for free.)
I love this style interview with Kate Lanphear.
“I have zero control. I couldn’t pay my rent this summer because I had to have the Balenciaga gladiators in every color available.”
Foreign Policy: Jay-Z Schools Us In U.S. Hegemony from NPR. So good.
Did I link to this before? Ludacris is on Twitter, & in between quotes from Maya Angelou (“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude”) & Ralph Waldo Emerson (“Always do what you are afraid to do”), he’s asking battle of the sexes questions — & retweeting the funniest/best answers — to promote his new album. Definitely worth following.
Other fun people to follow: Russell Simmons (), Tila Tequila, Deepak Chopra & Reverend Run.
Rachel Hills is a smart cookie. You should subscribe to her RSS feed so you don’t miss out on gems like Are women’s magazines really that bad? & Is Sex Without Condoms The New Engagement Ring? Yow!
If you’re in New York in September — & you should be, to take full advantage of the Virgo extravaganza (yes, Nubby & I will be having another party!) — Warp Records are having a birthday party too, featuring Battles, !!!, Prefuse 73, Pivot, Clark & Hudson Mohawke. Radvegas.
Clint Mansell, my favourite film composer (I think I like him more than Yann Tiersen & Philip Glass even though they are both way up there) gave an interview to Mojo which is really interesting.
Emily linked me to this Non-Tourist Tour of New York via photographs. Cool!
I still love Mystic Medusa. Where else can you find gems like this?
“Creation is a drug I can’t do without” said film director Cecil B. De-Mille. His 1923 epic film The Ten Commandments went so over budget that studio heads sent him telegrams saying “You have lost your mind. Cease filming and return to Hollywood at once.” DeMille continued to build his city of the Pharoahs on a Californian beach.
Okay, that’ll do for now… !
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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Love that Maya Angelou quote!
The beginning picture is awesome! I spent a minute trying to figure out if that was an outfit or a flower/silhouette girl. The Dream Walking Society was also a great find.
Love these links
and yes, I did enjoy the Friday song! haha
-Christine
You’re a little late on the Dr. Marten train, it hasn’t left the station, but it certainly has been blowing it’s whistle for quite some time now.
Loving the Robert Smith article :)
Ah, these were lovely.
That space graphic is the coolest thing I’ve seen in a looooong time.
That’s not to say I don’t love Dr. Martens, I do, infact I never stopped loving them. But as far as being back in trend, well it’s been a while now.
Right now I’m loving this pair: www.dmusastore.com/p
Great links! I’m really excited to check out Rachel Hills’ site. Thanks for linking to it!
The Dream Walking Society will have me occupied and inspired for days. oh man! thanks!!
plus, i will never give up on my cherry red Doc Martens that I’ve had since 1998. I just need to figure out what to wear them with, haha. I’ve gotten too used to wearing either black boots, flip flops, or TOMS ( www.tomsshoes.com ) all the time. :-p
I love the image that you used in the beginning of the post, very ethereal. Haha and I was not aware that Deepak Chopra had a twitter!
Hellooo apparently today its national tequila day!!! (no not tila..)
Beautiful post, i love “Dream Walking Society” Some pretty pictures. Please check out my blog, after following blogs such as yours for some time ive decided to make my own :)
Your wonderful Gala, much love! xo
Boner Party is hilarious. One of my favorite bloggers and tweeters for certain!
This is random, but I recently read an interesting speech from Danah Boyd about the online class divide among facebook vs. myspace users. It was actually really interesting seeing how she questions the socioeconomic difference of the two different groups.
www.feministing.com/archives/0…
(In light of that, it does make the “Detroit of the internet” jokes a lot less funny though.)
Liss — Yep, Tim Walker is a gem! It is one of my all-time life goals to have him take my picture one day. Swoon!
alana — Huh, interesting. To be honest though, I hate Facebook just as much as Myspace. The only reason I have an FB account & deleted my Myspace one is because the interface is easier to use. Myspace gives me a big headache. Oh god reading those comments & thinking about the whole thing makes me want to lie down. Like this comment: “In an related essay of Boyd’s that I read a couple years ago, she makes a convincing argument that the aesthetics of social networking sites also play into the class division (i.e. white, “educated” folks preferring Facebook’s relatively minimalistic look, whereas low-income teenagers of color, for instance, preferred Myspace’s bright, busy lay-outs). I think it’s a really sharp, relevant point that our class and education backgrounds can help shape/determine what we perceive as appealing design, and therefore influence which social networking sites we use.” Ahhhhhhhhhh stab me, I don’t want to think about it any more!
I love, love, love mystic medusa! It is one of my most visited websites, and it’s great.
MySpace is not the Detroit of the Internet because MySpace is just shit, creeps and people who don’t know any better!! As someone from metro Detroit, I know that some parts of Detroit are really amazing, like the DIA, the Motown Museum, incredible concert venues, Comerica Park, the Gold Cup races on the river, restaurants that will knock your socks off and Greektown!! If you visited, you would see. No part of MySpace is amazing. Hrumph!
Dr. Martens are beast. (:
By the way, I thought you’d enjoy this. My friend showed it to me and I think it’s amazinggg!! :D
video.msn.com/?mkt=en
I usually love you Gala and everything you do, but laughing along with Boner Party about the Detroit/Myspace thing is a little uncalled for.
Have you ever visited Detroit? It’s actually a beautiful city full of some of the most positive people I’ve ever met. I’ve lived in pampered suburbs my whole life and am moving to Downtown Detroit in just three weeks to start a whole new life, a more cultured one, by myself.
I was already peeved at Boner Party, I’m sad to say that now you’re on that list, too. It’s easy to make fun of people who are struggling or not as elegant as others, but it says a lot more about your character to think before you speak and to really understand a place (or person or thing, whatever!) before you make any snide remarks or laugh along with those who do.
I loved your piece on the Dr Marten Revolution. Very nice. And I was very excited to have such a long list of interesting links to look through. What better way to spend my day off, with the boyfriend out of the house? Haha.