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[ 30 May 2008 ]
Happy Sex & The City day! (I’m a huge nerd! Ahem. I can’t wait to go, I can’t wait to go!)
Musique! You’ll need to join the community, but if you’ve ever wanted to hear the Sex & The City soundtrack or the playlists of Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis & Cynthia Nixon, ljmixtape is your new best friend! (Kristin’s mix is my favourite!)
Patricia Field on Her Favorite ‘Sex’ Outfits and SJP’s Crazy Hat from New York Magazine.
Sloppy Seconds: Are you still going to the tired hangouts mentioned in Sex and the City way back when? We’ll help you update your obsession.
& on the flipside… How Sex Ruined New York City. (The comments are pretty funny, too.)
Okay, those are all my SATC links!
Karl Lagerfeld talks politics. God, I love him. LOVE HIM!
I have a new Muxtape for you! Yum-o-rama! Enjoy… !
“What I love about New York is that you can find somebody to yell at you when you deserve it. You can be the biggest swell on Fifth Avenue. But if you piss off the guy at the corner market, he’s gonna tell you about it.” — Michael J. Fox
No Impact Man is on a mission & he needs your help!
I love Oprah. I think she is awesome, especially given her current committment to eating vegan for the next 21 days! (More info here.) But I like this article, too: Oprah’s Top 7 Tips For Creating The Life You Want, from the Positivity Blog. I mean, you can’t say she doesn’t know how to manifest an amazing life — look at what she’s done! It’s so exciting to me to watch her growth & development, especially because she is such a position of enormous influence. Say what you like about her, but she is making huge positive steps & pulling America along with her. It’s fantastic. Kudos, Oprah!
Spiritual Being — Physical Experience & Taking Another Look — Importance of Second Chances are both insightful reads from DailyOM.
Want to know my stance on porn? NZGirl has the goss!
I love Stephanie Simek. She emailed me the other day to tell me about her newest design, the illuminated sea cookie pin. She says, “The sea cookie, a member of the sand dollar family, is back lit by a white LED. When turned on, the light illuminates all of the creature’s natural patterns and intricacies. This pin is approximately 1 inch in diameter and comes with 3 sets of replaceable batteries.” ...I WANT ONE. Exclamation point!
Emily linked me to He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died, which is engrossing & sad & inspiring, all at the same time.
Colorstrology! This was recommended to me by Amika, & I love it! It basically links your birthday, your personality & colour together: very cool. They all seem really accurate, I checked my boyfriend’s & both my parents’. Mine says…
“BERYL GREEN, Pantone 16-5515. Determined, knowledgeable, quickwitted. You have a strong & determined nature. A mundane life is not for you. It is important for you to connect with others & exchange information. You have a way with words & whether writing or speaking, you are able to captivate an audience by telling a good story. Your personal color represents good fortune. Wearing, meditating or surrounding yourself with Beryl Green aids in receptivity & opens your heart to love & companionship.”
& finally, raw stuff! Antony, everyone’s favourite raw model, writes about nettles in Central Park. (He loves to forage!) Dhrumil talks about food, relationships & acceptance. You should totally watch it — Dhrumil is constantly amazing & insightful. & here’s a video of Daniel Vitalis — one of the most interesting & enthusiastic people I’ve ever met!
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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Haha, I can’t remember how I found them or why, but I read those last three SATC links yesterday or summin! Spooky.
What’s happened to Cupcake cutie? Last one I got was like #069 I think? x
I want more SATC links but I am paranoid about clicking on things in case I read a spoiiiiler!
& Cupcake? Cupcake is taking a sabbatical. I don’t know what’s going to happen to it right now!
I’m taking the girls in my team at work next Thursday (the day it’s released here!) & luckily I haven’t seen any spoilers yet! I like going & not knowing what’s going to happen. :)
Aww, fair enough. I was just worried I hadn’t received the latest ones for some reason, that’s all. :) x
Eeeep! You seem to be having such a mind blowing time in NY, and the green monster is just tearing out from within me every time I visit the page :) I thought of you the other day as I passed the Myer windows in Melbourne. They have a NY theme going at the moment with yellow school buses, pretzels and donuts hehe. I’ve also been meaning to ask you, I’m 17 and recently I’ve relised I’m a pretty good writer, I also love media, photography and art and so have decided I want to be some sort of journalist or freelance writer. You are a big influence in all this and I send you big hugs and delicious raw Cupcakes for you as thanks :D I would love to know how you began your amazing journey. I dream of when I could sit in a little nook somewhere around the world typing up my thoughts and opinions.
My colorstrology:
“PASTEL LAVENDER, Pantone 14-3209. Although you are sensitive & highly creative, it is your intelligence and keen sense of awareness that people often notice first. Not much can get past you. You have a good eye for beauty & notice the little things that others often miss. If you do not practice a little detachment & compassion, your emotions can get the best of you. Your personal colour keeps you from distancing yourself from others. Wearing, meditating or surrounding yourself with Pastel Lavender helps you embrace love. It centers you and allows you to move through your feelings with trust & ease.”
I’m not entirely convinced it’s “accurate”, but it’s very nice all the same. :) x
Red ochre, yo!
I wonder… if the porn industry started producing all-romantic, all-genuine, all-safe-sex stories overnight… what would the effect be on the general population? What if cheesy, tasteless, dehumanising porn became something you had to look for? Do you think it would impact positively on people’s sexual understandings and practices?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about producers leading the market, creating the change they want to see in the world. A classical free marketeer might say that would be illiberal, enforcing one’s standards on the market, but what sort of free market would it be if producers are enslaved to what’s already popular? Surely ‘free market’ just means people buying and selling as they like, not any specific model of deregulation or capitalism or corporatism or such.
Maybe the best way to let everyone be the leader of their own life is to be a leader… of porn! Or art, or such. There’s precedent – a big thing in the late 19th century was Aesthetic artists/designers/decorators producing beautiful things, rather than the kitsch the public wanted, and it caught on.
I LOVE that you have the Bill O’Reilly remix in there! I’ll be enjoying the rest of it next!
Oooh, that Colorstrology is pretty accurate!
this excited me! I linked No Impact Man to my blog~! And I really like the colorstrology, though I’m not a huge fan of the color it chose for me…D:
Anyways, on a side note, I don’t mean this to be stalkerish!
But I looked you up on deviantart, and you have a few fans ^^
search.deviantart.com/?section…
Myaa~!
“...I do think that mainstream pornography is guilty of spreading misinformation about sex and showcasing unsafe sex practices, and both of those things are pretty harmful to society as a whole.”
i love you, gala. :]
hey love,
that colourstrology thing is freakishly accurate!!! scary! and just so you know, although i will miss not going to SATC with you (oh so jealous of you going in NY and going to Patricia Field’s house! SWOON!) we’re taking all the girls from my class at uni and a bunch of tagalongs! yay! so so excited!!!
glad to see you’re well, and having a wicked time!
love lots and kisses,
rosie xxx
Hey Gala,
Seeing as you are so into raw/natural foods at the moment I thought this might be of interest to you:
www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/din…
Wow! Your colorstrology seems spot on!
Mine can be chalked up to Barnum Effect, I’m afraid.. but yours is impressive!
Thought you might be interested, there’s a picture of you on my other favourite blog, Jezebel. jezebel.com/393997/patricia
i directed interested people over here :)
enjoy!
Eeeeee! Happy Sex & the City day Gala!!!!!
I saw it yesterday and all I can say is …. Awesome!
I laughed, I cried, I choked on popcorn (oops!).
IMHO it was worth the wait, the only way it could have been better was if they made it another series. Can’t wait to get it on dvd and give my much loved and repeatedly watched box sets a rest.
Fabulous carousel – the nzgirl articles were particularly interesting, especially the bit about the male gaze.
And I love love love Karl Lagerfeld! Hysterical.
What do you get when you add Patricia Field and Diet coke:
www.vogue.co.uk/news/daily/200…
Fab!
Sex and the City has officially sold out tonight at EVERY SINGLE movie theatre in Manhattan. I know girls who have been trying for DAYS to get tickets!
That said, I might recommend that we get there as early as possible to snag seats – it’s going to be a madhouse. If we know how many people are going, maybe the girls that get there first could grab seats for the rest of the gang?
I’ll be leaving work around 4:15-4:30. Do we have any sort of plan on where to meet up (inside, outside), or are we playing this by ear?
Sorry, i’m a designer. It’s my job to be anal. ;)
There’s a Colorstrology book. It’s really good, in the back there’s about twenty pages with the colour for each day on a small rip off piece the size of a stamp. You can put it in your wallet and such. I picked up the book for about $12 at a DFO store.
Haha, not really feeling the hunter green I got. Still, great links! And, you have fun at the movie, pretties.
Gala, I am loving the plethora of SATC links you’ve shared with us! I wrote a little something on my blog, but it’s not so much about the film as my own attempt to inspire ladies. :D
The polaroid story made me cry. So incredibly beautiful!
the polaroid-a-day story is incredibly moving, and i can’t wait until i have a chunk of free time to look at all of his photos. it’s really amazing!
oh a brighter note, happy oh happy satc day!!! i am having major trouble concentrating on my work this morning. for shame!
Hey Gala! I saw a picture of you at Patricia Field’s Payless Shoes opening. You looked super-cute!
Usually, I don’t believe in stuff like this, but colourstrology was so spot on! My birthday fit with my favourite colour, and the text was very accurate too.. it’s quite fun! Thanks for sharing :)
Not only is today SATC day, it’s my birthday!! This old gray mare is 22! Yay!
I hope everyone attending the iCiNG SATC event has a fabulous time! :)
Gala the colorstrology link is so interesting. I love stuff like that. I remember you gave a link to a horoscope website once, that gave a very detailed horoscope. I love stuff like that! hehe :)
You guys are going to have so much fun tonight! Enjoy yourselves and bring back photos for those of us who couldn’t make it!
Me and my mom are leaving to see it in ten minutes :).
yay! I love your stance on porn and how you referenced Violet Blue. I work for Good Vibrations in San Francisco where she once worked and we carry all her books and of course see her from time to time at events we have. :)
Eeek, the problem with being an Earth sign/Tarus is that any colour to zodiac sign guide I’ve found matches me to green and brown. Now I don’t hate these colours, I just feel that either I was born on the wrong day or all the insistance that I’m a big nature lover has been taken too literaly.
oh!
Gala, you are in a video about the Patricia Field for Payless collection, in 0:32.
fashiontribes.typepad.com/fash…
omg gala the jackson 5 remix on your muxtape is amazing!!
i am dancing at my desk and dreaming of cupcakes :)
Ah i’m happy to see that you all loved the link :)
eriizamorrii. there is even a book? Oh that is going on my wishlist!!