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[ 7 August 2009 ]
Now, I’m all for “twee”, and “sweatercore”, or whatever you want to call it… from Boner Party. See below!
“anyway, look. we as a ‘youth movement’ should be arrogant. take a page from Shepard Fairey’s book (literally) and poster the streets with our wants and desires. document all of this. where’s our Jay McInerney and our “Bright Lights Big City”? where’s our damn Public Enemy? hell, we don’t even have a Rage Against The Machine…”
Ethan from jimmyjane shares tips on how to introduce a vibrator into your relationship!
Don’t let… from Le Love, one of my favourite blogs.
Hello, The Book Seer is amazing! Type in the book you’ve just finished reading & it will spit out a bunch of recommendations for your next literary indulgence.
Magic is as magic does is a Flickr group. They say…
You know those moments in life that make your heart seize up, that make you say “Wow, my life is amazing and magical and I am so so blessed to be here in this moment now?” This flickr group is to remind us of those tiny moments and share them with others. Vignettes, tea parties, waterfalls, tidepools, a cozy corner of your home, a visit to your friend’s wonderful house – if you experienced it, please add it here!
List of chics on Wikipedia. That is not a typo!
In the mood for a bit of mean humour? I usually don’t link to things like this, but really… it is funny. SEXY EXECUTIVES — The finest corporate photography is worth your clicks.
My friend Deanne has declared August HOOP BOOT CAMP month, & it’s totally rad, full of great tips & suggestions for getting the most out of your hooping practice! You can catch up here… Day one, day two, day three & day four! I love this video of a super-chilled arm workout filmed on the beach in Japan, too!
Me for ChinaShop: All Points West Poncho Party & The Boudoir Queen.
Makeover Madness by Steven Meisel. This editorial is so disturbing & brilliant at the same time!
David Dallas’ new album Something Awesome comes out on August 31st, I cannot tell you how excited I am!
Steve Pavlina wrote this massssssive 7-part (I think) post on How To Network With Busy People, & so much of what he says is totally on the mark. Here are part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six & part seven.
I love Quentin Blake! He & Roald Dahl shaped my childhood very much. Which is why I feel like I need this print, even though it is very small (410mm!). “She reckons on doing away with one child a week.” !!! The Grand High Witch is one of my favourite characters ever!
On the subject… I like this set of Roald Dahl-influenced photographs.
Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear is one of the most aware things I have read in a while. It’s about one woman’s response when her husband of 20 years tells her he doesn’t love her any more.
Unorthodox Workouts in New York City. Rad.
This is my kind of blog: SHOELUST. (Sri finds the best things! Let’s give the girl a round of applause, huh?!)
7 Reasons It’s Awesome You’re Stressed. Haha! Yes! The positive reframe wins again!
You should contribute to SMILING FACE FILM by Yoko Ono! (My favourite.)
My ultimate goal in film-making is to make a film which includes a smiling face snap of every single human being in the world. Of course, I cannot go around the whole world and take the shots myself. I need cooperation from something like the post offices of the world. If anybody would drop a snapshot of themselves and their families to the post office of their town, or allow themselves to be photographed by the nearest photographic studio, this would be soon accomplished.Of course, the film would need constant adding of footage. Probably no-one would like to see the whole film at once, so you can keep it in a library or something, and when you want to see some particular town’s people’s smiling faces you can go and check that section of the film. We can also arrange it with a television network so that whenever you want to see faces of a particular location in the world, all you have to do is to press a button and there it is. This way, if Johnson wants to see what sort of people he killed in Vietnam that day, he only has to turn the channel. Before this you were just part of a figure in the newspapers, but after this you become a smiling face. And when you are born, you will know that if you wanted to, you will have in your lifetime to communicate with the whole world. That is more than most of us could ask for. Very soon, the age may come where we would not need photographs to communicate, like ESP, etc. It will happen soon, but that will be “After The Film Age”.
Yoko Ono, London ‘67
Rhymesayers Entertainment (best label) are looking for artists & graphic designers! Hellooooo, send in your portfolio!
Mystic Medusa breaks down astro-fitness. So very funny.
The Frisky is good stuff. How To Talk Dirty from the Mind Of Man column is especially awesome. Male Dependency is an interesting read too. Are you happier in a relationship than you are when you’re single?
Ever wanted to see a dachshund race? AHHHHHHHHH!
I will always love Bukowski.
I am very into this quote too.
How Air Travel Can Be Made Less Annoying from the New York Times. A bunch of people weigh in & give their opinions. American domestic travel is a nightmare, especially when you compare it to the kind of service you get in New Zealand or Australia. There is no excuse! I wish they’d get it together!
How To Get Cheap Flights from Art of Travel.
Luxirare is an incredible fashion/baking blog. Truly incredible.
I really need this cloud sofa. I am not kidding. That thing is perfect.
PLUS, my favourite girl in Australia — & owner of the legendary Sugadeaux Cupcakes — is holding a competition to name their newest cupcake! It’s vanilla & cardamom cake with pistachio frosting. I’m not going to enter, but if I did, I think it should just be called… Roger. Hee!
The Witches!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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Nice piece for Chinashop! Sorry to hear you got soaked. I can’t believe the dachshund races, too cute! And the Witches is awesome, it really deserves another watch after all these years…
Love the Witches! I grew up on this movie, probably like most of your nonpareils but oh-so awesome. The Lego-ish mouse train at the end reminds me of Pee Wee Herman’s breakfast machine!
Another childhood movie of mine: Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker! Can you believe a VHS of it can go for 50$ on Ebay now? Thankfully, I found the link on YouTube and posted it on my blog.
man I’m like half-cut & on this cool pretty website. I wish you updated every MINUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FKUN LOVE THIS!!!!! wwwwwwwwwwoooooooooooo xoxoxoxoxoxo
haha amazing i just bought the witches on amazon.com and am dying with excitement!
david dallas is the best local hip-hop act everrrr, PNC is pretty good too just not into his music as much.
so gangsta right now.
Oh my gosh. I’ve been looking to borrow The Witches for so long now, nowhere seems to have it anymore. It was one of my favourite movies as a child.
Usually there’s a good 6 or 7 things that catch my eye straight away and the rest I check out a bit leter…but now I have so many tabs open I think my PC is going to crash!
Such good stuff!
Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake paved my young life, too. The witches has always been a favourite of mine, always. That, and the animated BFG movie.
That is so funny, re: list of chics on wikipedia-I’m so going to put something like that on Wikifashion. Also that scene from “The Witches” scared the bejesus out of me when I was little, I was just about to go to sleep and now I can’t :( Keep up the fantastic work GALA!! xoxo
Great post, I love how diverse it is!
Wow Gala, thank you so much for posting about hoop boot camp. I haven’t been hooping nearly as much as usual this summer and I need to get back into it! This excites me.
This is such an awesome list this week, I like to spend my weekend casually browsing through it…
...and OH MY GOD THE WITCHES!!!
Great links! I have so many tabs open and you posted the Witches, one of the greatest movies ever! Angelica Huston is amazing in it!
The NYT article about the husband not being in love with his wife was incredibly eye opening. As was the Bonerparty article. Thanks for sharing them
Thank-you for introducing the Le Love blog to my Google reader. It does wonders to my reckless love life and it reminds me of how sweet and romantic a relationship can be.
Wow, that cloud sofa is pretty much my dream piece of furniture, it’s amazing! I’d love to lie on it for hours reading and listening to relaxing music.
Also The Book Seer is going to be really useful, I’ve just passed the link on to a colleague too!
so much goodness here!! and i’ll never be able to say enough of my love of bukowski. he’s so brilliant!!
Amazing list! I’m so excited to see Seeing Good’s post about why it’s awesome you’re stressed on here. That’s great! :) Thanks for sharing all of these fabulous things with us.
OMG the witches scared the crap out of me when I was young. I had nightmares for years!
I adore the Fighting Words article. Thank you so much for sharing that. I wish more people were that healthy and stable.
Those photos from Vogue Italia were so disturbing…........but I think the world needs to see it. Because it is so true.
Will you marry me? I am a Gentleman of good breeding, and Knighted…
The NY Times article was so touching. It’s nice to read one woman’s positive (and unconventional) response to a terribly difficult situation. I also loved the alternative workouts: there is an aerial yoga studio in NY, btw: ) You rock, as always, Miss Gala!!
See, I love that its a tiny print. Its pocket art! Put it in a tiny frame and carry it in your purse. Set it up on the table when you drink coffee in your favorit spot, put it on the nightstand of the friends house you are staying the night in. Move it from room to room. Forget where you put it, and then be delighted when it appears tucked in one of your shoes or behind your computer.
Art can do that, you know.
I first watched ‘The Witches’ at my grandma’s house with my cousins, and when it was finished she told us “I’ll take off my mask now!”
I found and read 7 Reasons It’s Awesome You’re Stressed, and it’s a good article! Glad to see it getting some attention! I’m looking forward to reading some other links you provided! =D
THE WITCHES! Oh my god, memories.
gala. i was just online shopping at forever 21’s website. have you happened to see this??? i think it’s a must for all of us courtney fans, so i’m running to the store tomorrow before making an online purchase, try to save myself from shipping charges.
www.forever21.com/product.asp?...
if the link doesn’t function, it’s like 5 rows down in the last spot on the “what’s new” page.
I actually read that NYT article a day ago and had that exact same thought, just, how very self aware the author must have been and how difficult it is to see a situation from the outside like that.
I loved that article from the NYT about how she gave him space and he stayed…I wish I knew how to make love stay. I’m not hurting this time, I don’t think. But sometimes I wish things had turned out differently.
I’ve always loved Tom Robbins’ bit from Still Life with Woodpecker on how to make love stay:
“Who knows how to make love stay?
Tell love you are going to the Junior’s Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.
Tell love you want a momento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.
Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.”
Maybe someday, right?
The Witches!! I love that movie! I hope to one day be even half as excellent as Angelica Houston…
Hi Gala!
I absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE that quote in the stencil art: “If you want to achieve greatness stop asking for permission.”
Do you know if the quote from the artist?
Argh! The witches! Now THAT was one good book-film adaptation. It used to scare the crap out of me (probably still would if I saw it again).
And that quote? Gold.
410mm is not small…it’s 41 cm, which is about 16-ish inches. I say buy it!
i love the witches. i used to freak out my little sister back in the good old days by saying all creepy like ….
“she can’t heeeeeeaaar you” hehehe
i looove that scene when the kid is up in the tree and the freaky witch in the green hat says that!
love it!
Dude, what is up with Boner Party? I am all for a well-informed critique of social movements, but twee has one of the sharpest, sassiest, most arrogant histories in recent music history. I mean, look at the K Records one-time-only International Pop Underground festival? Beat Happening’s ill-informed, capricious trip to Japan early in their career? Even the tongue-in-cheek in-group expression, “twee as fuck” has a sense of simultaneous self-deprecation and arrogance about it.
I was at All Points West, sporting my own yellow poncho. Every concert I’ve been to this summer has been rained on.
22.See, I love that its a tiny print. Its pocket art! Put it in a tiny frame and carry it in your purse. Set it up on the table when you drink coffee in your favorit spot, put it on the nightstand of the friends house you are staying the night in. Move it from room to room. Forget where you put it, and then be delighted when it appears tucked in one of your shoes or behind your computer.
Cameron · Aug 7, 08:15 PMArt can do that, you know.
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Oh I love these ideas :)
I like that you posted a clip from “The Witches”. That movie terrified me in the fourth grade and it’s funny to look back at it now in all of it’s unscary glory.
I love the quote in the first picture too – I read something similar the other day, a riddle:
Five frogs sit on a log in a pond. One decides to jump off. How many are left?
Five of course, deciding to do something isn’t the same as actually doing it :)
The Witches was probably one of my favorite movies as a child! Whenever I think of it I can’t help but to think of Mouse and the Motorcycle!
I looked up the movie after this, Gala.
wonderful :)