Style Tips -- 21st July 2008

[ 22 July 2008 ]

Moth Dreams
Illustration by Art and Ghosts.

<3 Buy a dream dictionary & use it to decode your subconscious. Make secret scribblings!

<3 Learn to love Otis Redding. (My favourite tracks are Try A Little Tenderness, A Change Is Gonna Come & These Arms Of Mine).

<3 Sneak onto a rooftop at night, lie down & drink iced tea. Enjoy the view & twinkling lights.

<3 Have someone else feed you berries.

<3 Kiss your lover’s toes.

<3 Make a list of your favourite things about the person sitting nearest to you. Bonus points if you give it to them anonymously!

<3 Listen to this song on repeat:


Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala <3


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  1. OH! Otis Redding…love, love, love! Have you ever seen “Pretty In Pink”? The classic 80’s John Hughes film starring Molly Ringwald and John Cryer? It’s wonderful and one of my favorite scenes is when John Cryer’s character, Duckie (best friend of Molly’s character Andie) dances to “Try a Little Tenderness”...it’s one of the best things you will ever see in a movie :) It makes me smile every time, and Duckie is probably the very best thing about the entire film! To quote him: “Well, I’m off like a dirty shirt!”

    So very much love for you-Always, Gala!!! You are such a kind, amazing soul! Love you!!
    Kendra Jacklyn

    P.S.-Thanks for the e-mail back! You are so sweet, and I thank you so very much for your kind words of encouragement and your belief in me!!

    <3 Kendra Jacklyn · Jul 22, 07:43 AM · #

  2. One of my recent resolutions is to spend time sitting alone drinking coffee reading, writing, eavesdropping, or whatever I feel like at least 3 times a week. I’m going to do the list of things about the person closest to me today for sure!!

    <3 alicia · Jul 22, 07:48 AM · #

  3. Try a Little Tenderness is my top choice for my funeral song. (Doesn’t everyone have one….) Other songs include Janis Joplin’s Turtle Blues and Bob Dylan’s Just Like a Woman….. And yes that scene in Pretty in Pink is one of the best in film history!!

    <3 cat tv · Jul 22, 07:57 AM · #

  4. Gala, what is that awesome song? I love it so much!!!!
    And awesome style tips as always. I feel happier just reading them!

    <3 ange · Jul 22, 07:59 AM · #

  5. I’m definitely trying the iced tea + rooftop idea this week! Also, since it’s excruciatingly hot outside, I bought a box of individually wrapped popsicles and handed them out to people I saw during my walk home from the grocery store. It’s funny how something so easy can make so many people happy!
    Have a great day Gala!

    xox

    <3 sade · Jul 22, 08:00 AM · #

  6. Kendra Jacklyn — Yes, I’ve seen it! Kisses!

    alicia — Time alone is good. I relish mine :>

    cat tv — I used to have a chosen funeral song but it was soooo goth, haha! I don’t have one any more.

    ange — It’s Abusing Of The Rib by Atmosphere. Best song everrrrr right?! I am on a total Atmosphere kick today!

    sade — That is an AWESOME idea, I LOVE it!

    <3 Gala · Jul 22, 08:03 AM · #

  7. Oh my GOD, Abusing the Rib! I did listen to that on repeat on a beach vacation last winter. It was a nameless track on my sister’s iPod, and I searched high and low for it when I came home. I already loved Atmosphere, and only love them more for it.

    <3 Ophélie · Jul 22, 08:09 AM · #

  8. Very nice song! I’m trying to broaden my musical horizons, and I really want to check out more Atmosphere songs!

    <3 Retro.Bunny · Jul 22, 08:24 AM · #

  9. have you heard of the band 3oh3? my friend indroduced me to them & they seemed like a band you’d like, maybe

    <3 emily · Jul 22, 08:28 AM · #

  10. Oh Gala, I wish you could come hang out on the roof of my apartment building. We don’t even have to sneak up onto it! We get magnificent views of the National Cathedral, Washington Monument, Virginia, Maryland- it’s wonderful and magical at night.

    <3 Kristen · Jul 22, 08:51 AM · #

  11. There are people out there who DON’T love Otis Redding? ; ) I love that you’ve become an ambassador of music, G.

    As for iced tea and rooftops, here’s a better idea… wine and rooftops (that is, if your rooftop is navigable while a bit tipsy). The pair creates quintessential gorgeous summer memories. Better still? An unexpected delicious treat with red wine is honeydew melon popsicles. I found these at my local Korean market and can’t get enough. A friend and I just recently enjoyed both on his back porch while looking for shapes in the clouds.

    <3 Amelia · Jul 22, 09:26 AM · #

  12. I love Otis Redding… my all-time favorite has to be “Cigarettes and Coffee”.

    <3 Lizzie · Jul 22, 10:06 AM · #

  13. I’m going to watch pretty in pink now in your honor! the duckie dance to that song is my favorite movie scene in the history of movies!! cheers!

    <3 molly · Jul 22, 10:15 AM · #

  14. I’ve been on an otis redding kick for the past week or so too! , I love “pain in my heart”

    <3 Naomi · Jul 22, 10:25 AM · #

  15. You haven’t seen my lover’s toes! lol…

    <3 Annie Spandex · Jul 22, 11:07 AM · #

  16. I heart Otis Redding. I read an interview with Drew Barrymore quite a few years ago and she mentioned him so I took a listen. Love.

    <3 ami · Jul 22, 11:54 AM · #

  17. Try A Little Tenderness is a fantastic song! I think I’ll give the rooftop + ice tea tip a miss until summer.. or at least spring… I’ll stick to mugs of hot chocolate & marshmallows & my doona until then

    <3 Katie · Jul 22, 12:12 PM · #

  18. I just got a dream dictionary a few days ago…weird… I love going through it trying to make sense of all the craziness. The strangest dreams usually have the simplest meanings.

    <3 Stephy · Jul 22, 12:29 PM · #

  19. Otis Redding is so amazing!!

    <3 Katie Kutthroat · Jul 22, 12:55 PM · #

  20. see, it’s times like these I wish I had a lover, just so I could kiss their toes and have them feed me berries :(

    <3 Song · Jul 22, 01:40 PM · #

  21. I just checked out Art and Ghosts’ Flickr account…wow! Very cool pictures, thanks Gala!

    <3 amouretreve · Jul 22, 01:50 PM · #

  22. wonderful post!!! xox and I love love love that illustration you used for the image!

    oh & PS: I have awarded you a gold star blog award over at Disasterville (http://www.daynadesastre.com)! iCiNG is by far one of my most favorite blogs!

    xox, dayna desastre
    www.daynadesastre.com

    <3 Dayna Desastre · Jul 22, 02:11 PM · #

  23. I think my lover would need a foot overhaul before I kissed his toes…

    <3 AmyTheFreak · Jul 22, 02:58 PM · #

  24. I’ve never heard of Atmosphere but I like what I hear.

    Is there a dream dictionary that you would recommend? I looked on Amazon and I sm o confused. I’ve always wondered what my dreams mean.

    <3 Marisol · Jul 22, 04:32 PM · #

  25. Aw, kissing your lovers toes. So sweet. My current fella is the first guy to ever have my lips anywhere near his feet. You know its love if your randomly kissing parts that don’t often get to be seen by the world.

    Awesome blog Gala!! I love it.

    <3 Audrey · Jul 22, 06:59 PM · #

  26. ohh i love ice tea and I love the stars… this is the best thing ive ever been recommended to do. I wish i had a rooftop, but i do have a HUGE balcony i could use… hmmm ideas. I love that iceblocks handing out situation! I’d be over the moon I am going to try it out :)

    <3 BeKaH · Jul 22, 09:58 PM · #

  27. I do different thing…I wrote my dreams down :) So for instance looking my last months dream, it seems pretty wild and if someone else reads that they don’t understand much so my dreams are kept safe, well kind of.
    (I do keep a pen and notebook beside my bed in case I have a great idea in the middle of the night).

    <3 Margeri · Jul 22, 11:14 PM · #

  28. great song gala!
    i’ve started to like atmosphere after i downloaded their song sunshine:D

    <3 Adriana · Jul 22, 11:40 PM · #

  29. WAHHHH
    this song isn’t on itunes :(
    are there any other places i can d/load it?
    preferbly not illeagally lol

    <3 Adriana · Jul 22, 11:43 PM · #

  30. loving the style tips today!! defo gunna do the rooftop one in summer!!its winter in nz as u will already know!!
    kissy faces
    xxx

    <3 jasmine · Jul 22, 11:50 PM · #

  31. i love interpreting dreams. my friends and i talk about them all the time. it’s hilarious! hehe, thinking about otis redding’s music makes me giggle~ mmm, i would love to lie on top of a rooftop. unfortunately i haven’t found a rooftop around here.. hmm maybe the balcony will do. wrapped up in blankets and doona and watching the moon!

    <3 Leanne · Jul 23, 12:14 AM · #

  32. I read an awesome dream book once called Breakthrough Dreaming that is really good at helping you interpret your own dreams – it says that dream dictionaries can only go so far because to one person a snake may mean death and fear, while to another it may mean sensual beauty, to another it’s a phallic symbol etc. etc.
    It’s also got tips on how to lucid dream and how to retain more of what you dream.
    It’s here www.amazon.com/Breakthrough if anyone wants to get it.

    For a quick interpretation though I like the Secret Life of Dreams by Clare Gibson. I also have the Secret Universe of Names by Roy Feinson – it’s heaps of fun at parties to see what personality traits people’s names give them.

    <3 Song · Jul 23, 01:18 AM · #

  33. Every time I hear “Try a Little Tenderness”, the scene from Pretty in Pink pops into my head.
    I love that song.
    I want to meet Jon Cryer and play that song… and see how he reacts. I’m hoping he’ll dance.

    <3 fi. · Jul 23, 02:46 AM · #

  34. Gala, you are such a unique and special person, and you are offering so much positivity to all who visit your site. Your love of life is contagious, just wanted to say keep up the good work!

    <3 Kim · Jul 23, 12:47 PM · #

  35. atmosphere !!!!!

    i love them

    <3 jen · Jul 23, 02:44 PM · #

  36. Otis Redding has the best voice a man ever had. He died on my dad’s 18th birthday. Pop trivia nonsensical fact of the day.

    <3 nana · Jul 23, 06:07 PM · #
 

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