Things I Love Thursday
[ 29 October 2009 ]
Hello! Hello! Hello! I am late! I am sorry! Please forgive me! Here we go! Things I love! Exclamation points!
Laughing all the time; holding hands; people stringing fairy lights in trees; walking around New York with Chloe & having weird old men make even weirder comments (one of them said, “It’s not Hallowe’en yet!”, hur hur, & then we passed another old man & a middle-aged woman said to us at the traffic lights, “You two just made that dirty old man very happy”!); the word “gloom”; jewellery as a present (I have a new necklace by Gregg Wolf that I totally loooooove, plus I maintain that jewellery is the best kind of present ever, all girly diamond-madness aside, because you get to wear it & it always reminds you of whoever gave it to you); rice crackers (I wrote a letter to them in my head on Monday, it went like this: Dear Rice Crackers, Yum! I’m gonna eat you! Love, Gala.); people who make dog handbags based on me (this is a hard one to explain, I will show you photos when I have them); Lupe Fiasco — Fire; the fact that in America, Hallowe’en runs for the ENTIRE month of October!; my brand spanking new sparkly pink Fulmer helmet (it arrives tomorrow, YAY); The Dish making videos of Huey Lewis for me; Teletubbies in the street smoking cigarettes (oh the horror, don’t worry, there are photos), anticipation of the CunninLynguists show in December (I will be there this time I promise); being super-obnoxious (sad but true); Gift of Gab f. Brother Ali & Del tha Funkee Homosapien — Dreamin’; big glasses frames; getting big packages in the mail all the time; “you are making me blush you adorable thief”; when The Dish imitates the way I talk (especially the way I say art — “ahhhhht” — & party — “pahhhhhhhty”); also when The Dish speaks fake Twitter updates out loud (“At-sign World…”); running into sweet flame-haired girls in the street; taking Chloe to bad events & walking out smelling like our mothers; Weezer’s new single (it is so catchy, it’s like… brainpox); MAC Red lipstick; my new bunnyhead ring; looking forward to Halloweenie; dinner with Mike Dooley (& our waitress recognised him, it was so cute); relief & sanity; watching Nazi zombies in Dead Snow; autumn photoshoots; pretending the couch is a ship & cuddling with the family unit; having all my vitamins arrive!; taco night!!!; Hanky squeezing into tiny spaces & snoring like an old man, geez I love him; impromptu songs; Where The Wild Things Are; wearing sequins all the time; using plenty of exclamation marks; FakeAPStylebook on Twitter; being productive; server upgrades; CunninLynguists – To Be For Real; planning for SXSWi next year (yay, Austin, I’m coming back! I have missed you!); saying “OH MISTER SHEFFIELD!”, etc. etc. etc. ad finitum!
“Can one explain the magic of life to someone who cannot perceive it in the smallest everyday things?” — Rosa Luxemborg
Okay, pile on the yummies! Give us your lovin’! Baby, I need your lovin’, got to have aaaaall your lovin’! I have been working on Love & Sequins #6 flat out for the past few days so am totally distracted & over-stimulated & I apologise, it will be released TOMORROW & I am so excited! See also: Carousel! MWAH!
Love letters & feather headdresses,
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New Imperial Commando book, meaning more Ordo * going home to see mom * dumplings * IMing old friends * n.A.T.o. “Chorjavon” and “Be Umide” * Rodarte for Target * gifts of well-intentioned but awkward lingerie * martial arts movies * Zhang Ziyi * old gameboy games (Pokemon Red, oh yeah)
Wooohooo! Lurve and Sequins 6! Bit keen!
The only things on my list are *Brand spaking fresh Roald Dahl themed tattoo! James and the giant peach eat your heart out.
and coffee…. It makes me productive so I don’t need to sleep.
Katrina — ROALD DAHL THEMED TATTOO I think I am going to pass out, WHAT DID YOU GET PLEASE TELL ME!!!
my friends photoshopping each others faces onto pictures of animals + being overly casual + wheat free week + magic hedgehogs + les conte des fées
Tilt: Planning for Halloween, my internship, re-learning to play the bass, finding sheet music for the Amélie soundtrack, getting rad comments on my blog.
Also, I laughed out loud with your “OH MISTER SHEFFIELD!”, as I’ve been seeing a lot of The Nanny reruns on TV lately. Hahahaha.
Trader Joe’s organic herbal tea,tights,crushing on someone new,my friend Fatima calling me 4 or 5 times a day,donting old things to a thrift store,power-walkng,listening to Bat For Lashes,The Ting Tings,1990’s.
Eating Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups & drinking a lot of Starbucks double shot espressos which taste like feet while I madly write my first draft of my undergrad honors thesis; elation over the fact that this means I’m graduating soon; thinking about my life in 7 months & having no idea where I will be living which is totally rad; calls to my dad in Pakistan; wearing ridiculous outfits because I’m brain dead from writing; when my horrible Jersey/country accent comes out; my rad bf who is such a good sport & joining my friends & I as we dress up as lawn gnomes for Halloween; GLEE; & smiling enormously for no reason.
Your Rosa Luxemborg quote reminds me of my favorite lady-anarchist quotation, from Emma Goldman: “it’s not my revolution if I can’t dance to it.”
Some Things I Love: my white-noise machine for enhanced sleepiness. Picking up charming brits at the train station (not in that way). Gchat and oatmeal dates with faraway friends. Teasing my hair and putting it in a giant updo. People who want to give me money to go to Socal and read old books in the wintertime!
-people who share glitter with me
-“tastes like clouds!” (me, referring to delicious pink fluffy cotton candy)
-the New Orleans Saints! Who dat!
-Halloween in New Orleans and events preceding it
-theme parties (my friend Alyssa had a priceless “come as a douche” party last Friday)
-randomly discovering awesome bars – The John on Frenchman St has 4 wooden toilets in the main part of the bar and my friends & I had a fabulous and ridiculous photography session there
-Halloween costumes! I’m being Columbia from Rocky Horror ...and in my group we have a Rocky, Frankenfurter, Eddie, and hopefully a Magenta. We rock.
-did I mention glitter ?
-telling people that I’m working on my survey protocol
-fall weather
-stealing/bumming cigarettes from my neighbor :)
my new SPARKLY HOT PINK HIGH HEELS as seen here: www.endless.com/Pleaser , charlotte rampling in “the night porter” (hellooo, halloween costume), finding a perfume you know is perrrrfect, secrets,good friends, my crazy black cat, nice underwear, epsom salts, milkshakes and cake.
70 degree weather at the end of october – late night television – spending time with the boss lady’s – having enough room to hula hoop in my living room – pasties! – drag queens – spectacular halloween weekend plans – getting new chew toys for sophie – wonderfully helpful strangers – e-mails from old friends that make me smile super-massive – going to the gay bar with my man boy for a favorite person’s 21’st and dancing for hours – greasy spoon diners
My new Audrey Hepburn and Aggy Deyn shrine wall is spectacular.
I JUST finished it today. :]
* Being DONE the paper I was dreading in school about an ethnography about Bedouin women living in the Egyptian desert * Getting A-‘s on my Archaeology term paper and presentation (woohoo, go archaeological digs for the Athen’s metro) * My Halloween costume (I’m going as a G-unit wigger!!) * The rain, and bundling up in the cold
Im super jealous of Raphaelle’s comment! I wish I wish I wish I could go to New Orleans for Halloween, that is my favourite city in the world! Have fun there, and blow the French Quarter a kiss for me ;)
My NEW roomates being super friendly, fun and awesome; setting up my new room, having friend sleepovers all in one bed in a deliciously intimate and non sexual kinda way, feeling like I know myself a little better and that I am starting to know how I can make my kind of life emerge from this putty stuff of life:) being ever inspired to follow my bliss when I read this website. thanks Gala :)
Excitement for Love & Sequins!! Looking forward to it!
-listening to my little sisters laugh hysterically
-having the boy back from his vacation to Taiwan. Even better is the fact that we had one of those movie moments when we reunited…ya know…drop everything in hand and run through the crowd and into each others arms… Aww. Sickeningly cute.
-random shopping trips with the boy in which we buy fruit we know nothing about and ice cream in exotic flavors.
-his smile.
-cheesy movies.
-pomegranates!!!
-time for meditation
-butterflies.
Hahaha James and the Giant peach floating through the clouds with the lyrics from the movie of the family song. Evidence of awesomeness can be viewed here… www.flickr.com/photos/29885926
Aww yeahh Dead Snowww.
I love Lupe Fiasco, so happy to see him on here! I definitely love it when two of my favorite things collide!
I love…
Dark & Stormies
Monoprinting
The potential for my Halloween costume
Amazing shoes
The new cupcake shop that opened up like five blocks from my apartment
Snuggling with my puppies on cold nights
Ballet class and stretching
And no way I just signed up for the Love and Sequins subscription and have been totally overloaded with all that awesomeness and the next one comes out tomorrow? I thought I’d have to wait forever how awesome!
My brain finally getting to relax after a LOT of stress being put on it! And GOOD NEWS! Waking up at 7:00 am exhausted, but then seeing you have a text from someone special and JOLTING awake! Hot showers. Finding good quotes in literature (“and we could have all this. and we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.” -hemingway). Coming back to your phone after a long time and you have TONS of text messages! Plain black scoop-neck long-sleeve shirts. Finding Nutella you didn’t know you had and eating it on toast for breakfast! Mommies who make you yummy new drinks (: Less traffic! Techno music (Ian van Dahl, to be specific!). Jaywalking to save time! Only having one class in a day…and it’s your favorite(: My creative writing class! A girl I have a “friend crush” on coming up to talk to me(: Wearing a scarf! Time to rest at home with pepper jack cheese on crackers, fruit punch, and a cupcake. And a good book! Getting my right ear unplugged after not being able to hear out of it for a year! Popsicles! Cold weather and wearing a peacoat! More texts from someone special(: Good music (Twilight soundtrack, Band of Horses, mewithoutyou). People saying yes to plans (: My amazing doggie(: My brother FINALLY getting a job! Good soup! My dad going crazy at Party City (v. uncharacteristic!) and buying a Napoleon Dynamite costume! My parents being understanding for once. Having one of those amazing days where everything just works out! Finally deciding on a perfume to get and finding out I might get it for 40% off (Coco Chanel!). Old friends and new friends at my new work(: NORDSTROM! free clothes and earrings! aah! seeing Coco avant Chanel with my adorable French teacher Lia and some classmates(: watching the office close to home with some of my favorite people, eating free sprinkles cupcakes and laughing hysterically with them! LIFE! ah i love it!!!! i hope i didn’t forget anything!!!
YAYAYAY New L&S can’t wait!!!
Staying up late to listen to the loudest thunderstorm in memory!; mint lemonade in Tel Aviv; going stir-crazy with my boy; FINALLY getting to wear a cardigan in Israel (hello autumn, glad you could make it); “If text kisses were real kisses, the whole world would be one big orgy!”; positive feedback on my website; sun-soaked afternoons spent reading in hammocks; ideas flooding in; how the boy cooks for me & let’s me sloth around when it’s that time of month; rollerskates – so need to get some!; breakfast at Max Brenner; festival tickets; sweet travel anticipation; sweet reunion anticipation; Dollhouse (& Eliza Dushku’s questionable acting skills); becoming addicted to Yelp; finally seeing Jerry Maquire; “Like a strip of bacon frying over an open fire, you’re seriously sizzling.”; The Filthy Youth; black nails in a nod to Hallowe’en; shawarma; and love love love!!!!
great post :)
mine, right now: new jeans; youtube; home-made cookies (the makin’ and the eatin’); “north and south”; dreams you remember when you wake up; huge cups of steaming tea; the fact that it is almost nanowrimo…
Taking huuuuuuge orders for my cupcakes, and having someone ask if Sugar-Coated Whiskers was a shop (when i said no, he said it should be!)
Making Gala Darling cakes!!!
Shopping with my funny mummy
snuggling with the pyusses
Excitement about the return of Starbucks red cups!
Plans to go as Veronica Corningstone for halloween!
Anticipating seeing people i haven’t seen in months…seeing my boy for the first time in over a month…wearing black fairy wings over normal clothes for Halloween…it’s the simple things in life that count the most :)
* Halloween! I’m having a massive party and the bf and I are dressing up as Gomez and Morticia Addams. * Pinatas- I spent all last weekend up to my elbows in goop and now I have one jack-o-lantern and one skull that I can’t wait to bash open with a big stick *today being the last day of classes for the year (but still having to sit two exams and write two essays) * the teeny tiny porcelain turtle i bought for my bf to cheer him up after a shitty week *my gorgeous friend Mandie who is coming to live with me for the summer!
Heey! I also hosted a taco night this week! Cool!
My list mainly revolves around
1. loads of reunions (my oldest, oldest friend is currently sleeping in my bed, fresh off the plane from aus).
2. re-discovered inspiration. I’ve been painting again and I’m happy.
YAY
Yay, I was wondering when this week’s TiLT would appear! I totally agree with you regarding jewellery as a present, the various pieces I’ve received as gifts over the years are certainly my most treasured.
My TiLT is here: sparkleandglitter.co.uk/2009/1…
- This Is It
- Reconnecting with old friends
- Cuddling my dog
- Downtime
- Spelt porridge (!!)
- Sleeping
- Candles & incense late at night
- Starting my own blog
+ i dreamed about you last night, Gala! the world was ending and we were all running around naked, and you and i were comparing our breasts and you assured me that mine were alright! GO FIGURE.
New slippers / new haircut / free books! / tofu / noodles!! / The Moomins. :D
I’m celebrating and loving:
-John Galliano’s fall winter 09-10 EPIC. MAJOR.
-Moloko – that woman’s stage costumes are the best especially her headresses
-plaid
-back seamed tights
-getting on things that I’ve put off for ever
-getting to sleep in tomorrow morning
-frilly underpants
-glitter put some on and your day will automatically become 50% better
-beehives
-yoga energy poses
-fresh mint tea
-winter gardening
-this week was the “find great stuff for almost nothing” week! I bought a NEW Forever21 (which doesn’t exist in my country) dress in a thrift store for almost half the price, some great Topshop leggins for less than half the price, and some Ninewest rip-off sandals for 1/4 of the price!! best week ever
-my bf wearing crisp white shirt, because he looks hotter than ever. Ahhh I just love him so much :)
-My university is in midst of the alumni center elections. The alumni center here has a loooot of influence over the dean, so it is important who we choose. I’m supporting the center-left coalition, haha. They’re great and the guy who’s running for president is just an amazing person. University politics is fun!
-Natura’s Rosa Fabuloso lipstick. Bright, deep pink; awesome! I’m obssesed
-Plans for the summerrr, I want to go to Brazil so badly! Hope we can make it :D
-Yoga classes and cardio-dance classes :)
electro fidget dubstep
*new books The Red Book, Gonzo, Wizards First Rule * buying kitty treats for kittypus* magsa’s puppy ears* county election time! hello political junkie!* only one day of jury duty instead of three* last night of the haunted high school/haunted house fundraiser. we made $2,500! yeehootie!* her smiling at me. aw, shucks and blush, blush* old school mixed tapes* trick-or-treating inside the n.c. aquarium* being dressed in haunted house costumes & having dinner at waffle house late at night before seeing saw six with the best friends* watching thriller actually performed by zombies in a gymnatorium* “i found this for you” & she hands me an old bone* learning the tango/cha cha/ rumba with benameatavegamin* the onion head monster always makes me happy* window shopping for fabrics. oh tessuti how i do love thee at the moment* amazon(dot)com for buddy holly style glasses & polaroid film* red hearts hand stitched onto white tank tops* two old ladies walk into the bookshop (stop me if you’ve heard this one…), the draft lifts my dress, their response, “oh my! excuse us darlin’.” sometimes embarrassment is good for the soul. especially when it comes via two little old ladies* multi-vitamins that taste like orange creamsicles when taken with orange juice* thrifting! thrifting! thrifting!* pink heart lips & and the search for (temporary) hot pink hair dye* breakfast sandwich with egg, jalapeno cheese, asparagus, tomato & a veggie burger on a toasted onion bun*
I posted my tilt on my blog. I also have some home remedies (inspired by Gala’s post a few weeks ago) and some last minute costume ideas (and one ibg idea for planning next years Halloween). My 2 biggest things are anticipation of a really nice annual dinner, and seeing STYX and REO Speedwagon again for the first time in a few years.
Hahaha. “Oh Mistuh Sheffield!” Awesome.
Hmmm…
Getting good midterm grades, finishing a test in 30 minutes and leaving early, the guy who said “Smile, sister!” when I was walking past him with a morose expression, and then wished me a nice day. Awww :) ; awesome (cheap) nail polish in unimaginable colors, jojoba oil’s effects on eyelashes (Thank you, Gala!), all the awesome candy combinations that sprung up while I was not eating sweets, like brownies with Oreo bits in them and huge Reeses peanut butter cups. They even make Rice Krispies treats that look almost a foot long; weird candy; clever deserted areas to take a photo; finally taking action after sitting on the fence; No Doubt, suddenly knowing what I have to do; formulating plans; the guitar; dancing like a maniac (literally); Halloween tomorrow (whatever happens); kind gestures, cute dogs that let me pet them (aww); finding rosewater on the cheap at a deli; colorful surprises; leaves falling from trees, gracefully carried by the wind; liking someone, even though it also hurts. Maybe I’m a masochist? Ehhh.
Things I Love Saturday! Whoa!
I’m horrifically busy, so this is short:
Speed – I watched this again the other night and hadn’t seen it for 15 years and DAMN it is good! Sandra is fantastic and Keanu has never been more beautiful (I think the makeup department did an incredible job on his eyebrows).
Labour Weekend – we went up north to our homeland and took the kids around our old Karikari Peninsula haunts. Hadn’t been there for 15 or in some case 20 years. AWESOME.
[Is this TiLT list making me look old?]
Concert in 2 weeks and it is starting to get exciting!
+ hanging halloween decorations + sleepovers + drinking champagne at work + coloring my hair + puppy snuggles + homemade chili + leaves changing color + bf in basketball shorts + spending extra on good produce + sons of anarchy + learning about guns + family brunch + breakfast for dinner +
-Getting to see my best friend, my sister and her best friend tomorrow for Halloween!
-Long phone conversations with my dad (we didn’t always have a close relationship, so this means a lot to be able to talk to him)
-Patrick Wolf
-Deathstars (again, 3rd week in a row. I’m obsessed!)
-Deciding to try and attempt to eat a vegetarian diet, w/out labeling myself as a vegetarian in the process.
-Getting to take a really intense art history class next semester. It is an invite only course and my art history teacher invited me in. And I’m only an Art History minor, I am a Public Health major. :P
-Trying to make myself be a little more social and personable, and having it start working.
-Still getting inspiration for the story I’m writing, even if it isn’t as intense as before, it’s still there.
this week has been possibly one of the, if not completely the worst week of my life — it really put life in perspective and made every previous disastrous time period seem insignificant.
therefore, i believe it’s time to join the TiLT party…
+my boyfriend. talking to him works even better than eating raw garlic to get better (which i did do too, thanks for that advice~).
+halloween candy bags: they’re massive, they’re gross, but they’re so good.
+ the fact that i had to get up from writing this to run to the window and stare at the deer and two fawns outside my window.
+my orchid is getting ready to bloom a second time.
+i got cat-called by construction workers. that doesn’t really happen outside of movies, but apparently it does…
+i had to get distracted again because a buck came over to visit too. awesome.
+there’s a tiny chance i’m moving to new york and transferring to my dream school next year. the catch is that i have to get accepted first…
+yogurt makers. i’m finally able to produce all the imitation dairy products i could possibly want~
+walking to the train station on brisk autumn evenings.
+spontaneous, surprising new friendships.
+homemade dulce de leche and other fantastic comfort foods
+sending my boyfriend a surprise package full of baked goods and little sketches (the poor guy doesn’t get anything good to eat, and his school is located in the middle of nowhere).
This week I love
-Spain, first trip abroad ever, woot. Planes are fun, especially when they have adorable children doing the safety video and inexplicable dance music at the end of the flight (is this usual?)
-Parc Guell, inordinate amounts of pretty
-People who pop up randomly just to say hey, cos they’ve missed you
-Long discussions of both prison and post apocalyspe survival, nerd discussions for the win ‘shanking for dummies’
-My first offer from a uni!!!! yesh, i’m not completely rejected this is awesome!!!!
Much love x
Halloween, long black wigs, toast, and finding missing socks.
Where are those photos from? They’re gorgeous!
pinstripe tights that remind me of the circus, registering for my last semester of school, picking out vintage halloween ensembles for people at work (they will buy whatever you say!), the beautiful colors and textures in The Fall, drinking more water and less coffee, salad with asiago caeser dressing aka heaven, seeing Dan Savage’s speech, printing off inspiring pictures, finding lost papers as soon as i “stop looking, and tune in”, lucky ladybugs everywhere, getting dressed up everyday, taking self-portraits everyday, budgeting, thrifting, staying organized, bowties and ribbons and red, having conversations that should have happened like two years ago, making collages of inspiration for my new look (out with the 50s housewife dresses, in with formal menswear + fairytales!), stockpiling images and ideas for version 2.0 of mollyburkett.com, making a mask for my co-worker, Dario Argento’s Suspiria, Halloween the movie, all the possibilities, taking risks!
End of the month, time to share!
The short of it: trips to see the fella in Denver & the loveliness that ensued, moving back to New Orleans, pumpkin flavored EVERYTHING, Lady Gaga’s Dazed & Confused video, & some lovely links (including great DIYs) around the internet….
www.mischiefmydear.com/dramati…