We can do it soft core if you want...

...but you should know that I go both ways

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Holy, Embryonic.

2 words

devendra banhart

there's a gap in between

there's a gap where we meet
where I end and you begin

Devendra Banhart Signs to Warner, Announces New Album

Devendra Banhart Signs to Warner, Announces New Album




I know it will take me at least a few days to stop pooping inside my pants.

As my world comes crashing down...

I'm dancing, freaking out.


...

another day

And I'm waiting, I guess. For a change, for this life to resemble my own in some way.

Boots

Taken from The Satorialist. Look, how incredibly effortless.

Bat For Lashes

This love is growing much slower than most. At first I thought "meh". I couldn't get her out of my head though. And I bought the new album, and it's grown and grown and grown. And now the album has grown on lovely Nikki and slowly but surely we loved, and we do love. I think I'll probably buy her release before this as well.

They say for every high high, there must be a low low, low
From every sun ascending a lonesome moon will grow, grow, grow, grow

babe,
you know I still love you,
but how dare you complain to me

would you just look at me?

I do as I please,
but now I'm on my knees
your skin is something that I stir
into my tea,
and I am watching you,
and you are

starry

starry

starry

If I thought it would be useful.

and I realized that night that the hall light,
which seemed so bright when you turned it on,
is nothing-
compared to the dawn
which is nothing-
compared to the light
which seeps from you while you're sleeping,
cocooned in my room-
beautiful and grotesque,
resting

that night we got kicked out of two bars
and laughed our way home

I thought-
I would offer you my pulse
I would give you my breath





























I can't believe that I finally get to see her.

Shake Sugaree

Currently, art/music are completely keeping me afloat.

Devendra Banhart is especially helpful in these moments.

Watch this beautiful old Devendra video.



His spirit clearly and fully commits, it's almost overwhelming.

So stoked for this...

you'll go to hell

for what your dirty mind is thinking

wait,











they don't love you like I love you

I'm oozing suprise

Sometimes artists, when they play live, choose to revamp a song a little, add a new part, or take something away, or just tweak it slightly, or obviously. In any case some times it turns out dreadful, or sometimes its amazing.

This is a slight tweak to At The Hop, and I would say it's better than the original:




And this is a slightly more obvious tweak to Peach Plum Pear, this one is my favorite version of the song, for sure, no doubt about it:



Another notable take on a song is Thom Yorke's acoustic take on the Clock, but I know I've already posted that.

Enjoy the music.

heist-de-vetement

I will rob a bank to purchase that dress, or I will steal it out of her closet.

STOKED

I even love it when you're faking it.

So,

-Nikki is not going tree planting anymore, and so we've decided to move in together May 1st.

-I am ecstatic for the half bills.

-It will be so great in September trekking to and from school together. Or, the lack of trekking, for that matter.

- The kittys will have two bedrooms. They will both be much happier.

-I guess that decision was never consciously made, though clearly, it was made, and I feel great about it.

- Other obvious internal decisions.

- There are a few other decisions mulling around that may pop out soon. Though I doubt they're the type of decisions I'd shed into the blog world.

- This job is becoming unbearable. UNBEARABLE. UNBEARABLE.

- I am so annoyed with everything and anyone.

- I just don't really like people.

That is all.

If you are scared, if you are blue, I've prepared this small song for you

!!!

http://pitchfork.com/news/34961-joanna-newsom-debuts-new-songs-at-secret-california-show/

Ooooh my Lord!!!

Oh, and there is a new kitty, named Esamé. She is perfect.

Donna Karan

Donna Karan had her Fall runway show last week. Full of absolutely beautiful pieces. However, like every fashion show, it was also full of absolutely ugly pieces, adorned with wretched fur. (Apparently, in the fashion world, nothing says "fall" like dead fox.) Not only is fur unattractive on its own, this designer happened to put the fur in such horrible places that I don't think I've ever seen it look worse. YUCK.

Obviously, these are my favorites:

The long grey is my absolute favorite. It reminds me so much of the blue dress Judy Garland wears in Ziegfeld Follies. I would LOVE to have it. My lord.

I'm treading on dangerous ground.

Everyday I am reminded that I have no idea who you are any more, and I don't want to.
My memory of you is fading.
I like it that way.

So not into that, so not into you.

We're in, what seems to be, completely different dimensions.

&

I can't stop dreaming about water.

If the water should cut my mind,
If the water should cut my life,
If the water should cut my mind,
Set me free,
I don't care,
I want to live in a bathysphere.



mad props to the original

Jigsaw falling into place

I am re-visiting my love of In Rainbows and Out Rainbows, as the love was interrupted by an overwhelming (and still going strong) obsession with Joanna Newsom. Also, things do seem to be falling into place, and that is fabulous. I can't believe Andrew and Brandice have been sitting in my living room lately. So fucking gnarly to have them back. Breakfast on Sunday was fantastic. :)

If you check out Devendra's my space the caption is "the album is done, we're just mixing it now" . The best news I have EVER heard. EVER EVER EVER EVER EVER.
Everyone MUST keep their eyes peeled for the release date!!!!!

Hearing about the new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, especially accompanied by that killer art work was great, and then, I heard the songs. LORD. Such a disappointment. I may even be able to like it if it wasn't the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, but I am so attached to them, and I just couldn't get "this is Karen O?" out of my head. Edit: I am listening to both again now. Heads Will Roll is growing on me a lot. Maybe, by the time it comes out, I'll like it. Maybe.

Also, as far as music news goes. IFC is releasing their From the Basement stuff on DVD. OH BOY. Radiohead, Thom Yorke Solo, the White Stripes, among others. GOODNESS ME.

AND! TV On the Radio are coming HERE. YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSs.

It is a good day for music knowledge!


SO into this.
I would question every wind, that has gone through the glow of your eyes

Jean et John

So more spring/summer haute couture that has caught my eye. Everything is quite extravagent. The first is from Jean Paul Gaultier, the second set is from John Galliano. I must admit, alot of John Galliano's stuff is god awful ugly, but I left that out. All of the head pieces and hats are insane. I wish haute couture was all that exsisted, ready to wear is no fun. The themes are fairly similar. Crazy hats, big dresses, lots of interesting patterns and materials. Jean Paul Gaultier went for mute tones and black and whites, and John Gallianos stuff is all about COLOR!

The make up is so simple and beautiful, which is great with all the over the top clothes. When you scroll down you'll see John Galliano sort of forgot that rule.

Above is my favorite from the collection, though I would pair it with tights that were a little less seethrough!

The above dress is absolutely great, until you get to the script and realise it says Jean Paul Gaultier over and over. So bad. So tacky. Why did he think that was a good idea? Yuck. It almost completely ruins the dress. Almost.

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Now below is John Gallianos stuff. The pirate hats are incredible! Possibly the best part of this is lovely Jessica Stam walked in his show!

I would love for things not to be see through. I would love for my hair to be as above every day.

Above is my favorite piece. I think all the hair is great, but as I said the make up is way too much for my taste. Not when theres so much hair and lace and pirate hats and colors and textures. Too much.

So cute!!

Hussein Chalayan

So, I'm pretty in love with the new Hussein Chalayan S/S collection. Though not as good as his F/W as aboslutely nothing ever is and most S/S collections are just fucking crap. This is a LONG photo post and I'm sorry, but Mr. Chlalayan is worth it.





These next five photos are from a film/photo project called Compassion Fatigue. Here is the description from his site:

2006 January-MarchScreened at Garanti Galeri, Istanbul, Turkey

This project explores the ways in which society has transformed nature into increasingly refined utilitarian Objects, E.G., the air conditioner as a means of controlling the flow of air, or the fountain as a way of directing the natural flow of water.

Aesthetic genres such as Art Nouveau and Rococo could also be – with their ornamental stylization of nature – seen as a way of taming nature. These genres, as representatives of a man made image, have themselves been assimilated into the social milieu, thus becoming a new form of nature, they form, over time, part of our natural landscape.

Inhabiting this new environment, however, has had its effect on the human body. By way of assimilation, the body has been contorted into its dimensions in order to better synchronize irself with that space. As a result, it has transformed into a motif of its environment.

By analogy, using spells in the film as the ultimate embodiment of nature, Hussein Chalayan proposes an alternative form of taming reality. The characters dressed in garments echoing the space cast a spell on the central figure. The central figure gets monumentalized as a marble statue further integrating itself into the environment. A voice subtly issuing instructions to the viewer about how they are to read images, accompanies the film, perhaps as a further means of social control.

Now this next set of photos are from the runway, the 2009 S/S collection, so gorgeous.

So many awesome head pieces!

Now, for the absolutely stunning 2008 F/W collection, which I feel is more pertinent anyway, considering winter will be here for much longer still:I would pretty much die to have either the above or below.