Monday , November 16, 2009
Snapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting
+ Kat
Listening: Willie Isz! Dudes, whoever came up with the idea of combining shoegazer with hip-hop is an effin' genius. Dirty South! Also: The Duke Spirit, the Walkmen, the Wipers, Lil Wayne. And...PJ Harvey and John Parish, A Woman A Man Walked By! LOVE IT. "When you call out my name in rapture / I volunteer my soul for murder." Damn!
Watching: Duplicity, which I found really, really awful, despite some funny bits and some good scenes with Clive Owen and Julia Roberts. Also, this episode of CNN: Revealed featuring Carine Roitfeld. It's not particularly insightful, but she's completely super-adorable. And to complete the PJ Harvey content quota, the video for "Black Hearted Love," which you can catch here. If you ever wanted to see Polly bounce in slow-motion on a inflatable thingamabob in the middle of the forest, you're in for a treat. For art fiends, it's also directed by Jake and Dinos Chapman.
Reading: Ecology of Fear by Mike Davis. Brilliantly researched and insightful but kinda paranoid-inducing. I really dug his City of Quartz, which was more on the urban studies tip about Los Angeles. In Ecology, he tackles the abuses of L.A.'s natural resources and it's enough for me to fly the nogoodforme eco-friendly private jet to L.A. to rescue Liz. Liz, don't live in Malibu! Also: the Vogue issue with Beyonce on the cover! Wow, two black women in a row on the cover of Vogue -- what kind of strange new world is this?
Wearing: Balenciaga dress, leggings, these shoes, which look better in person than they do in pictures. Parties tonight, woo ha...
Wanting: To become the morning person of my dreams.
+ Liz
Listening: old mix CDs that I keep finding in my closet, many with Blood Brothers songs
Watching: Last night I saw Kenneth Lonegran's This Is Our Youth performed by Mark Ruffalo and Josh Hamilton (not the dude from the Texas Rangers, but Grover from Kicking and Screaming, which is probably my 23rd favorite movie of all time). Now I'm more in love with Josh Hamilton than ever before; it's really nice and fuzzy-feeling. Mark Ruffalo's pretty goddamn adorable too.
Reading: the "Gossip Girl" issue of Rolling Stone and the Michelle Obama issue of New York
Wearing: clothes + my new Iron Maiden slip-ons
Wanting: to marry Josh Hamilton, or maybe just be good pals with him. I could see us having a really fulfilling we-used-go-out-but-now-we're-just-buds kinda relationship, actually. The show last night was a radio play and he was wearing this grey plaid flannel that I'd love to borrow.
+ Laura Jane
Listening: Faust, So Far; The White Stripes, Elephant; the new Vetiver album, which I am too lazy to stand up and check the name of
Watching: Milk; Little Children (A+); Kicking and Screaming (why was this movie an exact rip-off of Metropolitan? It annoyed me. People don't talk like that!); Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, which was a really weird experience for me- I have this glitchy TV/DVD player combo that subtitles every movie I watch, and I lost the remote control so I can't fix it. But with Nick and Norah, it didn't subtitle the dialogue- it subtitled the DVD commentary. So as I watched the movie I was simultaneously reading quips and witticisms from Michael Cera and the rest of the cast. SO CONFUSING!!!
Reading: Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell, which was entertaining, but crappy compared to his other two books. I wish he'd eliminated the last chapter, which was about his mother- it was self-indulgent. Yes, Malcolm, we get it: your Mommy is awesome.
Wearing: Dalmatian-print turtleneck; purple cloche; today I am wearing Miss Sixty Radios, my Union Jack muscle tee, and a black crewneck sweater, it's kinda fly.
Wanting: Summertime; love; a million dollars; Dear Matthew Friedberger: I bet you need a personal assistant! Okay, okay, you don't have to twist my arm. I'll do it. Peace be with you, Laura Jane
Tags: dalmatians, DVD glitches, Faust, Gossip Girl, Josh Hamilton, Kicking and Screaming, Malcolm Gladwell, Matthew Friedberger, Metropolitan, Vans
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malibu's my favorite place in the world! or at least in the top three. and having someone rescue me from l.a. would be like my worst nightmare come true, seriously. i can't get behind this plan!!!
By Liz
on March 20, 2009 3:14 PM
you can stay in l.a., liz. just watch out for fires!
By Kat
on March 20, 2009 3:23 PM
I agree that Josh Hamilton is marriage material. Liz! You totally need to marry Josh Hamilton. He's a Gemini, which is always fabulous.
By Laura
on March 20, 2009 6:19 PM
dude, he's taken! plus me + geminis = intense emotional torment that i don't ever want to deal with again in my life.
By Liz
on March 20, 2009 6:52 PM
I remember being a senior in high school when Elephant came out (I believe), and the first song on the album everyone was really digging 'cause it was REAL ROCK AND ROLL and totally bad ass...and they were still managing to churn out relevant real rock n roll material after they shot to super fame. Part of this experience was living in the Metro Detroit area, where it was all interesting to see go down, I mean the band clearly changed many people's lives. They alluded to a louder, early 70s glammed-up almost funk-heavy rock...if I'm not mistaken... that was cool. I honestly think White Stripes are a force to be reckoned with though I myself am not totally crazy! for them. I DO appreciate them and think they're HOT. And this was a great unstoppable moment for them. Love unstoppable moments! Ok am I writing some obvs Rolling Stone-esque critique? Thanks NGFM for indulging me! Love you!
By katie rose on March 22, 2009 1:32 PM
hey I'm reading Outliers! i kept quoting the "10, 000 hours" bit at parties, so my hubs bought me the book.
thanks for the warning on the last chapter. i'll speed read through it.
i just figured out "mom" is wow upside down.
By Karina on March 24, 2009 12:35 PM