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Sunday , October 11, 2009

To Go: Party for Kime Buzzelli's Urban Decay Collabo, Today in L.A.

(Above: Kime's Urban Decay Show Pony Shadow Box palette & me showing off the box for my Kime Buzzelli Vans, in the midst of last month's two-day phase of wearing my headband around my forehead like a warrior princess.)

Because I'm in Maine right now and thus missing out on today's debut party for the Show Pony Shadow Box (an eye makeup palette that Kime Buzzelli created for Urban Decay), I'm devoting this morning to listening to a Genius mix based on "Shine On Heaven" by White Magic (whom Kime named as a fave band in her nogoodforme interview a while back) and wishing I'd brought my Kime Buzzelli Wellesley Vans with me to New England. The party's from 3 to 6 p.m. at the Urban Outfitters at Space 15 Twenty (at 1520 Cahuenga in Hollywood) and there'll be makeovers and giveaways and a photobooth and live music and screenprinting of Kime's artwork and lots of other amazingness. Check out the flyer below for more details.

The Show Pony Shadow Box, by the way, is so divine and I'm so happy that I did remember to bring it with me to New England. It's six shadows (my favorite being the shimmery-turquoise one called Painkiller) and some really hot black eyeliner, all packaged together in palette that's decked out with Kime's lovely artwork. Thirty bucks, and you also get Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Primer Potion (aka my number-one beauty discovery of 2009, for reals).

The "Shine On Heaven" Genius mix is also divine, FYI: It's High Places and Silver Apples and Devendra and Malkmus and Evol-era Sonic Youth and Yeasayer and Beach House and Joanna Newsom and Neiler and everything else that sounds perfect when you're drinking coffee in your sister's flannel pajamas and it's really cold and cloudy and creepy-quiet on a Sunday morning Maine. So try that out sometime, if you can.

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Tags: Kime Buzzelli, Kime Buzzelli for Vans, L.A., Maine, makeup, parties, Urban Decay, warrior princesses, White Magic

Saturday , June 6, 2009

To Go: Point Break screening Sunday night in L.A.

Here is one of my favorite things Chuck Klosterman has ever written:

"[E]veryone I've ever met seems to know that I like KISS. Everyone. I have come to realize that liking KISS will be the only thing anybody will ever remember about me. I have no doubt that if I died today, whoever was to engrave my tombstone would chisel something along the lines of 'Charles J. Klosterman, 1972-2005: He preferred Animalize to Lick It Up.'"

I don't plan on ever dying, but if it has to happen, I'd suggest this for my own tombstone engraving: "Elizabeth A. Barker, 1977-20??: She believed Point Break to be a legitimately good movie." Aside from about three or four other things, this is my greatest "soul truth" - although I admit that I should maybe try to rid myself of the tendency to get seriously mad whenever anyone talks Point Break trash. Cuz we're all on our own journey, brah, and besides: There's no accounting for taste.

Anyway, if you're smart like me, you'll probably want to go to the special Point Break screening at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood Sunday night at 7:30. The Egyptian's doing a whole Kathryn Bigelow retrospective this weekend, so she'll be there to introduce the movie. (It's actually a double feature, with K-19: The Widowmaker playing afterward; tonight there's another double feature with Near Dark and Strange Days. I have never seen any of those other movies, because the only thing I ever watch is Point Break.)

By the way, I've yet to be addressed as "Bodhi Jenner" as I requested in our Dream Celebrity Entourage post a while back. Why is the world so lame sometimes? Ties my head in knots. But whatever: I'm going surfing now! Hope your Saturday is just one big "killer rush"!

Tags: Brody Jenner, Chuck Klosterman, Keanu Reeves, L.A. rules, movies, nickname fun, Patrick Swayze, Point Break, surfing

Friday , December 12, 2008

To Go: Secret Santa Project Holiday Sale, Brooklyn, NY

Our dear friends from Sodafine (along with folks from Brooklyn's own self+therapy spa) are organizing a special holiday sale this Saturday in Williamsburg. Held at the Secret Project Robot Gallery, it's not just any old shopping event: this one features handmade stuff from local independent designers such as Bonbon Oiseau, Astulabee, Dear Birthday, M. Carter, Bario-Neal Jewelry, Kristen Aronsson, Purldrop, the Wild Unknown, Hortensia Handmade, Unearthen, and many more. (You can peruse all the designers and find more info at the event blog: http://giftongrand.blogspot.com/) There'll be light snacks and mulled wine (woo hoo! I love mulled wine!) to soothe your holiday spirits, and to up the festivities factor, an adjacent gallery will be having an closing reception for a show featuring movies and puppets. (Or is it puppets in movies? Such a mystery.) We all know that alcohol + retail are a winning combination, and I can't think of a better way to support local designers in a more fun, easy way.

Secret Santa Project Holiday Sale
Saturday, December 13 from 11-7pm
at Secret Project Robot Gallery
210 Kent Ave @ Metropolitan
(entrance on River St)

Tags: alcohol, Brooklyn, crafty girls, drunk shopping, shopping

Thursday , October 16, 2008

A Day in the Life: "Beautifully Worn" Opening, 10/15/2008

Pictures of an exhibition full of pictures? How utterly meta! All joking aside, the "Beautifully Worn" opening last night went off rather beautifully -- cupcakes from both Sugar Sweet Sunshine and Babycakes, wine and champagne galore, a steady stream of near and dear ones and of course some really great photos on the wall. We're super-proud of the show and psyched to have received such creative, intriguing and personal entries from all kinds of people. If you're in NYC and floating around the Lower East Side, please do drop into Clarabella and check it out -- it'll be up till November 30th!

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Tags: A Day in the Life, Beautifully Worn, photo show, photos

Wednesday , October 15, 2008

Beautifully Worn is TONIGHT!

Seen above is tangible proof that the actual Kat and Laura Jane of nogoodforme.com are actually at NYC's lovely Clarabella boutique & gallery hanging the show, physically, literally, RIGHT NOW!

Please join us tonight at 279 E. Houston St. b/w Clinton & Suffolk from 6 to 9 PM for an unbeatable evening of cupcakes, cute girls, cute boys, Chardonnay, chatterboxing and many a caper, we're sure.

All additional info can be found at nogoodforme.com/artshow.

See you in T minus 2.5 hours!

-Kat & Laura

Tags: Beautifully Worn, blogging happens in real time, Clarabella, cupcakes, Kat Asharya, Laura Jane Faulds

Friday , October 10, 2008

No Age Hearts Free Health Care

Hey, wasn't it awesome when No Age was on Late Late Night With Craig Ferguson last night, and the guitar guy Randy wore a shirt with "FREE HEALTH CARE" scrawled across the front? Yeah, that ruled. It didn't really rule how evil CBS wouldn't let Randy wear his Obama shirt, but it's kinda cool how Craig Ferguson actually addressed the incident instead of just sweeping it under the rug. Anyway, the video:

And speaking of health care, Sunday afternoon No Age - along with Eric Erlandson (of Hole), David Scott Stone, and The Tyde - will be playing The Bigler Benefit at the Echoplex. All proceeds will go directly to Michele Bigler, who's currently battling cancer with no heath insurance. Tickets are $12 and include one raffle ticket, with raffle prizes donated by Pull My Daisy, Edendale Bar and Grill, Show Pony, Amoeba, Ooga Booga, Zanzabelle, and Family (all of which I'd include on a short list of favorite places around town and maybe even ALL THE WORLD), plus a bunch of other kind and generous folks. You can also donate by PayPal-ing JBR90028@YAHOO.COM.

Tags: Barack Obama, Craig Ferguson, good causes, hot raffle prizes, L.A. goings on, music, No Age

Thursday , October 2, 2008

Raise cash for Obama, win fabulous prizes

This Saturday in L.A., eco-fashion maven Carol Young - who donated this fantastic soy-jersey wrap dress from her Undesigned line to the Spirit Animal House raffle last month - will host the coolest Barack Obama fundraiser we've heard of so far. From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Undesigned boutique (located at 1953 1/2 Hillhurst Ave. in Los Feliz), there'll be a shopping party (with a percentage of sales going toward the League of Conservation Voters Education Fund) and a raffle (with all proceeds benefiting the Obama campaign). Raffle prizes include a clothing-shopping spree, store gift certificates, and some really choice swag from a slew of independent designers. And if you - like yours truly, who is so sad to miss out - won't be in town for the event, you can still join in the raffle by buying your $5 tickets online. Just go to the event page, mark "will attend," add a little note (in the comments section) that you'd like to enter the raffle even though you're not going to be at the party, make your donation, and then email your receipt to contact (at) undesigned (dot) com. (A little tricky, but it works.)

As for the prizes, there's stuff from Amy Tavern, Catherine Chandler, Rock Paper Scissors, Poketo, J.A.M. Studio, Molly Smith, Elizabeth Lee, Baggu Bags, and many more - including these lovelies:

Allison Sattinger :

Mohop shoes:

Fomato cards:

Tags: Allison Sattinger, Barack Obama, Fomato, fundraisers, L.A. goings-on, Los Angeles, Mohop Shoes, Undesigned by Carol Young

Friday , September 12, 2008

nogoodforme.com presents: BEAUTIFULLY WORN

Oh, nogoodforme.com! Do you ever sleep? To be perfectly honest, NO. Three days after Spirit Animal House came, went, and RULED, we're so done with hibernating (We're not bears! We're wolves, turtles, alley cats, and Logan Echolls!), and are all impossibly excited for our next endeavor into the wild world of IRL: Beautifully Worn, the photo show we'll be curating at our beloved Clarabella.

In the grand tradition of nogoodforme.com, we hope that Beautifully Worn can provide the fashion blogosphere with a majorly subverted, hella scrappy, and decidedly AVANT-WACK take on the ever-entertaining format of "pictures of people wearing clothes" (not to be confused with "People Take Pictures of Eachother," which is a song by the Kinks).

You know how The Sartorialist is the most boring website on the entire Internet because everybody who makes it on is a fashion editor, and whenever you boredly e-wander onto it you just get irritated because it's like, "Well, yeah, no kidding Carine Roitfeld has good style!"- well, Beautifully Worn is going to be the exact opposite of that. Not only do we hope that YOU, our faithful readers, will send along photos of yourself in your favorite outfit to ngfmphotoshow (at) gmail.com, but we hope that you'll pass the word along to everybody you know, the weirder the better: we're talking dads, grandmothers, great-grandmothers, three-year-old cousins, hippie art teachers, therapists, grandmother's therapists, accountants, morticians, and (if at all possible) Michael Showalter.

All pertinent information can be found in the lovely image displayed below, and don't forget that the deadline for submissions is Saturday, September 20th (don't worry, I'm sure we'll remind you again).

beautifullyworn_smallflyer_color copy.jpg

PS: Because I am an incredibly nice person, here are some questions that might assist you in brainstorming up your perfect perspective on Beautifully Worn Chic:

-If you were turned into a cartoon character and could only be drawn wearing one outfit forever, what would it be?
-Which is more important: fashion or function?
-High-concept, low-concept, or no-concept?
-If you were stranded on the LOST desert island with only one outfit, what would you hope for it to be?
-If the love of your life showed up at your front door tomorrow morning and told you that you had five minutes to get ready for the date of your dreams, what would you grab?

Get snapping! Kat, Liz and myself are all chomping at the bit to see what you babes have in store.

Tags: art, Beautifully Worn, Clarabella, Michael Showalter, photo show, photography, reader participation

Wednesday , July 23, 2008

A few random notes and observations on Pitchfork 2008

+ When did the basketball jersey become part of the dude hipster uniform over the last few years? For reals, I spotted it on all sorts of peeps. I have also concluded that the female end of things has come to a standstill at the moment, until probably the skinny jean has become supplanted and we have to reckon with a new dominant silhouette or something -- although the ladies looked good, the dudes were more interesting and eccentric to observe.

+ In the age of global climate crisis, you have to pack for all weather scenarios for a summer rock festival. This means bringing Wellies, shorts, sunscreen, an umbrella, sometimes a jacket and basically everything else you can cram into a bag (only to have it dug through at the search lines when you enter each day.) My pewter ballet flats pretty much died at Pitchfork -- R.I.P. to my favorite pair of shoes!

+ Public Enemy were amazing and pretty much the highlight of Pitchfork. How many crazy moments did their replaying of It Takes a Nation of Millions have? From Flavor Flav totally missing opener "Bring the Noise" to Chuck D upbraiding him twice for it to playing "Terminator X to the Edge of Panic" for the first time in years Flav playing drums and then telling people "You are your own best friend" -- it was crazy, but they were by far the most vital act at the festival with an energy and urgency that is so rare and awesome. I nearly lost my shit so many times because it was just so exciting, fun, outrageous, political and fierce in a way most music never is. Chuck D = AWESOME. I also realized how cool it must be to have your security detail be a dance team as well.

Public Enemy doing a Flav-less "Bring the Noise" at Pitchfork 2008:

+ Jarvis Cocker is pretty much the most stylish man on the planet. Seriously, that man looks so good and can work a crowd like no one's business. I was just in total crush for most of his set and almost decided to skip No Age because I couldn't get enough of his dandy nerd look and his fantastic songs. He doesn't tour in the U.S. much, so it was a real treat to see him. Total awesome.

(picture from You Ain't No Picasso)

+ Other musical awesome: Boris, the Hold Steady (although not my thing, they put on a good show and their fans are into it), Les Savy Fav. Snoozers and disappointments: Vampire Weekend, the Dirty Projectors, M. Ward. (Of course, M. Ward was playing against Ghostface Killah and Raekwon on the other stage -- you just can't win against the Wu-Tang.)

+ Craziest hairstyle I saw: a dude who French-braided his mohawk. I couldn't even concentrate on HEALTH because I was so busy staring at it!

+ Oh, and even though I had a good time and found the festival to be generally well-run and all that, it must be said: WHY THE LACK OF FEMALE PERFORMERS, PITCHFORK? Seriously lacking in that department, dudes. (Call us if you need ideas or something.)

Tags: fashion analysis, music festivals, pitchfork music festival

Monday , July 21, 2008

To Go: New Filmmakers screening, 7/22 @ Anthology Film Archives, NYC

This falls under the category of shameless self-promotion, but whatever, man -- this is a blog, for Christ's sake, and if I can't be all excited here, where can I be then? Anyway, a short film I directed is screening on July 22 at NYC's Anthology Film Archives, one of the city's well-storied independent and avant-garde theatres. (And one of the few remaining ones, I might add.) It's screening with other films in a short film program that leads into a feature presentation of Rona Marks' Strange Girls, which sounds really, really cool. My little movie is called Sleepwalker and it's written by Bo Bishop and directed by me and it's about, um, a sleepwalker and there are long conversations and lots of eerie suburbia happening. I won't be in town for this screening (insert sad face here) so if you go, wave hi to the screen for me 'cause I'm still excited for the opportunity to screen my work! Check out more info here; the whole evening's only $5! Hoo-yay!

Tags: avant-garde movies, film, lady film directors, movies about somnambulism, non-olsen twins, self-promotion

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