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Wednesday , November 12, 2008
LOVE YR BLOG: Susan of ModLife and ModCloth.com
(In which our most beloved bloggers expound upon undying crushes, spirit animals, and les objets du awesome you need to know about right now. In this edition: Susan of ModLife blog and ModCloth.com.)
Tell us one thing you're really into at the moment that you want the whole world to know about.
I know I should probably take this opportunity to make myself sound smart and hip by talking about some totally obscure author or band or something, but I'm not going to lie. I'm currently obsessed with I Can Has Cheezburger?, a blog chock-full of LOLCat pictures that I look at on a daily basis. I mostly use it to console myself because I can't actually own a cat due to severe allergies (thanks, Dad!).
Who is your all-time number-one music crush?
Tori Amos. I've been super into her since high school, and even though her current albums aren't quite up to par, I still love her anyway.
What's one item in your closet that you couldn't live without?
A leopard print coat from Saks Fifth Avenue in the '60s. It was my grandmother's favorite, and she gave it to me for Christmas a few years ago. I used to play dress up with it in her basement when I was a little girl - it's my first fashion memory.
What's your spirit animal?
The pug. If I had it my way, I would just lay around and sleep all day. Despite my laziness, people would love me anyway and feed me scraps of cheese.
(We've gone to ludicrous: LOLCats, Star Wars pugs.)
Tags: bloggers we love, cheese, first fashion memories, interviews, leopard print, LOLCats, pugs, Spaceballs references, spirit animals, Star Wars, Tori Amos
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Wednesday , November 5, 2008
LOVE YR BLOG: Joanna Goddard of A Cup of Jo and Smitten!
(In which our most beloved bloggers expound upon undying crushes, spirit animals, and les objets du awesome you need to know about right now. In this edition: Joanna Goddard, the hardest working man in showbiz- or the blogosphere at least- of the adorable and eclectic A Cup of Jo as well as Glamour magazine's relationships blog, Smitten)
Tell us one thing you're really into at the moment that you want the whole world to know about.
I just got my first pair of rain boots, and they have changed my life. Now, instead of dreading the rain, I look forward to downpours so I can splash around. I would recommend everyone get rain boots- they're not just for little dudes!
Who is your all-time number-one music crush?
When he was younger, Mick Jagger was ridiculously cute. I love how he danced around on stage, and his giant smile just gets me every time. My boyfriend has a book of Rolling Stones photographs and I adore flipping through it.
What's one item in your closet that you couldn't live without?
Tights! I'm obsessed with them. Flowered or polka-dot tights can transform even the most boring work dress into an adorable autumnal look. My favorites are from Anthropologie and Hansel from Basel.
What's your spirit animal?
What an awesome question! I would say a little dog because I like being around people and am really hyper!
(l to r: We agree that Mick Jagger is formidably attractive; Joanna's adorable puddle-jumpers; Hansel from Basel stockings; Jo's spirit animal, possibly)
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Monday , October 27, 2008
Love Yr Blog: Mimi & Minh-Ha of Threadbared
(In which our most beloved bloggers expound upon undying crushes, spirit animals, and les objets du awesome you need to know about right now. In this edition: Mimi and Minh-Ha, the stylish brainiacs over at Threadbared.)
Tell us one thing you're really into at the moment that you want the whole world to know about.
Mimi: The one thing I'm really into right now is the new Maximumrocknroll Radio call-in advice show called "You've Got A Problem." Maximumrocknroll stalwarts Erin Yankee and Arwen Curry host the show, taking questions like, "How do I keep from spilling my martini in the pit?" in a completely serious, but also tongue-in-cheek, manner. (Arwen suggests bringing a mason jar for your martini, making it both instantly punk and easily protected.) So far, there's only been one show, and most of the questions are "older punk" questions about not turning into the "back in the day" creep at the all ages-show, or finding punks to date who aren't teenagers as more and more punks turn into ex-punks. Although I'm pretty much an ex-punk, and I'd be the one to ask Arwen if she wanted to go dancing, at which point she'd avoid any night-time activities with me for something more neutral, like going to the beach, or discussing the genius of Ursula LeGuin (about whom Arwen is filming a documentary).
Minh-Ha: La Garconne, the online store. I want almost everything on this site! I check it everyday the way some people keep an eye on gas prices or the weather. I even wrote them a fan letter! (The last one I wrote was to Michael Jackson in 1984.)
Who is your all-time number-one music crush?
Mimi: Besides my awesome, amazing girlfriend Fiona, it would have to be a three-way tie between my first punk rock love Blatz, Mary Weiss from The Shangri-Las, and the eternally effervescent Cyndi Lauper.
Minh-Ha: There has never been anyone other than Sinead O'Connor for me. Yes, there were flings here and there (Blondie, Cyndi Lauper, Sting in the Police years) but Sinead circa "Drink Before the War" had me at and will always have me with "Somebody cut out your eyes/You refuse to see /Somebody cut out your heart /You refuse to feel"
What three albums do you want accompanying you on a hypothetical lifelong desert island exile?
Mimi: These are hard! The Ex's Scrabbling at the Lock; Gang of Four's A Brief History of Time; and The Shangri-Las' Myrmidons Of Melodrama. I totally cheated there and picked two giant compilation albums. I should probably pick something a little poppier, though, like The Rezillos or T. Rex ("poppier" is maybe the wrong word...). Three is too small a number!
Minh-Ha: Without hesitation - English Beat's Special Beat Service!! Every song feeds my inner Rude Girl but Ackee 123 is my favorite. The other two are Sinead O' Connor's The Lion and the Cobra (for the days I'm angry about the political economic structures that forced me into exile in the first place) and Tom Waits' Anthology (for the melancholic days when my spearfishing skills fail me).
What's one item in your closet that you couldn't live without?
Mimi: Practically, black turtlenecks are a lifesaver for putting together a teaching outfit when inspiration fails. But otherwise, my 18th Amendment Colbert wide-legged, high-waisted jeans. I love, love, love these jeans! I wear them to teach, to write, to sit around, whatever. I'm resigned to the fact that sartorially, I am a '70s Vietnamese refugee slash art teacher slash Lynda Carter's non-Wonder Woman alter-ego Diana Prince.
Minh-Ha: Right now, my black Soia and Kyo funnel neck coat. We went from Summer to Winter over night! But I'm looking for a thick chunky dark gray cocoon sweater to be my next "one item"!
What's your spirit animal?
Mimi: This one is easy - unicorn. I want to be able to fix everything that's terrible and unjust with a touch (or a stab) of my gleaming, magical horn.
Minh-Ha: The oft overlooked wombat -- small, powerful, and deceptively cuddly.
(l to r: Mary Weiss of the Shangri-Las, a super-cuddly wombat, a unicorn!)
Tags: blogs, Maximumrocknroll, Sinead O'Connor, spirit animals, Threadbared, unicorns, wombats
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Tuesday , October 14, 2008
Love Yr Blog: Larry "Fuzz-O" Dolman of Blastitude (In which our most beloved bloggers expound upon undying crushes, spirit animals, and les objets du awesome you need to know about right now. In this edition: Larry Dolman, founder/writer/editor (like Kat, Liz and Laura Jane, all rolled into one!) of BLASTITUDE and BLOGSTITUDE) Tell us one thing you're really into at the moment that you want the whole world to know about. This could go a couple hundred different ways, but I'm gonna say the books of Octavia Butler. She's a science fiction writer, and her books are straight-up harsh because they usually deal with two things: the breakdown of civilization as we know it, and humans undergoing changes into more 'animalistic' roles and behaviors. The crux is that these changes aren't presented as good or bad, simply as necessities, and in some cases improvements. Her book Clay's Ark is like Mad Max meets David Cronenberg but actually more intense than either one... the Parable books (Parable of the Sowers and Parable of the Talents) are a very harsh civilization collapse story (because it's mostly very plausible)... the Xenogenesis Trilogy (compiled as Lilith's Brood) is probably her deepest work of all. Who's your all-time number-one music crush? Dude-crush alert: the entire early-80's SST Records crew... Ginn, Dukowski, Dez, Spot, Mugger, Pettibon, Rollins, Boon, Watt, Carducci, Naomi, Davo, more.... they worked their asses off and made so much possible, musically, culturally, everything... total heroes... handsome too, especially D. Boon... What three albums would you want accompanying you on a hypothetical lifelong desert island exile? 1. The Grateful Dead Movie Soundtrack (Not their greatest live stuff but it's still very good, and more importantly, it's 5 discs, and I'm going for quantity) What's your spirit animal? Well considering that you don't choose your animal, it chooses you, it would have to be the DRAGONFLY. My son had some temporary tattoos of bugs, and I put a dragonfly on my inner wrist and it felt RIGHT. I called it "insect solidarity" because I consider humans to be basically as significant as insects as far as the cosmos goes... and Wikipedia just told me that, in Japan, dragonflies are symbols of courage, strength, and happiness, and, "It is said in some Native American beliefs that dragonflies are a symbol of renewal after a time of great hardship," which is interesting and may become appropriate... LAURA JANE'S POST-INTERVIEW WRAP-UP: Blastitude RULES. I wanted to make some sort of "this one's for the dudes!" reference here, but what-the-Helen-Keller-ever. If that crap was my attitude towards life, I would NOT be Laura Jane of nogoodforme.com. Point being: I'm SO not a dude, and I love Blastitude and its baby-sister blogspot with all my heart. Blastitude has given me so much in my life: this Rod Stewart Youtube extravaganza (complete with witty commentary), about 234309483984392 zillion psych bands, and many an "Aww!" moment, ie. whenever he talks about reading Winnie the Pooh with his kids. In conclusion: Larry Dolman is a) TOO DUDE FOR YOU, and b) officially nogooodforme.com-endorsed forevs.
2. Can - Tago Mago
3. One of the "Radio" discs on the Sublime Frequencies label... maybe the Radio India 2-disc. After about a year on the island I might be able to sing along with it!
(from left: Radio India; Greg Ginn (also a big-time music crush of my own! Gemini? Weirdly tall? Raymond Pettibon's brother? DONE DEAL. His presence turned "This Band Could Be Your Life" into a daydream date fantasy); a dragonfly)
Tags: Blastitude, bloggers we love, dragonflies, music, Rod Stewart, spirit animals, SST Records, TOO DUDE FOR YOU
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