Weekend Morning Forever

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I hope you had a good Christmas! Mine was a relatively quiet family affair..we mixed things up a bit by having roasted root vegetables and mango sherbet. I'm excited about my gifts: gold plated headphones, tea accessories, graphic novels to name a few. Post Christmas I have this feeling of sedation caused by copious amounts of tea and coffee consumption, movie watching (Inception was the bomb), and sleeping till noon. Although the threat of actual school work is constantly looming in the back of my mind, I am fully aware that at some point I will have to face my guilt and get shtuff done. Till then, I'm going to blog about the reading I have time to do :)

 

Reading materials I plan to/have read this Winter Break:

Wow. After assembling this visual representation of my reading list, I've realized my choices are like a 3rd wave feminist how-to manual...but hey there's nothing wrong with that. I've read How Sassy Changed My Life and was super inspired- Sassy sounds like the sweetest magazine ever, but seeing as it folded more than 10 years ago, I'll just have to settle for Bust magazine, which was mentioned by Marisa Meltzer in How Sassy.... I've started Girl Power but unfortunately I think it's due  at the library very soon so I don't know if I'll be able to finish it. It's pretty good so far- it's not all about riot grrrl, but just about women's involvement in music. Finally, the tom of a graphic novel Locas is something I've been anticipating reading for a while, ever since I saw it in a book listing "most inflential graphic novels." I already feel more smarter!

Quasi Christmas

I'm just about ready for Christmas. I've made most of my gifts, made* (too many) cookies, drunk liters and liters of tea, and watched not a single Christmas movie. It hasn't been a "traditional" holiday season, but I've had a lot of fun. I thought I'd share this (sorta) Christmas playlist...meaning it has holiday references but not all positive and not all blatantly mentioned and beat over the head. Songs by Fleet Foxes, Jens Lekman, Sigur Ros, and PJ Harvey sound like Christmas music in that they are delicately dramatic ...they remind me of a winter landscape. Blink-182, Bob Rivers etc.. add a more facetious side to the playlist; lamenting all the Christmas cheer that they're not so much feeling. Anyhow, it has an interesting mix of stuff, meaning it may not be the ideal thing to play at your family get together on Christmas morning. Contrarily, Fleet Foxes, Jens Lekman etc. (see before) would actually be a refreshing break for your ears on Christmasif you're sick of all the "riding along with the song of a winter-y fairy land" bs.

Merry Christmas!

*Oh, and let's not forget the Eggnog pancakes I'm making tomorrow morning! Thanks again Joy the Baker :)

oh whatta feelin

I don't have to go to school tomorrow.

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Teenage

I rescued a couple discarded Blink-182* cds at the beginning of the month from Value Village..Take Off Your Pants and Jacket and The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show and have been listening to them nonstop. I was totally convinced that portable CD Walkmans were the way to go..until I was jamming out while walking home and the disk started to skip more than me!! (check out that figurative language yallzz). Don't fret, that's when my faith in the iPod was rekindled..my new Blink albums are now safely stored on iTunes.

The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show is a live album that incorporates pretty good live recordings with hilariously vulgar, crude, obscene teenage boy humor. Blink's in between song banter is so great...I was mildly offended when I first listened to it but then was throughly desensitized after the first couple songs that their profanities became terms of endearment. This cd filled me to the brim with gratitude for being a teenager; unapologetic sense of self and saying whatever you want.

Freaks n Geeks, Dazed and Confused, The Strokes, Paranoid Park...makes me wanna be forevaa young!

*I'm so not ashamed of early 2000 culture! This goes to show what you can find @ thrift stores that others don't want but you're over the moon about.

Courtney

I have a lot of homework to do. I also am not able to miss hour-long Behind The Music specials on Courtney Love. Yeah my priorities may be slightly skewed, but everything gets done so I don't beat myself up about it. Truth be told, teenagers are lazy- if you wanna fight it, fine, we'll talk, but I have overwhelming mental statistics showing that we just are. It's all a matter of knowing when to force yourself to do stuff and I believe that time is now ;( (does anyone else find the semi-colon, open bracket smiley extremely off-putting? I really like it)

Wish me luck on summatives! Yay!

[Various Tumblr sources..I'm sorry I lost track]

**This lovely marigold color describes my mood at the moment, despite all of the bs going on @ school. Yay!**

Tie Dye Tights!

[Photo of Agnete Hegelund from Hanneli]

BUST magazine DIY!

I plan on making these in the near future. I've started sewing a dress that involves cornflower blue fabric and LOTS of pleats..I just envision these tights going so well with it! I'll post pictures when I've gotten more done but it's promising so far (for those of you who are interested in how to pleat a skirt, let me know!).

Oh, and when you dye the tights, make sure to use high % cotton ones- nylons will literally repel the dye and will leak all over your clothes.