Acoustics in the bathroom are great...Beach Fossils have the right idea.

I listened to Beach Fossil's "What a Pleasure" EP last night on the bus home and every song was so in tune with feelings of a late night highway, empty seat beside me, and weird city lights. I'm always aware of those waves of nostalgia provoked by listening to atmospheric music and looking out the window buuut as of recently I realize that my heart rate can dictate what music seems to be totally appropriate for a certain moment. Like listening to shuffle will show how you almost instinctively click to the next song until you've found something that just feel right...it's like your body telling you what will be in sync to its natural rhythm. While Beach Fossils was the soundtrack to my trip home, on the ride there, my body was pretty much forcing me to listen to listen to super slow hip hop the whole way. Gotta abide...

Monday\\Enon "Come Into"

I don't really have anything interesting to say today. Hey it's monday, here we goooo. Here's some music.

Diego Gravinese\\Realist painter

[via Boooooom]

Hungry Like the Wolf\\ Rosewood Ave. LA

Hey let's go to LA ok? Watching Big Fat Liar recently and watching Paul Giamatti living the LA lifestyle; meaning dancing around your house in a speedo to Duran Duran, is making me want to go West. Plus last time I was in California I didn't get to go to this area of Rosewood and Melrose and it looks like a lot of fun. Almost as fun as travelling the world on streetview and taking screencaps like I was actually there. It'll have to do for now.

dress like this today

Androgyny! Boys and girls should both dress like this. I feel as if having a look like this is bound to make you feel, for lack of a better simile, "like a  boss." Sure it takes a lot of confidence for a guy to pull off a ridiculously colourful angora sweater but it also requires a lot of balls for a girl to wear a two piece suit. I think of the black-on-black combos as middle-ground for the not as daring, but then again, they're still atypically proportioned. I really do wish that more of the population had the confidence to wear what they wanted, not just what our gender role says we should or what Glamour's dos n donts preaches.

Swedish trendiness via Acne fw 2012 that shouldn't be kept until next fall..I'm dressing like this today. The guys on the far right remind me of Swedish garage rock band the Hives, who also happen to be dapper as eff, not to mention extremely confident. I can't tell whether it's the white hot suits that make the Hives so assured with themselves or it's their boldness that made them want to wear matching retro suits. Try finding out for yourself. Push your comfort boundry, then get back to me. I'm not preaching this Lady Gaga form of peacocking that defies space and time and any preconcieved notions of clothes we had before. No. What you wear shouldn't be dangerous or serious or boring SO let's just have fun.

√Fuzzy 50s angora sweaters

√Faux pas proportions: too short pants (floods), boxy long sleeves, long sweaters + shorter jackets

√Mod 60s record producer look. Jacket n pants sets are sweeet!

Valentines times!! (hardly a valentines playlist)

Unicorns, Draculas from Houston, and Psycho Buddhas, with a 1:7 chocolate chip to cookie ratio of vtines classics. You may notice that David Usher's cover of "Fast Car" isn't on there. What you will also come to notice is that all these songs are its complete opposite. I've included the link to the song though, just in case you really do need an earnest sing-o-gram: Dave would be more than happy to help you out!

Now that I think about it, wouldn't it be sweet if you could choose the song to be sung to you in a musical candy gram? Haha imagine John Cusack in Say Anything blasting Most Beautiful Girl in the Room. I wish!

New music inspiration courtesy of Marcus Sullivan's music pinboard. He has good taste, send him candy grams.

Daniel Clowes\\Kitsch

Daniel Clowes (middle) and Thora Birch as Enid in her room.

HERMENAUT: You show Enid’s shelves groaning with ponderous sex books, ’60s French yé-yé girl records, Scooby-Doo stuff, grotesque dolls. This is a self-portrait, right? In your story “The Party,” you depict yourself as thinking, “Jesus, it always depresses me to see the stuff that hipsters have on display in their apartments… It always seems so childish and unoriginal, but it’s really not much different from my stuff.” Why are you, and Enid, so attached to this, well, kitsch?

CLOWES: I don’t like how the word “kitsch” is usually used. Like I said, I take it more seriously than just: “Amusing Things To Laugh At.” Actually, although I think about stuff from my own childhood a lot, things I haven’t seen in years, all I have to do is see the thing once and I’m cured of it. I’ve recently bought video tapes of cartoons I hadn’t seen since I was four or five years old, and I’m enthralled by them exactly one time, by this feeling of “Wow, this is what I was so interested in?” My memory had turned them into something much more fascinating than they actually were.

Read the rest of the interview here.

Bjork and her TV

Bjork and her fantastic accent tell us about televisions! And how you should never let a poet lie to you. I would actually watch tv if Bjork had her own show along the lines of this video. It could be in the style of Mr. Rogers, except for grown ups.

trying to understand wabi-sabi

Wabi-sabi is an aesthetic concept that I've been interested in for a while now and I want to try and figure out what it exactly means. This is by no means an essay where I tell you all I have to know about wabi-sabi because I'm learning as well. Researching wabi-sabi also brought up other extremely specific japanse descriptions of ethetics, such as ikebana flower arranging. Then you get into Buddhist philosophies like the 3 marks of existance and your brain implodes. Fun!

"Wabi-sabi (侘寂) represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic centered on the acceptance of transience. The aesthetic is sometimes described as one of beauty that is "imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete".

Wabi: referred to the loneliness of living in nature, remote from society

Sabi: "chill", "lean" or "withered," beauty or serenity that comes with age, when the life of the object and its impermanence are evidenced in its patina and wear, or in any visible repairs.

Wabi-sabi stems from the Buddhist teaching of the three marks of existence

• 三 impermanence
• 法 suffering (dukkha)
• 印 emptiness or absence of self-nature (sunyata)

 

Characteristics of the wabi-sabi aesthetic include asymmetry, asperity (roughness or irregularity), simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes."

"if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi."

air hostess in the 60s\\"Most Beautiful Girl"- Flight of the Conchords

♫You spend part of your time modelling, and part of your time next to me ♫

Bejeweled barettes, feathery lashes, graphic liquid liner, pearly lips, sixties bronzer.

strangest dream\\"Pray for the Girls"- Frank Black