December 2009
28 posts
I always listen to this while procrastinating,...
“Both films are about film-making with, seemingly, women at the center. But this is just a red herring, because they are really about the primacy of males.”
Joon on the “softcore misogyny” (love it) of Broken Embraces and Nine.
feminist real talk corner (Taylor Swift, lingerie,...
M: Crushed.
http: //www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/taylor-swift-taylor-lautner-split-20092912?utm_source=dailynewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter
K: Nooooooooooooooooooooooo.
M: her outfit in that photo is really cute.
K: super cute. i like the more casual hair.
ugh, i just went outside for a minute and it is so fucking cold! I want to motivate to go get my nails done but I also want to fall asleep.
I wish we could have a job with our friends. at a lingerie store?
M: I am kind of serious about working at kiki de montparnasse. I think I would love my job. that girl with the braids there is my new hero.
K: I KNOW. seriously, my dream in life is to downsize everything. like, i just want a job like that. and then i want to spend the rest of my time reading critical theory, listening to taylor swift, gchatting my friends, and buying hot clothes. sometimes dinner and drinks.
i really dont know if my nails will happen. i think there is going to be a lot of internet, maybe some reading.
everytime i think about that girl with braids being our new hero i start laughing really hard.
M: that is all I want in life, too. I also want my heater to work on a regular basis. I want to wear, like, stirrup lace tights to work and talk to people about demi cups versus full coverage! and I really think the whole thing would make me understand Debord that much more. Serious.
K: SO DO I. i totally want to be able to advise my customers on which sex book is hotter and the new, discreet vibrators we just got in! i want to be really close to the american apparel! i want a 50% discount so i can have a lot of lingerie.
M: but would it get boring? if lingerie and vibrators were your job? remember when lip gloss was your job? that got boring.
K: is this when real talk gets real?
M: I found a juicy tube in a bag the other day and thought of your old life.
K: NEVER FORGET.
FIRST KISS: a zine
Elizabeth Spiridakis and Marisa Meltzer are making a one-off zine about first kisses called, naturally, FIRST KISS. And we want to hear about yours. Send us the story of your first kiss. It can be as long or as brief as you like, but we’d love to know things like where you were, with whom, what you were wearing, what song was playing in the background, if it was a good kiss, how it happened,...
I’m not usually prone to maternal fantasies, but I really want to adopt Isabel. We can listen to the K Records back catalog and read circa 2003 issues of Teen Vogue and she’ll pick out outfits for me every morning. I think adopting a 20-year-old is probably the kind of parenthood I would be best suited to, anyway.
two hot toddies and a copy of us weekly
white_lightning Good #shamelust examples: Scott Storch, Jon Gosselin, Pete Wentz, Joe Francis, Stephen Baldwin, Jamie Kennedy, Adnan Ghalib
the poetry of 90210
Kelly: I don't know what it is about the Santa Anas but I haven't been myself all day. Maybe it's not the Santa Anas, maybe I'm just nervous about being with you.
Dylan: You know in the middle east they have winds, they're called the sherakas. They blow across the northern desert of Africa and while these winds are blowing, if you kill somebody, they won't even try to punish you.
Kelly: Sort of like temporary insanity.
Dylan: Kind of like the heat of passion. Sort of like a full moon. Our bodies are full of so much water that gravity starts pulling on us in ways that we don't even realize. It's like a tide rising.
[KISS.]
bookzilla
The first review of Girl Power is out. The book doesn’t come out until February, so expect to hear much, much more about this.
my '90s mind never stops working for you
I drove by Le Cubain today but misread is as Le Cobain and for a second there I was SO INTRIGUED. Obviously the universe is telling me I need to combine my greatest interests and open a French/grunge themed restaurant.
really epic george michael profile
“What’s a typical day in the life of George Michael? The common perception is that he gets up late in the afternoon, gets stoned and goes cruising. Rubbish, he says. ‘The handful of times a year it’s bloody warm enough, I’ll do it. I’ll do it on a nice summer even–ing. Quite often there are campfires up there. It’s a much nicer place to get some quick and...
Dear Portland, NEVER CHANGE. Love, Marisa
There’s a new girl friendly sex toy shop in Portland called She Bop*. Of course, right?
(*I was somewhere in my late teens when I figured out this song was about masturbation.)
I would be tearing my hair out over this cheetah article, except I just got a blowout and I’m trying to make it last as long as possible.
Okay:
“Not so the cheetah, who hopes that her victim will find something in her searching eyes when he rolls over the next morning, and will try to subtly guilt him into another round next time they meet”
and
Angela would like to do the...
“When I was in New York I would walk to the train in the morning through the snow listening to Brian Wilson sing about California, and it made me happy. So I decided that I wanted to make music that reflected that happiness,” she says. “I wanted to tell the world how obsessed I am with California.”
Via.
My interest in hearing homesick Californians talk about California is...