hello december

The Walkmen cover "Holiday Road"

If December has to be here already, then I"m celebrating with the Walkmen.

everyday fabulous

my little Free People bag that comes with a purchase is apparently equally suitable for French Vogue to make center in their November issue

I'm going to feel more swanky than normal using it as my lunchbox this week

pretend petite

what are the chances I can fit in a Stella McCartney for kids jacket... if it's for 11 year olds... and i'm a giant woman...

looking forward to summer with Juliette Hogan

of late

I think that's the lot for now. Songs I've had playing on a loop.

Blouse - Into Black

daily tee

my friend and I are working on stupid things to put on t-shirts, one a day.

we're having a gross amount of success.

look forward to "I never saw Mulan and I don't regret it" hitting high streets soon.

image via tourist magazine

broad side

Man About Town Trailer from de jeunes gens modernes on Vimeo.

few things better than the broad back of a man

inside outside

finds from the flea market this weekend

I'll be wearing people's old lingerie as my real clothes forever

new take

it's fairly well known that I love a cover song so today I am most satisfied

image is everything

surprising campaign images for the new fragrance from Le Labo in a collaboration with Another Magazine, Another 13

Photos by Lina Scheynius

Let The Sun Shine - Labrinth

This is my warm up routine to get the day going.

mischeif champion

things from Katrin Hagen - all amazing

Mark Ronson - Somebody to Love Me

I've been singing this song solidly lately and I'm soooooo happy with this video because I want to party with Boy George too.

Although possibly the Boy George impersonator in the Wedding Singer...

Hurts - Stay

I love this! So 90's euro emotion! It's like if Take That came back wore suits from Germany.

LOVE!

one reason

I'd rant about how great Michael Bastian for Gant is but right now I'm just all about this beautiful boy.

Now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

spare room

my roommate is moving to NYC (the jerk) but the luxury it's going to allow me, if temporary, is lots more closet space and room to see allllll my stupid clothes.

so I've been daydreaming about how to spread out all my loot in the spare room. this image is fueling the fire.

via the townhouse

it started with "I could meet you in Paris"

me: what do you think I do for new years?!

Christina: snort cocaine and drink cristal?

me: don't forget the nipple pasties

they're expensive

and my elephant that takes me to all the do's

Christina: yeah of course

and the diamond studs for the elephant's toenails

me: that elephant is such an effing diva

Christina: he drinks too much cristal

me: alky

Christina: and then can’t walk straight

useless

me: i'm laughing quite hard right now

Christina: haha good

with the stupid sparkly headdress all wonky because he's pissed

me: and he's wearing a studded bra even though he's a dude

Christina: and was pissed about even before he started chinning the champagne

me: he calls his ex-girlfriend after midnight to tell her he misses her and then vomits before hanging up

Christina: vomits through his nostrils

me: and then thinks it's fun

Christina: and then wonders how he managed to get glitter in his vom

me: and poses in a fountain

Christina: if someone read this they'd think we were on mushrooms or something

me: i love thinking of an elephant standing in the middle of a fountain going WAHOOOOO and then realising he's got glitter in his puke and thaaaat's the odd bit

but he's cool with the bra and nails and stuff

Christina: and he has a really deep husky dude voice but dressed in this pink sparkly showgirl outfit

me: WAAAAHOOOOOO bleeughg ghldgkjnbjdgsg

Christina: he starts singing copacabana, and then belches down his trunk

me: in that muffledy way

and he's pointing at ladies in the crowd

winking with the elephant eyelashes

Christina: which are half hangning off

me: but he's not very good at it so it's more of a blink

Christina: theyre those fake eyelashes with big neon feathers on them

me: WHOOOOOO!

Christina: there's also a little bell attached to his tail that he keeps wiggling in a coquettish manner at passers by

me: he's a big lush is our elephant

Christina: whats his stage name?

me: Bubbles the Burlesque Pachyderm

Christina: And his real name is Reggie.

me: he's always felt emasculated by his real name Reginald Tittsworth

Christina: Not least because his older two brothers and his father are all weight-lifting headline act elephants in the circus

but an injury as a baby means he's unable to lift anything heavier than a feather duster with his trunk

so he's incorporated the french maid act into his routine

much to the ridicule of his family

me: but there is NO ONE who can shimmy like Reg

Christina: his mother secretly stitches together his outfits in the dead of night

trawling the audience seats in the circus big top for stray sequins that have come off the other performers clothing

me: this is like the scariest version of dumbo ever

Christina: i know

its dumbo vs. priscilla queen of the desert

me: that is horridly accurate

Christina: reggie the big pimping pachyderm

I have the opening bars of YMCA in my head for some reason

me: because of our story of the closeted elephant

Christina: poor reg

It’s hard to be in the closet when you're an elephant

i can see Disney Pixar really buying into this tale

me: big time

you made your fortune writing the screenplay about an elephant that was secretly gay

had a drinking problem

and had a french maid sidekick

Benjamin Francis Leftwich - Atlas Hands

ready for weekend adventures. i've got an atlas in my hands.

saharan gazelle boy - strange teen heart

needed this at the tail end of a big fat brutal week

my boyfriend

James Franco is my faaaaavourite and he keeps getting better. Terry really brought out the best in him.

Great feature about him in the NY Times here

the matchbook registry

I'm in love with this blog that is simply a collection of matchbooks.

I had a secret collection of matchbooks and then my mother found them, declared them a fire hazzard, and that was that...

BARBRA STREISAND

When you've got to get it done at 7am and you need a little inspiration, house music and coffee. House music and coffee. House music and coffee.

BARBRA STREISAND!

blind leading the blind

very seriously considering these as my next frames

I can't possibly let people know who I am after all. I already have the fake first name, I just need the eyewear.

by matt singer and selima

get your suntan while you still can

Steven Alan Spring 2011 Video: Mixed Doubles from Steven Alan on Vimeo.

When I had a two second conversation with Steven Alan I think I was the most starstruck I ever have been. I have a seriously creative crush on this man.

if that animal had an antagonistic relationship with humans and was vying with those humans for the favor of a Catholic God

I got this set of sketches by David Eggers last week and it's hard not to put one in ever room and make it creepy animal overkill.

See more here and pick up It Is Right To Draw Their Fur

Deerhunter - Hellicopter

Jon Hopkins - Vessel

this is my "serenity now" now

The Vaccines - If You Wanna

This song is so much fun! And they have NOTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD YOU CAN LISTEN TO.

Get with it Vaccines! I want moooooore!

anatomy 101

I love my Manhattan print form Ork and given my obsession with the mind this new brain print may need to join the fold.

i'm still here

am I crazy to want to own this poster?

a wash

August was by all means manic. Between a very very hectic work schedule and an equally hectic "holiday" that meant juggling the days and managing the hours as they came.

but at least I got this in

Kele - Everything You Wanted

bye bye summer

Naked and Famous - Young Blood

Lord Huron and his band are coming to knock you out

I have come to speak with you about your daughter.
She's no girl, she's a woman sir. If she wants to go and see the world she oughtta.
You have kept her here for twenty years alone.
But I'll have you know she's fully grown, and she sure knows just what she wants, my god.

If you won't allow her leaving I must take her.
I'm seeing red and I'd kill you dead if you tried to keep her here, no you can't make her.
You imagine that she's just as pure as ever.
But I have been known to shake her bones yeah we've been known to shudder and moan together.

I am not the problem. You are.

I love her. She loves me. I thought you should know.

take a listen here

too too touitou

via vain and vapid

Michael Crowe

with work like shush party and kinder poems I have fallen deeply in word love with Michael Crowe

five little words

new exhibit of swearing & friendship at Londonewcastle Project Space in London on the super hip Redchurch Street, my new spiritual home.

opens TODAY

Gauntlet Hair - I Was Thinking

GAUNTLET HAIR // I was thinking... from caitlin mcnichols on Vimeo.

this is musical catharsis for me today

let it be said

who hearts maison martin margiela

somerset house does

Summer Camp - Round the Moon

SUMMER CAMP - Round the Moon from Paddy Power on Vimeo.

Richard Wilson 20:50

Visiting Richard Wilson's room of engine oil in the old Saatchi gallery many years ago was one of the greatest piece of modern art I'd ever seen, still ever seen. I headed into the walkway with no idea what the room was about, only that it was mirrored, to have the attendant freak out at me and tell me not to touch anything. As it was a room FILLED WITH OIL.

I was very happy to see its new home in the Saatchi space off the Kings Road this morning but they currently aren't letting you walk into the wedge. I felt pretty privileged to have been able to experience the piece as it should be, in the middle of a lake that is both totally black and empty but dizzyingly filled with twice the room all at the same time.

A definite must see all the same. And I love that it's ominously housed in Gallery 13.

where you'll find me

praying that the umbrella is not needed much

illustration by Blanca Gomez

Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr - Nothing But Our Love

dog days

little bit of my july

it was a goodie