i got life.

                                                                          my doppelgänger has been found. holy holy.

this is the packaging image for a 1970s butterick embroidery transfer. i'm not ashamed to admit that i have an almost identical shirt which i found at the salvation army when i was 14 and wore with pride (mine actually donned an array of retro mushrooms, yes it did). 


i wish it were still cool for a man to sport a hand-embroidered palm tree on his groin. 

ira glass is to my adulthood what bob ross was to my childhood; sometimes a voice just feels like home. 

                                                                                                                     via the sartorialist

                                                                                ohhh, to look like audrey horne...

                                                                            want. need. must have. maine coon.

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                                                                    good grief. 
                                                            please, no more snow.

pshh, no thanks chaser knock-off, i scored myself a real guy last week (and for $45 less). thank you buffalo exchange for fulfilling all of my vintage hopes and dreams. and a nod to you too, david lee roth.

why oh why must fashion continue to exploit the most bewitching of animals? butterflies, the owl...i believe deer had a moment there, specifically with jewelry. antlers & feathers too, all be they mere accessories of animals themselves (no pun intended). then generally, the "put a bird on it" phenomenon (and i do admit i have a silk blouse with miniature swallows adorning it that i regrettably have an aversion to). and now the fox. oh dear, the fox. i remember the only time i had ever seen one growing up; i was driving on the darkened back roads of rural connecticut. i came to a hault to watch a stark white fox slowly cross my path. it looked at me. it was beautiful. but harper's bazaar has deemed foxes to be "the fashion fauna of the season." i'm sorry, but this sentence nauseates me. as much as i love the look of the deyrolle pour opening ceremony full-length dress seen here (retailing at $360.00), my heart pangs with a wee bit of sadness that another of the animal kingdom will now lose its sense of magic by being overly manipulated and beaten to a pulp, all in the name of fashion. all i can say now is pleaseplease don't take my bison from me!

david lynch's hair inspired by famous works of art

sweet dreams

homehomehome

                                                                                                                                    via old chum

one day i want a family and a family of boots to line up by the door.

look what you've done to me, radio flyer.

buffalo jumps; occurring as early as 12,000 years ago. for the purpose of native americans procuring sufficient food supply to sustain through the winter months, herded bison would be driven over the edge of steep cliffs. if not killed, their legs were likely broken from the fall, leaving them in the debilitated state which would allow for tribe members to thus finish the "hunt" with their bows & arrows.

empanadas de plátano macho con queso, camarón con pulpo, y sangria. muchas gracias tu y yo, and thank you jolena for being born.

happy sunday

holy holy

Paul Simon to play the Citi Wang Theatre

Boston Music Spotlight, Staff

Paul Simon has revealed plans for a spring tour in support of his forthcoming album, So Beautiful or So What. The tour will conclude in Massachusetts with a show at the Citi Wang Theatre in Boston on Wednesday, June 1. Tickets, which range in price from $55 to $115, go on sale Saturday at noon through Telecharge.

So Beautiful or So What, Simon’s twelfth studio effort and first in five years, will hit stores on  April 12. Produced by Phil Ramone and Paul Simon, with liner notes written by Elvis Costello, the album is one of the most highly anticipated releases of the year. Fans can get a taste of So Beautiful or So What with the album’s lead single, “The Afterlife”, which is streaming below.

Fans attending the Boston can expect a diverse set list of material including greatest hits and new songs off So Beautiful or So What, as well several songs that haven’t been performed live in many years.

Simon’s backing band on this tour will include Cameroonian guitarist Vincent Nguini, drummer Jim Oblon, pianist Mick Rossi, saxophonist/keyboardist Andrew Snitzer, bassist Bakithi Kumalo, guitarist Mark Stewart, master percussionist Jamey Haddad and multi-instrumentalist Tony Cedras.

In related news, Simon will appear two consecutive nights, April 6 and 7, on NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

still from the documentary film wildwood, nj, 1994

urban outfitters, 2011

now, i love me the resurrection of heinously fun early nineties trends, be they navajo prints, granny boots, denim cutoffs, lace, cutouts, crucifixes or crystals. but pardon me old-fashioned for seeing this and only feeling gypped for the schmuck who purchases a partial shirt. there was a drunken incident that occurred in 1990 with a cracked out jersey girl and a pair of scissors; this was an unfortunate event that should remain in the past (along with the one that led to the conception of the sleeveless turtleneck). didn't anyone see the documentary film wildwood, nj? the teenager who wore this top beat and killed a girl for shits & giggles. enough said.

happy international women's day

                                                                                                                       waldemar and max

robert & shana parkeharrison; counterpoint series, 2008

magiske

i am seriously losing it for the work of alidra alić, a contemporary jeweler based out of denmark. whimsical and unique, her pieces are stunning...as if having emerged from some peculiarly unsettling fairy tale. while some of the pieces are just plain lovely, others (particularly those from her flora line), are beautifully grotesque, having a sort of life of their own and reminding me of contorted dreams, georgia o'keeffe meets salvador dali. i am in love. also, terribly envious.

lina klingels on alexander mcqueen

give me a head with hair

let me just preface this by saying that i am fully aware of and proudly admit to my astounding nerd-dom when it comes to theater and musicals. i am unabashed in proclaiming my affinity in particular for those (or anything for that matter) consisting of hippies aplenty, donned in fringe and wildflowers and afros, high on the fumes of revolt, gyrating, and swooning in worship to the sun and moon. and thus, yet another way for me to feed the time-warp frankenstein that since age 10 has made it entirely apparent that i was born in the wrong decade.

"hair" is coming to the colonial theater in boston on March 22nd, courtesy of broadway across america. i am squealing. on the inside. shut up.

carolina in my mind

holga shots from a 2009 duck, north carolina dream. heat, brew thru, pork bbq, i do love you. august can't come soon enough. deep breaths.