birkin

happy birthday, icing!

in honor of icing's two year anniversary here is a few of my favorite outfits gala has worn over the past year or so:

easy rider

goodbye my love

captured: 02.03.07

this totally blows. sparks is dead. even though i haven't had a sparks in ages i'm going to miss it. it used to be my favorite drink. i have about a million pictures of my with it or with a orange tongue from it.
i'm going to go out & stock up. hopefully there's some left. captured: 08.25.07 by kanan kids

la passion de jeanne d'arc

this is a scene from vivre sa vie but the full version of la passion de jeanne d'arc can be found here.

a few of my favorite things: 24oz of corona

so far i've been this has been the only thing i've bought since i've turned 21.

birthday presents

my boy buys the best presents ever, it's because he knows me better than anyone. for my bday he got me (a bunch of stuff i don't deserve):

he upgraded my old, banged up macbook to a brand new aluminum one.

aa fingerless gloves

aa tie dye shirt in stingray (on the chick online it looks purple but the guy's picture is more accurate because it's actually a very nice grey)

he fixed my poor little koala, which he got for my birthday 2 years ago but the loop on his head had broken off

& a gift certificate to miss la de da's (just ignore how tacky their website is) which is the best place in the world for vintage jewelery, their collection is just overwhelming .

my beast will fuck you up

captured: 12.06

wishlist: the outlaw bible of...

(american poetry)

(american essays)

(american literature)

dinosauria, we

his voice is so hypnotic.

4 more days

till i can legally drink all the jager i want.
me on my birthday last year. (i swear i'm not picking my nose - that's my friend's hand.)captured: 12.13.08 after lots of vodka

the love song of j. alfred prufrock

read by t.s. eliot
this is my favorite high school teacher's favorite poem. i would have loved the poem regardless but listening to her recite it from memory with such passion made me love it even more.

lulue & your mom: fur & black

(lulu and your mom)

god, everything about this is way too perfect. now i'm convinced that i need those aa pants.

coffin coat

(drop snap via sea of shoes)

sweeeeet coat.

donyale lune

"I learned that I like to live, I like to make love, I really do love somebody, I love flowers, I love the sky, I like bright colors, I like animals."
-donyale luna

jean seberg in a fedora

this girl is the epitome of cuteness, just all around perfect.

the anatomy of bones

(via morbid anatomy)

death of a salesman

Biff: "Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway in the hot mornings in the summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella. And still - that's how you build a future."
- arthur miller's death of a salesman 1949

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a few of my favorite things: jägermeister

das ist des jägers ehrenschild,
daß er beschützt und hegt sein wild,
weidmännisch jagt, wie sich’s gehört,
den schöpfer im geschöpfe ehrt.

man of constant sorrow

great-grandmother

san francisco is in my blood. my grandmother was born there, she lived through the san francisco earthquake of 1906.

6 reasons mustahce are sexy awesome

jezebel wrote an article on 6 reasons why mustaches are not sexy, i completely disagree (i also think that eugene hutz & jason lee look hot with 'staches). while mustaches aren't my favorite type of facial hair (beards!), some facial hair is always better than no facial hair in my opinion. here's 6 reasons why 'staches are sexy...or at the very least totally awesome:

6. sasha baron cohen as borat

5. friedrich nietzsche
4. salvador dalí


3. dennis hopper in easy rider
2. jesse f. keeler from death from above 1979

1. daniel day lewis as bill the butcher & daniel plainview
more on mustaches:

• american mustache institute
• world beard & mustache championships
  
• mustaches of the 19th century
• mustaches on flickr
  

haircut

captured: (long) 05.31.07
(medium) 06.23.08
(short) 09.09.07
i need advice on how i should cut my hair...any suggestions? post some pictures of suggestions, please?

bicycles

(life: two women riding their bicycles)

the snuggie

fucking ridiculous. they look like monks or jedi or something.

the kills

allen ginsberg in a photobooth

personal opinion on the big 3 bailout

my opinion: let them go bankrupt. they (the big 3 automobile manufacturers - gm, ford & chrysler) have been dying for years now. injecting taxpayer money into a corpse won't bring it back to life. these companies have been poorly managed by corrupt, money-grubbing ceo's who make more in a year than i will probably make in my entire life. why don't we ask the upper management of those corporations to reach into their deep, fat pockets & bail their own selves out? i agree with senator dodd who said these companies are "seeking treatment for wounds that are to a large extent self-inflicted". there's so many reasons as to why these companies are failing but probably one of the largest reasons is that no one wants to buy their crap. whether we like it or not we live in a capitalist society. if a product can't compete in the free market then that product needs to be changed & these companies are not willing to change. they want more money to keep on doing the same old thing that got them into the situation in the first place. the big 3's products are not desired by consumers & what about the bailout will make consumers begin to desire those products again? nothing. instead of wasting our nation's money (money that we don't actually have & a quick reminder - our country's debt is as of writing this is $10,667,681,498,581.38 - yes, that's 10.6 trillion dollars) we should be investing in creating new jobs for these workers, we should be investing in companies that are burgeoning, like companies that produce alternitive energy for example. why lend money out if we're never going to see it again? the money we're lending them will only get them through 2009. what about next year? & the year after that? maybe we can just call it a xmas present & every year we'll just give them $700 billions as a gift.
if our country likes being a capitalist country then we have to act like one. spending our nation's money on private industries is socialist & if we want to be socialists then we should just buy out one or all of the big 3 companies. then if the nation owns the company and if government can manage to save them from their impending doom then when they do start making money the money will eventually go back to where it originally came from (us, the u.s. taxpayers).
even if i thought that bailing out these automakers was a good idea, treasury paulson has broken my trust once before (remember the last bailout, the one that was called "the second-largest bait-and-switch scheme that history has ever seen, second only to the reasons given to us to vote for the invasion of Iraq". & there is no way in hell i'm going to give him the oppurtunity to break my trust again. fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me.
(on a sidenote: i'm neither a capitalist or a socialist. i'm not advocating for either. i think both have their individual pros & cons. maybe i'll talk about that more later...)
more on the big 3 bailout:

• Big 3 bailout alone won't save U.S. car industry
• Why not let Detroit's Big Three go bankrupt?
• Big 3 automakers plead for piece of the pie

captured: 11.15.08

manray

(manray)

my early teens

(captured by: jon mocey-hanton)

captured: freshman year of high school 2002
my boyfriend took this photo the first time we "met". (i'd been introduced to him once before but i didn't remember or realize that it was him until a few months? years? later.)

this song was an anthem for me. & even though the sound quality of this video is not so good, i loved it. i saw the distillers about 7 or 8 times in high school & that video captured the feeling of every show i went to (except one...it was a show with garbage & no doubt - it was bad, i left when garbage went on because they sucked & i didn't care if i saw no doubt). i loved going to shows back then, it was like a natural high.

peace

(garance doré)

facial hair types

carl sagan on god

"Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying the fall of every sparrow. Others — for example Baruch Spinoza and Albert Einstein — considered God to be essentially the sum total of the physical laws which describe the universe. I do not know of any compelling evidence for anthropomorphic patriarchs controlling human destiny from some hidden celestial vantage point, but it would be madness to deny the existence of physical laws."
- carl sagan's broca's brain 1979

set of three graphite objects

(moss online)

top 4 favorite political pundits

ok, i'll admit it - i'm addicted to the news, mainly political news. whenever i turn the tv on the first channel i (usually) go to is cnn because i know that there will be something interesting (that won't rot my brain) on (with the exception of larry king) and, in my opinion, as far as news corporations go, cnn is the most accurate with the least amount of bullshit (ahem, fox news, rupert murdoch). the only time that i change the channel to a different news program is when i know that there is something better on. here are the four people who have television shows that make me abandon cnn. i wish i could watch them all day, every day & completely replace cnn but unfortunately their programs are only on once a day and last a half-hour or hour.

4. keith olberman
on a weird sidenote: olberman looks like my psychiatrist.

3. rachel maddow


2. steven colbert


1. jon stewart

sylvia plath

happy halloween from margot & richie

captured: 10.31.08