The Delicate Mink

Starry Starry Nights

2008-10-09T15:59:00.011-04:00

Ann Demeulemeesterr

“The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin depths grow the everlasting flowers sent by telegraph. In the vaults below the river bed the gold ingots. A desert glittering with mica and the telephone loudly ringing.

In the early evening, when death rattles the spine, the crowd moves compact, elbow to elbow, each member of the great herd driven by loneliness; breast to breast towards the wall of self, frustrate, isolate, sardine upon sardine, all seeking the universal can opener.”

Henry Miller, Black Spring (1936)

Lilac Wine is Sweet and Heady

2008-10-09T10:02:00.005-04:00

Three As Four

A Slap in the Face of Public Taste

2008-10-09T09:41:00.003-04:00

Ooooo Swish Darling, we are almost there...

Shake It

2008-04-12T14:15:00.005-04:00

This is possibly the last Polaroid picture of me or my family. Our neighbour Kat took it. My daughter will be able to say that she was born so long ago that there is a Polaroid of her. Get your film while it's still out there!
We are off to sunny Barcelona - see you in May.

Brainwashed

2008-03-30T11:06:00.011-04:00

Has your computer ever told you to do something? I kept on getting a little note off the side of my cursor, not even when I was on the net, to go to www.fashionmission.nl, so I did. Okay, I could get lost here and waste so much of my precious time on blogs, and I did. I especially liked the street style section where you can pour through party photos from NY, LA & Paris, like the one of above of Lou Doillon from Cobra Snake. Well I am a mama now, so maybe these nightlife photos are a bit more enticing to me.
Speaking of brainwashing...I had a dream that I was applying gold and black shadow to my eyes ( I know, I have a deep & troubled inner life!) It was very sensual and beautiful and I woke thinking, I need to get me some. I never went on the hunt but I came across a blog where this woman describes going on the hunt herself for Chanel's new gold & black eyeshadow duo to find that they are sold out everywhere. Am I tapped in so to speak, to these trifles of the beauty industry or somehow brainwashed as my boyfriend proposes?

Blondie at 21

2008-03-15T22:11:00.007-04:00

A woman of valor who can find ? Her price is far above rubies.
Proverbs 31:10

Blondie

2008-03-06T09:14:00.012-05:00

Gertrude "Blondie" Fram
1914 - 2008

Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother
Pianist
Teacher
Book Lover
Feminist
Matriarch
Sage

My fondest memory of my Gran is crawling into bed with her in the morning while she read James and the Giant Peach to me eating toast and anchovy paste. I will forever miss her...

Paris Rocks!

2008-02-26T13:58:00.008-05:00

Maison Martin Margiela

Balmain

All photos style.com

Wit in Winter

2008-02-13T14:09:00.008-05:00

I was going through some old photos and came across this one from the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh.
Ah, to be alone in Pittsburgh in the dead of winter. It feels just like this picture. Poor Andy. At least there is his museum for those of us who happen to find themselves there on business. The thing about museums is that these balloons are supposed to be floating around some debauched party not an empty sunlit room.The thing about Pittsburgh is that it has that feeling that many American cities have, that it used to be grand. I personally found it kind of creepy spotted here and there with some perfectly wonderful people. I mean, it's quite pretty, especially when I had to haul my ass back there the following summer but I experienced some sinister situations in the suburbs that to expound upon would only soil and sully your thoughts. Seriously.
Anyways, Andy Warhol... I read his book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From a to B and Back Again. I'll be your B. What a wit, but we all know that. I wish I had it on hand to extract some quotes, but here are some of the best ones from the book and other places just cause.

Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.

I like boring things.

I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

The New Woody Allen

2008-02-11T08:27:00.000-05:00

I must admit I am a little out of touch. Since giving birth 9 months ago I have not stepped into a movie theatre, amongst other places. I just rented 2 Days in Paris. Yes!! Paris does smell like lamb! I couldn't quite put my finger on it... I love Julie Delpy. Not only is the film funny and unpretentious but manages to be realistic and whimsical at the same time. Besides writing and directing she also writes and performs some of the film's music. A must see for couples.

Fall 2008 RTW Wish List

2008-02-10T23:03:00.000-05:00

Jovovich-Hawk

L'Wren Scott

Threeasfour

all photos Style.com

Southern Gothic

2008-02-10T22:19:00.000-05:00

I finally started reading Flannery O'Connor - A Good Man is Hard to Find & Other Stories.

umm... terrifying, I didn't know what hit me. I'd thought them to be witty and sardonic until the savagery began. I do love the dripping southern colloquialisms - and the character names - June Star, Bevel, Pointer. In an odd way theses stories remind me of J.D Salinger's Nine Stories. The precocious children, alcoholic mothers and bitter endings.

Scientology Protest Toronto

2008-02-10T21:19:00.001-05:00

Scientology Protest Toronto (13 of 21)
Originally uploaded by anewname
Anonymous hackers are trying to close shop on Scientology.... yesterday there were protests here in Canada

The Beekeeper on Mars

2008-01-29T19:45:00.000-05:00

Is it a female sasquatch, a naked alien or a Victorian beekeeper in peril?
Infuriating fun is trying to find the figure in the original panoramic view from NASA.
BTW, the image is already four years old, and I really have no perception of its scale.

Ladies

2008-01-24T08:49:00.000-05:00

People are always telling me that I would love LA - in the same way that they might not care for a movie but think I would love it - thanks. I haven't been yet but there is an invitation to a very luxe wedding in May, may be difficult with the baby...
Anyways, while doing a search for Flannery O'Connor I came across these two bloggers - Tarnished Lady & The Moldy Doily - who would be my ideal friends if I lived in LA. They represent to me the combo of smarts with the I don't take myself to seriously mystical magicality fun of an invented oasis.

I was searching for Flannery O'Connor as I read an excellent quote by her (pointed out by my friend Heather M) in our last book club book Out: "The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience..."

The book Out was a gory but good read, I would not have picked it out or read any crime fiction if it weren't for book club (why I love book club). I now feel as though I too have been a dreary woman working in a depressing boxed lunch factory in Japan who has both murdered and been an accomplice to murder - Natsuo Kirino is good with the details.

bird

2008-01-23T21:25:00.000-05:00

Sign on Lobb Ave.

2008-01-10T18:38:00.000-05:00

Benches of Liberty Street

2008-01-10T15:39:00.000-05:00

One Blue Shoe

2008-01-09T19:39:00.001-05:00

The Dress

2008-01-08T15:01:00.002-05:00

My favourite vintage Gunne Sax dress that is pulled out summer after summer and always seems to fit just right also belongs to my favourite singer - Joanna Newsom. Incroyable!

Babil & Bijou

2008-01-07T15:48:00.001-05:00

a Faery Operetta...

Falling Water

2006-09-03T11:33:00.000-04:00

When in Pennsylvania don't forget to pay respect to Falling Water

Clean

2006-09-02T16:14:00.000-04:00

The Beautiful & Mysterious Dead of Paris

2006-09-02T14:47:00.000-04:00