Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogs. Show all posts

Sunday, March 30, 2008

Brainwashed
















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?

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Ladies

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.