I've Got Mail

I feel like I haven't posted anything fun in a long time! When I did become so dry and serious?! >< My copy of Acne paper came a while ago but I had no time to fully read and appreciate it until school was cancelled Monday. Rookie Mag came in the mail today just in time for halloween :D

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

This halloween has been substantially better than last year's. At least there's no snow. At least there's still freakin' power and heat. There has no been damage so far from Hurricane Sandy Frankenstorm this year around these parts; we were all terrified it would have been Snowpocalypse 2011 redux all over again. This year I watched Carrie (1976) on HBOGo, drank honey vanilla chamomile tea (so delish that I just might never drink English Breakfast again), avoided watching Downton Abbey ever since that dreadful episode five of season three (damn you Julian Fellowes, I have yet to recover *shakes fists*) but missing it so I'm watching BBC's The Country House Revealed instead, all the while very safe and warm inside. Though I lucked out in being relatively unaffected by Hurricane Sandy, there are still many who have (poor professors who have to commute from their powerless houses in CT included). My heart goes out to those are who affected and hopefully all will recover very soon from this.

The Conditioning of the Female Consumer

Welcome to the second installment of my "Curating + Collecting" series I started a few weeks ago. Class was cancelled today thanks to Hurricane Sandy, freeing up time for me to blog again :) For those also on the Eastern seaboard, stay safe, warm and dry!

Amy Adams + Band of Outsiders

I am not usually one for celebrity worship, but if I had to pick an actress today that I really admire it would be Amy Adams. She took my heart in ever since watching her in Miss Pettigrew Lives in a Day with Frances McDormand––she's just so talented on all fronts in both singing and acting. I did not have the chance to watch her in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Masters yet, but hopefully I will get the chance to over Thanksgiving break or something. Sharing Band of Outsider's campaign has become something of a tradition (now-ish?) on the blog and I thought these were so much fun. Some pieces in the new collections (think Spring 2013) that were a hit or miss, nevertheless on the whole Band of Outsiders is still pushing all the right buttons for me.

If you were wondering about the continuation of "Curating + Collecting" series, no worries everything's coming along though I'm still working at it. It was easy churning out that first piece – throwing down the gauntlet if you will – but it's quite another to consider the different topics you want to talk about but also the chronology and how they would relate and flow from one to the next. I'm probably over-thinking it a little however more thought and care can never hurt. Thank you for the thoughtful comments that many of you have left on the piece and letting me know that I'm not alone in thinking that something needs to change. The amount of attention is received is significant for a little site like mine. Again to reiterate, if someone would like to contribute to the series, please feel free to email me.

See the rest of the campaign on Boy. by Band of Outsiders