what a week it was

Some key moments from the week(s) gone by:

Raowl Julia (Laia, you genius), Hunter, HDS- my three favorite guys.

Everything you'll ever need.

Circle circle, dot dot.

Cats!

This cake is a donut. (I know)

Hunter's portrait of my janky thumb. It looks like a doll hand. Or a 90s album cover.

Denim on denim on denim! New favorite. Plus the ever present red clogs, obvi. Which I realize NEED their own post! Ew, my legs look terrible here. Like a pigeon toed troll. WHOOPS.

someone told me that i like to roll deep

The captured moments of the past few days.


WHITE LIGHTNING, iPad steez


I think I heard of this once and it had nothing to do with soft serve.


Chicken, the number one Mexican in my life


Chloé doc boots redux, now in heavy rotation


THE BREAD ISN'T BREAD, IT'S FRIED CHICKEN. Ask Hunter, this was his idea.


I myself am quite partial to Wizard Peanut...you?

i wore a cape and they all thought i was weird

I am in Florida.

I am trying to blend in by donning the garb of the indigenous peoples.

Seriously: between the 70s housedress, my dad's black dress socks & the 70s sandals, I could probs slip into the Red Robin for an earlybird dinner around 3 PM and no one would really know. I'll tell them that the reason I have such luminous pearl-colored unwrinkled skin is that I have Benjamin Button disease and I am really 107 years old and when I was a girl Grover Cleveland was President.

Also? It's warm here. How's that snow, New Yawk?

marshmallow quicksand

I like these things.

IT'S SWALLOWING ME ALIVE

1  Impossibly yellow tights (I wish they represented better on film. They are shocking, really.) from Topshop ($1 clearance?! What's wrong with you, New York? YOU DON"T WANT THESE?)
2   Peter Benchley's The Deep (When Hunter reads it to me. In the dark.)
3  A VHS copy of The House of the Devil (see it see it see it)
4  White Lightning original paper feather fascinator
5  Marshmallow cloud duvet
6  Having my bf take blog photos. Except he's kinda bossy. Don't tell him I said that.

random details

If you are not all familiar with Arielle De Pinto,you should be. We first met at the infamous crafternoon at Keren's house, the one where I made a giant hair bow out of hair to match my hair. Yah , that one.

A brief reenactment of our meeting:
ME: "So..what are you doing right there, exactly?"

ARIELLE:"Crocheting metal chain into amazing necklaces and facemasks and body drapings. And what is that thing in your hand again?"

ME: "Oh, cool. This? This is 2 dollar hair from the Dominican hair supply store. I am going to make a giant hairbow out of it to wear out in public. On my own head."

AND SO WE BECAME FRIENDS.


silver n gold crocheted arielle de pinto pouch jangle / nirvana croptop / philip lim 3.1 shinygold skirt



The best thing about this lil pouch is that it fits my tiny comb perfectly (supes necessary to keep bangs in line).



Everybody wants to get in on this action.



Pam Grier likes to wear it all the time. Bitch is always borrowing my shit.

pig in da city

I know you all have your countdown clocks at the READY, one week until I am ONE YEAR OLDER. Please stop wracking your brains, I have your gift right here:



MICRO PIGS! TEENY TINY TEACUP PIGLETSSSSSSS!

I mean, you guys...
MICRO PIGS!

Did you HEAR ME?

IT'S A PIG. and it fits in a TEACUPPPPPPPP!


Please meet Kurt Cobacon & King Vitamin.* Now GET IN THAT TEACUP.

Shit is BLOWIN UP.
I used to want a teepee. I used to want to live in one and stay there forever, wearing animal skins and smoking weed out of earth bongs but shit went too VIRAL- you can get one at Opening Ceremony in Tokyo and I saw teepee TATTOOS in Portland. PLAYED OUT, suckas.

But POCKET PIGLETS?
Mark my words dudes, those are the new TEEPEE.

Last weekend I saw a pig race at the NC state fair and I fell in hardcore likeylike with a potbellied piglet named #5 (Hunter said his name was Last Place. I don't care!)..he was so mellow and cool, ran the race and sauntered up the ramp back to his pen like, "Whatevs you guys, I didn't want those prize Cheetos anyways. What's on Bravo?".

It's in the ETHER. PIGS ARE IT!

PS *I can't take credit for the genius of the names. Whatevs, HUNTER..be smarter than me WHY DON'T YOU.

PPS I will mos def still eat bacon. Is that fucked?

gatorz

Ok, i am not one to go all craytown on a weird logo situation, but this is just wayyyyyy too whatinthewhat not to be a little bit psyched on.

The Campana brothers, who make furniture out of stuffed animals and assorted other crazy shit, have done a shirt for Lacoste?

They made the wearable version of their Alligator chair, which looks like THIS:


and turned it into a shirt that looks a lil sumthin like THIS:



i MEAN...I don't want to lie to you all, as we are all BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE..I think this is sick. I want to wear it. I want to TOUCH it.

And just for our Friday afternoon edification of crazy things to put yr fine ass on to:

TEDDY BEAR CHAIR & FLUFFY SHARK ATTACK



For the record: I would like my dining room to be a filled with these amazanariums. (Can i make them? what a DOPE crafternoon this would be...)

I would like to sit on squishy sharks and eat bermuda triangle pizza with hot pepper flakes and talk about nothing. Sidenote, this is making me hungry. I need to find good pineapple pizza round here. Sidenote to the sidenote: I need to also find a dining room.

new bffs

rainy days are slightly less enjoyable when you are in a house without a teevee..does that make me a philistine? (mabes. care? nopes.) i mean..i read a book today (true story!) but i would rather've watched a true life marathon?



in a bag packed for only 4 days, this combination existed. i am clearly deranged.



please welcome The Senator, making her international debut as my spiritual & governmental advisor. she likes to chill as close as possible to me at all times.



i think these tights are from the sockman, the dress is free people (it has pockets. my weakness). the mess on the floor is all my VERY IMPORTANT THINGS.



the senator made a bed out of my clothes last night. i think she's in love with me? sorry senator, my heart belongs to another. (booze. JK! it's weed. JKJKJK, it's shopping? ew, totally JK. twist: i don't have a heart!)

nothing really happens in my secret life

fun with fashion, V mag peel off sunglasses edition!
WHO WORE IT BEST?

Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta:



olga:



david byrne ?



charlize?



ScarJo?



anthony kiedis?



white lights?
i tried and failed, colorforms don't stick to pasty white faces too well. mabes that's why ga is so TANNED UP on the cover:



not...really...working....



fuck it, stick it to the mirror and make a hairbow outta that shit. we call this CREATIVITY and HOMAGE. (my parents would call this 'do you have a job yet')



ps white lightning tee in the house! I LOVE IT SO MUCH. duhvs, already made it a croptop

goop

white brogues + wetted up dirt = instant saddle shoes

ready for this jelly (destiny's child puns!!)

went to the aquarium in baltimore..I LIVE FOR A JELLYFISH EXHIBIT, dudes. i love those freakytown things!

is it demented that i have a really nice and expensive LUMIX but i usually prefer the camera on my iphone? it makes everything look like a still from a 1970s jacques cousteau documentary:



i really want to print this photo on fabric and make dresses like the christopher kane resort ones:



jellyfish look like atom bombs.
and i want to wear them on my person.

how can i do this?! I NEED JELLYFISH BOMB CUT OUT DRESSES AND I NEED IT NOWWWWW.

ps more jelllies & that city wolf cover of "where is my mind" that i can't get out of my head over on the tumblr. happy wednesday, brahs.

be my friend?

this photo is apropos of nothing:



now that i have your ATTENTION, can you just become a fan of WHITE LIGHTNING on facebook?
yaaaaaay theenks, love you, you're the bestest

space needlez

who says i got no culture? went to the seattle art museum yesterday.


that's me in the middle, dark n mysterious. nerd.

their modern & contemporary art was kinda cool, i enjoyed myself.
oh and there are mirrors to take eerie pictures in inside the "old plates room".

in this city of seattle there are very attractive men with tattoos that throw fish around.
i am unclear as to the actual point.

ps:
everything i know about seattle i learned from singles & the real world (irene face slap! anyone?)
off to find a citizen dick tee shirt (which would be the best gift i could give brendan ever, probs)



a compliment for us, is a compliment for you

class act

yes, this is a donut covered in maple glaze and bacon.
yes, the next one i try will be covered in cap'n crunch.
yes, portland is a land of dreams.

don't even bang unless you plan to hit something

this apartment rules when it's totally empty. should i feel more sad about leaving it?



shit i do when i'm alone. nerd.


yeah i'm wearing a mood ring..jealous?!

i did a bad thing.
and i am a terrible liar.
so if you ask me where i got these see by chloe dopeass dries-y sneaker wedges, i will say I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT..and run away.



found this shirt in the purge. i used to wear it a lot in 2003. umm...yeah. i have too many things.
shop yr closet!! (says the thrift addict)


madonna's performance of vogue on the 1990 mtv music awards..SO AMAZING!

was running movies on mute all day yesterday during the sale (tenenbaums & lebowski, obvs) and then steve was like, WHY ARE YOU SELLING THIS IMMACULATE COLLECTION DVD?
and we watched it.
and the videos are so sick.
and its HYPNOTIZING.
and it may have been the fault of the wine and the veuve clicquot and the rosé but..madonna seems cool to me again?

i have to give a billion thanks to steve & kat & adf & tbonz for hanging with me all day long ad keeping it hilarz up in 240.

ps, blast this song today! ONE NINE NINE NINE

jangle tangle

holy hell dudes, i have SO MUCH STUFF. i am on the midst of life purge 09 and i am reallllly trying to MINIMIZE (ebay sellage coming this weekend, watch this SPACE for info...)

anyways.
i am getting down to the BARE ESSENTIALS of what stays and what goes.
these 2 are on the permanent STAY list 4 life, obviarse (spanish, what?).



FENDI PADLOCK- that shit is bonafide, realdeal holyfield. they gave them away at some party years ago and my friend chris gave me his (as a real friend SHOULD). the key is on yet another jangle somewhere in the abyss.

and this? oh, nothing, just my pot leaf–i ching–yin yang–teenytiny POCKETKNIFE, no bigs.
a few years ago there was an old dude on grand street near dave and brendan's old apartments that sold these for 25 CENTS. no joke. i've got an eagle and a jesus somewhere as well.

i wear this to work and i wonder why they don't take me seriously.

what i do when i'm supposed to be doing other things

my most recent foray into irritating my pals the fashion department..i tried on the following 2 items in the past week or so:



1. black walter van bierendonck crazyface tee (which was basically an epic teeshirt dress, and sort of DIY-able?). i want. so bad!
EDIT omg graham is so right, it's totally MIGHTY BOOSH fashion! amaze.

2. miu miu pre-fall black velvet and superchunk wooden platform heels with ankle strap. so so cute. so so HEAVY. not really something i could see myself actually walking anywhere in? but adorbz fer sure.

also super awesome but too teeny to try: vena cava for via spiga (!) moire satin (ish?) black oxfords with studs on the back. i think you want them.