Oren Lavie – Her Morning Elegance This music video is happiness defined! I want to live in this world forever. I’m checking out more from Oren Lavie on lala.com as we speak. Via the Less Accounting e-newsletter.
My brother is planning a trip to NYC and just sent me a link to the Hudson Hotel in Hell’s Kitchen. I checked out the “visual tour,” and the interiors are blowing me away. Designed by Phillippe Starck and Ian Schrager and opened back in 2000, the Hudson’s look accomplishes exactly the pairing of ornamented [...]
Polyvore is beautiful and magical. Choose from separates and accessories to create perfect outfits. Even text and textures to make art! (I may or may not be working on a mumu haiku.) You’ll LOVE it. (Almost as much as I would love to receive these Minnetonka fringe boots for my birthday. Size 8.)
I ate a bug yesterday. Yep! A month or two ago, I’m not sure I would have… but now eating bugs is hot. Thanks to David Gracer for enlightening us! I totally dug my salt-and-lime dehydrated grasshoppers from Mexico: A nice smoky flavor and very manageable texture. Chocolate-covered would be even better. Note the sexiness [...]
Brief digression here, but I’ve been thinking about resolutions. Rather than making cliche statements about how we wish we were different, let’s really do something this year. (I’d say “get off our butts and,” but there happens to be no standing up required.) 2008 New Year’s Revolutions: New, improved and delivered straight to your Inbox! [...]
Priced from low to high, may I present . . . MY gift list! Because the best gifts are those we want ourselves, oui? $1+: iTunes gift cards No jewel cases or cross-country transportation required. (On the receiving end, I plan to immediately purchase Cat Power: The Greatest, Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Fever to Tell, Blonde [...]
As if you needed any excuse to let your facial folicles loose, Men’s Vogue writer Amanda Brooks is on a mission to bring back what she calls “uptown beards” — the well-groomed like. Check out her collection of vintage chin strap pics on her blog “In Her Eyes.” And who could resist the Paul Newman [...]
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