poppa been smooth since the days of underoos

never not awesome:


notorious b.i.g. / hypnotize

i am actually posting this over the real video which is like, a mini movie with helicopter noises and "acting" by sean "puffy p diddy puff daddy powderpuff" combs and biggie. not in the mood.

it's been hiphopanonymous overloads for me the past few days..dre, jigga, outkast, biggie.
can i take this moment to mention that jay-z in those nerd glasses at the inaugz ball gave me the funny feeling like when you climb the rope in gym class? thank you.

i can't.

i need to know so much.
first of all.
have you ever seen so much EYEWEAR in your life?
TRY IT SOMEWHERE ELSE, HARMFUL UV RAYS.

the LAYERS. the PATTERNS. so many ACCESSORIES.
this is like...brain overload.

what do karl and kanye talk about? my guesses:
moisturizer
airplane food
hand sanitizers
finding good help these days
hot stone massage
gossip girl
pedicures
the stock market

what else? tell me. i need some laughs

the lady is a tramp?

i can't ignore you any longer, lady gaga.



not that i was IGNORING you, per se, i mean..you can't walk around in underpants and homemade margiela and wear stuff on your head constantly not be on my radar.

in my mind, that bow on your head is made out of VCR tape. and so now you are recycling, and now you are A GOOD PERSON. i am feeling you.

that is....until THIS:



i mean..i know we don't know each other very well? so like...maybe you don't really know but like..me and mark? we got a special thing goin on? you call it puppy love, we call it full grown.*

if you try to mess with it, i might have to take you down.

ps, you look a lil bit like a lil kim wax sculpture.
pps mark...you look handsomeeee
ppps hi mark, hiii.

*i got deep into outkast a few days ago?..yeah i don't know either

this is as close to eco as karl gets.

best thing i have seen in a while:



paper headpieces at chanel couture 09 !!! by katsuyo kamo



fucking incredible.
get your scissors and construction paper out, dudes. make this happen!

i have en epic headcold, that's what keeps this post from having a lot more caps and/or exclamation points. sorry, charlies.

edit:
psssst...T mag used him foreverrrr ago, i had to call karl out on our blog!

pump up this jam, fer serious

everyoneeeeeee i know is fa-reaking out about the new animal collective record.
it's the same thing over and over. "i have never really been a fan but this new one is SO FUCKING GOOD".
normally i would tell them all to calm it down and take their art school weirdo rock elsewhere buuuut...what can i say? i wholeheartedly agree.

THIS IS THE JAM:


animal collective / my girls

i was up so early this morning that even the coffee places in my hood weren't open yet.

it was just snowflakes and this song on repeat and me by my lonesome walkin through the snowstorm. siiiiiiick.

ps is it me or are those triscuits and doritos flying by at the end of the video?

hold on to that feeling

you guys. ohmigod...oooomg. YOU GUYS.

I HAVE SEEN THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET ANY HIGHER.



WHAT in the WHAT.


walter van bierendonck f/w 09

DYI, OMFG, DIE, XO.

pics from nymag

the little things

fuck being cool, brahs...being cool is for haters.


last night on conan ! yaaahhh

i still get such a thrill when i see this out in the world...i made that, whaaaaat.
(sorry, nerd alert. it's ok, i'm not above getting excited about small stuff, that's what it's all about right?. siiiiiick)

my sincerest apologies

i have been so delinquent as of late, don't think i haven't realized.



GG recaps to resume post haste...

you know you love me,
xoxo/WL

from the mixed-up files of mrs. basil e. frankweiler*

a little while ago david spent an afternoon at the met shooting the band au revoir simone.



so dreamy, no?
i love the colors so much.



sidenote, WHAT IS THIS JACKET? need it, now, theeenks.
so not a question i can ask dave. he'd be like ummm, what now?

since the world is small small teensy small, i didn't realize til recently that one of the girls in the band was my cousin's roommate at parsons yearsssss ago.
everyone knows everyone, believe it.

in other music news:
the walkmen will be on conan tonight...and they're playing 'in the new year'..YESSSS.
dvr that shiz, yo!

* must read again, this weekend.

dream weaverz

ohhh whoa, i tooootally forgot to tell you guys, DREAMS DO COME TRUE, you just gotta believe.

case in point: laia was looking to unload my DREAM SHOE and we are the same size and she is awesome and sold them to me so we could finally be together. prise jah.

life is beautiful.

i felt all monochrome the other day and busted out an outfit that my friend andreas called "very third grade picture day"



i truly look like i'm eight years old.



red on red on redddddd
red corduroy jumper (the label is 'miss lizz' !! haha) thrift from forevvvvs ago, red wool APC tights, red CHLOE STOMPERS. so sick. so so sick.



crazy vint dress/tunic as shirt



i love my bedroom in the morning light. please note one of my prized possessions, my naked lady paint-by-number up there in the top right corner. dunno if you can make her out too well, but she is def in the throes of SOMETHIN. saucy!

thanks again, laia..i wear ALL THE TIME.

sundeeznuts

oohh HEY NOW dudes..the spring/summer versions of the pierre hardy for gap shoes are out..the new versions have suede straps and white wood bottoms, stop stop stoppppp! i love.

don't make me admit that i bought both of these colors. i didn't! (i did) cmonnnnn. leave me alone, it's cold out and i needed a retail high...

ayuda me

dear boobs,

clothes like these:



make me hate you in a major way.

what i MEAN is:
I WANT TO BE A SAD FORLORN SWEDISH WAIF WITH THE BODY OF AN ELEVEN YEAR OLD BOY.

when did i start lusting after chloe again?
it's so much wrong doing SO MUCH RIGHT.
(i mean, is that last dress a hospital gown crossed with middle school assembly curtains or WHAT..more importantly, why do i want to wear it SO DESPERATELY?)

good grief.
sometimes i boggle my own mind.

with a whimper in the place of a bang

i find 50% of this album to be too mellowgirly for my tastes, but dblack is big fan and it's rubbed off on me..

i think this is the best song on the record:


little joy / no one's better sake

the video is great and most of these dudes ain't too hard to look at IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.

ps..this is my second favorite song on there. sometimes i dig on the melancholy, ya know?

meeting of the mindz

soo....guess who else was in town for inaugz 09? ohhhh, just my friend tavi, powerhouse fash blogger extraordinaire. it was quite lovely to see her again.

hey now! it's us.

me & T. boots, bangs, bonkers.

obvs we had a rendezvous and hit the vintage scene.
or..correction, ATTEMPTED to. 4 places i wanted to hit were closed (not open mondays and/or MLK day, one place was only open on thursdays. wha?)

so we had to hit the only spot open and findable, some joint that has the worst name ever (sorry, but true) um..annie's cream cheese?
what the HAY-ELL kind of a name is that? for anything? except a bagel store?

anyways. we were not feeling it. the selection was alright but the prices were OUTRAGEOUS and i live in new york, yo. this shit was plain REDONKS.

how bout dual self-portraits in a funhouse mirror?





totes better than overpriced old shit any day.

well ok, we found SOMETHING to buy, duh. we were determined to take them up on buy 2 get one free, so tavz got some seriously POST LEVZ (i am beyond next levz these days) sunglasses, i got a pin, my friend melissa got a shirt.

we discussed what's up in her life (fash/bat mitzvah dress options/etc) and mine (fash/jealousy of bat mitzvah dress options/etc) and shopped for ourselves and friends (she was totes lookin out for you, arabelle!).

i wanted to convince her dad to let her be my roommate but we'd have to live in the bathtub and let our wardrobes have the rest of the apartment. that seems less than ideal, although probably worth it.

definitely one of the best parts of my trip to DC. til we meet again in another city, miss tavi...xo

speaking of hats

washington, the district of columbia. 4 AM tuesday morning.

this fur hat is the only way i made it through that cold.
well..that and obama.

holla at me, aretha!

let's get right to the point.

when you imagine me in DC yesterday, cold and high off of no sleep & democracy, please know that i lost it when i saw this situation happening:



NEXT LEVELS OF NEXT LEVEL.

back on the scene

i'm back.
i have all my digits intact although i was SURE i was gonna end up with a perma-limp on account of the FREEZING MY ASS OFF...

but it was amazing.

inaugz..tavi..GOSSIP GIRL..all updates to be done tonight

ps
i have been up before the sun 3 times in the past 4 days and i am noooooot really feeling it? umm, yeah.

pps this is the longest i have been away from my laptop in like...forever. that is both depressing and bizarre. addiction is no joke. just letting you know.

real posts laters, brahs

excuse me while i kiss the sky

WHOA DUDES.
it's waaayyy too fucking EARLYBALLS to be AWAKE on a SUNDAY. knowwhatahmsayin?

but i am because i am leaving on an amtrak to the district o columbia, ohhh you know WASHINGTON, DC.

i have no idea what the hell we are doing while i am there, besides OBAMA FREAKOUTS.
so mabes i'll be bloggin, mabes i won't? no idea.

STAY TUNED!

in the meantime, in between time, why don't you watch this?



$ 240 dollars worth of pudding

listen up, you YOUNGSTERS..when i was in my early years of high school COMEDY was called MTV'S THE STATE and it was (is) the BEST THING EVER. i have a bootlegged DVD made form a VHS and god damn if i dont watch that shit often. you may recognize them all from wet hot american summer and reno 911.

BEST SHOW EVER.

palpitationz

dear mr ghesquiere,

what.
am i .
LOOKING AT HERE?!


balenciaga pre-fall 09

IS THIS A BALENCIAGA-IZED BOAT SHOE?
a curved future wedge topsider?!??
IS THIS THE SHOE TO RULE US ALL?

NICOLAS, I NEED TO KNOW.
the only way this will be possible is to send a size 38 by first post (post that hurts the most) to white lightning headquarters.

make it happen okay THEEENKS v. v. important.

baci baci
W.L.

doin it and doin it and doin it well

last night i got my drink on with derrick, which is sort of my favorite thing to do. (not just the drinking, ya smartasses, the 'with derrick' part duhhhhh).

multiple glasses of whiskey and conversation that touched upon the following topics:
carl sagan, dante's inferno, space, romance, the romance of space, sincerity, positivity, the WPA and it's connection to hiphop and battlestar galactica.

JEALOUS? ya should be, that shit was fun. we also like to IM about 90s emo, but that's another post.

when i got home i drunk dialed brendan and had an hourlong life chat.

his new shit for bloodisthenewblack is KILLING IT, ps.



I AND I DIE? baaaaasically.
omg i totally made a zoe-rasta crossover joke, that hurt my brain a little but felt really good.

very important important part of the conversation:
new slang was born, croosh as in crucial as in crucial taunt.
use it in a sentence, you'll be glad ya did

he also sent me this picture which is way too fucking good.
he made a cast jacket outta a teeny tiny leather jacket keychain!! haaahahaha.



dudes..sometimes i just love brendan way too much.

red rum

so the shining was on the other night?
and obvs i had to watch because
1. the only horror movies i can watch are OLD horror movies.
and
2. jack nicholson is sorta hot in it

then i realized NUMBER THREE:
SHELLEY DUVALL IS KILLING IT !
pinafores, turtlenecks and clarks. SICK.



then i did an epic image search and blew my own mind:





do you die? BECAUSE I DIE.
please note that the boots do NOT have tongues, like a crazy psychdelic 70s ANN DEMEULEMEESTER STEEZ.

then i saw this still from a movie she did with bud cort (harold!) (which i had seen once before here)



and i fell in love
with nerds all over again.

then i found stills from '3 women' a movie with sissy spacek..whoa





THEN
I FOUND PICTURES OF HER WITH HER MAN
(not sure who this is, it's basically cat stevens- HEY NOW, a girl after MY OWN HEART. not sure if YOU KNOW THIS ALREADY, but that it totally my STYLE.
PS she also dated RINGO STARR..you RULE, lady)

and i LOST IT.

ok...are you ready?

oh


my


GOD


shelley duvall = new icon in 09

capricornicopia

ohhh heeyyyy nowwww...
someoneeee is TWENY EIGHT TODAY and her name is TBONZ aka TINA aka TEEN PEOPLE aka MY SISTER.


juliana hatfield / my sister

go wish her a happy happy over at her blog (which is so insanely funny, you might dieeee)

love you teens, happy birthday !

die comma i or die comma why?

so, i am assuming we all saw on these here internets that there are zoe / i die / bananas tees coming out?

ya know, this one:



it's fine. it's GOOD, but it's not...how do you say...making me die?
it's not...what i am FEELING.

it isn't getting the POINT ACROSS in the way that i want.
THIS is what i want:



so brendan..can you make me a present or what?

yes, i made this.
yes, i went to art school.
yes, i am gainfully employed in the graphic design realm..jealous??

twitching like a finger on a trigger of a gun

more crazy from the vaults.
i bought this thing in 2001 when i was living in los angeles...dollar sale, obvs.
it's prettttttty next levs. thick polyester and SO GREEN. good grief.



i haven't worn it in at least 5 years, i shortened it today and now i'm truly madly deeply and will never change.



i always kinda feel like a pirate in these boots.
i bought them in the one vintage shop i could find in rome the first time i went there (2002)



my hair is very valley of the dolls today. big waves mothers little helpers j. suzann vibe.
i also kind of look like...a monkey.

hey now

although i am currently (and most ardently) a fan of the bearded bejangled mountain man vibe, i am having a teenytinerson peter sellers moment?




it's the comedy sect of the mark ronson / chuck bass 'clean-cut cad' bone fantasy continuum. (there is maybe some sort of tongue twister entendre joke to make here but it's late and i'm not in top form, forgive me)

life on mars

i basically live for a balenciaga ad campaign.
when i find them online/in the mags, i get all giddy and hop around in the office and show anyone who comes near my desk.

some past favorites:

s/s01 (M/M paris scribbles!):


f/w 06:

i still dream about these boots AND riding hats.

f/w 07:

SO weird. suburban living room jumping creeper flash?

s/s 08:

I DIE. i scanned this myself, i have it hanging at my desk. i never saw it anywhere else except W. WTFFFFF is that darth vader ladies-who-lunch hat?!? MARIE-AMELIE SAUVE, i SALUTE YOU)

s/s 09 is out! :


love love LOVE.

(all shot by david sims and styled by marie-amelie sauve)

i warn you, i have a face made for anonymous blogging

so..remember a couple weeks ago when dblack was on marc horowitz's 24/7 talk show?


remember?

well my 15 seconds of internet teevee fame comes tonight. i have NO IDEA if this will work at ALL, but tonight, at 8 PM eastern / 5 PM west coast steez, i will be on marc's show. via my livingroom.

as posted on his site, talkshow247:

5pm: Elizabeth Spiridakis of http://www.feelslikewhitelightning.blogspot.com/ . Talking about her blog, her life, and Franz Klein

i have no idea what i'm gonna talk about.
i have never even used a webcam before. (true story)
i won't even have crazy mr black around to be the loco distraction because he is currently out of town photographing AMURRRICA, aka NOT AROUND.

i hope to be somewhat amusing? tune in to hear my somewhat embarrassing laugh (it's been compared to bart simpson's- VERY SEXY!) aaaaand...my thoughts on god knows what.