After film noir was cult 70's

SEE GRINDHOUSE


& POP YOUR CHERRY

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15 “HOLY SHIT!” Movie Moments: The scenes that are unexpected, out-of-nowhere, and stick with you. I tried to stay away from torture-porn and shocking horror-type movies for this one. Blah, blah, blah. Shut up Stephen and show me the fucking clips. To make up for my wordiness, I had so much fun putting this one together I’m going to give you fifteen instead of the usual ten…

15. The Departed

The last ten minutes of this movie is one huge “HOLY SHIT” moment. If you haven’t seen it yet, you DO NOT want to watch this clip.



The other 14....

~#1 gave me nightmares for a week~

"Thou Shalt always Kill" video by dan le sac VS scroobius pip

Brilliant

Brilliant

~ BJORK Party ~

Out of experimentation, the Icelandic singer will return in May with a definitely more pop album. Exclusively, she gives us some news about her strange and prolific brain.. [SOURCE]

History of medicine

History of Medicine

2000 BC: Here, eat this root.

1000 AD: That root is heathen. Here, say this prayer.

1850 AD: That prayer is superstition. Here, drink this potion.

1940 AD: That potion is snake oil. Here, swallow this pill.

1985 AD: That pill is ineffective. Here, take this antibiotic.

2000 AD: That antibiotic does not work anymore. Here, eat this root.

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celebrate

Happy St. Pattys

and

First Anniversary for my Blog

‘Things do not change, we change.’

-Thoreau.

Extraordinary

Glass wing butterflies

email exchange

Deb [reply to all]: friggin a'. I think jzk and I may be at the gym at that time. but if I'm not, I will try to show up. smashing idea.

Jess [ta]: that's right bitch. gym time. :D

Deb[ta]: obviously, you can all see that I am in an abusive relationship.

Vera [ta]: Hey sweetie, you know you are my bitch first!!!The papers are in the mailboxes. I took the liberty to check yours (Debbie) and you have an A with the comment that your paper was extremely well-thought and written or something along these lines :)

Deb [ta]: DAMN I am trying so hard to be my own person yet I appear to be everybody's bitch

Jess[ta]: So how is studying going for everyone?

Deb[ta]: $@!#*@^*$#%*&@?

Jess[ta]: I concur

Malini[ta]: ...the top 5 things i wish i would have brought home instead of the wrong behavioral data
1) a Hicky
2) a jelly donut
3) Richard Simons
4) some kind of intoxicant
5) the right behavioral data

Man in Jews for Jesus t-shirt sits while well-dressed young man across from him unbuttons shirt, takes out black marker, and writes 'Buddhist 4 Mohammed' on his undershirt, standing and aggressively staring down Jew for Jesus.

Buddhist guy: Give me zee money, Lebowski! I fucks you up! We want zee money, Lebowski! Give us zee money or we fucks you up! [Steps to the left, and in a different German accent] Ya, give us zee money, Lebowski. My girlfriend cut off her toe 'cause she thought we would get zee money. Iss not fair.

Jew for Jesus: [Silent, calm.]

Buddhist guy calmly sits back down and buttons his shirt, turning to small Hispanic boy next to him: And that's where babies come from.

--6 train

Overheard in New York

Back to Black

New Amy Winehouse released in the US. Love the edge to her voice; I'd like to see her do something jazzy.

How to date me 101

Do challenge me.
Don’t compete with me.
Don’t tell me I’m gorgeous or smart.
Do tell me I’m unique.
Don’t buy me drinks.
Do buy me dessert.
Don’t stare at my chest.
Do stare in my eyes.
Don’t be authoritative.
Do be assertive.

Do tease me.
Don’t deny me.
Do notice the small things.
Don’t quote poetry.
Do be original.
Don’t be arrogant.
Do be confident.
Don’t ignore my friends.
Do dress well.
Don’t mistake conflict for passion.
Do let me infatuate you.
Don’t let me know it.

Unsanity

The common way we think about the nature of human mind is that it is either sane or insane. LSD hints to us that there is an area of the mind which could be called “unsane” – beyond sanity, and yet not insane.

Think of a circle with a fine split in it at one end is insanity, you go around the circle to sanity, and on the other end of the circle close to insanity but not insanity is “unsanity”. This is perhaps where all the superlative effects of humanity come from.

Not only of art but of science.

And it may be that we could approach it by a thoughtfulwise study of LSD.

~Sidney Cohen

Bent- Beautiful Otherness

Beautiful otherness
Love you because of this
Lost in the loveliness
Of your beautiful otherness

Beautiful otherness
I found myself rodderless
You gave me foreverness
And your beautiful otherness

Beautiful otherness
Beautiful otherness

Beautiful otherness
Kind hearts and coronets
Safe in the warm caress
Of your beautiful otherness

When you're right, when you're right
When you're right, right, right with me

Beautiful otherness

listen (sample)

I'd hit that

If you're a fan of Overheard In New York (.com), they just made a new site called "Celebrity Wit" with overheard quotes by celebirites.

Angelina Jolie: I'm not sure if there was a key event that changed me, but I first had sex when I was 14.

Shout-out: newsoftheworld.co.uk

Sunshine

Fracture

If you look close enough,

you'll find everyone

has a weak spot.

girly

Disappearances

Meredith (voiceover): Disappearances happen in science. Disease can suddenly fade away, tumors go missing, and we open someone up to discover the cancer is gone. Its unexplained. It’s rare, but it happens. We call it mis-diagnosis say we never saw it in the first place, any explanation but the truth. That life is full of vanishing acts. If something that we didn’t know we had disappears, do we miss it? If we cannot remember what it was, was it ever there at all?

Nine Inch Nails

Hot new NIN video for "Survivalism".

junior boys

JUNIOR BOYS

My latest aesthetic and rhythmatic addiction.

Check out their Flash - Say Goodbye

Check out their Music - Sonically rich pop, born of the UK dance culture

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Izzie: I'm a pretty girl.

Chief: What?

Izzie: I'm not being arrogant, it’s just, it’s just kind of a fact. For a long time I made a career from my looks, so I get it, I'm a pretty girl. And not in a "from a certain angle" way, in an obvious way. It’s the blonde thing and the big boobs thing, big boobs are a key to obvious pretty if you know what I'm saying.

Chief: Dr. Stevens.

Izzie: It’s how men see me. I'm not a smart girl or an interesting girl, I'm a pretty girl. The blonde and the boobs it confuses guys into thinking that I'm someone else. And I'm used to it. And I'm used to them walking away when they realize… But then Denny goes and asks me to marry him.

Chief: Is that why you cut the wires?

Izzie: He doesn't make me feel like I'm a pretty girl. He makes me feel like… like me. I think he might know me. And so, if I did cut the LVAD wire, and I'm not saying that I did, but if I did, then no, I don't feel guilty. And I know that I should. And I would if it were anybody else. But I can't feel anything but happy.

Elektro-Punk

Emmanuel found the cool music before me this time.

Check out Ghostland Observatory

Love them all, but make sure you drown in the rhythms of Silver City...

now featuring

You can never have too much security if you own a BMW, so I've installed this brand new theft protection device.

In honor of Fri night's pyrotechnics

The obsession started long before...here's Dave as photographed in 1999 by Eric Meyer (click on #4).

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New NIN

Trent Reznor has rolled out the tracklisting for Nine Inch Nails (music)' forthcoming concept album, "Year Zero," and is setting up the album's premise via a series of strange websites, audio files and album leaks.

"This record began as an experiment with noise on a laptop in a bus on tour somewhere," Reznor said in a prepared statement issued last week. "That sound led to a daydream about the end of the world. That daydream stuck with me and over time revealed itself to be much more. I believe sometimes you have a choice in what inspiration you choose to follow and other times you really don't. This record is the latter. Once I tuned into it, everything fell into place ... as if it were meant to be. ... The record turned out to be more than a just a record in scale, as you will see over time.

"Part one is Year Zero. Concept record. Sixteen tracks. What's it about? Well, it takes place about 15 years in the future. Things are not good. If you imagine a world where greed and power continue to run their likely course, you'll have an idea of the backdrop," he continued. "The world has reached the breaking point--politically, spiritually and ecologically. Written from various perspectives of people in this world, Year Zero examines various viewpoints set against an impending moment of truth.

"This record is much more of a 'sound collage' than recent efforts from me," Reznor continued. "A lot of it was improvised. It is very tedious describing your own music. It's not just music. It's probably too long, but it felt like the right thing to do to paint the complete picture. It will sound different after a few listens. You can think about it and it will reveal more than you were expecting. You can dance to a lot of it. You can fuck to a lot of it, maybe all of it depending on what you're into..."

( Rolling Stone Article Plus Album Cover )

Glamorous - Lovin' this

Flossy, Flossy

Click above. You tube isn't posting my videos for some reason.

"Foolish Games"

You took your coat off and stood in the rain,
You're always crazy like that.
And I watched from my window,
Always felt I was outside looking in on you.
You're always the mysterious one with
Dark eyes and careless hair,
You were fashionably sensitive
But too cool to care.
You stood in my doorway, with nothing to say
Besides some comment on the weather.

[Pre-Chorus 1]
Well in case you failed to notice,
In case you failed to see,
This is my heart bleeding before you,
This is me down on my knees, and...

[Pre-Chorus 2]
Well, excuse me, guess I've mistaken you for somebody else,
Somebody who gave a damn,
Somebody more like myself.

Responsibility

Today I'm choking on responsibility in every modality.

Pager on my hip for suicidal patients in crisis. Beep beep beep.

Emails in my box.

Voicemails.

Assess, report, decide.

Assess, report, decide.

Assess, report, decide.

Every action has a consequence.

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People's lives change

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Mine stays the same.

dressaholics unite

Lily Allen designs New Look clothes collection 'Lily Loves' fashion line set for high street

Lily Alen is set to design a "capsule wardrobe" for high street clothes chain New Look, to be titled 'Lily Loves'.

Known for her quirky dress sense and penchant for gold jewellery and vintage pieces, the range will feature six dresses, two pairs of shoes and assorted brightly coloured accessories.

Speaking about Lily Allen's individual style, New Look's head of fashion communications Sarah Walter explained: "She's an absolute dressaholic."

The collection is due to hit UK stores in May.

Source

hotness is hereditary

Marlan Brando's grandson posing for VOGUE.

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armor

If our frontal lobes are our brains' armor against impulses, mine may need a tune-up after this w/e.

nat spill

If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.

~Erica Jong

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Hey... Behbeh

Bebeh, I may have gotten neutered just yesterday, but I can still put the "hey bebeh" moves on. With one wink, I'll seduce a hamburger right out from under you.
You think that medium rare patty is still on your plate?
Look again, Honeh. Look... again.

Source: Cuteoverload.com

nerd-u-lous!

ORDER OF THE SCIENCE SCOUTS OF EXEMPLARY REPUT AND ABOVE AVERAGE PHYSIQUE

For the propagation of an ideal where science communicators can meet firstly, for drinks; secondly, for communicating; and ultimately, for networking.

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Members are:

- not opposed to alcohol.

- fond of IPCC reports (especially the pictures).

- mostly in agreement with the "truth."

- into badges.

- grieving for the slow and miserable death of the Hubble Space Telescope.

- possibly possessed of supernatural powers.

- not in the business of total world domination

- committed to the constant and diligent presentation of science stories, be it to editors, producers, directors, educators, relatives and/or friends of various ilk, in an effort to lessen the gap that is this thing we call public scientific literacy.

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The "Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah, I've got a TV gig" badge.

In which the recipient plays a significant science performance role in TV. This badge is nullified if recipient is always shown wearing a lab coat.

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The "I've been published at the New Yorker" badge. In which the recipient has published a science piece at the venerable New Yorker. Pretty much means the recipient has to pay for drinks in subsequent meetings.
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"I've been rejected by the New Yorker" badge, the "I blog about science" badge and many more...

SCIENCE SCOUTS

who is appropriate this week (...and always)

Neither Snow

When all of a sudden the city air filled with snow,
the distinguishable flakes
blowing sideways,
looked like krill
fleeing the maw of an advancing whale.

At least they looked that way to me
from the taxi window,
and since I happened to be sitting
that fading Sunday afternoon
in the very center of the universe,
who was in a better position
to say what looked like what,
which thing resembled some other?

Yes, it was a run of white plankton
borne down the Avenue of the Americas
in the stream of the wind,
phosphorescent against the weighty buildings.

Which made the taxi itself,
yellow and slow-moving,
a kind of undersea creature,
I thought as I wiped the fog from the glass,

and me one of its protruding eyes,
an eye on a stem
swiveling this way and that
monitoring one side of its world,
observing tons of water
tons of people
colored signs and lights
and now a wildly blowing race of snow.

Billy Collins

picture, times square, nyc

Across the Universe

'Stills from the Beatles'-themed (musical-wise) film ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, plus an early and very long and good review of the film from IMDB, and the trippy trailer for those that missed out on it..' Source

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Now available in dorsal and ventral

(An appropriately inappropriate thank you to PW.)

Quotes

"Worker bees can leave,
Even drones can fly away,
The queen is their slave."
-Fight Club

"Papa don't take no mess."-Mr. Please Please (James Brown)

"Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DON'TS
Listen to the SHOULDN'TS, the IMPOSSIBLES, the WON'TS
Listen to the NEVER HAVES,
Then listen close to me-
Anything can happen, child,
Anything can be."
-Shel Silverstein

Happy Valentines Day!

Who Told You about God?

Mom: So, what kind of animals do you think we will see at the zoo?

Small boy: I think elephants and snakes... Mom? Are there also pretend things there, like dinosaurs and God?

Mom: I think we need to have a talk when we get home.

--N train near Union Square
Overheard in New York

Freak Show

New book by JSJ, author of Disco Bloodbath.

Source: www.myspace.com/totally_james_st_james

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comfort

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Jewel - Hands

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If I could tell the world just one thing

It would be that we're all OK

And not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful

And useless in times like these

I won't be made useless

I won't be idle with despair

I will gather myself around my faith

For light does the darkness most fear

My hands are small, I know

But they're not yours, they are my own

But they're not yours, they are my own

And I am never broken

And we are never broken

In the end only kindness matters
In the end only kindness matters

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LISTEN

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The 7 deadly sins in chart format with combinatorial behaviors:

"I know how to sit, how to fetch,

...and how to roll over. What I don't know is how I ended up here."

http://www.pedigree.com/dogadoption/commercial.asp

accidental events

When I was twelve years old I accidentally substituted salt for sugar in a cake recipe. I baked the cake, iced the cake, and served it up. It looked like a cake, but as soon as you cut into it and took a taste, you knew something else was going on. People are like that, too. Sometimes you just can’t tell what’s on the inside from looking at the outside. Sometimes people are a big surprise, just like the salt cake. Sometimes the surprise turns out to be good. And sometimes the surprise turns out to be bad. And sometimes the surprise is just friggin’ confusing.

-Janet Evanovich - Twelve Sharp

see

Babel represents director Alejando Gonzalez Iñárritu's conclusion to a stylistic and thematic trilogy begun in Amores Perros and continued in 21 Grams.

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Read here and watch the trailer.

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tonight

Alyson Shotz: Topologies

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art
Alyson Shotz, Detail from Viewing Scope, 2006.

2-14 Alliant Energy Center Memorial Coliseum Madison, WI

Despite my protest, John Mayer is going to come see me on Valentines Day. Jessica, what can I say? Be strong...you'll move on. I've gained a new respect for John and his music these past few months through his writings. Check them out here.

aurora borealis

Texas, unknown

Coin-Operated Boy - Dresden Dolls

Momma Likes.

Even better Live. See them in Chicago this spring with Badly Drawn Boy.

At the bus stop

Even in science, we accept that there are unknowns. Incredible truths in the universe that defy all logic and reasoning.

I do not accept the belief that there is an ultimate agency that predetermines our lives; I do not underplay the significance of coincidence and randomness in our world. But at the same time, I believe that when logic and reasoning defy us, there may be something unexplainable guiding us. Perhaps, fate.

Switch

Want to turn off a woman's brain? No problem.

Here's the switch.

This is probably the kind of parent I would be

Kid yelling: What are we doing after dinner? [Parents ignore him] What are we doing after dinner?!

Mom, calmly: Stop yelling, or I'll have to kill you.

--10th St, between Broadway & University
Overheard by: Calling the Morgue

Source: Overheard in New York

Waisman chronicles

DK: Why can I never sneak up on you?

DO: Because of your heels.

DK: *pouty lips expression*

DO: You could take them off. You have cute feet.

DK: The PET people yell at me for walking barefoot around the genetics freezer etc.

DO: Wait. Good call. I think you're glowing.

DK: rad.

Whatever Lola Wants

Whatever Lola wants
Lola gets
And little man, little Lola wants you
Make up your mind to have no regrets
Recline yourself, resign yourself, you're through
I always get what I aim for
And your heart'n soul is what I came for

Whatever Lola wants
Lola gets,
Take off your coat
Don't you know you can't win?
You're no exception to the rule,
I'm irresistible, you fool, give in!...Give in!...Give in!

Hello, Joe
It's me
He hits so far
-hold on-that's you
Aaah-haaaaaa
Poo poo pa doop
Peek-a-boo
Yoo-hoo

I always get what I aim for
And you heart'n soul is what I came for
...Lola wants
...Lola gets
...You'll never win
I'm irresistible, you fool,
Give in...Give in...Give in.

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I've heard every known jazz musician sing this, but I've learned that the music and words were written by Richard Adler and Jerry Ross for the musical play Damn Yankees. The song also appeared in the movie made from the play.

Mediation

The caterpillar has a life span of 1 to 2 months; the butterfly a mere 2 weeks. What happens when you want something in between? Can you be beautiful and grounded all at the same time?

Bright and Shiny

Many people don't know that the human eye has a blind spot in its field of vision. There is a part of the world that we are literally blind to. The problem is, sometimes our blind spots shield us from things that really shouldn't be ignored. Sometimes our blind spots keep our lives bright and shiny.

SHINY TOY GUNS

Shiny Toy Guns - Le Disko

The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. stone crumbles. wood rots. people, well, they die. but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. ~

Chuck Palahniuk

LILY ALLEN FIRST US TOUR

Mon 02/05/07 Los Angeles, CA Music Box @ Fonda

Tue 02/06/07 San Francisco, CA Great American Music Hall

Thu 02/08/07 Chicago, IL Metro / Smart Bar

Sat 02/10/07 New York, NY Webster Hall

Mon 02/12/07 Philadelphia, PA Theater Of Living Arts

Fri 02/16/07 Washington, DC 9:30 Club

Sun 02/18/07 Boston, MA Axis

source: ticketmaster.com pollstar.com

Overheard in New York

Conductor: Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, this is your conductor. It seems that many of you enjoy cramming into this train as if there is not another one directly behind us. But I understand, for I am a very sexy conductor, and everyone wants to be on my train. If you do, please stand clear of the doors. Thank you.

--6 train, 59th St
Overheard by: Katey

CHECK OUT OVERHEARD IN NEW YORK

lyrics - this ain't a scene ...

Sherrington once said that posture accompanies movement as a
shadow. I have come to believe that anxiety accompanies intellectual
activity as its shadow and that the more we know of the
nature of anxiety, the more we will know of intellect.

(Liddell, 1949, p. 185)

The Current Status of Clinical Psychology - Where Are We Now?

Man has produced many remarkable machines, some so complex that only relatively few people with considerable training can fully understand their workings. But man himself is far more complex than anything he has built. To understand him, to predict his behavior, or to change him in a predictable way is a challenging task of enormous magnitude. The attempt to understand man from a scientific point of view - that is, as an object of nature following natural laws - has only recently begun. Man is the object of his own scientific interest, and his personal experiences limit his ability for detached study.

taken from text by author Julian Rotter, dated 1964

Every photograph makes a promise, and the promise is never kept. That's what makes a photo great. And if the promise is sex...then you really have something.

-transcript from Gia

International Bad Cat

"Je me souviens tendrement le grignotage de vos chevilles dans la nuit."

I remember fondly the biting of your ankles in the night.

U2 - Window In The Skies

Bono tends to trade in platitudes these days, but the savvy U2ers know just how to spin it, assembling a montage of music icons mouthing the words to "Window In The Skies," making even the band's rounded edges (and generic lyrics) larger than life, and larger than themselves. If you're not a U2 fan, they've thought of that, too; stick through it for footage of Jimi, Thom, Karen O, Elton, Marvin, Ray Charles, Nat King Cole, Bowie, Elvis, Plant, Flav, Sinatra, Kanye, Stevie, Kurt ... you get the picture.

Source

Sophie Ellis Bextor - Catch You

Sophie Ellis Bextor is ready to drop a new album, and the Brit babe has just released the disc's first single, Catch You.

Sterile

Theory is– the more you think like a doctor, the more you become like one, the better you get at remaining neutral, clinical, cut, suture, close and the harder it becomes to turn it off to stop thinking like a doctor and remember what it means to think like a human being.

ScarJo for LV - Spring

Gorgeous french coquette spread, very artistic, love the palette.

Happy Science

New article on The Science of Well-Being published in the NY Times.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

2007

Home

You know that point in your life when you realize that the house that you grew up in isn't really your home anymore? All of the sudden even though you have some place where you can put your stuff that idea of home is gone. It's like you get homesick for a place that doesn't exist. You won't have this feeling again until you create a new idea of home for yourself, you know, for your kids, for the family you start, it's like a cycle or something. I miss the idea of it. Maybe that's all family really is. A group of people who miss the same imaginary place.

-Garden State

to do list

Break the mold.

Turn the tables.

Buck the trend.

Raise the bar.

Up the ante.

Tip the scales.

Shuffle the deck.

Jerk the chain.

Lead the charge.

Roll the dice.

Bet the ranch.

Beat the odds.

ripped from a magazine at salon

Mr. Please Please dies at 73

I got the somethin' that makes me wanna shout
I got that thing, tell me what it's all about
I got soul, ha, and I'm super bad, heh!
Got the move that tells me what to do
Sometimes I feel so nice, I said
I wanna tie myself to a fuse, huh, I
I, I, I got soul, heh, and I'm super bad!

My father grew up in St. Louis worshiping this man - the blues, the songs, the energy above all else. He used to tell me stories about going to the Firehouse to see James and being the only white kid in the crowd. I can understand it. Crazy he may be, but listening to Livin' in America on full blast in the living room while your usually stiff and serious father lets loose on the floor just gives you a sense of just how magical music is.

Just Jack - Snowflakes

research + fashion =

benjamin cho's spring 2007 collection

*fabulous*

Regina Spektor

New and original music out of New York's hybrid scene. I heard these today and fell instantly in love.

Conversation

todd andrew melville says:
If your actions affected millions of people...
what would you say?

Couture Cowgirl says:
people aren't judging you.
you are judging yourself.

Extraordinary Machine

Fiona channels old world Lauren Bacall and Judy Garland in her new Extraordinary Machine.

Flow

Photograph: Anonymous c. 1890

Erotic Poetry by Robert W. Birch, Ph.D.