today's version of the velvet elvis.

WHO KEEPS PUTTING THESE GUYS ON HORSES?!

inspiration from...2

E n j o y ...

xoxo

-S

8th house.

momento mori has its place...on my fingers...








totally impractical on a daily basis yet creative and ideal for those times when you host a party at your loft and need to not be upstaged by the trapeze artist hanging from your pipes....









taxidermy done right. i ♥ this brooch.
these are all found here though she is based in Australia.

Also in love with the double layers vest and fringe necklace with patterned leggings from Elohim. the palettes are simple - mostly black or white. some of this can be found at Pixie Market.

Annnnd...I gave away a band jacket like three years ago cos i didn't want it to sit in my closet even though i KNEW the look would catch on.

I heart the Silence + Noise band jacket at Urban Outfitters better though...

The one i gave away had a million colors in it - i'd rather not have that P-Funk look...

xoxo -S

{first three images: julie deville

last image: uban outfitters.}

I used to live in a psychic city...

Yacht - Psychic City (Voodoo City)

i work in a place where they play music from relative unknown locals to Jay-Z and this one song is my fave - one of the lesser knowns. it's catchy and weird. recently i saw the video for said catchy song and it made me consider my preferences for weirdness. don't judge! nonetheless this video is frickin weird...like 'i made a doll out of your hair will you be my date' weird. whatever makes me smile (but at the end i cringed).




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what does chanukah smell like?

Was in über home decor store and noticed all the holiday home accents.  you know the candles, centerpieces of dried unidentifiable shrubbery and nuts, stockings and the like...Yankee Candles pulled at my heartstrings reminding me of Christmases past with smells like, home sweet home, mistletoe, Christmas cookies.  then there are the glittery apples and balls and leaves in unnatural colors like blue for the Sophisticates' Christmas, which drew me to the Chanukah side of the accent aisle.  and looking through all the blue candles and sacks, the dreidels and gold coins, i couldn't find it.  i couldn't find a Chanukah smell.  and there were no alluding accents to nature or leaves or food or whatever.  then i thought, well, what does Chanukah smell like??  does it have a smell?  

ohhhmmmm

Taking time out is important.  That's why I took off a couple of days and finally slept in for the first time in weeks...

I'm also getting really good at throwing out things that are no longer useful: brochures from a million different yoga places nowhere near my job, scraps of tracing paper and gift bows from like six years ago.  i decided to do something fun with the bows before turning it into garbage...

 xoxo

let us play with your look some more

thank you jimmy fallon...again.

stuff i find and run into...or something.

The Government of The Future (?)

l. to r.: the guy from Robocop, Kyle McLaughlin, Lynch and Bowie.

I saw Kyle in chelsea a few days after I found this photo on, well, fffffound.

ahh synchronicity...

since my weheart feed doesn't seem to want to cooperate i'm posting a few bits i hearted. yes, hearted is a verb now.

hair...

and this is why brown girls are awesome.

take note.

love us.

we love you.

a smattering of my own photos

fresh & green

a plain white tee

sparkly balls

a tutu! awwww!

xoxo

­McG How do I love thee…

Let me count the ways...

Strong kick ass women characters who are unabashedly feminine.

The gratuitous use of pristine muscle cars.

Stylized action sequences.

Classic rock (which now also includes 90s grunge) prominent.

Prominent Browns (usually musicians, usually awesome).

Guys who are guys and love the aforementioned strong women.

you're walking through my heart once more...

hooray! i went to the Met for my birthday and am now in love with Greek statues. i can spend two hours in there and it'll feel like two minutes! Hercules is my new fave (the younger version). I can appreciate the aesthetic much more now. i used to not even go in the Greek wing of the Met but i'm opening up to a newer perspective and this is an example.

I'd still like to hold onto my ability to find the beauty in everything...even a wall patterned by schrapnel. i was a little devastated when i realized this wall 'art' was made as a result of gunfire.

but, then i saw this photo of a dingy industrial space in russia and all of the sudden it was a little ethereal when the lights were turned on.

and i just luv this so hard.

these things i have loved and eaten.

a few things i loved today:

a my leftover pre-thanksgiving meal. stuffing is even better when it's seared and has nice crunchy edges - yum.

a pistachios: salted in shells, pudding (which is hard to find), french macaroons (found at this place near university place and 14th st.), they're pastel green and if you love color, macaroons are fun for you. it reminds me of when i used to put food color in my pancakes in high school out of boredom.

a gossip girl

a my new idea for a book

it's genius

Read a great saying recently and it goes something like this:

a snake doesn't really know it's shape until it's put in a box.

that is genius. do you know how many boxes i've been in? they can be called:

small town

pennsylvania

girl

brown girl

...and the list is not over probably. but this is what i love, the process by which i get OUTSIDE of that box. you'd be surprised how livid people who hold high regard for the status quo get when they are proven wrong! i bet people will express themselves this way with the new president being brown and all.

LIVID!

which reminds me i should check on my siblings in the red states.

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on another note Tina Fey is genius. great writer...great.

"may cause sexual nightmares and sleep crimes." genius.