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i love elysa.

she is so vunnderful.

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bibloteca? bibliotecas!

Jay Walker's Private Library
More HERE via "WIRED"

Click it, the contents of the library are insane!

And.. if beautifully constructed libraries spark your interest..

20 of the world's most beautiful libraries, crazy cool.

That being said, I wouldn't mind studying in any of those libraries. I'd say they are much more conducive to learning than this 50+ year old Cal-State library I'm currently "studying" in... One thing I do miss about USF was Gleeson library's facilities and hours. Oh, 24 hr atrium..
Alright, time to concentrate.

RAMBLE

School is neverending. If it isn't a midterm, it's a "test," after the test, it's some midterm, projects projects projects, clinical data findings, then some final, then semester's summer school, plus summer quarter, then fall quarter, winter, spring, repeat, GRE classes, apply to PT school, PT school... better be worth it. I'll make it worth it. It never ends! Granted the school I'm attending now isn't "acclaimed" but what matters is getting into a good doctor of physical therapy program.. which I intend to do.. internships, finding a job, finding a house?, fixing my credit.... where is my life!? Yet I seem to navigate towards NYT and lookbooks here and there to find some solace. Before falling asleep last night, I was going through joint classifications in my head.."synarthrosis, amphiarthrosis, diarthrosis....."

I need a drink.

ear candy

Wao, wao, wao..

KASKADE - MAYBE - Kaskade

"Maybe"

Maybe...
Seems like the only word we trust
So uncertain...
We stumble to understand our fall.
Maybe we're starting to deal
(Talkin' about us)
Maybe this love can be real
(Won't be walkin' away)
Maybe inside we feel
I'm not talking about us.
Maybe...
You can make me smile when you're around
You can be sunshine
But even sometimes the sunshine can bring me down

Something About Us - Daft Punk

"Something About Us"

It might not be the right time
I might not be the right one
But there's something about us I want to say
Cause there's something between us anyway

I might not be the right one
It might not be the right time
But there's something about us I've got to do
Some kind of secret I will share with you

I need you more than anything in my life
I want you more than anything in my life
I'll miss you more than anyone in my life
I love you more than anyone in my life

shnazzy

from "Dress Codes: The Dutch Bicycle"

Photos by David Roemer for the NYT

"The allah to hipSTER" says Richard.


Check HERE for the full slideshow, prices, designers, etc.

The Memory Keeper's Daughter

My enjoyment of the novel brought me pick up a copy of the Lifetime-aired movie version of it at Blockbuster. Oddly enough, I read the book on my trips on the Pittsburg/Bay Point line of BART and (a year and a half later) watched the movie on my handy macbook en route via BART from South Hayward to Pittsburg/Bay Point.

May I introduce this to you, without critique.. I was touched.

Caged.

Givenchy.
Birdcagedanklebootie.

Word?

Random. As much as I hate Bruce Springsteen for reasons which I shall not go into other than the obvious.. I stumbled upon a good line from the song "Thunder Road" quoted in a context I may be all to familiar with, in observation of other people..and maybe even of myself:

"You remind me of the Bruce Springsteen line,

'There were ghosts in the eyes of all the boys you sent away.'

Look at you. There's always going to be someone else. Til you let someone in, you'll always be alone." -oth.

Yourself, above all.
Everything else.. is complementary.

Coco avant Chanel

I wish I understood French. Would love to see this.
April 22, 2009.

love & sex & magic

LOVE SEX MAGIC from sally webs on Vimeo.

Damn watch her move. 

I'd be the same way to sexxyrugged Justin (waaaaao).

Should I just keep chasing pavements even if it leads nowhere?

armani/5th ave

Armani/5th Avenue.
Designed by Massimiliano & Doriana Fuksas Architects

Giorgio Armani's lavishly fresh concept store. Forget Milan.
Opened 2.18.09 in New York on none other than 5th Avenue.
The meticulously conceived steel staircase.
Four floors, 43,000 sq feet, encased in glass.
Ranging from Armani jeans, Emporio Armani, Giorgio Armani collections.
Underwear, swimwear, fragrances, denim, gowns, suits.
Even $95 cellular phone key chains.
Progressively more & more refined as you escalate to Armani heaven.

Seriously?
Fuck me fa-bu-lous.

"A really exciting challenge – that is how I would describe our new concept store, Armani/5th Avenue in New York. It is a special project requiring a degree of courage, as it brings together in one-space different elements such as Armani Jeans and Emporio Armani side by side with Giorgio Armani. I was determined to send out a clear message of change, interpreting the current trend for mixing genres, juxtaposing items in different price brackets. You could say that this is a provocative move – uniting in the same place and with the same furnishings, without visible boundaries, the various collections that combine to form the entire Armani universe.


This freedom of expression defines for me the spirit of Fifth Avenue: a prestigious shopping destination, of course, but one that is less exclusive in character than comparable addresses, with a democratic mood which I am certain represents the future. I worked on the creation of this store with Doriana and Massimiliano Fuksas, whose hugely respected architectural practice is known for bringing a precisely judged sense of glamour to clothing stores.

This is the third project we have jointly accomplished, following on from Armani/Chater House in Hong Kong and Armani/Ginza Tower in Tokyo, and significantly all three offer totally distinctive environments, each different from the other, because I contend that identical retail spaces, monolithic and repetitive, belong in the past and cannot match the experience offered by a totally original store which introduces the public to the aesthetic excitement of fine contemporary architecture.“

-Giorgio Armani

On: The shopping experience. On: The architecural excellence

Armani/5th Avenue
717 Fifth Ave at 56th St;
(212) 339-5950
Mon—Sat 10am—8pm; Sun noon—6pm

business, man.

Best Life
APRIL 2009

"I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that. I collect art, and I drink wine...things that I like that I had never been exposed to. But I never said, 'I'm going to buy art to impress this crowd.' That's just ridiculous to me. I don't live my life like that, because how could you be happy with yourself?" -Jay-Z


Period.
Check the full Best Life article: HERE.

so fly

My first flight since I was 12,
of course I chose to sit next to the window...

......But I also chose to be safe.
Emergency exits were one row in front of me.

To Vegas for a night, January 2009

Recap: 3 stellas waiting to board, amazing view, comfortably peaceful, traveling solo. Had the row to myself, radiating this silly excitement to fly 1.5 hrs to a neigboring state. Call me crazy, but it was probably the best part of the trip. Minus the 45 minutes later where I realized I had to urinate but couldn't because the seat belt light turned on.. It was definitely the better moments of the weekend.. and I hadn't even met up with my friends yet. Hmm.

pressplay

Clarity - John Mayer

quotehappyrandom:

"I'm just a f*cked up girl trying to find her own piece of mind;
don't assign me yours."

-Clementine Kruczynski
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)

"The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to continually be afraid you will make one."

-Elbert Hubbard

ALIFE x SUPER

Jessica Alba in
ALIFE x SUPER Sunglasses

Put your Ray-Ban's away.
Retrosuperfuture meets Alife.
Granted, they were released Aug. of '08 but posting them was necessary.
Purple. JA. Alife.
Only 480 made, 80 for each color with the black getting the remainder.
Me, oh my.

influential

Upon entrance (in continuation to my previous post "entrance" refers to Barnes & Noble), I was greeted by members of the Boy Scouts of America holding a fundraiser. In observation.. It's an ironic precedent: The boys are holding fundraisers and interacting among people who's general desire is to read or stimulate their minds while the Girl Scouts are selling cookies outside of Grocery Markets to those who are purchasing things out of necessity. More comparisons could be made and I could bring out my "Troop 799" sash with it's, ha ha, sewn on patches we were encouraged to put on ourselves... but I won't. (Probably why I also don't know how to sew. Figures..)

Judging by the people I've surrounded myself with lately and more than likely indefinitely.. A refined man's intellect is much deeper than a woman's (that I've seemed to meet in my lifetime, with exceptions of course). The desire to simply "know" never ends. Their passion for worldly knowledge intertwined with.. well the finer things in life.. surpasses any that I have observed, possibly including myself. This is what I would consider top percentile, regardless of sex. And furthermore, their ability to find people of similar intelligence without lacking ahem, social skills.. is also amazing. But the same type of people attract the similar, and I'm lucky to have found such a niche.

I'm a big fan of people watching, you see, from body language to tone, to outfits and comfortability level, as is many other people. In meeting friends of friends, colleagues etc., I observe the same. I don't JUDGE overtly.. but I do observe. I remember sitting at an In & Out window in my early teens making up stories about the muted people who walked by.. (Btw, I'm not much bothered by people either, so even if my staring caused discomfort, I'd flash a smile and continue on with my story.. even if no one was listening & it was me conversing with myself in my head). But here I go on off tangents as usual... Anyway..

Given a situation this is probably why I choose more to surround myself with properly [emotionally] detached, exceptionally entertaining (forgive the alliteration) people than those who feel the need to dwell and elaborate situation by situation, regardless of whether or not it directly involves them. In times where the latter occurs, it is only with a few people that I can, willingly tolerate such. Because primarily of their "big hearts." Which is why the few that I've got, I hold the utmost respect and love for. For their relentless and incomparable talent, whether specific or not.. And for their important effect in my life :) And, I'm sure the response would be a meaningless "Duh" had they heard/read this. Or, comment to themselves. Haha!

When you find people who stimulate your mind in such a sense.. you find yourself trying to be a better person, all around. They are very influential. Thanks guys. Hahaha.

To end..
I promise the next couple of entries will be a lot more uplifting than satirical.
And a lot less verbose.

surreal. ism.

The Persistence of Memory (1931)
Salvador Dali

Not too long ago I dropped into my local bookstore, (in avoidance of stating that I was actually at the midterms hotspot/suburbian chain Barnes & Noble) browsing around at whatever grabbed my attention. Walking by the Best Sellers, 10% off table, a table dedicated to Jesus of Nazareth in response to the times (i.e., Easter), I found a table of books ranging from topics about the greatest scientists of all time, philosophers, artwork from the ages, etc. Needless to say, I spent most of my THREE hours at this table, depressingly ending at Princeton review books on the GREs.

Back to the table, as I refreshed my memory on history and art, I came across a book on Surrealism. Flipping through the pages, admiring the imagery.. the above piece struck my fancy. Originally titled "La Persistencia de la Memoria," Spanish for "The Persistence of Memory," the painting itself can be root to many interpretations, all of which I won't get into. Three words for thought: Ants, Time, Change.

Out of curiosity, I researched the artist via the World Wide Web & realized that his entire being interested me as well. On Dali:

"Dali would often make up ridiculous explanations for his paintings to purposely mislead people... By doing this Dali not only opened the doors for discussion of multiple interpretations of his art, but also made criticizing his work nearly impossible for people he thought who possessed lesser intellect than that of himself." Whatta genius.

Is it odd that this comment reminds me of someone I know? Ah..

Next read:

The Diary Of A Genius.
Salvador Dali.

sanrio SURPRISE

MAC Cosmetics x Hello Kitty from Ykone on Vimeo.

Mac Cosmetics meets Hello Kitty

I personally favored bad ass Badtz Maru and cute little Pochacco.. But everyone seems to love Hello Kitty that the little kitten, however many years later.. now has her own cake-up line. It's a great line, nonetheless.. Had herself a huge event in the MACup industry (so I hear). This was the video set to inspire the MACup artists during the line's launch. Seems similar to an acid trip to me.. but people like acid. And Hello Kitty. So how 'bout a little Hello Kitty on acid?

I will celebrate by watching this video and dancing in my Hello Kitty boy shorts, while trying to do magic on my face such as those talented artists in all black with their brush belts attached, oh so fashionably, to their hips.

And please, don't let my childhood hatred towards Hello Kitty negate the beauty of the makeup applied to the girls faces. Granted, the creepy set of it all does it on it's own.. but I digress.

Enjoy.
With acid?

memory lane

"Somewhere Out There"
from the Motion Picture An American Tail.

I think I attempted to download the adult version of the song when Napster was prominent in the 90s and pirating music was not as.. hot. I heard this. Now, youtube made my dreams come true. This always seems to brighten my day. Especially from the middle of nowhere. Oddly enough it depresses others.. How like me.

“We must be our own before we can be another's.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

en pointe.

by Christian Louboutin
For lack of better name:
"Ballet Heels"

Christian Louboutin's capability to embody the beauty of the Russian Pointe and associate it with the Red Carpet's matching footwear. It is ballet's demure and grace intertwined with the ostentatiousness of such a high heel and [his] signature red sole. Mistaking this red sole is entirely impossible. Wearing them for leisure, I'd assume is as well.. As said to Style.com by the desginer himself, "They’re only made for lying on your back." Sexy.


Regardless, I find it beautiful

Peace.

Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul? from Toolshed Media on Vimeo.

"Who's Gonna Save My Soul?"
performed by Gnarls Barkley
Directed by: Chris Milk.

For those on the other end. For the inarticulate. And for all the boys and girls who will comment on the the artist's ability to put into words what, in retrospect, they couldn't. For the natural tendency for females to negotiate and the natural male tendency to be frank.

Here's to you.

Un.

Why, hello.