i always wanted to be something special most of all

Patti Smith sings 'You Light Up My Life' amazing!

The interview before is so adorable too. I like how she calls everyone kids - I do that - validated.

(via Kathleens Blog)

i've been out walking i don't do too much talking these days

I've been wanting to learn guitar since I was young but instead learnt piano for 12 years (hated it and didn't improve much after the first 2 years), drums for 2 years, bass guitar for a month (i figured with piano and drums i should really cut back).

I think now that I'm nearly 27 I should add learning guitar to my things to do - amongst learning to drive, moving overseas, running a 5k and volunteering. Quitting smoking is something I plan to do after completing all these tasks AKA if I don't complete them I get to keep smoking - duh, logic!

These Days by Jackson Browne for Nico was always the first song I wanted to learn as well.



I also kinda loved 'The Guitar' directed by Amy Redford though I've never felt the burning connection I still love the idea behind this film. Though I'm planning on getting an acoustic first and upgrading to a red electric later.

click click saddle up see you on the moon then

I'm obsessed with this song and this performance of Ring Ring by Sleigh Bells. I've watched it way too many times. Alexis Krauss is absolutely mesmirising and amazing - she makes me want to buy 100 pairs of American Apparel shiny disco pants and get more tatts and start a band.

It's spelt F-L-Y

Ok its not like I go around posting fashions Look Books every day - mostly because they are stupid or because everyone else does and they buy way too much into a certain 'aesthetic' e.g. Sophomore and Charlotte Ronson but I love this Aldo look book. I mean c'mon! Jessica Stam x Terry Richardson x Cramps 'Human Fly' cover by Dragibus x Boyd Holbrook? Looks like a lot more fun!

Best Movies You've Never Seen #5

Kicking and Screaming (1995) - Noah Baumbach

"I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now."

Theres a certain breed of 90s films which I just adore. There are usually just post coming of age, almost like what comes after university where a bunch of young slackers sit around and talk crap about life and relationships. Sounds boring but the scripts were always absolutely winning - incredibly insightful, quotable and funny (see above). The characters were also half charming and half hopeless and there were rarely any proper happy endings which appealed to the eternal romantic cynic in me. Noah Baumbach (who cuts quite the dapper headshot) made a few of these films most notably 'Kicking and Screaming', but also 'Highball' and 'Mr Jealousy' - before he started delving into the darker side of his family history with 'Squid and The Whale' and 'Margot at the Wedding'.

He's also got a new film out called 'Greenberg' which looks like 'Kicking and Screaming' for the over-40s with a bit of Manic Pixie Mumblecore Girl thrown in. I want to like it so much I'm having trouble figuring out why I hated it? If anyone has any ideas please let me know.

Dear Fred, I Thought of You Today

Paul Varjak, there is a mix tape I will never make
you. I might have been your firebird, kohl-

smeared & looped like ankh, hot as the stone pulse
of amethyst. I might have named you Romulus.

I might have canoodled you under the shadow
of the Megadeth monolith, might have managed a motion

picture soundtrack from the fire escape. The answer
to this is glam rock, rag bear, & I was born

a woman, bitterly hymnal. I am not one killer but multiple,
volunteer dowager. I would never name you John.

Ardor permits so little, really, but the noble
lot was not for me. C’mon, Fred, give me a two-step

tonight. Let me be your blue-eyed piece.
There’s no one to shamble with anymore; all I need

is a kook or two to kick the shit. Parcel post or Marcel
Proust?, the Doppler effect’s patron saint. We

could rob a bank & nip a brass flask, heavy metal.
Slap back to a snakeshack upstate, fictive as the mist.


It’s over, that’s a windfall, I know. You’re only my asymptote.
I’m a syntactical hack. Forgive me. Grace isn’t my M.O.

- By Laura Goode

“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”

images from all over the shop :(

Love comes quietly,
finally, drops
about me, on me,
in the old ways

What did I know
thinking myself
able to go
alone all the way.

-Robert Creeley