Tuesday, January 15, 2013

A few of my favorite things

Cause it's winter, we're snowed in and spring seems nowhere in sight so thinking of a few of your favorite things makes waiting until its time to bloom bearable. Here's a list of some of mine.

-watching a movie whilst seated precisely in the middle of the cinema

-Joe Strummer, cause the future is unwritten

-small jail-style tattoos, especially anchors

-Devendra Banhart

-and long-haired bearded boys in general

-Van the Man (with a slight weakness for Brown Eyed Girl)

-the fact that Italian Vogue was code for weed in Tarantino's "Death Proof"

-"The Year of the Flood" by Margaret Atwood

-Actually anything by Margaret Atwood, Philip Roth (especially American Pastoral) or Ian McEwan (Saturday!)

-Alexander Ebert

-"Lola" by the Kinks

-James Turrell's skyspace installations

-all of Wes Anderson's movies

-cetaceans

-Helmut Newton

-pearls

-NYC

-Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden

-Flowerbomb by Viktor and Rolf

-"Where the wild things are" by Maurice Sendak

-French boys when they speak english

-Diane Arbus 

-gold, the color

-The Marolles

-Having mimosas for breakfast

-Bob Dylan in his youth

-Agent Provocateur underwear

-beets

-Fight Club, the book, the movie, everything!

-Miuccia Prada

-water

-diamonds, preferably on the soles of my shoes

-POP Art (Keith Haring and Roy Lichtenstein)

-Tom Robbins

-"The Kiss" from Rodin

-lace

-"The Master and Margarita" by Bulgakov

-Isabele Marant

-Black Vanilla scented candles

-Hendricks Gin

-blowing bubbles in the wind

-Living under the Acropolis

-The Aegean

-Harleys

-that unexpected smile from a beautiful stranger

-mittens

-white orchids and liliums

-Ryan Gosling when he is not playing in romcoms

-Nouvelle Vague and anything by Godard

-Londontown

-peanut butter jelly sandwiches

-Kusmi Algotea (a blend of Chinese green tea, spearmint leaves and seaweed)

-Dalmatians and Pugs

-"Drive"

-mom's poached eggs, cause they are a taste of heaven

-chocolate ice cream with lemon sorbet

-analog cameras

-glitter

-Wanderlust

-Dressing up and dressing down

-white cotton nightgowns

-mustaches

-perfecto black leather jackets

-Ksubi jeans

-DVF dresses

-red velvet cupcakes (preferably by The Hummingbird Bakery)

-Poppy seed bagels with cream cheese

-Gigs in small venues (Botanique and AB)

-Travelling (it's been over ten years that I have spent dreaming of Tanzania!)

-Diners

-heart shaped glasses

-"Just Kids" by Patti Smith

-decorating shoes and clothes with studs and skulls

-anything with Jasmine by KORRES

-The Smiths

-Pale Blue Eyes by the Velvet Underground cause I thought of you as my mountaintop, I thought of you as my peak, I thought of you as everything I had but could not keep

-manicures (and OPI nail polish)

-Kusama Yayoi

-being In Rainbows with Radiohead

-seedbombs

-and last but not least howling at the moon











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