PS. I love this song so much

via totes it's a blog

Mid-Summer crunch

It's been a slow blogging week, for what seems like not just me. I think a lot of us are feeling that mid-summer stress and blah feeling. I can't wait to relax (ok, not a lot of relaxing since I'm up to my ears in freelance work) and fight the sweaty hipster crowd to see MGMT for free this weekend!

Hope you all have a great weekend and Tuesday I should be back to normal blogging mode.

Annie Suckow

I've recently become completely smitten with Annie Suckow's photography. I think a lot of you are flickr friends with her, and you'd probably agree that she never uploads a bad photo..or even one that doesn't grab my attention. They're all amazing and I get extremely excited when her photo pops up on my contacts page, which to my great internet stalking pleasure is every day. It makes me want to get some film for my polaroid camera asap before it's all gone.

Vintage Dads

Dad @ Poble Sec, originally uploaded by Adrià garcía.

There are the most fantastic vintage photos on flickr, it's such a flickr trend that's exploding.
I have some cool old photos of my dad, but none as rad as this guy's.

Azita Store

Another busy busy day, but here's someting I had to take a minute to share



Things I love at Azita Store (and on sale!)





via The Shiny Squirrel

Busy, but have some ice cream

darkness, originally uploaded by shespeaksoceans.

I'm super busy today so all I can offer you is this awesome article Lauren sent me on NYC's best Ice Cream Sandwiches. I've never been that into ice cream sandwiches, but this isn't your run-of-the-mill store bought stuff. These look incredible.

See you tomorrow!

A Candy Stripe Summer

In true '80s inspired summer fashion, I've been seeing a lot of rainbow candy stripes. Not to be used too often or too over the top, they're nostalgic and fun and make hungry for one of those ridiculous unicorn lollipops. Here are some highlights:



(Clockwise from top left) orla kiely jersey stripe dress, rainbow stripe drawstring purse, rainbow aviators (on sale!), murano glass ring, candy stripe ribbon belt (totally had one when I was a kid..now I'd wear it with a pair of high-wasted jeans/shorts), vintage sundress (definitely belt it).

I heart internet friends

First I bought the Moonblood shirt that Alyson was wearing, then Jenny liked my outfit so she took a photo of her interpretation of it, then Alyson. Who will be next? It's like internet Junior High, I love it.



(you'll have to go here for Alyson's Mr Spaceball.gif has prevented me from blogging it)

A few things

I just spent almost 4 hours without a computer at work due to the wonderful world of who the hell knows what was wrong but it just wasn't effing working and then our IT guy swooped in and saved me from my hell. SO! Today you just get a quick list of goodness as I'm up to my ears right now.

1. I'm incredibly intrigued by the trailer for the new Terminator: Salvation movie. I know, Terminator. BUT! It stars Christian Bale and the teaser-trailer is giving me a Children of Men vibe that I did. If Christian took part in the revitalizing of Batman, couldn't he be a part of revitalizing Terminator? It's possible. Watch it here.

2. Speaking of Batman, while I'm really excited to see The Dark Knight, what takes higher priority in my movie life right now is Friday's opening of the new X-Files movie. I saw every single episode pre-David Duchovny's exit from the show (not worth watching afterwards), and could not be more excited to see what happens. The plot has been so hush-hush that Chris Carter said in an interview that the plot on imdb is fake! Trailer is here.

Now before you all slowly back away from your computers, thinking to yourself that you were not quite aware of just how big of a nerd I am, I'll tell you this:

3. The Selby has 3 new amazing apartments up.

4. This just came in the mail and it is everything I thought it would be and more. Photo to come later.

5. You can watch Xanadu for free on Hulu.com. You really only need to watch the first 15 minutes to get the gist of it's amazingness (the muses coming to life from the mural in all their neon-glow glory?!), after watching Logan's Run on Saturday, I was hankering for some more '70s cheese. I got more than I bargained for. If you throw up in your mouth a little bit while watching it, I cannot be held responsible. If you're in the company of others just be classy and swallow it, then act like nothing happened.

See you tomorrow friends.

West Elm August Catalog

I've never paid much attention to West Elm's bedding before, but two things that grabbed my attention in their new catalog: The Heirloom Quilt with vintage keys printed down the side (the photo in the catalog is so much better than this one, it looks so stiff here) and the Trees print Euro sham (not a big fan of the duvet though, very 'been there done that' bird print) I would love to have a big euro on my bed with those trees, and I like the idea of a cozy quilt. Both are very affordable, though not available in stores so I can't vouch for the quality. After working for a bedding company for 2 years I'm skeptical about bedding quality and know 300-thread count percale doesn't mean crap sometimes. Anyone own any West Elm bedding?

The new catalog is really nice, check it out if you can.

Weekend Assignment: beach it

beach light, originally uploaded by shespeaksoceans.

Have a great weekend friends! Sorry for the light posting lately, work is a wee bit busy and my cold is kicking my ass still (I'm the ass at work who coughs every 10 seconds). Perhaps some things to come this weekend, perhaps not til Monday.

p.s. It's nearly 100 degrees here, even too hot for the beach I'm afraid! So do it for me if you're somewhere not as miserable. Ok, thanks.

Sleek Chef

Norman Copenhagen utinsels: Beautiful, functional and on sale? I'm sold. Lots of other great stuff at the Velocity Art & Design sale.

3 Chefs set here
Salad Servers here