your cheekbones are getting me through the day

for realz.

(click for bigness).


{image via just jared}

love is magic, love is tragic

friday i found myself at the legendary hit factory studios, where artists like madonna, u2, john lennon and stevie wonder have recorded. but because everything in new york is destined to turn into something else, the space is gonna be condos, sigh.

still, the gibson studio is a nice space, and i was excited to see my sexy friends the roughstars.









cornelius had on a leopard tie; i was wearing leopard jeans. great minds think alike.

first up: meta and the cornerstones spread a happy vibe.





then the roughstars laid it down.









this video is a couple of years old, but please enjoy:

letter in blue - roughstars

we've got a big big mess on our hands

so when i found out that the academy is was coming to the office i was excited, since i have new crush on lead singer william beckett. but i found myself completely unable to get dressed this morning, and though i am supposed to interview the band, all i really want to do is stare at william. not very professional. we'll see how it goes.

we've got a big mess on our hands - the academy is...

internet killed the video star

yeeeeeeeah. been super bizzy. sorta stuffed up like in an allergy way, maybe because all of new york is blooming and teeny petals are sweetly blowing in the wind and right up my nose.

but hi! i am here. where are you? say hi.

here's cool stuff i have seen lately:



lomme bed: a place to dream and to dream about. complete with iPod dock and muscle relaxing system.



if you love i can has cheezburger, you might ADORE lolgays! then again gaybe not.



pete wentz and cobra starship's gabe saporta are not gay for pay, no, not at all!!!


last but absofuckinglutely not least, the coolest video i have seen in forever:

justice - d.a.n.c.e.

JUSTICE - D.A.N.C.E.
Uploaded by edbangerrecords

*sniff*

hi! say hi, please.

don't give up: girlcrush!

so yeah i went to see the noisettes last night @ mercury lounge and shingai shoniwa is my new girlcrush. she's so badass. her voice sounded great and she plays the bass like she's plotting revenge. my pix suck, please please watch the video for "don't give up."

i've posted it before but it' soooo worth it:



and while we're watching videos, might as well watch the alternate younglove video - that made me write an email that read YOUNGLOVE OMG OMG unbearably hot!!!



um - yes please.

reach out and touch faith

well one thing that happened last week was i had to pack up my cube since we're moving to a different floor. i had to take down all my tearsheets and pictures. not sure which ones will go back up yet.



i used flickr notes to annotate this one, click here if you're interested.







friday we found ourselves in chelsea in the middle of the night... hit the smiths/depeche mode party where the music was good and the boys were cute...















saturday i recovered by watching seriously bad movies. i wish i had taken pictures of the screen - in beyond the valley of the dolls there are so many insane moments that ought to be documented. maybe i'll do that soon since i OWN this ridiculously bad film.

sunday: all about food. started with dim sum in chinatown...







... and ended with steak at the palm steakhouse. jesus would have wanted me to have filet mignon.





i passed on blasphemous joke at dim sum so on my way home i bought a saint for 50¢ to cover my bases.



track of the day: depeche mode - personal jesus (boys noize rework)

{i will deliver; you know i'm a forgiver.}

kiss my asp

watching steven's untitled rock show on fuse is like my porn. boys in bands and rock videos you never see anywhere else. so steven was interviewing socal band saosin and suddenly one of the band members caught my eye. his *lips* caught my eye. guitarist justin shekoski has something i find inexplicably hot - maybe because it draws attention to an inherently sexy spot. justin has snakebite piercings. what's that you say? snakebites should be your new boyfriend??? what a fantastic idea!

okay so let's see what we have here...


justin from saosin.


see also:


mike herrera from mxpx.
i interviewed him at two different warped tours; in addition to being dreamy, he's the nicest guy in the world.

see also:


sonny moore, formerly of from first to last.

okay, that's enough.

team snakebite!

sssssong of the day: duran duran - union of the snake





to see all your ex-boyfriends, click here.

There is something wrong, and there is something right

my new fave song:

the bird and the bee - fucking boyfriend

you wouldn't understand.

while watching jonathan rhys meyers holler "i am the king of england!" in a promo for the the tudors last night, i felt some kind of chemical, physical reaction inside of me. it's so hard to describe, mostly because the proper words or idiomatic expressions do not exist in our language. or possibly they do and i just don't know what they are.

when a guy gets aroused he can say, "i got a boner." or "i got wood" or "i got a chubby." what is the female equivalent of "it made my girl parts tingle"? i am open to suggestions. really. please give me suggestions!

in the past i've been known to say he "made my ovaries move."

someone suggested saying "he got my spot hot."

it's not bad, it certainly rhymes. but it's lacking a certain gross baseness and slangy crudeness that you get from "boner."

i'm not the only girl who feels this way... so let's do something about it. suggestions, please!!!


track of the day: sweaty wet dirty damp (by gameboy/gamegirl)

no magic wand jokes.

so i rented the covenant the very first day it was out on DVD, which was tuesday. let's just be clear: the movie is completely mediocre. but renny harlin and the producers were extremely specific with the marketing of this film, which was basically: what if abercrombie models had powers?

kidding. but unfortunately, a movie that asks this question is a film i need to see.

and so the "sons of ipswich" are basically witches, wizards, warlocks, whatever you want to call them. they're rich new england chiseled-jawed boys who reference harry potter and one dude threatens to make another dude his "weeatch." terrible, laughable, and sort of weirdly enjoyable. but honestly? rent it for the special effects... see it again for the swim team scenes.








sweet pieces of man candy.
when, in your life, have you ever seen high school boys like that?
or uniforms like that?

believe it or not, there's gay subtext.

i was sort of expecting them to start making out with each other.





i mean, they seem like they want to, am i right?
let me mention that there are girls in swimsuits at in this scene, but none of the guys notice them.



listen, i know i could just go get gay porn, but would it be directed by renny harlin? would friday night lights' taylor kitsch be in it? would it be titillating but still PG-13?

and so, i mindlessly await the covenant 2: butterfly stroke boogaloo.
or whatever.

goodbye sucky oh six, hello two double oh seven

so yeah. like the gogos said. vacation, all i ever wanted.

all the stuff i did is a blur. saw dreamgirls, went to a threeasfour party, saw a "family" screening of night at the museum, went to miami, came back, drinks at chinatown brasserie (hot bartender!),








party at the newly fancy gramercy park hotel,








saw a movie with hot hot hot vaguely psuedo-indigenous boys in loincloths (my favorite genre?), tim arrived from hong kong,



dinner at lil frankies (delicious!),





dancing at lit (yay dirty down!),







woke up, brunch at b bar, shopping at odin, across the brooklyn bridge to the museum to see the annie leibovitz and creepy cool ron mueck,



oysters and champagne shark bites at blt fish (again),









followed by drinks at the gramercy park hotel bar, and dancing with korean alvin ailey dancers at apt, saw leonardo and djimon make movie MAGIC then hosted new year's eve tiki stylee -















started out slow and anxiety-riddled, turned out awesome, got kissed by the asian mario lopez. and that's about it. the holidays are over. i spent too much money, ate too much, drank too much, stayed out too late, laughed too loudly and burned the candle at both ends. you call it overindulgent, the french call it joie de vivre. live the life you love and love the life you live.