there. i said it.

lesleykat:

did you watch the AMAs last night? i kinda did… (really i just fast-forwarded through the awards to get to the meaty performances)

here’s my gaga fashion breakdown. CLICK FOR A BIGGER LOOK.

I will likely reblog and and all lesleykat outfit breakdowns. Awesome.

Love, love, loved An Education. Carey Mulligan is wonderful as the curious, brilliant Jenny and Peter Sarsgaard is amazing as the twisted, childish older man. But even better were the setting and costumes. 1960s Britain + Paris. So beautiful.

I even love Jenny’s uniform:

Yes chiffon party dress:

Too costume-y to wear but still beautiful:

My digs.

gotagirlcrush:

Got a girl crush on: Joan Didion

[Guest Post by Erin!]

Joan Didion did some superficially cool things like hang out with the Doors and drink in the afternoons, but that’s not why she’s crush-worthy. Didion’s nonfiction, particularly personal essays from her 20s like those in White Album and Slouching Toward Bethlehem, came to symbolize what only an observer, not a participant, could glean from Southern California in the 60s. Her writing was unemotional and impassionate (she was, first and foremost, a journalist), yet it conveyed a subtly cunning point of view that a reader automatically agrees with, understands and applies to herself. Didion has the inimitable ability to make you reframe everything you thought you understood about yourself. One of her most well-known passages:

“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”

geocities:

Frank Aleksandrowicz, Cleveland, Ohio, USA. (1973)

Remember industry?

The time has come for Erin’s Fall West Coast Adventure. Thank you, previous two employers as well as current employer, for requiring me to get out of New York just as it’s getting cold, for the past four years running.

totes:

big ups to my roomie for completing 30 DAYS OF BIKRAM YOGA IN A ROW today!

(above image was one of 12 i had to choose from yoga dogs. thanks, internet!)

YES!

Discovering yoga dogs is the second best thing that’s happened to me today. (See previously for the first best thing).