3 days, 12 hours…
On Friday some friends and I will be heading to Nebraska. There is only one thing I would ever travel to Nebraska for, and that is Conor Oberst. My childhood crush will be reuniting Desaparecidos, a short lived side project from 2001-2002, Cursive, Bright Eyes and many more will be performing as well. Not only will the performance be incredible but the concert is in effort to benefit ACLU’s (American Civil Liberties Union) fight against Fremont’s anti-immigration Law. Welcome back to the 60’s my friends.
Conor Oberst for The Sound Strike from Producciones Cimarrón on Vimeo.
xo
July 27, 2010 No Comments
P4k
This past weekend was Pitchfork’s annual music festival in Union Park. The line up was nothing short of perfect for a summer weekend.
Real Estate
Titus Andronicus
The Smith Westerns
Wolf Parade
LCD Soundsystem
Best Coast
Girls
Beach House
Surfer Blood
Sleigh Bells
Post Sleigh Bells
xo
July 21, 2010 No Comments
Bright Lit Blue Skies
July 21, 2010 1 Comment
Oh, Tommy
July 21, 2010 No Comments
10,000 Lakes
Last weekend I took a trip up to Minnesota to visit a dear friend of mine for her birthday weekend. It was my first visit to the land of 10,000 lakes but certainly not my last.
Most of our time was spent biking about the city, hanging out with her cat Lucifer and cooking. We browsed a lot of really great vintage shops in the Uptown area. One shop in particular that I recall had an amazing collection of old 60’s magazines and Lolita sunglasses. We spent the birthday evening bowling at this fantastic little retro bowling alley called Bryant-Lake Bowl that’s also attached to the Cabaret Theater. Below are a few pictures from the weekend.
BFF crystals (Ingredients: alum, eggshell, warm water, food coloring)
xo
July 20, 2010 2 Comments
‘Merica
This past holiday weekend was spent back home in Michigan and Indiana.
Our 4th of July feast. (Watermelon is obviously a MUST.)
Fireworks on the dock.
I discovered that my old neighbors in Michigan were big collectors and they showed us their “treasure shed”. We ended up hanging out in there all night and listening to Joplin.
God Bless.
xo
Images: My own
July 6, 2010 No Comments
A bout de souffle
To celebrate Jean-Luc Godard’s 50th anniversary of the 1960 film, Breathless, my friends and I saw a showing of it at the Music Box Theater last night.
Michel Poiccard’s character, played by Jean-Paul Belmondo, is a runaway car thief and police killer. With his abrupt remarks and natural charm he seeks every way possible to seduce Patricia Franchini, the American journalism student played by Jean Seberg, to escape to Italy with him.
As perfectly sexy as Belmondo was throughout the film, he wasn’t the only thing keeping my eyes pleasantly glued to the screen. Patricia Franchini’s character had the most impeccable style.
I decided to create my own inspiration board. Patricia Franchini meets 2010.
xo
Images: google, polyvore
July 1, 2010 No Comments
UO Fall 2010 Lookbook
June 30, 2010 No Comments
DIY: Crop Top
I found the oversized jaguar shirt at a thrift store in Indiana years ago, and had worn it as a nightie for unfairly hot summer nights sprawled upon the covers. But I decided it was time to let the jag loose and go public. I believe I may have even unleashed a new summer music festival outfit!
xo
June 24, 2010 No Comments
Jules et Jim
Chicago has been enduring some miserable weather lately, so without question I’ve been staking out the storms curled up in bed watching movie after movie, catching the occasional spider leg of lightning from the corner of my eye.
Last night I watched, Francois Truffaut’s 1962, Jules et Jim. A French film concerning a love triangle between two friends and one impulsive woman. The film is a beautiful elegy about time. A time of war, love, obsession and art.
The dialogue held between the lovers and friends had me continuously rewinding and pausing to pencil everything down, it was so exceptional and concrete.
Catherine: “The sky we see is a hollow ball no bigger than that. And we walk upright, with our heads towards the center. The attraction pulls towards the outside under our feet towards that solid crust in which this bubble is enclosed.”
Jim: “How thick is the crust and what’s beyond it?“
Catherine: “Go and see. That’s no question to raise among gentlemen.”
Jules: “Keep in mind words cannot have the same meaning across languages because they’re not of the same gender. Unlike in French, “war”, “death” and “moon” are masculine in German, while “sun” and “love” are feminine. “Life” is neuter.”
Jim: “Life neuter?”
Jim: “Very pretty and very logical.”
xo
Images: google
June 24, 2010 No Comments
