It's Spring!!!

Just kidding. I'm just doing some mighty risky poking around on my fave e-hot-spots for some light spring dreamin'. I'm not totally sick of winter yet (I love snow!) but the malaise usually kicks in through the sartorial sphere: I long to see toes poking through sandals, gams jutting out of short-shorts, bellies peeking out from under crop-tops! I even sneakily bought a pair of The Perfect Black Denim Cutoffs at the thrift store a couple days ago, and stopped just short of acquiring a little '90's throwback floral denim minidress from Bongo, cap-sleeves and all. Some of my early Spring shoe picks from only the most shallow of searching:

Topshop Olive Blue Leather Clogs

Forever 21 Floral Mary Janes

Marais USA Prince Wedges

Loeffler Randall Joanna Oxfords

Topshop Monk Lace-up Flats


...Time to go throw on my Frye boots for the 1,000,069th time to trudge through the sludge!

Enjoy...A C I D R O C K!!

"I gotta stick up for my generation. It didn't seem gay at the time. I don't know these performers but when we dressed like that we got laid and not in a gay way! We didn't know Freddy Mercury(Queen) or Rob Halford (Judas Priest) and even more amazing.. George Michaels (Wham) were gay. Macho wasn't so narrowly defined back then. To me, it was a lot more fun than the sexual paranoia that sometimes happens now. Rock On!"


Amen.

Moving Lines

Decided to go on a very impromptu mini-date last night for a 30-minute romantic getaway at the MoMA. We watched their screening on abstract animation featuring musically-oriented experimental shorts created by painting directly onto film strips. My favorites:





Watching these on a tiny computer screen will never do them justice. The Norman McLaren film is particularly subtle and hypnotic in full size. Alas, only Len Lye (who directed the second video) made it to the permanent collection: his projection of "Swinging the Lambeth Walk" is a cheery punctuation amongst the sculptures and paintings surrounding it. I sometimes find modern art a tad dour, and films like these are so refreshing in a museum!

Screenshots

Some of the things I've been looking at lately. The Seven Year Itch is amaaaaazing!!