Big Secret Pizza Party

claudia kishi would rock these in a heartbeat

:( i want her to write some more.  wah!

earrings from lost & found

   

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i can't wait!!!!!!

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mr. lonely

I saw Mr. Lonely at the IFC center on Friday night - I'd been waiting for it ever since I saw the trailer.  The film follows two parallel storylines - one about a Michael Jackson impersonator (Diego Luna) who meets a Marilyn Monroe impersonator (Samantha Morton, who I love because of Sweet & Lowdown) and goes with her from Paris to the commune of impersonators that she is a part of in Scotland.  The other storyline features Werner Herzog as some sort of priest who finds himself in the company of some supernatural nuns.  Werner Herzog is really funny in it, if you like his brand of weirdness.

Besides being aesthetically beautiful, I really loved all the characters, especially Michael.  I loved that he has all these surface qualities that are Michael Jackson's - the clothes, dancing, hair, chin cleft -but they never penetrate any deeper than that.  It was like he needed someone to hide behind, but he didn't truly want to be someone else. 

It was definitely the least depressing Harmony Korine movie by far; it was sad but in a nice way?  I guess you could call it mellower, but I liked it better than anything else he's ever done. 

So, if you're looking for a movie to see, you might like this one better than this or this.  or you might not. depends on who you are.

* this is interesting - IMDB's recommendations at the bottom of the page include Wonder Boys, one of my favorite movies in the world. 

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remembering why i love the internet

i've been buried in work for so long that i haven't been able to look at the interwebs in awhile.  i've momentarily broken free though, and the amount of cool things i've seen online today is making me pretty happy.  here they are, in no particular order.

1) design your own Kleenex box.   

I know, a lot of companies are doing this, like Heinz and M&M's.  But this actually doesn't seem like a bad price for something so customized - $4.99 for an oval Kleenex box that you can customize with your own images, color palette and text.  I made 3 different ones!  Here are two ( the other one is my cats, der.)

2) dress devandra banhart

i'm a sucker of interactive dress-up applications,  and this one is made more awesome by the absolutely insane wardrobe of everyone's favorite modern-day hippie.   also, we share an affinity for tie-dyed socks (as evidenced above).

3)  overlay tv

my friend michael ( whose venture If We Ran It totally deserves it's own post, which i shall write) showed me this site this morning.  apparently, it's a way for brands to call out where their products appear in pop culture media - mainly videos, at the mo.  I guess anyone can tag a product too, or create an overlay for a video/image.   

i love that because of this, i can now buy those ridiculous white slatted sunglasses that Kanye's been sporting lately.  ( actually, i saw some guy on the street wearing them the other day, and he looked completely insane).

4) what claudia wore

ok, i saw this yesterday, technically, but it's pretty much the best thing I've ever encountered.   I pretty much only read the outfit description parts of the BSC series, because I can't for the life of me remember any of the actual plots.    I did, however, recall one particularly dirty passage from a Sweet Valley High book to my boyfriend last night during dinner, piquing his interest in '80s teen trash lit.    

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late gangsta or early B-Boy?

I've seen these New York Delft plates before, but this is the first time I've ever seen the video that the design firm, lovegrove and repucci, made for them.  It's a takeoff on Antiques Roadshow, and it's really funny.

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matt furie

I just sort of fell in love with the work of San Francisco artist Matt Furie because of this drawing:

There's a pretty funny interview with him on Fecal Face.  this is my favorite part:

Q:  "If you were offered a cartoon staring your characters... what would it be like? Soundtrack?"

A: "It would be like sesame street or the muppet show-only animated. There would be lots of characters hanging out and learning lessons together. A lot of riding around on the backs of flying creatures and creatures of the land. There would be volcanos, the jungle, street style, water slides, pizza, lots of dancings, good vibes, animals wearing sunglasses, ect. the soundtrack would be totally o.c."

This is some other stuff of his that i loved...I canNOT get enough of the bmx bikes.  I wish i could find one of those velcro awesome padded wrapper things to go around the bar on my Mongoose.  In fact, I might try.

my interpretation:
This bat is bitching to Skeletor about how his mom threw all his Garbage Pail kids away because he's failing math.

my interpretation:
the de-skinned terminator really likes his bike on the inside, but the other kids make fun of it because it is like, all pink and barbie-colored.

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"i don't know"

classic kids tv somehow becomes art.  I actually remember some of these peoples' names.  I'm pretty sure the girl in the middle row, left side is named Christine.  I don't see my former 7 yr old crush Alasdair in here anywhere though.

via the stylepress

* uh, ok, now i've been looking at the You Can't Do that on Television website for like, an hour now.  This kid was awesome...he was on in the later years.

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what?

i kind of want this guy to be my butler who gets exasperated with me.

  via the facehunter.
 

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can we settle this, once and for all?

ok.  I just opened a new book I'm about to start, called Predictably Irrational.   It's gotten a bit of buzz lately, and I'm pretty excited to read it - not just because understanding the way people make decisions is part of my job, but because I make decisions based on what seems rational but probably isn't all the time.
Anyway, I'll let you know how the book is after I'm done.

What stopped me from getting to the first page was a bullet point on the inside flap: "and how did we ever start spending $4.15 on a cup of coffee when, just a few years ago, we used to pay less than a dollar?"

OK.  ugh.  for the love of god... we don't spend $4.15 on the same type of coffee that Agent Cooper drinks, or that cost 5 cents in 1955. 

We spend $4.15 ( or more) on specialized coffee drinks that either a) contain more milk than coffee, b) have flavors or some other type of feature or c) involve more work than just letting coffee drip through a machine.

At Starbucks, a Grande drip coffee currently costs around $2.  People love to bastardize and make fun of how ridiculously expensive their coffee is, but if we're strictly talking drip coffee, it's not that expensive.  In fact, it's probably fairly average. 

It amazes me that this bizarre, "omigod $4.15 for coffee? what has the world come to?!!?!"  observation still occurs.  The reality is that if you're paying $4.15, it's probably for a latte, or a cappucino.  WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND?   I really just don't get why people think they are comparing equal things.  It is so, so annoying.

Seriously - this is an observation that has not only never been valid, but it is even more ridiculous when you consider that prices for both coffee beans and milk have risen drastically in the past few years.   Lattes certainly contain more milk than coffee, so why are people so surprised that they cost more?

Sorry, this is sort of a ranty post, but please.  Next time you hear someone bringing the fascinating modern coffee-sticker-shock issue to light for the 500th time, call to their attention that they are being more than a little skewed in their comparison. 

 

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signing up for crap

I saw this post about the Matter Box on Notcot, and I promptly signed myself up to receive one.  Essentially, it is a box full of brand promo schwag and trinkets, which I suppose means I have signed up to receive a box full of ads.  But it looks so cool! This British guy is pretty happy.  I like to think that he likes the soap crayons best.

The idea behind Matter is that they want to create cool things for brands that people would want to keep, as opposed to ads which are the bain of everyone's existence, apparently (except for today).

"Matter works a little like a magazine by creating specific boxes for different audiences, except each bit of 'content' is in fact a different object each created by a different company. Matter works with each company to create items you'll enjoy getting, which might be something that explains what the company does, its ideas or its values, or simply something to try out.

Matter is a refreshing interlude to the fast-moving blur of modern media. It's stuff you can read, play with, or try at your leisure. But because Matter is carefully created it's also a thoroughly modern concept–it's advertising you'll want to keep. "

I'm not sure if you need to live in England to get it, but I'm assuming no.  You can, of course, decide to advertise in Matter, which means creating something for your brand that someone would want to keep.  The whole thing is sort of cool, because instead of rolling the dice and hoping that the people who get your trinket in the mail will like it, you're halfway there in that they've actually signed up to receive it.

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