winters love

what’s the holiday’s without a little wham!?

this year i’ve really gotten into the *holiday* spirit- you know, it’s pretty magical living in a place where it SNOWS and all, eh? see, i’ve even put on the northern hemi vernacular- whatever it takes to get my cali friends out here!

tonight is andy’s work party and i’m pretty excited to wear this new dress for the first time. i’ve paired it with some black tights, a black blazer, pumps, and a clutch.

xmas outfit

apparently there are going to be lots of hors d’oeuvres AND karaoke. i love and hate the latter, but it’s high time andy and i make our band debut, right? besides, if we are really going to make it big in NYC then i ought to practice more.

i’m also really embarrassed to say that i managed to buy myself a really unnecessary pair of rain boots today

emilio pucci rain boots

i pretty much ruined my tory burch boots by wearing them in the snow so before they got too damaged (which sadly, isn’t saying much) and before i felt too guilty about ruining a $600 pair of boots, i went into a store and bought them. it can be hard to maintain fashionable footwear in the snow, but these aren’t too bad and hey- they keep my feet warm! bonus! or maybe it’s the other way around…

.:: p e r m a n e n t v a c a t i o n ::

my theme song now and forever

i haven’t written since august so to immortalize the best summer ever, here is a list of the things i can remember doing:

- read:  the brief wondrous life of oscar wao, the invention of morel, the mystery guest

- bought books: the confederacy of dunces, cortzar’s blow up and other stories, cortazar’s all fires the fire, the cunning man

- went to concerts: the dodos, hercules and love affair, the dead science, final fantasy, sandro perry, matmos, the blankett

- bought records: “st. vincent – marry me”, “hercules and love affair – s/t”, “the slits – cut”, “final fantasy – has a good home”, “arthur russell – calling out of context”, “jamie lidell – muddlin’ gear”, “dirty projectors – rise above”,  “xiu xiu – la foret”, “will oldham – (i don’t remember the title)”

- traveled: MTL (to visit kat & dave), NYC (to visit friends + CU), SF (to visit fam + friends for thanksgiving)

- watched jap films: stray dog, onibaba, mishima, funeral parade of roses, merry christmas mr. lawrence, boy, death by hanging, in the realm of the senses, rashomon,  100 years of cinema, page of madness, sisters of the gion, i was born but…, shanghai, potemkin, late spring

- watched french films: les petites amoureses,the umbrellas of cherbourg, bed & board, muriel, last year in marienbad, trans europ express, jules et jim, weekend, the 400 blows

- watched danish films: the five obstructions, breaking the waves, the idiots

- watched quebecois films: days of darkness, barbarian invasions

- watched korean films: sympathy for mr. vengeance; spring, summer, fall, winter…and spring, old boy, sympathy for lady vengeance

- watched italian films: 120 days of sodom

- watched art films: matthew barney

- watched american films: dark knight x 2, vicky christina barcelona, the savages, blindness, rachel getting married, p.s. i love you, milk

- watched TV series: twin peaks, gossip girl, freaks and geeks, 1st season of dexter, 1st season of true blood

- started & almost finished my first rotoscoped animation (bob wiseman’s music video)

- had a pen pal from vancouver

- ebay’d: a pink typewriter and columbia gp-3

- cooked/baked: fennel and leek soup, pesto, tapenade, molasses cookies, butterscotch cake, fig & prosciutto sammies, gnocchi, spinach quiche, zucchini bread, smoothies 3x/wk

- saw famous people: umberto eco on campus, glenn close on bloor

- was an extra for a quebecois documentary about a plague

more later.

“The exquisite corpse will drink the new wine.”

Exquisite corpse is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled, the result being known as the exquisite corpse or cadavre exquis in French. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence, either by following a rule (e.g. “The adjective noun adverb verb the adjective noun“) or by being allowed to see the end of what the previous person contributed.