pass-time

the piano at my house is out of tune, but i've started practicing anyway. i want to be able to play debussy's first arabesque.




it sounds as if it would feel so good to be able to play it.
i've played this one before,




ah, michelangeli. you dog, you.






tres alice in wonderland/nutcracker





who remembers this from 2003?








(marc/pre-makover)




(karl/post-makeover)








lacroix!!!





from foto decadent

can tim burton do better than annie leibovitz?












mr. burton, while you're at it, why not the nutcracker?

photos from wired.com

wilderness

photos taken by eri (except the last one)

we got lost on a dirt road and stopped.
i looked around and said, 'isn't this amazing?'
eri said, 'there's nothing here'
and i thought, 'but look at how much there is of nothing!'


i forget sometimes what this blog is about.


have a great 4th of july!
xx

what i didn't find

In my childhood, I had neither teddy bear nor blanky; I didn't play with slinkys, legos or easy bake ovens. I used to go outside terrorizing ants and collecting peculiarly long blades of uncut grass, twigs and acorn. I used to gang up against my sister with my brother (sorry Mariko), play cards, and stay over at friends' houses. I did, however, have an American Girl doll, oh yes, and so did my sister: she had Molly, and I, Samantha. I vaguely remember asking for the doll, and perhaps some accessories to complete Samantha's world of historic relics and keepsakes. She was plastic, and heavy; her joints were stiff, and her frame was hard. After treating her as if she were my most precious possession, I grew weary of her novelty after six months and she became an objet d'art, if I may, in the corner of my room...under my bed...in my closet...and now, probably buried in a dump under years of litter and waste, i.e. my basement. They came out with a new historical American Girl doll, the Jewish American Girl doll, Rebecca, who is Russian in origin, and living in the tenement houses of the lower east side in Manhattan. Well, lemme jus say, no more of any kind of warped classification or photocopy parallel universe doll for me...! I am going to hold my breath until they make me an Asian American Girl doll, the daughter of a worker on the transcontinental railroad, or perhaps a girl from a working family in Anychinatown, USA! Is there a lack in sociohistorical support to validate the production of an Asian American Girl doll? Because, honestly, I am American, my mother's American, my mother's father was an American, and that should be enough.





p.s. The Samantha doll is being archived which means if I had kept that doll I could have given it to my daughter who could have gotten it appraised for a 'nice price'. oh the humanity.

photo binge

dior in russia photos from here


passage


migration


departure


tree sonata


the visitation


mending the earth


forestbed


restoration
photos found at robert parkeharrison: the architect's brother



























world war II photos in color found here

copyright david lynch

“In Hollywood, more often than not, they’re making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone. But what’s so fantastic is to get down into areas where things are abstract and where things are felt, or understood in an intuitive way that, you can’t, you know, put a microphone to somebody at the theatre and say ‘Did you understand that?’ but they come out with a strange, fantastic feeling and they can carry that, and it opens some little door or something that’s magical and that’s the power that film has.”

david lynch

not to mention the red-soled christian louboutin.

'fetish'...tell me about it.

quote from purple diary

fwd: tag, and be tagged

Directions: 1. Respond and rework. Answer the questions on your blog, replace one question you dislike with a question of your own invention; add a question of your own. 2. Tag eight other un-tagged people.



//what is your current obsession// my pink and white striped wall paper and the shadows against it.

//good coffee place// nakameguro lounge is nice and spacious, and it has a great sesame latte...otherwise I take my coffee black, with a drop of honey.

//do you nap a lot// no, not lately.

//who was the last person you hugged// my friend alyssa. we had dinner tonight, and it was the first time i've seen her since she came to visit me in japonica.

//what was the last thing you bought// a lightweight black cotton bomber jacket, black shorts, a dark gray long v-neck cashmere cardigan, and a pair of black suede platform oxfords with a flared heel. all for under $20 at the portchester salvation army. woot.


//who is your favorite model// tilda swinton

from another magazine

//what are you listening to right now// billie holiday-until the real thing comes along

//what is your favorite weather// cool, overcast, slightly foggy days.

//what's on your bedside table// currently, my bedside table=my old aplifier+window sill. a hair pin, my glasses, paper and pen, and two books: siddhartha, by herman hesse, and against nature, by j.k. huysmens,

//say something to the person who tagged you// dear sofie, modediktator, i cannot thank you enough. you have encouraged me and included me in this wonderful community that i am so happy to be a part of. may our friendship flourish in all aspects of our livesxx

//if you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you want it be// nyc

//favorite vacation spot// everywhere

//name the things you cannot live without// family, friends, art

//what would you like to have in your hands right now// a zillion bucks

//what is your favorite tea flavor// green tea. iced mint tea.

//what did you want to become as a child// i can't remember...a doctor?

//what style trend is the hardest one for you to adopt// jean jacket and leather jacket. i cannot yet find one that fits my human body and mind.

//if you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour where would you go// zagreb, croatia. dubrovnik, croatia.



//what is your favorite scent; perfume// honeysuckle. my neighbor always had a honeysuckle bush right by our driveway, and it always smelled so sweet on a summery day.

to my sister, mariko, at the subtle wardrobe, consider yourself tagged.

edit: kyle, do your thang.

eccentric buzz

There are plans to launch a long-range missile. It concerns many Japanese as well as others. Save the dates, April 4-8. Thankfully, I will be out of here by March 30.



Kim Jong Il

He's fascinating.
Why is that?

"He is said to wear platform shoes and favour a bouffant hairstyle in order to appear taller than his 1.57m (5ft 3in). "

"He is said to have a library of 20,000 Hollywood movies and to have even written a book on the cinema. He even went so far as to engineer the kidnapping, in 1978, of a South Korean film director and his girlfriend."

"the North Korean leader had live lobsters air-lifted to the train every day which he ate with silver chopsticks."

"according to official North Korean accounts, he was born in a log cabin at his father's guerrilla base on North Korea's highest mountain, Mt Paektu, in February 1942.

The event was reportedly marked by a double rainbow and a bright star in the sky."

quotes taken from article in link

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