things

on a day when i feel pretty useless i remind myself that today i did get interviewed for a magazine, take an order from a well-known designer, and get a pattern design approved for publication.

nothing’s stopping.
including the listening to new Lo-Fi-Fnk, The Last Summer, and hand embroidering at least a little bit every day.

einstein’s dreams

i’ve always said this is one of my most favorite books even though i was only 16 or so when i read it. (plus it validated my thing for jewish authors.)  i re-read it for book club recently, but missed the meeting. not having talked about it yet must be why i felt compelled to write something about it on goodreads. which i’ve copied here.

just finished this book for the second time. i rarely read books twice, but the first time was in high school and i remember enjoying it so much. i had sort of forgotten why, other than that the paradigms of time comprising each chapter were in and of themselves intriguing. apparently it also had to do with the challenge to my teenage mind to think about the plight of the modern man. this must have been the focus of many class discussions on this book, based on some notes in the margins i found. it did trigger memories of those english teachers trying to get us to decide how to life a productive and authentic life.  for example, on p. 17 after the chapter about time travel, I had written, “we, although not time travelers, can change the future with the way we live, things we do, etc. what is the difference between us and a traveler from the future in the risk involved in changing the future? we are living the life the will be the future but they are outsiders.  the importance of what we do may be the same, but they try to omit themselves from courses of action, and we must commit the action in order to produce an effective course.”  don’t know if i’d ever have come up with that now. funny though, cause i still think about action vs. inaction a whole lot, which might make those teacher happy.  i also had many notes correlating the different conceptualizations of time to different characters in the sound and the fury. buh…  i guess that one is next on my to-reread list.

ps. alan lightman once personally funded and built a mosque for a poor cambodian town.  cause that’s just what jewish physicist-writers do.

nevy

i am not the only one who has a crush on neville longbottom.

but for the record, i always loved him. not just when he got all hot.

the kills – future starts slow

 

-leur

i started reading the book thief last night, in one of those real tired but kind of lucid and impressionable states. so it really got me when he talked about experiencing everything through color. sometimes i feel like color is all my world is, and sometimes i wish my world was even more just color. then today i came across this site that does photo searches by color. 

i could play with that forever. to get it just right, you also have to be listening to the new patrick wolf album, lupercalia, while you play with the colors.

i was not expecting it to be this good. i don’t have the energy anymore to ever say why something is good. just that it is. and you should just trust me.

also also you can read the blog i do have energy for (cause it’s my livelihood) at suppose.

black light dinner party

stuff i did

went to this.

 it’s enough to make you shave half your head like a fan girl.

watched this.

someone told me to but who was it? i can’t remember, but thanks anyway, and call me so we can talk about it. i’m a sucker for the repressed dramatics of british period tv. plus, it’s set in 1912 which makes for amazing costumes compared to all those tired regency gowns.

listened to this.

and got sad. i always thought james murphy just looked like an unassuming dad, and that’s how i came to think of him–the elder voice of reason for a musical generation. don’t laugh.
also i can’t imagine all he’s gonna do now is dj. speculation?
btw there was a little twin peaks theme going on there at the end of the show, which reminds me. i need a designer to collaborate on a twin peaks themed embroidery project…

and there’s this.
lcd soundsystem – live alone (franz ferdinand cover)

and for a little variation…
made this.

named him jaime elefante at amy’s suggestion. made with fabric from the parisville collection by tula pink. obsessed.

guess that’s enough for now.

but who’s the poor man’s bon jovi?

me: bon jovi is the poor man’s bruce springsteen.

mom: bruce springsteen IS for the poor man.

me: no, i mean if you couldn’t have bruce springsteen, you’ll take bon jovi.

mom: why wouldn’t you have bruce springsteen?

not sure if she was messing with me or just real real tired.

stuff to love this week

• eugene mirman & kristin schaal in bob’s burger
• when parents text
• tiny wings–best 99¢ ever spent on iphone
• lo-fi-fnk’s cover of yelle’s “mon pays”
• supertrashy london pop
• Braids – Plath Heart
• best shrines ever
• the new website of my friend and talented designer, ashleysamantha
• we so excited and all that
• and yeah, jimmer too.

some people say only 13 year-olds listen to yelle

yeah i WISH i had yelle at 13.  it’s just a little bit more fun to dance to than wilson phillips.

but at least i’m in good company. nathan barnatt likes yelle. oh wait, have i not told you about my obsession with njb? start by watching this:

then see this, and then i dare you to stop.

whoever can arrange my meeting with him ending in a successful marriage can have our firstborn. secondborn too if you arrange for yelle to play at the wedding.