procrastination

So check it.
Remember when I posted that awesomely amazing Alexander McQueen clutch ?


Well it turns out that if you don't want the clutch part, you can just have the rings.
And I thought I wanted the clutch really badly....

They also serve dual purposes as awesome jewelery and some pretty hefty (and stylish!) brass knuckles, totally justifying it's $550.00 price tag.

(I mean, in comparison, the clutch is $1595.00...)

So... if any of you are at a loss as to what to get me for Christmas or my birthday....

TWO THINGS

1. Alison Mosshart makes me weak in the knees, she is such a babe in so many ways. (Have you ever seen her perform live? It's amazing.. I almost died watching The Kills.)

2. Hedi Slimane not only is an amazing designer, but he also takes some super amazing photographs some of which also make my insides quiver.

POINT?
Okay so on my occasional perusal of Hedi Slimane's diary for photographic inspiration I find THIS:

I ALMOST CANNOT HANDLE IT.

Seriously if I can be HALF the photographer Hedi Slimane is.... I don't know, I'd be amazing. Or even like HALF as cool as Alison...

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BONUS IMAGE:

Jamie Hince (The other half of The Kills)

the hipster grifter

I don't know if any of you have read about this. (Probably not, because I am probably the only one out of all of you who spends an inordinate amount of time on the internet.)

This story blew up all over the blogs/internet last week (therefore making it old news now...)

BUT I am so irritated because this asian bitch has made it marginally harder for me to get laid by bearded indie hipsters from now on.



They all going to be all aware of cute asian girls, who want to "give them a handjob with their mouth" and think that we are all after their money and are going to pretend to have cancer and to be impregnated with their bearded hipster spawn.

SIGH.

As if getting guys wasn't hard enough.

I am never going to hear the end of the hipster grifter jokes.


GET INFORMED HERE:
http://www.observer.com/2009/style/hipster-grifter?page=0


Oh look, it's been less than a week and someone is already profiting from this:
http://www.zazzle.com/kari_ferrell_the_hipster_grifter_tshirt-235352967728702426

OH HAI

UM, WES ANDERSON, LOU DOILLON, AND... IS THAT YOU LEELEE SOBIESKI?

source: the cobrasnake

Oh, Canada.

Google never ceases to amaze me.

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=mittens&geo=CA&cmpt=q

Okay, so Prince Edward Island ranks the highest in regional interest on mittens.
Fine.

Hipsters?
1. British Columbia (wait, really?)
2. Ontario
3. Alberta (really?)
4. Quebec
and apparently no one in any other province has any sort of interest in this.

Emo?
1. Northwest Territories. (haha, what?)
2. Newfoundland
3. Manitoba
(top searches being for "emo hair")

Porn?
1. Nunavut (not surprising)
2. Yukon + Ontario tied at 66%
Related: http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=child%20porn&geo=CA&cmpt=q
lolololadhjfsdf
do not bring up your children there.

Canada's kind of small and boring.

Apparently Idaho is #1 for Shakespeare .. and Guidos.
and Alabama and Mississippi are tied for "Obama Antichrist"
HAVE FUN.

yeah..

wtf why is it that all of a sudden there are all these references to australia and australians everywhere?
and why does it bother me so much?



good question!

another (set of) good question(s):
Since im back in canada and no longer half-way around the world volunteering and speaking portuguese, will this blog go back to the way it was before i left?
full of wit and fashion and music news?
or will it continue to be somewhere you go to read about how much i hate my life?
will i post more outfit posts because now i actually have a wardrobe, and dont wear the same uniform of aa hoody, aa deep-v, and skinny jeans?

will i ever update my flickr?

does anyone even read this any more?

is the whole point of making posts tagging them?

MGMT + Justice

If you're noting the barrage of posts, it's mostly because I'm leaving soon and I don't know how often I'll be updating.
Also because I am running into good music sources.

I like MGMT.
I like Justice.
I find the lead singer of MGMT extremely attractive.
I find Xavier from Justice slightly attractive.
So imagine the musical boners I had when I found out that Justice did a remix of Electric Feel.
(Actual girl-boners will ensue as soon as they put out a video together.)
Amazing.
Get the song here .


Bonus picture of Andrew from MGMT:

Bonus video where Xavier sheds some insight on their songwriting process, how they plan their dj sets and the origin of the band's name. (Also a great time to brush up on your German, and something about Kanye West.) Don't worry, it kicks into French-accented English during the important parts:

Also bonus video for Electric Feel (the original version)

Video of Justice and link to download courtesy of asian dan.

Picture of Andrew and Electric Feel video courtesy of google .

franki chan mixtape NLLR

Okay, maybe I suck at blogging because this is way late.
But Franki Chan has given us another mix, this time for no love lost records.
The one that I have (for iheartcomix) was pretty good, but I'm enjoying this one a lot more.
I'm hearing some Chromeo, heartsrevolution, and there is a Gorillaz sample somewhere.
The only downside is that when I downloaded it, it came as one hour-long song, and have been listening to it without knowing what songs I'm actually listening to.
But I have recently found the track listing:
01. Acid Girls - “Palms (Joe and Will Ask? Early Draft Remix)”
02. Classixx - “Cold Act Ill (Extended Mix)”
03. Kill The Noise - “Hey You (Le Castle Vania Remix)”
04. 30hz - “Daddio (Miles Dyson Remix)”
05. The Presets - “My People (DIM Remix)”
06. Ocelot - “Our Time (Calvertron Remix)”
07. The Count & Sinden - “Beeper (Fake Blood Remix)”
08. Treasure Fingers - “Cross The Dancefloor (Laidback Luke Remix)”
09. Fake Shark Real Zombie - “Designer Drugs (Designer Drugs Remix)”
10. Chromeo - “Fancy Footwork (Crookers Remix)”
11. Heartsrevolution - “Switchblade (LA Riots Remix)”
12. Top Billin - “My Girl Wants”
13. The Loungin Kollective - “Riddim Come 4ward (Herve’s Fire Pon Dem Remix)”
14. Alphabeat - “Fantastic 6 (Radioclit Remix)”
15. Sebastian Tellier - “Divine (Ocelot Vs. Bird Peterson Unfinished Remix)”
16. Digitalism - “Pogo (Beni’s Reedit, Rework, Remix)”

Interested? Download it here

it's 430am

and i cannot sleep. so here is prt 2 of the boyswear post.

everyone needs a jacket like this.
I need a jacket like this.
Note plaid shirt done all the way up to the top button.
(image from the commodified)

No boys I know will ever wear anything like this, which is sad because this is actually my favourite.
I'm not really sure why, but it probably has something to do with the colours or the proportions.
Maybe the glasses.
Or maybe because he's from Televiv, Israel.

(image from borderline)

And for the less adventurous:

you can't go wrong with plaid flannel, if it's in the right size and not hanging off of you lumberjack-like.
(image of homme from chictopia)

or if you're really simple, white tee, leather jacket and jeans.
(you can leave the suspenders at home.)
follow through with any of the footwear seen above, or some high tops.
and accessorize with a swoopy haircut.
(image of one of the french touch guys from my exactitudes post)

Am I late?

Did anyone else know about this?
Natalie Portman and Devendra Barnhart?
I don't know.
This may be too much indie to handle.

[not confirmed]

mens wear #1: If I was a boy.

Recently someone asked me to do a post on mens wear?
Why they'd ask me, I don't know. I haven't even done a post on women's wear yet.
I had no idea where to start, but I've always said that boys have it pretty easy.
Plus we all know that I am stuck on a particular type of aesthetic.
Anyways, I started searching for pictures and examples and decided to split it up into 2 parts.
So here's part one.
If I was a boy this is what I would wear:



Finally, a reason to use polyvore!
What a good use of 3 hours of lecture time.

To me all you need to do is to throw on a v-neck and some skinny jeans, as pair of nike dunks or plimsoles and you're good. Want to class it up? Throw a vest over your v-neck and trade in the shoes for a pair of brogues and a fedora. Accessorize with a necklace and a messenger bag/man purse and you're gold.
The addition of a straw fedora helps these outfits transition into the summer. Pops of bright colours in shoes and accessories are also good.
The outfit in the middle could probably be teamed with a pair of single pleat shorts (technical term for this?), cuffed and ending just at the knee and a pair of boat shoes. I'm thinking either staying with black or a light khaki colour if you ditch the cardigan.

I think I would dress better as a male.
But this is a whole other story...

Part 2 with some real life examples coming next.

(then it's less fashion and more art/culture/music I promise.)

models/singers

So I'm sure everybody's heard and seen the trainwreck that was Scarlett Johansson's singing-career, and everybody is aware of the actress/singer phenomenon.
But what about the model/singer?
Can models sing? It's always weird to see/hear and model speak, let alone sing. I mean, I like to look at them, and their outfits and stuff, but to realize they're actually people and can talk and do stuff other than smile and pose is weird sometimes.
On that note (haha ?) here's a video from Five O'Clock Heroes, featuring none other than Miss Agyness Deyn.
And it's actually not that bad, in my opinion. I know she has a pretty hardcore accent, but it doesn't come out too much in the singing..
Anyways, here you go:


Apparently she's not the only one to move in with the model/singer trend.
We've got Irina Lazareanu's foray into the musical sphere, and Daisy Lowe waiting on a collaboration with Mark Ronson.

AND Kate Moss is apparently dying to get in on the action with Jamie and Allison.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html?in_article_id=563795&in_page_id=1773&ito=1490
All I can say is that, I really hope they don't let her on stage with them. Kate Moss is Kate Moss and all, but as I've blogged before, The Kills are pretty much perfect as is.
Maybe she IS jealous of VV and Hotel's dynamic.

PICTURE POST

the first three i stole off of "annie" from "annie is my alias". but really it's not stealing, because I TOOK THEM, even though they were with her camera. there would be more, but they have not been uploaded anywhere that i can access YET.

the rest are off of cobrasnake.

I am an amazing photographer.

GrandMarnier!

I'm sure this is the most attractive shot anyone has ever gotten of Lo from Heartsrevolution.

See if you can find Sasha and I in this pic.

The Cobrasnake managed to capture the love that exists between me and Dorian!
(with the help of some photoshop enhancement)

THIS IS THE CREEPY DUDE THAT HAS A FUCKING PICTURE OF MY FACE.
OMG.

Pre-photoshop enhancement.

hipsternet wet dream

Some pictures which accurately describe the past two nights:








DORIAN FROM THE TEENAGERS
and Yelle

the textular more detailed account:
wednesday night i headed out to see yelle, and more importantly grandmarnier.
we saw some tectonik dancers ("a world wide cultural phenomenon!") and some guys who wished/thought that they were tectonik dancers. and also a guy who felt he needed to tell us that he wasn't creepy, challenged sasha to a dance off, and tried to get into our cab at the end of the night.

also i bumped into a girl in the bathroom who recognized me from facebook photos. she works with a friend of mine, but the real question is WHY DO I ALWAYS MEET PEOPLE IN THE GIRLS BATHROOM AT OPERA HOUSE?

thursday we headed to the cobrasnake yardsale, which was pretty much one of the most awkward experiences of my life. the only redeeming part of it was a) i got a CYOA tshirt from heartsrevolution (and everytime i see it, i get CYOA stuck in my head), b) the beer vending machine (PBR for $2!), and c) i got to see the So Me Masterpiece, 2pac shak.p., in person.

busy p is a STUD.

look at him here in this still from the justice vs simian - we are your friends video.

mark the cobrasnake didnt show up till later i assume, but we left due to the intense feeling of being judged by the toronto hipster community, and went to burger king where i ate a poutine and managed to annoy the girl who was taking orders.
also present at the yardsale was a Corey Kennedy wannabe (no joke) who directed us upstairs when we wandered wearily past her in search for the sale.

thursday night was the main event, the cobra snake dance party, that didn't get started till about 12:3oish even though the doors opened at 9:00 and there was a band scheduled to play at 10.
things i found out/realized/that happened throughout the night:

• wrongbar is really nice
  
• the wallpaper had fuzzy griffins
  
• if you sit at the table closest to the bar you have a direct view into the mens bathroom
  
• matt sim's boyfriend was doing coat check and he was actually really sweet (and was probably confined to the coat check/ticket booth, because he's underage and not allowed in the actual venue)
  
• i broke a candleholder?cup? that was on the edge of the booth, pulling my jacket out when getting our stuff from coatcheck and he was like "you know what, hon? don't even worry about it!" i wish i was as self-assured when i was in highschool
  
• in the dark its really hard to distinguish one hipster from the other
  
• there was a guy that had the same clear framed wayfarers that i did (oh hey urban outfitters)
  
• the asian girls from the yardsale were also there
  
• corey kennedy was NOT there, however her toronto wannabe version WAS
  
• mark the cobrasnake showed up in a stupid tshirt, and even stupider looking pants (he looks like more of a douchebag irl. he is also v. short)

*this is an actual picture of what he wore to the party last night

• the asian behind shark vs bear was also in attendance, definitely better dressed than mark the cobradouche

here they are together.


• heartsrevolution finally got on stage, and were pretty amazing, even though they played the shortest set ever. (ben is pretty cute)
  
• standing under intense strobe lights confuse the fuck out of me, and cause me to bump into everyone, and crash heads into sasha on numerous occasions


• you will only ever get your picture taken by the cobrasnake if a) you tell him you will suck his cock b) he wants you to suck his cock or c) you just happen to be in the frame when he holds his camera 3 feet away from his face and randomly presses the shutter release (this is how party pictures are taken guys!)
  
• calling mark the cobrasnake a photographer is a REALLY REALLY big stretch.
  
• i was dancing and this random dude with a point and shoot digital camera holds it out and flashes that shit in my face (hey, guys! he wants to be a party photographer too!)
  
• now there is a random guy that has what i'm pretty sure is the most unflattering picture that exists of me out there
  
• DORIAN AND MICHAEL FROM THE TEENAGERS SHOWED UP, fresh from their show at lee's
  
• i tried the cobrasnake's method of taking party pictures to stealthily obtain a picture of dorian, but i think i only succeeded in getting the back of his head (i will post this soon)
  
• this random hipster girl launched herself on dorian and succeeded in seducing him by holding onto his head and talking into his ear over the loud music, and moving from his ear to his mouth. he was so cute trying to get away from her, but gave in and agreed to leave with her, but not before untangling himself from her and frantically tapping on Michael's arm and speaking to him in rapid french (saying: hey, okay i am going to leave and bang this ugly slut so she'll leave me the fuck alone, brb ?)
  
• later on he introduced her as his girl "okay this eez my girl, eet eez nice to meet you"
  
• i love The Teenagers even more now. but esp dorian even if he left with some random fug slut. (she was fucking persistent!)
  
• i might be jealous that i didnt land him myself.

ed banger

Justice - Stress (auto remix)
the new justice track from Ed Rec Vol III
it's actually pretty old news... (well a couple days at least)
but i doubt anyone who reads this has heard it yet, so here you go.


also the ed rec vol III is out May 26 if anyone cares.

i didn't even know that there was a vol I and II...

theres also a Busy P x Murs track thats floating around thats supposed to be a straight up anthem to LA hipsters with shout outs to the cobrasnake, steve aoki and others.
i'll post it if i'm able to find it.

edit:
found it. the youtube itself is pretty funny. wtf at the spinning smiley face.
okay i know murs is supposed to be a big deal in the hiphop world, or was back in the day when i was a huge hiphop head and was always being sent the hottest underground tracks, but the lyrics on this track are kind of ridic.

"i got a dick that's as big as texas"
"we hit up cinespace, bro got his camera all up in my face tomorrow morning i'n gonna be on cobrasnake"
"dj am, steve aoki, got the dance floor packed and its mostly girls girls"

lol cinespace, steve aoki, cobrasnake.



I can't hate on it too much. I love Busy P.

WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT THE FUCK CORY KENNEDY, WHO ARE YOU AND WHY DO YOU GET TO MEET KANYE WEST

Radio Head

So we all know how progressive Radiohead is.
Now they have a remix competition.
The task is to remix Nude. (As in make a remix of the Radiohead song entitled "Nude", not remix in the Nude, thanks.)
Listen to all the remixes here.
OR
Listen to the best out of the bunch, and currently in 3rd place HERE.
And vote for it while you're at it, because it would actually be pretty amazing to have Thom Yorke listen to it.

JUSTICE X SURFACE TO AIR COLLECTION

A couple of hours ago, I microwaved a Mrs. Fields cookie (white chocolate macadamia nut) to warm it up and get it gooey and yummy, but I put it in for too long, and it burned. It was only a surface burn in the middle, so I brought it upstairs and ate it anyways, and my room STILL smells like burnt food. IDGI.

Anyways music x fashion update.
Justice has collaborated with Surface to Air to bring you their love of leather goods, and awesome denim. (Surface to Air directed the "We are your friends" video..)
For the collection, Justice has designed a limited edition series of 3 jackets (150 pieces), and 2 pairs of jeans. The collection will be available at select locations worldwide including Surface To Air Paris, Surface To Air Brazil, Colette, Barneys, Lane Crawford, Isetan, Le Bon Marché, Paris Texas, Asylum, Le Shop, Incu. (Not to be found in Toronto or the surrounding area though sadly!)







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THE FRENCH

J'aime beaucoup le francais.

God, with that accent Quentin can call ME an american cunt.

yelle with dorian.

when did the french get so big?

daft punk, justice, yelle, the teenagers...

and uffie... i guess.

thank you ed banger records.

the french are the hipsters of the world, obviously.