Poetics

Just cos there is always room for poetry in life ... I heart Threadless

Or you might want a tshirt that celebrates Festivus (it's a Seinfeld thang).

A movie to lie down and ... Lust, Caution by Ang Lee. Don't imitate the sexual gymnastics unless you are in fact or a gymnast. Or a yoga devotee. Or a dabbler in contortionism.

I wrote a post on Japanese street fashion and came across this lovely blog Carmen Yuen - there is a good post explaining the allure of the Vivienne Westwood Rocking horse ballerina shoe to the Gothic and Lolita crowd.


Anyone venturing near the Hutt would do well to visit the New Dowse - taxidermied jewellery, fashion photography, and a showcase of 32 stunning avant-garde hats made by the world’s most adventurous milliner, Philip Treacy for his friend and muse, the late style-icon, Isabella Blow.

Was there ever a more apt URL - SOLO PASSION - Mr Perigo & his neocon mates give themselves a self congratulatory tug.

Apparently there is a tv show in Oz about Librarians. The web site is well worth a snoop, with quizzes and nifty effects.

One of my very favourite perfumes L'Interdit is being relaunched. Wonder if it smells like the powdery heaven I remember. Another Givenchy one called Vetyver.
sounds intriguing ...

And on a final arch romantic note, NZ Ballet is doin Romeo and Juliet next year. Love the Prokofiev music, one to save up for.

Guy Fawkes

What's hot & happening a la momenta?

Happy Music news: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds release their 14th studio album DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!! on 3rd March 2008.

Another good discovery on the graphic novel front:
I Killed Adolf Hitler - Between the opening note of perverse sexuality and the touching tribute to the permanence of true love at the end, murder, time travel and alternate futures fill in the second act of this astonishing graphic novel.

Family history info on the Elsmore side

Have rediscovered the delights of flip flop flyin. Was always a minipop fan, but hadn't seen the lollipops. They are cute as buttons. See the lovely Har Mar Superstar as pictured in his smalls, and P J Harvey in her pink jumpsuit. Oh and Duran Duran.

Am feeling flouro at the moment (I've got fetching flouro lime fingernails), check out the no 1 shoe warehouse upcoming delights.

Fabulous Steves I love: Buscemi and Fry. One in the face for those who assumed the suave Mr Fry would be an old fashioned boy, he's a technology geeksta deluxe.

A recent exhibition invAsian!. Reminds me of Pierre et Gilles.

A nice article by John Sutherland on Jasper Fforde
The wit. lit. of Jasper Fforde: John Sutherland delights in a comic writer whose heroine keeps fiction in order and fights the rise of idiocy

Bringing sexyback

Beautiful floor length kaftans, kitten shirts, waltz length loungers ... Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you with First Lady Fashion ...

Back in Black

I've been sans home pc for a while. My c drive had meltdown ... still, offers an opportunity for some tidying and culling. I've added a flickr badge (see right).

Here's a measly couple of things in the meantime.

Why The Sopranos is telly's crowning achievement

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Chocolat

My colleague Simone makes the most delicioso Afghans. No need for wussy icing or walnuts when you make them with Valrhona Dutch cocoa. So very very good.

Of course, when I pop in to buy said cocoa at Aji, I have to try some of their Schoc chocolate. The lime and chili is ... gaaahhhh!! beyootiful and your tongue will be in paroxyms of pleasure. yes yes yyeeeeessss!


Other guilty pleasures:

• Dai Henwood


• Paul Henry


• Duran Duran


• New Weekly


• Badass sweet sweet wine


• Socks with lacy tops like I wore at my first communion


• Cats in outfits (a la Miss Glamourpuss)

Shame is an outmoded construct.

Toons & News

The cartoon Drawn Together has been wowing us on Prime TV. Filthy good fun, and I'd like to say you'd like it if you like Family Guy. But they don't tend to shit on pizzas there. Anyhoo, while the Pokemon-alike character Ling Ling is my fave, I am a bit of a Toot Braunstein I think.

The news has been dominated by the tragic story of Pumpkin.Here are some other things that have been in the news or out on the interweb:

Our boob-job warriors: ADF defends breast enlargements: The Australian Defence Force has denied paying for breast enlargements so that female sailors could look sexy and said taxpayers only footed the bill if the surgery was needed for psychological reasons. The navy paid $10,000 each for the sailors, aged 25 and 32, to have cosmetic breast enlargements, newspapers have reported.

World wide op shop

Wonderful Art - broken statuettes are a thing of rare beauty

Make yr own jackson pollock

Bert and Ernie swear it up as Joe Pesci and Bobby de Niro

Ahoy mateys - have fun with generation. Might I recommend the Marie Suzette generator - instantly create an obnoxiously romantic original character.
The red-gold-haired, ultramarine-eyed beauty known only as Marguerite has a secret: not only is she a notorious courtesan, she is General Lamarque's daughter! Her feathery angel wings and a talent for languages set her apart from others

I was at the LIANZA library conference - pics here. And we was on TV3.

Hooray hooray it's a holi holiday

Yes I have the week off and a sunny gay old time it has been thus far ...
Idolator's top 50 boy hotties in music

Interior design - wall graphics are where it's at

I heart Mashuptown - mashin on the motorway

Ultra cute Blythe animation. I am jolly keen to get this new gel too. Called Princess a la Mode. Feeling the red ball gown.

Timbaland loves Nine Inch Nails

Perfume site Base notes

Kath n Kim style

The Cockney/Surrealist alphabet

Animal groups - including a flange of baboons

and I'll end on this delicious und heroic note Corporal Bill (Willie) Apiata - NZ's most handsome man??

up to date

my oath haven't been here for a while. all apologies. My energy has been absorbed by finding a new home ... and now I have. It is peachy, can't wait to get in there and pimp it to my needs. It is so close to town, with Spagalimis, Thai, organic fruit and vege, daily bagel, all a mere moment away.

One of the funniest things on telly recently was "Malcolm in the middle". Mrs Malcolm found a girly mag in one of the boys' drawers. She took a whole bunch of polaroids of her own face and stuck them on the girlie mag bodies. Very Freudian. And there was fighting Uncle Sams on stilts, but I guess you had to be there.

Had a good idea for a back tattoo. It is an image by Man Ray

Spamalot

Been a few good Spam names lately:
Chiba A Hooey
Flightless O Jerome
and Tackles P Plumage.

And if you want a good vampire book (of course YOU DO), try THE HISTORIAN by Elizabeth Kostova. It's a whole different kettle of bloodsuckers from Anne Rice ...

Best names, lists, stuff, High Fidelity time

Little sis Sar and me have a fun time on the email sometimes shooting the breeze and doing "High Fidelity" style lists

TOP TEN THINGS YOU ARE EMBARRASSED TO LIKE

My list:
Overly sweet wine
Large noses on boys
Sweet child of mine
Pink
Sparkly things
Reality tv
Blowing up balloons
Animals dressed up in clothes
Bargains
"pretend" coffees

Sar's List:
new mariah carey songs
milli vanilli
bis - eurodisco
headwear
barbie
dirk bogarde pic in leather pants
jessica's simpson's life
bad (i mean BAD) 80s horrors
bouncy pony tails
karaoke

Best names I have come across in real life:
Hung Lo
Slumber Socks Badubi

sing stars

Played with sing star last night. God it's fun.
And had a spa. Bubbling boiling steamy spa and went into the icy swimming pool to get the major tingles.

Latest popbitch snippet:
A man in Tokyo was been hurling acid on the arses of women wearing jeans because he said "It really turned me on to see a butt in a pair of jeans." Charming.

Made a discovery yesterday - National e-cards
what a sweet way to be annoying
and yucky Dan Carter screen savers and desktops

That's my new dress from ANdREA MOORE in Merivale Mall.

Au revoir charmants

die bunny die

kia ora

Had a hankering for "Bunny Suicides" and discovered (unsurprisingly) that someone with a cavalier disregard of copyright has put a fair few on a site. And a more official one by creator Andy Riley.

Bling bling your website

Thanks to April's Netguide I am losing control of bodily functions

Check check it out it's the Gizoogle

Gotta love the listing
Funerals: Gett'n Th'n Done . Its just anotha homocide: localeye ? yo online guide ta Christchurch n Canterbizzles New Zealand cuz Im tha Double O G.

New Age

This is the coolest New Age site
read it and weep

it's on

Kia ora

• Check out Jeremy and his puppies, the man is the definition of edible
  
  Eating Media Lunch
  Jeremy and his little friends
  
  Love his list of sexiest Kiwis
  
  The definitive list, in reverse order, is as follows:
  
  50. John Rowles
  49. One News reporter Pippa Wetzel
  48. Rod Dixon
  47.Cageman (Shrek's mate from Bendigo station)
  46. Young Helen Clark
  45. Dunedin Mayor Sukhi Turner
  44. World War Two Hero Charles Upham
  43. Former newsreader Roger Gascoigne
  42. Hika Reid
  41. Stu Gillespie
  40. Sexy Silver from Push Push
  39. Goldcorp boss Ray Smith.
  38. A tie between Sale of the Century's Steve Parr and America's Cup smasher Benjamin Nathan.
  37. Don Brash' wife, Je Lan .
  36. Bad boy Auckland property developer Mark Lyon
  35. The Young Entertainers
  34. Former Federation of Labour president Jim Knox
  33. Kate Hawkesby's husband Richard Lyne
  32. Idol Judge Frankie Stevens.
  31. Young Tim Shadbolt
  30. Te Karere presenter Scotty Morrison
  29. Tennis champ Chris Lewis
  28. Champion skier Simon Wi Rutene
  27. TV One's Mark Sainsbury and Peter Plumley Walker
  26. Newsreader Jenny Goodwin
  25. Breakfast host Alison Mau
  24. Author Katherine Mansfield
  23. Maori activist Mike Smith
  22. TV3 reporter Hannah Hodson
  21. Former after school TV host Tracey 80.
  20. Judy Bailey
  19. Former children's presenter Yvonne Moore
  18. John Walker
  17. True Bliss
  16. TV One reporter Martin Tasker
  15. The Hudson Cookie Bear
  14. Former TV presenter Ingrid Mole
  13. Simon Poelman
  12. A dead heat with Hudson and Halls, and Bishop Whakahuihui Vercoe.
  11. Simon Kerr, Hole in the Wall Gang leader
  10. The Evers Swindell Twins.
  9. The Ingham Twins
  8. James K Baxter
  7. Jeanette Fitzsimons
  6. Lorraine Downes and Murray Mexted
  5. Te Kooti
  4. Bruno Lawrence
  3. Former beauty queen Marise Wipani
  2. Headliners host Renee Wright
  1. Sharon O'Neill


• Got sent Futurama dvds instead of Family Guy ... what the?
• Listening to http://www.thejoint.co.nz with Fraserhead and the Herb Whisperer
• Very nice glass of Gerwurtz with lunch must track it down, started with M?
• Hell Pizza is now in Chch - a good thing surrrrely. Got to get in and chow down.
• Le Cafe after work, + Scrabble

Looking a bit scary 1980s today, black footless tights, ballet slippers (should be kung fu casuals for true authenticity) and short belt skirt. A bit star trek. Sick of perm. want my straight hair back. Horrified to see approx 5 grey hairs! Has only been 2 for so long now, I thought that was it.

Bro Jon down from Auckland, met at Sticky Fingers with Mum and Dad. I like my family, am I in minority?

Ka kite ano