You Won't Be Able to Unsee This: Zooey Davechappelle

Zooey Davechappelle via Reddit
Now try to unsee that!? Happy New Girl Season 3!

MGMT's newest song

It's dark and I like it. Plus Michael Williams kills, per the usual. I do think they could have put in a little work on the name of the song. NYmag.com writes:

...Michael K. Williams plays a plant-hunting witch doctor who dreams up a psychedelic drug that ends up giving the man a horrifying deformity. It's sad and beautiful and directed by Isaiah Seret (Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros' "Kisses Over Babylon"), with cinematography by Bradford Young (Ain't Them Bodies Saints).

The Cut; photo by YoungJun Koo/I'M KOO
London Fashion Week has been a pleasure to watch from the digital sidelines. This image of Eva Chen's lower half is making me desperately crave cooler temperatures and fall appropriate textures and silhouettes  That fur bag! The leather skirt! the Leopard sweater! Those Alexander Wang heels! I think they are?

Real life traffic metrics, ya'll. 

So, last week on 9/12 to be exact, my blog was on the front page of Reddit. Not for any satorical observations on my part, but from an article I enjoyed enough to re-post from GQ that featured a rather compelling interview with Bill Murray. Some folks on Reddit were arguing about Bill Murray and the Kung Fu Hustle? It was over my head.

Imagine my surprise when I checked my stats and I suddenly have 100k viewers in ONE DAY. [side note: this little blog of mine had previously generated a total 55k pageviews to date since it's inception in 2009 - which mind you, I was proud of.] It was pretty surprising and interesting to see where these people went once they got here? They also commented a lot. Now you have to read the article, clearly. Read it here and feel free to comment. 


Contracts abound right before the wedding.

Interesting thing about planning the big day, there are endless contracts to proof. I have thankfully had a lot of practice red-lining my share of contracts, but this is different. It's emotionally charged and personal in a way that I had heard about, but did not expect. I was finalizing the my wedding floral contract and I actually teared up reading it. It's going to be so pretty! One week from today at almost this exact moment I will be wrestling my way onto a direct SWA flight to Vegas with my wedding dress in hand. I can't wait for  you to see how it all turned out. Hell, I cannot wait to see how it is going to turn out!

Happy Friday from Tyson Beckford

Via
(photo by Diana Eliazov)

Images like this one make scrolling through all the fashion week images worth it. Oh hey, Tyson. You still got it.

Musical Musings: 1975, American Authors, & Lorde for Ya Playlists

BONUS: Jay Z ft. Justin Timberlake's Official Visual for Holy Grail

This Week: Jeff Koons & Dom, Capitalism! & NYFW

Time will not slow down! Every day is one day closer to our wedding and every day I am realizing one more, two more, three more (see how there's a pattern here?) things that need to get done, bought, paid for, organized. My quasi-obsessive self is really loving it, but the rational me is wanting to pump the brakes. Speaking of quasi-obsessive, I think I re-discovered my desire to not eat like crap all the time? (Don't get me wrong, I anticipate I will still be chanting this to some degree.) Half way through day two of the Blue Print Cleanse and I feel both in control and not crappy alive. Perhaps this will kick start my sprint to the white dress finish line. I did describe myself to my walking partner this morning as planning on being a "total psycho" for the next 2.5 weeks with regards to eating and drinking healthily. Here's to no burnout - cause nothing says burnout like the words "total psycho"! 

Here's some items I cannot get enough of this week:

• This Jeff Koons and Dom Perignon collaboration. This box is for their Vintage Rose and is supposed to be a balloon Venus. I love it and hate it. A lot.

• The two street style snaps, one of Anna Wintour glaring in front of construction and the other of a sunshine clad lady with adorable dog with hair better than mine, are probably my most favorite images I've come across all NYFW. They are not staged and that is the best part. See all of them here.

• This Steve Lambert interactive art installation "Capitalism Works for Me!" will be installed next week in Times Square. If  you live there please go by and hit True and then False for me to represent my conflicting opinions. Thanks.  

• Here are my top three outfits from my top three Spring 2014 RTW shows so far: Love the agate-like print on the 3.1 Phillip Lim boxy shirt (home decor inspiring fashion?). Love-love the geometric, black and white print on that really comfortable looking outfit at Marc by Marc Jacobs. And really love the Michael Kors dress because I want to own it and wear it on my honeymoon. Vacation... So close. 

I will have some wedding updates later this week. I am working on a mood board of my wedding parties' dresses and it is coming out pretty great. 

XO.

PS. My heart goes out to everyone effected by what happened on 9/11. We will never forget you. You are not alone.