Ox Blood Paints Fall Red

It's a couple of days until August. I have no air conditioning in my 2001 hail-damaged Saturn (as many of my friends know because I complain about it virtually every day). I'm dreaming of mid September and October when I can wear my leather, my blazers, tights with fabric shorts, and riding boots. Ahhh, classic.

I peeked Fall 2010 fashion, and I have highlighted some of my own favorite looks (Thanks refinery29.com)OX BLOOD. I was at work the other day, and found a deep red mini satchel that was, as my coworker Jenna informed me "ox blood." She was so right. I'm loving this color for fall. Can you go wrong with plumb and oxblood? Probably not.

CAMEL -- I think camel quite frankly never goes out of style. Its sophisticated, and warm. I love it in cashmere. I invested in a camel blazer from Banana Republic 2 years ago, and i'm so glad I did because its one of my favorite "essential pieces."

Winter's Crop Top -- If you were confused and unsettled by the reemergence of the crop top for summer, you can remain at unease for fall. I never quite got the hang of the crop top for summer, but I feel like cropped sweaters and sweater vests will be insanely cute with jeans and heals and long necklaces. I'm going to be on the hunt for this play on proportion.

NYFW also featured graffiti pants, and leather pleated skirts. I think both ideas are pretty amazing. I love the idea of a leather pleated skirt. It's like school girl gone rock and roll. I love plays on traditional ideas, like pairing something abrasive like a studded belt, with something soft and girly.

Military fashion -- i've been interested in this for the past 3 years is kind of old to me. They are mass producing it like crazy though. I think the civil war-inspired button up jacket can go real wrong real fast. (thanks fashionising.com)

Buttoned up-- collars are one of my favorite new looks. It's sort of 80's but modern at the same time? I like this with short, chained necklaces.

Things to do Before I Die

Dear Lord,

Please let me see the Knife and/or Fever Ray before I go into the great beyond. The Knife remain the most influential groups in the last 10 years, and they are under represented in the music world. I love.love.love this song (cover) and performance.

LOL Things.

This post has only comical merit.. pictures I think are funnee :)



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Movies Movies

I went in thinking Inception was going to be a series of surreal dream sequences, that, when strung together, would tell a, complex, and mysterious story. That's what I thought. In reality, Inception has a very straight forward plot, and it makes a would-be confusing and abstract concept understandable to casual movie-goers. I think that shows the brilliance of director Christopher Nolan.

The costume design was mesmerizing, and reminiscent of something that draws inspiration from the 1950's, yet could be worn in the distant future due to the unusual color and fabric choice. Camel colored suits, deep browns, skinny ties, and three piece suits were accompanied with slicked back, perfectly prepared hair. The men in the movie appeared pristine.

Ellen Paige actually managed to not bother me, or remind me of Juno, so kudos to her.

The movie never gets into time period, appropriately enough, as most of it takes place suspended in time and space. Warfare takes place in the human mind, and as a landscape where anythign is possible it's a pretty ideal place for an action movie. The story coincides with a subconscious battle the main character played by Leonardo DiCaprio struggles with throughout. Two characters parallel each other with inner turmoil related to relationships, guilt, the inability to change the past, and ultimately the acceptance of reality. (analysis complete)

Inception is a Jerry Bruckheimer movie with a brain. Go see it.

Follow Up on MGMT Red Rocks in June

Ignore that this is over a month later...

First of all, I want to let every one know, if you are experiencing a show at Red Rocks ampitheatre, if you need to pick up your tickets at will call, do not, i repeat, do NOT mistakenly make the hike to the stage area to pick up your tickets. Will Call is at the bottom entrance, about 1/2 a mile away from the admission area. You will have to hike 15 minutes through the bushes, and take a short cut, and wind your way down the mountain to the very bottom, where you will have to stand in line for another 15 minutes, then have to treck back through the bushes and up the hill and refind the short cut, and yeah..It's not a pretty sight. I know this because thats what happened to me.

Tame Impala was the first band, and after our unexpected hike, we sat down just in time to see the last 30 seconds of the last song. It was comical. I think we were gone an entire hour.

I had no idea who the second act was. Cloaked figures rocking back and forth eruppted into song and revealed Janelle Monae, electro/soul/funk's latest gem. I had heard of her before, but never paid attention. I was so wrong to slight her!! Her live performance blew me away. The stage clothes reminded me of fever ray or the knife because they wore black cloaks and the masks with long noses (what are those called?). Three back up dancers wore this ensemble pretty much the entire show. The ominous looking stage presence juxtaposed the happy-go-lucky music in a really fantastic and bizarre way. It was, uh, what's the word? Edgy.

She covered Somewhere Over the Rainbow acapella as sprinkles started to fall. The temperature dropped drastically, and the clouds started to build over the mountain.

After that, the rain started to fall in more steady sheets. My dad, whom i went with, was nicely numbed by the boose he had been drinking while I was hiking! The freezing rain didnt seem to bother him much. The weather began getting uncomfortable, to say the least.

We waited, shivering, for MGMT to emerge, and by 10, it was about 46 degrees, I had sandals on, and little pellets of hail were dropping accompanied by now substantial rain.

I was starting to feel miserable.

My feet were numb. My hair was wet, My clothes were wet.

As my hair was being tossled in the wind and rain, I was beginning to think "This isnt worrrth ittt!"

MGMT got on stage, after what felt like 3 hours of waiting, and I stayed for about 3 songs. They sounded great, and it would have been a really great show, but..I was frozen, in inappropriate attire for the weather, and just wanted to go to sleep.

So....It was a bum deal, but an adventure at the same time in a weird way.