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I’m loving this Fall 2011 collection from a relatively new label Creatures of the Wind. I love that it has a Japanese Aesthetic which is suprising considering that the designers are from Chicago and they got their inspiration from a trip to Nantucket. I could imagine seeing pieces from this collection in a Japanese Magazine. And I could just see myself wearing that red dress everyday until it falls apart.
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Scratched Tapes 2
Here’s the rest of my cassette collection from way back when
The Offspring – Smash
The Offspring – Ixnay on the Hombre
Nirvana – Unplugged in New York
Nirvana – Nevermind
Nirvana – Bleach
Nirvana – Incesticide
Nirvana – In Utero
Harvey Danger – Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone
The Beautiful South – Blue is the Colour
Antonio Vivalde
Various Artists – Big Band Sounds
Mad about Puccini
20 Legendary Tenors
Mozart:Greatest Classic Composers
Mozart:Greatest Hits
Concerto pour une Jeune Fille Nomme je t’aime
the Best of Big Bands
The Best of Strauss
311 – 311
Jamiraquai – A Funk Odessey
Bujo Banton – Til Shiloh
Tonic – Tonic
Marcy Playground – Shapeshifter
Beastie Boys – Ill Communication
Live – Throwing copper
Beck – Mutations
Coldplay – Parachutes
Groove Armada – Goodbye Country, Hello Night
Cake – Motorcade of Generosity
Primitive Radio Gods – Rockets
The Cure – Wild Mood Swings
Unbelievable Truth – Almost Here
Itchyworms – Little Monsters Under Your Bed
Sandwich – Grip Stand Throw
Eels – Electroshock Blues
Dogs Eye View – Happy Nowhere
Manic Street Preachers – Everything Must Go
Gigolo Aunts – Minor Chords and Major Themes
Seed – Ling
Fleming n John – The Way We Are
Ella Fitzgerald – Jazzmasters
Goldfinger – Stomping Ground
Enya – The Memories of Trees
Lorena Mckennit – The Book of Secrets
Oceania – Oceania
Enigma – The Screen Behind the Mirror
Enigma – MCMXC A.D
Deftones – Around the Fur
Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
Sex Pistols – Never Mind the Bollocks
Popsicle – Abstinence
Pantera – Cowboys from Hell
The Beatles – 1967-1970
Bjork – Homogenic
Prodigy – Fat of the Land
Pan – Paraso ng Payaso
Domino – Fair Tales
Blue Jeans Junkies – Blue Jean Junkies
Mad About Baroque
Sublime – Second-hand Smoke
Angus OST
Thurston Moore – Psychic Hearts
311 – 311
Dambuilders
Sonic Youth – A Thousand Leaves
Motorhead – Bastards
Sonic Youth – Experimental, Jet-set, Trash and All-star
Sonic Youth – NYC Ghost and Flowers
Shonen Knife – Happy Hour
Sonic Youth – Screaming Fields of Sonic Love
Sublime – SUblime
Sonic Youth – Washing Machine
Sonic Youth – Dirty
Kapatid – Kapatid
Ciccone Youth – The Whitey Album
Bjork – Telegram -
Hardcore for Nerds: How to Read Books
“I say to these students who have to spend a year, two years, writing theses about one book: ‘There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and…
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fuckyeahrandombritishindiebands:
WHY IS THIS PICTURE SO SMALL?
kyaaa!!!! superlove this pic. and from one of my current fave bands too!!
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What’s up guys! We’re Echelon Apparel, a shiny spankin’ new brand based out of Chicago, Illinois. We just started our tumblr! And very soon our first line of Tee’s will be available on our webstore. To grow the community and fan base we are giving away a Canon 50D.
To enter: all you have to do is make sure to be following and reblog to your followers!
This give away is open to the whole tumblr community and we hope to have your support! Along with the camera the winner will also receive a limited print hoodie and T-shirt.
The contest ends at 11:59 PM Eastern Time on April 19th, 2011 and the winner will be chosen on April 20th, 2011 through an Email notification randomizer.
-For any questions please contact Echelonapparel@yahoo.com or send us an ask. Goodluck!
-reblog as many times as you want! But make sure you ARE following also! 🙂
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Scratched Tapes
Went home to the province last month and poked around the house, checked my old stuff. and i got into listing albums in my old tape collection which i started in hs. i was surprise that i actually had some albums i don’t think i would listen or even bother to remember now. well, at least i never got into the boybands or execrable acts like korn and their ilk so there’s not much to embarrass myself with.
here’s the first part of my awesome awesome collection >_<
(in no particular order)
For Squirrels – Example
The Vines – The Vines
Rollins Band – Weight
REM – Up
Lightning Seeds – Pure
Tori Amos – Boys for Pele
Lightning Seeds – like you do
Radiohead – Kid A
Moulin Rouge OST
STP – Core
Beatles – Yellow Submarine
Bjork – Dancer in the Dark
Vanessa Mae – Violin Player
Smashing Pumpkins – Gish
Sugarcubes – Great Crossover Potential
Throwing Muses – University
Forest for the Trees – Forest for the Trees
Shiela and the Insects – Plastic Eye Static Mind
REM – Monster
Music from the X-files – OST
Beatles – Help
Beatles – Please Please Me
Radiohead – The Bends
Dave Mathews Band – Under the Table and Dreaming
Smoke City – Flying Away
Weezer – Blue Album
Club Ska 67 – Whine and Grine
STP – STP
Lucious Jackson – Fever In Fever Out
Dave Mathews Band – Crash
Gypsy Kings – Compass
Evita OST
Radioactive Sago
Lennon Tribute – Working Class Hero
Sugarhiccup – Womb
Smashing Pumpkins – Pisces Iscariot
Ciudad – Hello, How Are You Mico the Happy Bear
Muse – Origins of Symetry
Portishead
Sandwich – Grip Stand Throw
Cibo Matto – Stereotype A
Smashing Pumpkins – Siamese Dreams
Popsicle – Lacquer
Tori Amos – From the Choirgirl Hotel
Flaming Lips – Tranmissions from the Satellite Heart
Incubus – Science
Dead can Dance – Spirit Chaser
Astrud Gilberto – the Silver Collection
Radiohead – Ok Computer
Popsicle – Abstinence
Pineforest Crunch – Make Believe
Portishead – Dummy
U2 – Achtung Baby
Suburbia OST
STP – Tiny Music
Spawn – OST
Kula Shaker
Various Artists – Twist of Jobim
Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness(will hopefully think of a better title for this)
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love love love this photo!!!
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“Oh you like Jrock…. So you like Tokio Hotel right?”
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昨日私たちの誕生日です. ほんとに嬉しいですからあなた忘れなかった. 会いたいよ!
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Fashion Babylon by Imogen Edwards-Jones
CAUTION: Reading this book will forever change the way you peruse the racks at Bergdorf’s or flip through the pages of Vogue.
Taking the reader through six months in a designer’s life, Fashion Babylon follows an anonymous A-list British fashion designer looking to break out across the pond. Structured around three of the annual “must” industry events, this irresistible work of reportage goes inside the well-cut seams of the fashion world, where women are paid tens of thousands of dollars for simply getting dressed and where a wrong skirt length can cost you your career. You’ll find out how a collection is put together – from the objects of inspiration to the catwalk, into the shops and, hopefully, onto the cover of a magazine – and learn who goes to the shows and where they sit…and whose backside they have to kiss to get there.
Witty, naughty and jam-packed with celebrity gossip, Fashion Babylon decodes the markups and the comedowns, the fabulous extremes and the shoddy shortcuts behind one of the most lucrative and secretive businesses in the world.
i gave this book a 3 out of 5 stars. very much aware of my interest in fashion, a hs classmate recommended the book. she mentioned some very interesting trivia and all that time, i had the impression that it was a kind of documentary about the fashion industry. when i finally got the book (thankfully discounted at 10% or so, it was pricier than my usual buys) i was surprised that it read like a chic-lit minus the love story. yes, the gossip, the events and the industry secrets are true, gathered from various unnamed industry insiders but collectively voiced as an a-list designer. it’s a clever way of presenting the workings of the fashion industry instead of just presenting a litany of names, dates and events. I had expected and preferred a magazine article style of writing, maybe one that reads like a vogue editorial. while the chic-lit style made it an easy read, i find it lacking in some details. it does give an empathic picture of a designer’s struggle to make it big across the pond. a wiki of sorts of the FYIs in the fashion world and a good look at the salubrious side of the business. although a thoroughly enjoyable read, it’s a 3 on the account that it left me wanting more.
