• Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71, interviewed by Linda Kuehl for the Paris Review
“I don’t know. I could say that I was writing to myself, and of course I was, but it’s a little more complicated than that. I mean the fact that eleven million people were going to see that page didn’t exactly escape my attention. There’s a lot of mystery to me about writing and performing and showing off in general. I know a singer who throws up every time she has to go onstage. But she still goes on.”
• A Window Into the Real Lauren Bacall, The New York Times
“‘Literally every tabletop had things on it,’ said Jon King, a vice president and the director of business development at the auction house Bonhams New York, describing the 4,000-square-foot apartment in the Dakota building on 72nd Street in Manhattan that Ms. Bacall bought for tens of thousands of dollars in 1961 and crammed with art and antiques including (and this is but a small sample) Henry Moore and Robert Graham sculptures, David Hockney photographs, Picasso pottery, Chinese bronze figures, Congolese head rests, Louis XV bureaus, Edwardian bamboo, Victorian needlework and Majolica china...”
• The Edwynn Houk Gallery’s selection of photos by Gail Albert Halaban on Tumblr
• Michael Salisbury’s industrial, architectural and cityscape photography on Instagram
• Hee Seo, principal dancer with American Ballet Theater, on Instagram
• Girls Against Humanity
• Mirko Rotondi’s Timeless Hotel photo series
things i love lately:
♥ Sofia rosé – I thought I hated rosé until I tried this one.
♥ Lush twilight bath bomb – pretty pink and baby blue that turns the water glittery dusk-violet.
♥ TonyMoly & Peripera (and South Korean cosmetics & skin care products in general). AmorePacific’s Future Response products are crazy expensive but crazy effective – i.e., 100% worth it if you can afford it, especially this one (and it smells divine, like a green tea latte).
♥ Aritzia’s blanket scarf.
♥ Pinning dream-like architecture & interiors on Pinterest.
♥ The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal. I don’t really have words for how magical it was. I took a lot more pictures.
♥ essie’s winter 2013 collection. I missed out on buying them in winter 2013, but recently found all six shades at TJMaxx for less than half of the original price – they are the most perfect colours!
♥ Lunar New Year – I was born in the year of the sheep, so I was particularly excited about this one. I spent the day and night in airports, but I got a fortune cookie from Panda Express that said “Avoid unchallenging occupations—they waste your talents.”
“Some writing doesn’t brush up against sentimentality as often as other writing. But whatever ‘bad’ edge your writing brushes up against, I think it’s important to touch it. You can always pull back from it, but at least you know where it is. It’s like when I was a dancer, we were always encouraged to fall in rehearsal, so that you could know what the tipping point of any given movement was. That way, when you did it on the stage, you could be sure you were taking it to the edge without falling on your face. It sounds like a cliché, but really it’s just physics—if you don’t touch the fulcrum, you’ll never gain a felt sense of it, and your movement will be impoverished for it.”
– Maggie Nelson, in response to ‘Is it important to risk sentimentality?’ in an interview with Genevieve Hudson
“The beauty of a fragment is that it still supports the hope of brilliant completeness.”
– Tobias Wolff, from “Class Picture,” The New Yorker (6 January 2003)
interpol – tidal wave
lana del rey – video games (live at glastonbury)
lana del rey – yayo (rainy mood)
the xx – sunset
the 1975 – robbers (acoustic)
arctic monkeys – love is a laserquest
dawn richard – dark horse (katy perry cover)
lana del rey/jessica lange – gods and monsters (mashup)
the echo friendly – same mistakes
bleachers – i wanna get better
lorde – yellow flicker beat
lana del rey – ultraviolence (live)
