Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts
Showing posts with label beauty. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 17, 2012

List 81

Love:  The Cindy Sherman exhibit that just opened at SFMOMA. She has created such an amazing and wide-ranging body of work,spanning three decades. Rarely have I gone through an exhibit and fantasized about stealing so many pieces.


Like: My new everyday breakfast: 1 packed cup of kale,  1 packed cup of spinach, 1 cup of light vanilla soy milk, 1 frozen banana, 1/2 a granny smith apple and  tsp honey.  The fruit masks the greens, but it's not overly sweet.  It keeps you full until lunch. And by 8 am you've already knocked off 4 servings of fruit and vegetables.


Discovery: What I've been missing in my recent detour into dystopian YA novels: good writing, well-developed characters, thoughtful story telling.  This lesson was driven home by my welcome return to critically-acclaimed adult fiction via The Art of Fielding, which reads like an instantly classic American novel.


Obsession: Buns, for some reason.


Complaint: Newsroom haters.  It may be more like a top-flight Big Three Network show than an HBO (or AMC) series - especially this past week's episode, what with all the hanky panky - but Aaron Sorkin does that thing he does, and it's working for me.

Thursday, July 22, 2010

List 2





Love: Le Fumoir in Paris is just about my most favorite place to hang out in the world. I love the interior design and the overall vibe. It's dark and moody and men's clubby. If I ever had my own ad agency (or could design one), it would look and feel like this.
http://www.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,31489,1937013_1936990_1936848,00.html

Like: The "January" (as in Jones, as in Betty Draper) retro red nail polish from Julep.
http://myjulepshopping.com/catalog/january.html

Discovery: etsy is a love for sure, and one of my favorite sellers is girlscantell. She does these really cool diagrams of things - turntables, bicycles, holga cameras - and puts them on felt coasters, napkins, placemats and other housewares.
http://www.etsy.com/shop/girlscantell?ref=seller_info

Obsessions: I covet the Jean Luc Godard poster that's in Bar Jules' bathroom.

Complaint: Volkswagen, why haven't you reintroduced the Karmann Ghia?