Jun1 2009 video

When I was ten I was obsessed with this song.  I heard it on a preview of a Gwyneth Paltrow-Ethan Hawke restyling of Great Expectations.  The movie was okay and showcased a terrifyingly old woman with thick stage makeup entrenched in her wrinkles.  This song, I will love forever.

Life in Mono by Mono. Did Mono, a pop duo from the UK featuring an attractive woman and a disgruntled bald man (see video for proof of this), self-predict that their song would go down in one-hit-wonder infamy by actually using the name of their band in the song?  Or did they plan on using “Mono” in every track?  Not likely, considering the name of their only album was Formica Blues, boasting such veritable gems as “High Life,” “Playboys,” and “Hello Cleveland!”  (The exclamation mark is their’s, not mine.)  Mono went on one tour and after a quiet period, broke up in 2000.  In 2004 the lead vocalist Siobhan de Mare recalled feeling “creatively stifled” as a part of Mono.  Okay then.  Mark that down as her attempt to reject any responsibility for this video.  Then again, singing creepily into a bald man’s ear while he sits, staring straight ahead = hot steamy stuff.

I love the nineties.

May30 2009 image

Today I found out that on top of spending my summer at Teen Vogue I would spend the fall working as an editorial intern at Glamour.  Needless to say, I’m ecstatic. Also today—as part of my morning coffee ritual—I caught up with Jezebel, which I have been neglecting due to the crazy amount of work I have to do in the next two weeks.  A project + an article + a research paper + packing and moving does not make for a relaxing spring quarter.  I was panicking amidst all of the junk I’ve accumulated (really now, wooden shoes?) wondering how I was going to get it all to New York a few hours after my last final and then I stumbled upon the above. Ha. Ha. Ha… Jezebel you’re just so snarky and smart.  Okay, so they used “grody” on the cover.  That I cannot even bring myself to forgive, but they managed to make Renee Zell-something actually look, well, pretty.  Three cheers for that.  I’d go for some “don’t judge a book by it’s cover-esque” quip but this is a magazine.  In any effect, this is my new home for the fall and I couldn’t be happier.  Suck it Jezebel.  The only way people get to your site is by accident through Gawker.

Today I found out that on top of spending my summer at Teen Vogue I would spend the fall working as an editorial intern at Glamour.  Needless to say, I’m ecstatic.

Also today—as part of my morning coffee ritual—I caught up with Jezebel, which I have been neglecting due to the crazy amount of work I have to do in the next two weeks.  A project + an article + a research paper + packing and moving does not make for a relaxing spring quarter.  I was panicking amidst all of the junk I’ve accumulated (really now, wooden shoes?) wondering how I was going to get it all to New York a few hours after my last final and then I stumbled upon the above.

Ha. Ha. Ha… Jezebel you’re just so snarky and smart.  Okay, so they used “grody” on the cover.  That I cannot even bring myself to forgive, but they managed to make Renee Zell-something actually look, well, pretty.  Three cheers for that.  I’d go for some “don’t judge a book by it’s cover-esque” quip but this is a magazine.  In any effect, this is my new home for the fall and I couldn’t be happier.  Suck it Jezebel.  The only way people get to your site is by accident through Gawker.

May27 2009 image

The Golden Gate Bridge on my last trip home.  It was amazing that you can see the top.  Usually it’s just clouds and fog up there.

The Golden Gate Bridge on my last trip home.  It was amazing that you can see the top.  Usually it’s just clouds and fog up there.

May27 2009 quote

It’s not true I had nothing on. I had the radio on.
Marilyn Monroe