Vibrant and vibing

Check out this girl. Beautiful right? Love her modern-classy look, and where the hell did Scott Schuman find a perfectly matching garage door? Also, it appears that the fro-pomp is really big right now.

Sort of reminds me of Janelle Monáe... and speaking of which, damn that girl can dance!

Can You Discover/Tell?

Discovery is what happens when you combine Ra Ra Riot and Vampire Weekend.

The Discovery album was really good, and I'm surprised it didn't get more hype last year.

Here's Ra Ra Riot's-Can You Tell, given a Discovery electro makeover. Yes those are the same vocals. Wes Miles is the frontman for both.

Discovery - Can You Discover by PopTarts

Why not throw the Can You Tell music video in there too.

No X's and O's just poetry

I was going to blog about how much the Raiders sucked today, but I don't think anybody who follows this blog will enjoy my X's and O's analysis of how the Raiders' breakdown in pass protection led to their eventual undoing. (That may or may not have been a run-on sentence.)

Anyway, instead I'm going to post a Sharon Olds poem. Sharon's poems are really candid. They don't hold much back, and that's what I like about them. They're sometimes awkward, sometimes funny, sometimes erotic, and sometimes a little bit of everything. Usually they're about life, and life's little experiences. Anyway, here's a poem called "Last Night." I'm sure you can figure out what this is about.

Last Night
by Sharon Olds

The next day, I am almost afraid.
Love? It was more like dragonflies
in the sun, 100 degrees at noon,
the ends of their abdomens stuck together, I
close my eyes when I remember. I hardly
knew myself, like something twisting and
twisting out of a chrysalis,
enormous, without language, all
head, all shut eyes, and the humming
like madness, the way they writhe away,
and do not leave, back, back,
away, back. Did I know you? No kiss,
no tenderness---more like killing, death-grip
holding to life, genitals
like violent hands clasped tight
barely moving, more like being closed
in a great jaw and eaten, and the screaming
I groan to remember it, and when we started
to die, then I refuse to remember,
the way a drunkard forgets. After,
you held my hands extremely hard as my
body moved in shudders like the ferry when its
axle is loosed past engagement, you kept me
sealed exactly against you, our hairlines
wet as the arc of a gateway after
a cloudburst, you secured me in your arms till I slept---
that was love, and we woke in the morning
clasped, fragrant, buoyant, that was
the morning after love.

This sucks

So I pretty much destroyed the lenses of my glasses today.

I was pretty freaking bummed.

How ironic is it that I just posted about them, and the very next day they are gone--at least until I can afford new lenses.

Terrible.

I almost feel naked without them.

Violins are badass in bands

This song was a major fav' of last year.

St. Vincent looking cute as always, and what an amazing voice.



I see you violin guy! Violin guy for St. Vincent doin' work!

When I get down in 3D

This is how I roll in 3D, double glasses all day.

I was contemplating wearing my contacts to go see Resident Evil 4 in 3D, but I said fuck it and double dipped on the glasses.

The black frames are a part of me now. I can't separate from them.

(Sorry for the influx of bad quality photos. I broke my roommates camera, and I can't afford to buy my own. Also I have so many pics of myself wearing this t-shirt that it's getting sort of weird. I mean it's not like it's one of those Junk Food fake vintage tees or anything, and I really don't wear it that much, but it sure as hell seems like whenever I get my pic taken I'm wearing the damn thing. WTF?)

Great shoes, great socks, and more...

Von Steiner isn't the only one with a kick ass job who is perusing the scene at Fashion Week.

Of course Scott Schuman and Tommy Ton are also there. (Okay I have to get a job doing this, I even have the alliteration name thingy...Maxwell Mann, it totally works).

Here are some of the coolest looking dudes in NYC this week.


Great shoes, even better socks.


I'm pretty sure this is Luigi Tadini. He's a rich Brazilian dude. And as you would expect from a rich Brazilian dude he always looks cool.


Thom Browne style shrunken proportions.

I don't like you Gordon Von Steiner

Actually Gordon, I'm sure you're a stand up guy. I'm just insanely jealous of your job.

I want it Gordon, you hear me Gordon you asshole, I'm coming for your job. (Again Gordon I'm sorry, I don't mean it...jealousy makes a man crazy.)

Anyway, I took the first step in getting a job similar to Gordon's today. I sent out some query letters offering my services as a street style photographer.

Hopefully all goes well. Wish me luck.

Until then, enjoy that asshole Gordon Von Steiner's collection of the cutest girls at Fashion Week NYC.










Alexa Chung is way cute btw. Sucks for her that her show got cancelled. However, I didn't go out of my way to help her cause. I never watched a whole episode, but she was very witty. Maybe it failed, because the name of the show sucked. "It's On with Alexa Chung" doesn't exactly make me want to run to my TV. It is good for coming up with all kinds of ridiculous innuendos for it indeed being "on" with Alexa Chung though. I'll let you come up with those on your own.

Oh and Resident Evil tonight in 3D!!! B grade action/horror films, plus 3D, equals a definite win.

In case you didn't know the NFL is back

So tonight the NFL "kicked off" its season, with what was honestly not a very good game.

Brett Favre looked... well like he skipped all training camp. No timing, no chemistry, really he didn't even look confident during the entire game. In fact, I sort of expected him to quit at half time. Just kidding, Brett's a warrior, he deserves better than that.

I'm sure by Sunday I'll flood this blog with a ton of ridiculous football-nerd jargon, especially regarding my Raiders, but tonight I have to ask you all a question.

What do you stylish folks think of the massive amount of football fans wearing their team's jerseys?

Every Sunday, in bars, at house parties, and in stadiums you'll find a whole hell of a lot of people sporting the jersey of their favorite team/player. I'd have to say like 60% of all fans at a stadium wear jerseys. Almost none of which are people I would consider to be stylish or fashionable.

Most of them are wearing stuff they think is cool, or that they're supposed to wear. I doubt that any of them are actually wearing anything that they feel truly expresses themselves as a person.

Of course the the argument could be made that wearing a jersey is indeed expressing something about you. It could be said that wearing your team's jersey expresses your support for your team. But you could also say, "Isn't that what cheering is for?"

I'm not sure about the answer to that question just yet, but I--being the extreme lover of football that I am--am not going to criticize any fellow fan wearing a jersey on Sunday. Actually, I love that fans are so passionate about their teams. And that they feel like they have to support them by wearing the team's uniform. It's may seem silly, but in a way its sort of noble.

Which leads me to this: can you make a jersey stylish or fashionable?

My initial gut instinct? No.

However, I've been giving it a lot of thought lately, and maybe there are some ways in which you can make a jersey look like you are wearing it, and not like it is wearing you.

Or even just that you care more about personal style than the average football fan.

What do you guys think? Any ideas? (By the way, in case you were wondering, I do own a jersey. It's a vintage 1987 Bo Jackson Raiders jersey that my dad got me some years ago for a Christmas gift.)

Crazzzeee!!!

Willow Smith (yes it's 'Big Willy Style's' daughter) is like 9, and her single is way better than Rihanna's new jam.

It's pretty freaking insane.

Let's just make it a '90s night

Ummm one of my all-time favorite Air Jordan's ever is re-releasing.

The Air Jordan VII "bordeaux."

I love these, because unlike every other Jordan, they almost don't match. They're sort of all over the place with the colors, and it gives them a sort of dark organic quality that other models/colorways don't have.

They drop next year sometime, and hellzz yes I'm going to try and get a pair.



Also in honor of the Air Jordan VII, and the '92 NBA Finals..."The Shrug."

Some '90s R&B for that ass

Forever winning.





"I thought I told you that we won't stop. I thought I told you that we won't stop. Eh eh, eh eh!"

For my girls

So today was my nieces first day of kindergarten.

I'm not even one of their parents, but I won't lie they were SOOO cute in their little uniforms I almost got teary eyed. They grew up so fast, and it got me thinking about my own kids one day.

Not that I want kids or anything, just that one of these days--wwwaaaaayyyyy in the future--I'm going to be an old guy taking his kids to school and thinking about songs like this.

More Milla

How many of you knew Milla Jovovich could sing?

She cut an album (entitled The Divine Comedy) way back in '94, and it's pretty good too. Chances are if you like Fever Ray, you'll like the album. "The Alien Song" is especially cool; you'll definitely be reminded of Fever Ray's "When I Grow Up."

Or maybe I should say "When I Grow Up" will remind you of "The Alien Song."

Milla Jovovich-The Alien Song


Fever Ray-When I Grow Up

A.P.C. Anyone?

Anybody want to go to Paris, and blow a bunch of cash on some A.P.C. gear?

Actually, they have stores in America in like LA and NY. And they have a cool online store.

If you're not familiar with A.P.C., they're famous for their raw selvedge denim, but they also make some other pretty cool stuff. And considering the price of so called "quality" denim nowadays, the $165 price tag for A.P.C.'s is pretty reasonable.

Their other pieces are sort of an amalgam of American Apparel, Abercrombie and Fitch, and J Crew. If this sounds like a definite fail, just remember its all done with that trademark French chicness.

So let's head to A.P.C. shall we?

And speaking of stoner rap

I don't know if stoner rap is the correct term, but it seems like a fit.

Kid Cudi's new jam is pretty cool as well. Sort of reminds me of an Offspring song from like twelve years ago, if somebody in Offspring could rap.

Kid Cudi - Erase Me f Kanye West by shinga

Remember Shwayze?

Yeah, the dudes who did that catchy ass jam Corona and Lime, a year or two back. (The DJ in the video is my old homie from college Trevor McFedries aka DJ Skeet Skeet).

Well Aaron Smith, the rapper in the group is doing is own little solo project and its pretty dope.

Go to this link to download the mix-tape.

Zooey Deschanel is really really cute and she sings funny songzzz

We can all agree that Zooey Deschanel is the cutest right? Right! Okay now that we got that out of the way, she was in "I Love You Man," with Jim Carrey, which was pretty mediocre.

However, some amazingness did come out of that movie, and it's in the form of these insanely witty songs by her band in the movie Munchausen by Proxy.

Watch, enjoy, and laugh a lot.

The intro video, embedding was disabled for this one.



Also why does Zooey look like Katy Perry's sister. When does the Katy Perry biopic starring Zooey Deschanel, come out?



Ohh and her actual band She and Him, is pretty cool as well.

Gotta find the queen of all my dreams

Ramble on!!!

I was listening to Led Zeppelin-Ramble On, and I totally didn't notice that there was a Lord of the Rings reference until now.

"Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear.
How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air.
T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair.
But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah. "

That motherfucker Gollum always be messin' shit up!



And because nobody wants to end a post looking at Smeagol--and also because the song's about an enchanting queen--here's the beautiful Milla Jovovich.

Our 'Mad Men' relationships

Mad Men was excellent tonight. I'm not going to spoil it for anybody, or say anything to ruin the show for people who haven't seen it, but it was an emotionally charged episode.

The show has always been about, and revolved around, great characters. Tonight we got to see two of our central protagonists, connect on a level that they hadn't previously.

Tonight, is why I like TV. Not all shows, will take you all the way into its character's lives, but Mad Men always has. TV, better than movies, is more able to allow a viewer to get to know a story's central characters, and often times I think it makes TV characters more relatable. We see them in their daily routine, we see them try to live with the impact of their daily decisions, and we see the ultimate effect that life's realities have on them. And of course we all experience something along those lines every day.

For those of us who follow Mad Men, I think this episode contained a lot of relatable material. A lot of dark themes ran throughout, but I think what will stay with people was the parting shot, and realizing why we need the people in our lives. Why we cherish the relationships.