Hi! This is 2001: A MySpace Odyssey
Like a TOP EIGHT mapping my mind.
I loooove writing on the internet. In an embarrassing way, this feels the most natural thing for me to do when I wake up! early in the morning. I’m alone in my room. Everything is quiet and I have time to think before things get going. I know what this instinctual behavior means in me because I’ve been studying it. In grace period, I get to sit around with black coffee and organize my pinging thoughts before (it’s always *before* filling my self up with the new days anxieties too, and *before* something, what?) I have to tend to real responsibilities. If I’m being my best self, I open my notebook to collect. If I’m being my normal self, I’m alone w my iphone for xtremely unsupervised hrs to collect. This is what I like to do. My preteen working thesis from an original notebook remains strong so I’ll keep it, “reason for: writing down thoughts, wishes, writing stuff I see, learn or accomplish. Basically, to free my mind.” I’ve been warming up for an unconscious number of years. hi!
+ a revived again love of PBM&M’S, it is now spooky season, worms, treat yourself @ your local corner place for your fave seasonal candy, have fun w it!
To close my summer and put a kind of bow on a confusing inner flash fiction story I’ve been writing halfheartedly for the last few years, I attended a local showing of 2001: A Space Odyssey, for a third watch. The film and I have something going on; I’m trying to write about it. Attending movies makes mile markers in my life — who I am, where I am, who I’m in company with, how I feel, what I drink. I need to write about why it all matters. The odyssey is circling in on me now.
I’m still reading and mapping Just Kids by Patti Smith, the one book I took on vacation but of course barely read until a big, nice, lulling binge-read sinkin on the plane ride back home. A second hand, personal copy to me, Devotions is ready on my coffee table for me when I’m ready to devote, but that’s a completely different write-up I’m actively procrastinating. Together they are neatly stacked by Time Is A Mother, which I mentioned I was making my way through much slower than I anticipated this year with the anticipation, and the man seated next to me on the first flight leg to Nashville replied, “the sequels are not always as good.” Dear reader, I laughed.
I THINK ABOUT THIS A LOT, and to be specific, I’ve been thinking about this song and video as one unit when walking my routes back in Austin, because of a gut feeling in me to fight in chic silks, at night, maybe in dark unknown waters in tight dark sets (no guns), and a craving to be on some kind of unconscious mind quest where at the end of the movie I’m at the top of a pyramid*?? I could go for it.
The same energy tracks because freshly I couldn’t stop thinking about THIS TRACK:
which is a certified hyper-pop bop, if I must score it. And, I did score well in snail-mail this week sent from at THIRTEEN CROSBY, a super cute filled, vintage shop in soho, for a new spicy top!!! My mind is still in soho wandering with my iphone tightly gripped in my hand with Maps app open…
wondering why I can’t be packed into someone’s carryon tote to go back ASAP to glimpse @ Sandy Liang’s 2022 seasonal to-die-for, the Mary Jane Pointe *shoe*
which uncharacteristically reposted to closefriends as soon as it happened w caption cry “Are You There God? It’s Me, Innerchild Needs''. (Did you read Judy Blume @ the kids section of Barnes & Noble too? Copy I had in my little hands linked. I don’t remember if I finished reading it? Please reply.) Not only have I needed a solid pair of mary jane style shoes in my rotation, but always gravitating toward light pink for ballet bar years. Soft pink with elastic band. The satin is killing me to think of daily wear, though I’d do it. The strap and heel combo are selling it to me! I’d wear any color. I wonder if the toe box hurts as badly as I remember! Would bleed for these.
“That’s HOT.”
AND I’m speaking in fashion tongue, mine or otherwise, I couldn’t care less about another spit take, my eyes remain gazed on this *flaming hot sprite*! Immediate thought = I could go to hell very happy in this look. The body feel I get when I see these images and disassociate from my day to think of my body wearing this look, standing smug smiling in the heat? in Venice reminds me of a time an english teacher told our class we could go to hell in a handbasket, which we took with pride. The way this look makes me feel has kick in the same way, HELL but selling sex the whole way there, smiling, waving.
SEEMS L!NKED 2 ME:
#1. Checkout this cute warehouse set:
#2 The limitation of the internet this year out of the need for all staff safety super pleased me, not to mention all of it flooring me.
#3 Winona Ryder for Marc Jacobs. You know why.
I read the sentence of the week by a sainthoax post, and in the same mindset, I suddenly needed biker shorts. Pearls intact on my body. Few cowboy boots are creeping up in my eye this year, so I stopped by tecovas on S Congress to get a feel for boot shaft heights between their classic styles while I save back up my pennies, all on my way to pickup a quick order of signature biker shorts to be styled w pearls, yesterday, no reason ;) I’m trying two Nike to start trials and try-ons, the only difference between the two is the fabric: the One and the Sportswear Essential:
when I was merely contemplating this purchase, the one I tried on second when I got home and kept on for some light Stranger Things rebinging, and woke up (this mourning, lol) to style today! w/ white socks and black loafers, pearls, and boxy old blazer to werk remote early and stay focused; a look to kill, if you will. Notably, I hovered around a sick lime green sports bra, unavailable in my size, mentally saving for a later date, and this Everlane cross leather sandal I’d like to wear styled a la Jenny Walton in her new chapter of life that I wholehearted love for her. Still sandal season here, still going 100. After these first few days of NYFW, I feel even more pressed than before I left to heat Texas in the midform Tevas, still in fashion, jelly from the Chanel’s but settling for the Tevas, still flooding the early runaways nicely, so they are in a cart. Waiting.
DARAISM:
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It’s important to me that you have an understanding of where I’m coming from; this is coming from my years of a Teen Vogue magazine delivered to my childhood bedroom with after-school hours to study the Letter-to-the-Editor, the pages to quiz myself alone ‘which style my personal style fit in’, hours on the internet unwinding my mind for Xanga and MySpace updates. I continued on Tumblr in undergrad for freshman year, then changed my major to Wordpress, until I paid for my own domain, and executed several sets of editorial content, right before graduation. I’m made for my after-school work.
One Sunday in July, I was so hot and annoyed after too much iced coffee, I drove myself to the air conditioning of my local Barnes and Noble, basically 40 minutes north to the burbs for comfort shopping the good magazines section. Earlier in the week, I was served the first video of Dara on my fyp; a proud editor purchasing their final work product at their corner place. I craved the feeling of wrestling an Interview Mag, formatted as large as my forearm is long. Something I could take home and spread myself out with. I’ve been studying the summer Issue of INTERVIEW, #543: ANNE HATHAWAY, where she was notably photographed wearing the IT Prada piece of the year, the white ribbed tank.
For all F/W, see also, boy butt.
Extremely looking forward to their three new albums in October and seeing their butts at Levitation Fest, if I can still get the hot tix! Sad this week because Alex G’s ASS is sold out now. Happy this week because a set I missed in spring is coming back in town again; see you at Dry Cleaning (in 2023, lol).
TOP TRACK without signs of wear
SUSAN:
on Fallon, She also voiced her confidence in wearing a great jacket for decades, regardless of outfit repeating haters. Jacket styles come around again often. A lesson to keep your nicely fitting jackets safe with you for decades upon styling needs. Susan Sarandon OK’d this way of life. Thank You So Much! BI!
With love,
P.S. Should I add noise to my reading list? an interest in Homegoing? Now considering, Anna for F/W reading stack.