Dolores Del Rio, shot by Slim Aarons (1952)
6/22/10
6/18/10
do-it-yourself hot yoga:
it helps if you already don't have air conditioning in your apartment. if you do, turn it off like 6 hours before you're planning on doing your hot yoga. make sure it's a blazing hot, airless day. now close all your windows. when you're leaving little pools of perspiration where your body parts meet tables and chairs, you know it's hot enough for hot yoga. lay out your mat. put in your hot yoga exercise tape. feel very very hot after one asana. decide to fuck it and make a margarita instead with all of the ice cubes in your freezer. drink your margarita lying down on your yoga mat.
it helps if you already don't have air conditioning in your apartment. if you do, turn it off like 6 hours before you're planning on doing your hot yoga. make sure it's a blazing hot, airless day. now close all your windows. when you're leaving little pools of perspiration where your body parts meet tables and chairs, you know it's hot enough for hot yoga. lay out your mat. put in your hot yoga exercise tape. feel very very hot after one asana. decide to fuck it and make a margarita instead with all of the ice cubes in your freezer. drink your margarita lying down on your yoga mat.
6/15/10
girls of summer
Who else is bringing back colored barrettes, needlework blouses, and drinking slightly warm, canned beer in a parking lot?maybe a little Skynard playing in the background?
Pleated shorts never looked so good.
Bustier halter tops, winged eyeliner, red lipstick, and a deep seated desire to be the baaaaaaad girl for once? Are you writing this down?
or you could go the Heavy Metal Parking Lot route, keep it casual and opt for ratted-out hair, DC 101 shirts(202 represent!), full-length leopard catsuits, and public inebriation . . .
Extra Credit:
Dennis Hopper was a photographer. I especially like the photos he took of women in the 1960's; it always looks like it's summer and brings to mind the thing Raymond Chandler once wrote:
There was a desert wind blowing that night. It was one of those hot dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair and make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that every booze party ends in a fight. Meek little wives feel the edge of the carving knife and study their husband's necks. Anything can happen. You can even get a full glass of beer at a cocktail lounge.
See more of his work here.
6/13/10
NEW RIDE
World, meet LA PUTA MADRE, my new set of wheels.
Specs for the bike nerds:
Vintage (late 1970s) Fuji cro-moly frame with custom paint job
New headset and bars with rubber grips
Velocity flip flop hub
Weinmann quick release wheels
Snafu printed saddle
Many photos of me awkwardly riding P.M. to come. That's a promise.
Specs for the bike nerds:
Vintage (late 1970s) Fuji cro-moly frame with custom paint job
New headset and bars with rubber grips
Velocity flip flop hub
Weinmann quick release wheels
Snafu printed saddle
Many photos of me awkwardly riding P.M. to come. That's a promise.
6/12/10
6/7/10
Embrace
You know the parlor trick.
Wrap your arms around your own body
and from the back it looks like
someone is embracing you,
her hands grasping your shirt,
her fingernails teasing your neck.
From the front it is another story,
You never looked so alone,
your crossed elbows and screwy grin.
You could be waiting for a tailor
to fit you for a straightjacket,
one that would hold you really tight.
-Billy Collins
Wrap your arms around your own body
and from the back it looks like
someone is embracing you,
her hands grasping your shirt,
her fingernails teasing your neck.
From the front it is another story,
You never looked so alone,
your crossed elbows and screwy grin.
You could be waiting for a tailor
to fit you for a straightjacket,
one that would hold you really tight.
-Billy Collins
6/6/10
6/3/10
summer again
R. Stevie Moore, 1977
get yourself a nice sweet ice tea. everyone just chill out everything will be cool here in the kiddie pool.
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