Friday 24 April 2009

Cream Coloured Ponies and Crisp Apple Strudel, Door Bells and Sleigh Bells and Schnitzel with Noodles ...

When I was in Beyond Retro the other day, I looked up and saw a Ra-Ra ceiling:

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It reminded me of the Fashion District in L.A:

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I was so bowled over by the fullnness and juiciness of those shops that I didn't quite know what to do with myself. Being so overwhelmed, I hardly bought a thing. Now I am KICKING myself. I have so many ideas, projects I am delving into where the fruits of Downtown L.A would yield so much pleasure and inspiration for me. A couple of months out of England, not surrounded by the clutter of my possessions and I didn't know what to do with myself when faced with so much choice. We wandered away from the Fashion District, our aim to mooch about in some of the (so-called) upcoming galleries of the area (extremely disappointing) but instead found ourselves in a similarly cluttered but much more peaceful shop Califrnia Milinery which was a little hidden Aladdin's Cave of gems from past and present; a shrine to the art of hat-making. It was a little remnant of bygone eras, so beautiful and unspoilt and I was in love with all the fixtures and fittings as well as the feathers and ribbons, bows and brocade. The fullness but softness of the muted vintage colours blew me away:

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After the Fashion District we stumbled upon the Mexican party shop strip which looked like this:

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Colour and music and people and yummy Mexican corn in abundance, I had been thrown into the deep end that day and I was beginning to reacclimatise to a life of excess but I was tired. Really tired. Then Jasper took us to this party in the Warehouse district in Downtown L.A where the underage kids were dressed like this (Photographs by Jess Bonham):


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It was like some early nineties/ Japanese Harajuku inspired subculture that we had never seen before. They were fresh to the underage... I mean underground rave scene in L.A. I needed that last peaceful few days back in Hawaii just to get my head around the whole thing:

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and don't even get me get started on Vegas...

Thursday 9 April 2009

HOLIDAY!!!!

I managed to have a little break this week! I did fun things, nails, got given presents, gave presents also, saw the girls, ate food.....
Well actually I ate at the Ritz with my Mum, Gran and Aunty and made meringues with Lauren, Leah and Tara. Girl time!
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Leah gave me these hot tranfers and I gave Ruairi a ghetto blaster that plays records vertically!!!
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And finally I got my my nails did! From this to this..... I finally have found a safe nail technician who is up for fun designs and they even make you a cup of tea while you have them done and triangle diamante!!! Brilliant.
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Thursday 2 April 2009

The Vagina Monologues

Just got back from Hackney Empire after seeing the Vagina Monologues. Me and my sister took my Mum to see it as a Mother's Day present and it was f*****g hilarious. On for three nights at Hackney Empire (there were still seats tonight so maybe there will be some for tomorrow or Saturday too), Sharon D Clarke, Jesse Wallace and Jocelyn Jee make a great team on stage. Each have a slightly different but equally edgy and dry sense of humour that allows them to bounce off each other and make the crowd creeeeeeease. Even the low belly laughs from the few blokes there could be heard amongst the giggling gals. Check it.

Acquire Arts Launch Night

Come and join us tomorrow for an evening of music and punch. Welcoming all free-thinkers to become part of this interesting and accessible new space in Battersea. Acquire Arts has a diary of events which is filling up quickly and the space hopes to become an integral part of the local community.

The Launch Night offers artists, musicians, writers and local residents the chance to meet and get involved in future projects and who better to kick off the festivities than the award winning (Channel 4 Talent Awards)
Iain Woods. Be there or be square dude x

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