April 21, 2009

Awkward Models

I'm not saying their jobs are easy. I'm not even saying it's their fault. Maybe the photographer was a creepy old man with a moutache. Maybe they had a stomach virus or were horribly hungover. Perhaps the photo editor is blind. In any case, I noticed these today in random fashion e-blast newsletters I received (specifically, shopittome.com.) Needless to say, I did not even consider buying anything. Here's why:

YIKES!

This girl is totally beat! It looks like she went to a rave all night and barely got up off the floor to attend the photo shoot. WTH! Are those scuba pants??

I'm not even gonna comment on the outfit, but she looks like a heinous bitch. I will not be messing with her. She's a model, she should not look like she's saying, "What are YOU looking at?"
Really? Is this supposed to be seductive or cute or pretty? Because it honestly looks like she's about to suck someone's blood for lunch.
Is she disgusted at being on a reality show? Or maybe she just smells the river.
My favorite: The Ultimate Awkward Pose, Model, and Photo.
Gray on Gray. A thoughtful choice.

April 16, 2009

Awake Is The New Sleep

Feeling distracted? Lost? Can't focus? Helpless, bored, restless, reckless? Comfortably numb? Not yourself? Stop fighting it and trying to control it and just shut up and live! (This is an ad to my smug self.) 

I started my writing class last night so obviously I should be "crafting" some real "pieces," but obviously I'm going to procrastinate a bit first. Something about sitting through the class woke me up. For the past year... probably 2, I've been trying to conform and I've been thinking too much. I know this because some people from home have been calling me out on being distracted and mentally checked out of situations. Not to make excuses, but that's what happens while you try to get your bearings straight in New York City. When I go home to PA, it's very hard to adjust. It's getting easier to go back and forth, but it was painful for awhile. Kind of like trying to physically mutate during the 2 hour commute. Stuff isn't how it should be and it's awkward.

Okay, maybe it's not just the place. Maybe it's that I'm not doing enough. I have more energy when I'm so busy I schedule time for sleep, and I've always juggled 100 things. Since graduating, my activities are work, sleep, go out, pilates. Not enough at all. This week I applied myself at work, and I felt better about that. It's not saving lives, and it's probably the devil's industry, but it's better than sitting in my cube bored and restless all week. The class is good for me, and I'm going to paint more and... learn to cook (kidding). I'm also going to do more cultural, creative things in the city in my free time. Anyone interested? This is a soul search project of sorts. I'm not trying to be happy. I'm trying to find things that are exciting and interesting and creative. I know I won't be content, so I need to be busy. 

I don't know why I decided to stay in NY. Maybe it's a project. Maybe I'm being stubborn. Maybe this is where I'm supposed to be. For whatever reason, I feel like I need to be here kind of. I've always wanted to move to Europe or CA, but maybe that's an old dream. I have no clue actually! It doesn't matter. I'm just going to keep walking in the dark, blind, looking for inspiration until it clocks me in the head when I least expect it, because that's how it works.

Listen to the last 1:52 with a candle burning and you'll see your entire future (I made that up)

April 14, 2009

Boring Week


Thanks YSL! I smell exactly like an old woman's closet. 
However, I did get the most amazing free gift from Benefit worth $113!!!!!! 


April 8, 2009

I Feel Relatively Neutral Towards NY

Hearts and Stars:
  • Winning the bracket ($500!) and being 5 points behind the guy that won the $10k national bucket. If I wasn't an idiot and had entered the CBS Sportsline bracket for free, I would've been 18th in the country... out of approximately 2 MILLION people. My uncle did the math.  I picked my teams randomly within about 2 minutes one morning, and I have no idea how this happened. If it happens again, I'm retiring to Vegas
  • Fondly and randomly recalling my sister's childhood love for Hampster Habitrails
  • Finding pizza I actually like at Vezzo 
  • blip.fm which is like music Twitter but much more useful (because new music is exciting)
  • Madison Square Park has flowers and green finally
  • Moving soon just because I like to move
  • I had a dream that I was in outer space looking at earth through a window
  • Tomorrow is David's 19th birthday and he makes me happy
  • The BBC Planet Earth series. It's addictive and they say things like, "Wild ass, the great nomads..." like it's not funny! I would like to know what sober stiff did the voiceover without laughing.
Kicks and Shoves:
  • Having negative dollars in my bank account. Literally.
  • Hearing a Meatloaf song that spawned my fear of wolves and my hatred for roses. My dad used to blast it in the car in the 80's and I haven't been the same since 
  • Sitting next to lunching mega-rich ladies who pay over $5k a month for their apartments (I know because they talked about it)
  • Snow in April or anytime except Christmas
  • The Path train and especially homeless people on it, except for Teddy
  • Someone threw their dead flowers onto our terrace. My mom thought maybe it was the equivalent of throwing rocks at our window, but told me not to find out because it might be a trap. I'm pretty sure our upstairs neighbors are just dimwits
  • The floor in my apartment is buckling from water leaking in through the terrace
  • smugmug.com because they never posted our random pictures from the PSU Art Crawl
  • Always feeling like my ribs are broken from Pilates and laughing too much out of hysteria

April 1, 2009

Random Goings-on

Penn State won the NIT (No Invitation Tournament) game last night. It was amazing how many PSU fans were there. It made me seriously miss State College, but luckily I'm going this weekend for my sister's gallery show! This morning I saw an old lady with gauged earrings all over her ears and a leather jacket with white-out drawings of skulls on it. She was rockin. I hope I'm that cool as a senior citizen. I also think it's sad when people hand out materials about Jesus on the streets. I say "no thanks" to everything people hand out, but it's especially funny when I have to say "no thanks" to god. Typical New York. At work we have an ad unit called "Site in a Box." What does that remind you of? I'm moving two floors up in 3 weeks. I have to miss alumni weekend, but we're saving money and most of us know that Blue and White weekend last year was quite intense. I had a hotel room, but slept in a car. Does anyone want to help us carry couches and beds on April 25th? Free beer and a high 5?