HAZEL CILLS

Pixiv is an online community to share art. I don't know who this user is but their work sure is adorable!

Once upon a time there was a super kewl band called Oh-Ok. They began in the 80's and were a very short lived band but they made good music! Oh-OK weren't twee but it's easy to label them as such because of singers Lynda Stipe (Michael Stipe's sister) and Linda Hopper's cutesy vocals and how they sing about eating snacks around the campfire and their album cover has line drawings of little girls on it. Sometimes they get uber-twee but then on other songs they sound like post-punk band Delta 5 and they just sound weird and dark to be anything remotely twee.

Mulberry has such colorful and beautiful ad campaigns and their most recent one is no exception. Filled with larger than life props of melting ice creams and broken sweets, the photo spread for the Spring/Summer 2012 collection is an adorable (and maybe a little bit surrealist) campaign. The colors are SO perfect. I really love this to death!

A thousand moons ago I made a super popular 8tracks playlist (everyone knows I'm obsessed with making 8tracks playlists, right?!) called "Hanging Out With Lydia Deetz" in honor of my favorite goth girl ever, Lydia from the movie "Beetlejuice." Now I make them for Rookie, picking a movie/tv teen girl character who embodies the monthly theme: The Plastics for "Beginnings," Ginger from Gingersnaps for "Secrets," The Pink Ladies for "Girl Gang," Margot from The Royal Tenenbaums for "Home," and Effy from Skins for "Up All Night." I LOVE making these playlists because it's so fun to collect music that I think the character would listen to/describes their personality. My favorite one is Margot's, because my itunes library is so Wes Anderson-y anyway. It's also my most popular playlist! 3,000+ plays, whaaaat?!

I'm so glad people like them as much as I do!

Japanese designer Tokuko Maeda's Spring/Summer 2012 collection was beautiful! Inspired by traditional folk art and textiles from Mexico, the clothes showcased all of the rich textures and colors that come from Mexican clothing but still incorporated typical Japanese silhouettes.

Leave it up to Tim Walker to make a seriously creepy fashion editorial for an issue that's NOT out on Halloween. This editorial is giving off the freakiest vibes ever. The styling is perfect though; frilly, pastel baby doll dresses with a lot of sheer, plastic-like fabrics. Click through for the rest of this weirdo editorial.

Here are some songs from thee olde' Bandcamp that I am currently freaking out over.



1. "Into Black" by Blouse
Modern goth at its finest! Yay to the return of 80's goth!. The entire album is so creepy and perfect. Download it!



2. "Esquire Esquire" by Literature
Literature is just straight up youthful, if you know what I mean? It's jangle pop that's super light and fun. It sort of sounds like something you've heard a 1000x before but that doesn't stop it from being really good.



3. "Slime" by Sleeping Bag
Don't get this band confused with the indie shoegaze group Sleeping Bags, the PLURAL one. I still can't get over that there are two bands right now that have names based off of a slumber party/camping staple. Wow. Anyway, I like this song. A little monotone and pretty effortless. It's lazy rock. Is that a genre? Can I just make up that genre? Sleeping Bag, if you're reading this, don't get offended if I call your music "lazy rock," 'cause I love you guys.



4. "Rabbit Kids" by Shrag
GOTTA LOVE THOSE ACCENTS. But really though, this song is cute. Kind of shrill and marching band-ish but those are good song qualities in my book. I love it. Shrag is a great band.

ALSO, to bands EVERYWHERE: Delete your Myspaces. If you are a band whose website is a Myspace page you need to change that quickly. Get a tumblr, that's free. Myspace makes you look suuuuuuuuuper dated. Nobody uses Myspace anymore anyways.

IT'S CHRISTMAS EVE, so of course I'm posting a bunch of .gifs from the '77 Japanese horror film Hausu! YAY! Such a gruesome AND groovy movie that has nothing to do with Christmas at all! ~ spooky ~

I can't wait to have an apartment/home all to myself that I can decorate. Who knows when that will be! But, I've always loved uniquely decorated spaces and these homes are so amazing. My favorite type of home is one that truly balances modern with old. My current house is a salt-box style house and everything is very rustic in the decor and architecture (we have no doorknobs, only latches, and we have a lot of colonial-style furniture.) I love dark wood and furniture fit for a cabin, but I also really like modern furniture and art. I remember a thousand moons ago I saw this tv special on people who had taken really old barns and renovated the insides to be these sleek, completely modern buildings. They looked like crumbling old barns on the outside, but inside they looked like museums. It was so neat! But my future holds apartments the size of shoeboxes, so catch up with me in 20+ years and we'll see where my interior design dreams are :)

I often find myself falling in love with houses and decorated-spaces over the internet. I'm currently obsessing over these three (very different) homes:

This"Beach Street Loft" in Boston. I LOVE that staircase with all of the plants and the color combinations in the "theater/living room" are so good. I feel like these pictures were taken in the 70's, maybe? Or not! I just love all of the Indian textiles and animal statues. Such an interesting looking house.

The Walker Art Center is having an exhibit called "Graphic Design: Now In Production" which showcases over 250 artists and 1,400 images that represent modern graphic design and production. They just issued the exhibit's catalogue and it looks SO GOOD! Like, holy shit, this catalogue is NECESSARY. My brain is drooling. I wish I could see the exhibit!!!

1. Manic Attracts is my current musical obsession. Bratty punk songs that sort of remind me a bit of Christian Death (except maybe even MORE rocking out???) They make me want to head bang forever and that's saying a lot because I'm such a princess.



2. Scout Niblett's "Sweat Heart Fever" is country music minimalism at its finest. Wait, is it country? Is it folk? WHAT IS IT? I like it. I've had "Big Bad Man" stuck in my head for the past week or so.



3. Well, I've always loved Chuck Berry but "Come On" is just SO GOOOD. I think it might be my favorite Chuck Berry song. Such desperation! Also, apparently that's Martha Berry (his MOM?) on back vocals. COOL.

MARNI IS DOING H&M! I'll be excited to see what the entire collab will look like. Circles! Prints! Colors!



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I swear my hands are waaay more attractive in real life!
Also my nail polish rules. Confetti fingers! WOOH!