In other words, next Christmas's wishlist, so if any of this is in your price range, you know where to find me.
Burnt Sienna Sweetheart Dress
from Modcloth.com
$ 44.99
H&M Lace Skirt
from February '12's Nylon Magazine Price is Right
$ 40
MDot for Sebago Shoes
from February '12's Nylon Magazine
Montauk Dress from Astars
from February '12's Nylon Magazine
$ 121
Mint Diesel Black Gold Jacket
from February '12's Nylon Magazine Directory
Lauren Moffatt Top
from February '12's Nylon Magazine Directory
Glee, in my world, is always a touch and go affair -- from Season 2 on, but Season 2 Glee gave fans a great service in the angelic doppelganger child of Gene Kelly and Michael Jackson, Darren Criss. To ask me to rank the following ten performances would just be too difficult - so in no particular order...
Good things haven't been tickling my girl spots as often as I would like, other than getting my copy of Sharon van Etten's "Tramp" which will be inked up in another month - cue me beet red and giggling like a sixteen year old - and a few more assorted pieces of van Etten news.
... When Two Worlds Collide ...
Covering everything from her performance Jimmy Fallon (which I put in January 20th's Holy Snow Vspot) and the etymology and reasoning for naming her newest (and best) album "Tramp," Sharon is talking to my Godhead Magazine otherwise known as Nylon. This... is... happiness (and why is everyone playing Serpents? I'm currently obsessed with Leonard, which she made a mini-performance/music video for another fantastic fashion magazine, the British i-D)
Daniel Radcliffe does Nylon... with Bitching Coattails
I've always been a Harry Potter movie-fan, someday I'll get to the books but until then, I will be keeping an eye on Mr. Radcliffe's career, of which I'm loving his carefree gaming British self. Already out in the mildly successful "The Woman in Black" then an impending Allen Ginsberg project., he's pulling out nay-sayers yet enduring praise from his fans since Harry-hood including people saying "Hey, he can be more than just Harry." Did I mention his episode of SNL? Oh Lord. Outside of the film franchise, he proves to be edgy, sarcastic, everything I could want in a model British boy-crush. He shows this side in a perfect feature for Nylon Magazine and makes historical fashion immortal with, " I have quite a sexy costume on in this film, but that’s kind of where
it ends -- it’s the waistcoat. I, without blowing my own trumpet, I wear
that shit well." He really does.
Support Hipster Art!
Yale Cohen, a local fixture in Iowa City broadcasting, sits down with some of my marshmallow peeps from Public Space One to talk about S.O.U.P., Iowa City Arts, and pretty much what goes down (literally) in the Jefferson Building's basement. If you're local and haven't been here for a Little Village Concert (which is every Wednesday at five), I suggest you go 'cos there's free chocolate chip cookies and fun strange folks there. But don't worry, they don't bite or... anything...
Concert Lovin'
When it gets warm here in town, it only means one thing -- more live
music than normal and more concert pictures here on voguegasm. This is
why Mission Creek Festival exists, to fully usher in spring with as many
indie musicians as humanly possible.
1. Jenny Owen Youngs Rocks My Face, Java Blend, February 10th
Milk and Eggs (Jordan Sellergren), Live at Java House, February 10th
The Pipettes - Guess Who Ran Off With the Milkman?
Rachel Goodrich - G-Dino
Sharon van Etten - Leonard
Backstreet Boys - Poster Girl
The Golden Filter - Favourite Things
The Pipettes - Guess Who Ran Off With the Milkman?
El Perro del Mar - It's All Good
Angus and Julia Stone - Say It Right (Nellie Furtado Cover)
Fun. - One Foot
Taken By Trees - Sweet Child Of Mine (Guns n Roses Cover)
Jessie and the Toy Boys - Let's Get Naughty
The Pipettes - Boo Shuffle
If today's weather wasn't what I envisioned in my last vspot (Good Lord, I'm sounding old just talking about weather) it wouldn't have been a sign with the wonderful 30 degree flustering flurries that land on my nose and eyelashes -- if my glasses weren't shielding them, that was an incentive to blog this strange and wonderful week.
I'm writing this as I eat a vegan chocolate and peanut butter cupcake...
Peach Nail Polish isn't a Myth!!
I have cried and pleaded to the nail polish Gods (and Musings from Manhattan) for a peach nail polish to come to me and through Musings from Manhattan's email to me on their used blog polish sale that looks like it's over with that hope is nearing. Essie Spring 2012 line is going to deliver... hard. MFM continued to send me this link at another blogspot sister Scrangie which shows the latest palate that will be gracing CVS's shelves within the next month. And just happens the first polish reviewed is the peach "A Crewed Interest" which is seriously rocking my clock. Onto peach lipstick...
Pop-Up Local Quirky Stores Are Back in Business in IC
Iowa City isn't just the city of literature, it is the city of fantastic local jewelers/artists/accessory maestros and someone needs to utilize these great artists in stores and not just the scattered one-of-a-kind shops, farmer's markets and Art & Craft (or as I call it, Etsy Fair). But as of this past winter, fellow Osagian Catherine Champion created and opened the Pop-Up store called December which now will be rotated throughout the seasons -- called a different store every season. While I love love love that concept, I just think having a consistent one all year round without getting crazy thematic is good enough for me. Like, making an accessory/art Farmer's Market like store with art pieces displayed like produce. But while concept sounds odd, I'm oddly gearing up for the second project Champion has conjuring up -- with my local obsession known as Revival.
Revival and Champion will be getting together to unleash "Merci" on Iowa City, a "high end consignment shop" according to the Press Citizen article. It caused me to do a happydance all over my living room. Currently, there is a sense of hope in the downtown area of Iowa City because of the "Good Ideas" program that the city just recently put together to get Iowa City back its quirk by 2030, hopefully the quirk will be helped by the artists -- they always come through.
Margaret Berger Collabs With Charlotte Thorstvedt
What's like von Trier's Melancholia, a little Sapphic and all around a Scandinaviangasm of the highest order? Norge Idol 2004 Runner-Up Margaret Berger is starting to show a darker side lately with her heartbroken single "In a Box" and it's B-side clubby "4.E.V.E.R.L.O.V.E" and is starting to bloom into something sexier, she keeps getting better. Arrythmia is the lost Portishead song with Model/DJ Charlotte Thorstvedt who is starting a recording career and this is so promising, I reported to facebook with this link saying I had to wipe off buckets of drool off my couch.
Maggie Smith Continues to Become Immortal
As an official Downton Abbey geek (after 4 episodes), it's hard to believe that anyone could hate Maggie Smith's character The Dowager Countess of Grantham or if Potterheads are watching in grief of the Harry Potter franchise being over.remembering Smith going all Angelina Jolie in the last chapter. NeverthelessMaggie Smith's character is becoming immortal on throw cushions and now Tumblr. When Dowager Countess Texts is probably the best thing to happen to me this week and it just happened to me today. Best one so far?
ME:
TGIF!
DOWAGER COUNTESS:
TGIF?
DOWAGER COUNTESS:
Turkish gentleman is f*cked?
Sleigh Bells Flip Mustard Bottles Like a Boss
This is all you need to know about Sleigh Bell's newest video for "Comeback Kid," Alexis Krauss is looking unearthly beautiful as always and Derek Miller flipping a mustard bottle into a grocery cart is just plain epic. These people can make anything look beautifully hipster.
"We come from the land of the ice and snow..." but I'm one of those give-and-take Iowans. I don't mind snow, I really don't! 30 degree fluffy snowfall days are sheer perfection. Living in North Central Iowa where we get the colder and harder snow because we have Canada and the flat Minnesota plains to thank for that weather So living in Southern Iowa for so long (6 years this fall) really isn't that painful, non-Iowan immigrants. So in light of the Viking war cry, I give you the best thing that has happened to me in the past few weeks.
Karen O, You're Amazing *le drool*
and other things....
Josh Groban in First CollegeHumor Film
Because I wanted an excuse to put this up again
So what would happen if the online company CollegeHumor made a movie that is caffeinated with awesome people like Brad Copeland, the mad genius behind Arrested Development and actors Ben Schwartz from Parks and Recreation and up-and-coming "stop my beating heart" Crazy Stupid Love alum Josh effing Groban got together? "Coffee Town," a Copeland-penned film that will be the coffee house geek's "Cheers" focusing on a group who meets at a coffee house being served by Groban. Two of my favorite things in one, excuse me while I go die of happiness.
God Help the Girl Goes Musical!
More often super-cute than Broadway spectacular, God Help the Girl and Belle and Sebastian Scotsman Stuart Murdoch wants to make a musical and needs YOUR help here at kickstarter.com as he proposes for this summer film to be green-lit.
God Help the Girl, which is also the name of Murdoch's latest musical project, is "set in Glasgow, Scotland, the film is
about a girl named Eve who is in the hospital dealing with some emotional
problems and starts writing songs as a way of getting better. Songwriting
becomes her way forward, leading her to the City where she meets James and
Cassie, two musicians each at crossroads of their own." Or so kickstarter says, and 698 people love this idea, as do I, and already have donated 71,388 to this cause. We haven't had a good musical lately and maybe Murdoch will bring some retribution to the dying genre.
Sleigh Bells are Back Ringing Like Amazing
Alexis Krauss and Derek Miller are back, but instead of melting your face with heavy beats and bass, they want to slash your soul with Miller's electric guitar. But that doesn't mean the music doesn't lose momentum. "Born to Lose" which I shared a few weeks ago was a mere precursor to their first official single "Comeback Kid" which truly slashes your soul.
Sharon van Etten Gaining Momentum
Staying on the Stereogum circuit, Sharon van Etten has been grading late night stages on Jimmy Fallon and the back of my BUST Magazine (total unashamed "Hellooo Nurse" moment yesterday at work) which gave her latest "Tramp" high praise. So it seems appropriate for her to check in with stereogum's T. Cole Rachel on the tour (slash Iowa City detour in March), working on Tramp, and maybe a few name drops...
John Cusack Reincarnating E.A. Poe
Knowingly there is a post in this blog somewhere that talked about this movie over the summer where it was called "The Untitled Poe Project" (I looked everywhere! I can't find it!), The Raven has a trailer and is due out March 9th, but is it solid? Probably as solid as other movies in its same genre, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and Van Helsing, classic over-campy literature-action films. While I'm ashamed of enjoying these, I have slight hesitation, especially my least favorite actor, John Cusack, making a new reincarnation of the mystery and horror writer and poet. It's anyone's guess -- see it for yourself. I'm at a loss. This could be epic or it could be a huge fail. The poster on the other hand, is made of HUUUUGE win.
