pretty in pastels

In keeping with the occasion of me having silvery hair right now we are making a quick detour away from fall and taking three minutes and forty seconds to appreciate angelic pastels and 1950's prom dresses :')

"If a body catches a body coming through the rye": books that embody the tortured teenage spirit

If you're an angsty teen trying to comprehend the purpose of your existence while dealing with the pressures of fitting in and finding your identity, then these books are for you! If I could ever give anybody a piece of advice, it would probably be to just read. A lot. Even if you're dealing with a problem that requires advice completely irrelevant to reading STILL DO IT. These books I have the pleasure with presenting to you today are always relevant and extremely quotable in everyday situations so you can show off. I have a tendency to get really intense and carried away with synopsis's and end up giving away the whole entire story so I will keep it to like one sentence of each book so I don't do that thing where I ruin everything.

1. The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Social outcast and high school freshman, Charlie, narrates his experience of being befriended by two eccentric seniors through a series of letters to a complete stranger. This book deals with: identity, first love, peer pressure, the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and an adorable quirky shy boy. We really like this book at my work; notice the plethora of staff picks--->  *THIS BOOK HITS THEATERS AT THE END OF THIS MONTH AND IS STARRING THE LOVE OF MY LIFE (Logan Lerman adfjghlaekhrger) AS CHARLIE. WHO'S COMING WITH ME?? WARNING: I WILL SQUEAL AND CRY*
   
   

2. The Catcher in the Rye: After his expulsion from Pencey Prep, sixteen year old, Holden Caulfield, skips town to New York City just days before his expected return home for Christmas break. During his stay, Holden finds himself in situations that lead him to swear, drink a lot, call up old phony girlfriends, and question his own identity (again). Salinger's prose channeled through Holden is unique and very relatable to his youth audience, which consists of bad-asses and girls who can only read about such rebellious-but-actually-very-intelligent-and-down-to-earth-but-doesn't-show-it boys that they could use to make their fathers angry.

3. Submarine: Oliver is a very awkward, nearly 15 year old British boy who loves Jordana, monitors his parents sexual activity by the light dimmer in their bedroom, and is just trying to lose his virginity. He's like a quirky, outspoken Holden Caulfield and there is definitely a resemblance to The Catcher in the Rye in the way that after you read, you begin to become more aware (I don't even know what I'm saying anymore). Joe Dunthorne fills each page with hilarious teenage anxiety and adorable British words like "jumper" (pronounced "jump-ah", obviously, and is a sweater, obviously) and "mum" (which is YOUR MOTHER!! I don't know if that was a joke or not), and phrases like "God alive, I feel supple" (I have no idea what this means and honestly felt really uncomfortable typing it). This book will make you laugh and cry. But only from laughing so hard. I hope...if the case is otherwise please seek help.                                                                        
4. The Virgin Suicides: On a more serious note, The Virgin Suicides focuses on the five Lisbon sisters: Cecilia, Lux, Bonnie, Mary and Therese, through the first person plural perspective of the neighborhood boys who try and put together the pieces of the girls' lives up until their shocking suicides. This book is literally poetry for me... Every sentence flows so beautifully with descriptions so vivid it's like you are there with the boys watching Lux on the roof, and slowly becoming obsessed (in a nice way...if that's possible) with the beautiful Lisbon girls. I saw the film, directed by Sofia Coppola, before I had read the book, and the low saturation coloring with soft, angelic lighting perfectly embodied the dream-like, milky atmosphere that is created as one reads this book.                                                                                  

5. Never Let Me Go: I debated putting this book on this list because it doesn't exactly deal with the same subject matter as the last four, but I figured LET'S GO CRAZY and this one is too good not to mention. It's a dystopic novel set at first in a place called Hailsham boarding school, where children are taught no basic life skills, other than some art classes, and are kept in isolation at the school until they are 16-18 years old. The reason for this is the children there were only produced as clones of less important people into this world to be organ donors for normal beings in need. A good chunk of the beginning of the book focuses in on the childhood of the three main characters, Kathy (the narrator), Tommy and Ruth, as they grow up in Hailsham, and then follows them into their lives as Carers and Donors and the ongoing conflicts between the three of them. This time, this book will make you cry REAL LIFE TEARS FOREVER. Kazuo Ishiguro, the author, writes in a style unique to his own and really brings you into the life of Kathy as she struggles the reality of her existence, love, and loss.

SoOoOoOoOoOoOoOo there we go. Read them all. At the same time. Great.

Basically all of the books mentioned here...yeah pretty much all of them... have been made into FANTASTIC MOVIES, with the exception of Perks which I haven't seen yet, and Catcher which I don't think should be touched, with FANTASTIC ACTORS. Seriously each one of these that they turned into a movie has become one of my favorites! I will link the trailers to each book to watch as well because I'm such a sweetheart!!

1. Perks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aog8680PVmU (OMG HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL)- Logan Lerman, Emma Waston, Ezra Miller, Paul Rudd (!!)
2. Submarine: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-WCCdkVDr4 (EVERYONE HAS TO SEE THIS)- Craig Roberts, Sally Hawkins
3. The Virgin Suicides: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbz4-du3Ayg (LITERALLY JUST GOT CHILLS)- James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett
4. Never Let Me Go: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXiRZhDEo8A (oh hey guise just crying already nothing to see here except my favorite person in the world Carey Mulligan, and not me crying nope)- Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield, Keira Knightley

That took a lot out of me. I'm emotionally exhausted and unstable now. Well, more than I was before.

back to school pt.2: brighten the blues

THE HEATHERS

CLUELESS

WhAtEvEr

Some more back to school vibes ft. The Heathers and Clueless, high school cult classics with generation defining style that brightened the back to school blues and gave the eighties and charming sociopaths some credit.

my so-called pathetic life: back to school (and boomer's bday!!!)

OMG MY BABY IS 5 TODAY HE'S SO CUTE AND FLUFFY AND CUTE AND SLEEPY AND I'M WAY TOO OBSESSED WITH HIM FOR IT TO BE HEALTHY HA HAHA AHJDFHLWEIUYJ WHO WANTS TO PARTY WITH ME?!? 

DOESN'T LOOK A DAY PAST FOUR! That's because this was taken last year you cheap idiot. OH OKAY!

If anyone thought I was talking about a real person there, the fact I said "'FLUFFY" should have given it away that MY DOG IS BETTER THAN YOURS! ^^ HI DERG!

In other, less exciting and important news, practically all of the people I have known in my life got up in the wee hours of the morning (8 or something probably, ew) to head off into the arms of death!! Somebody save them!! From school, I mean. They went to school. And since I just woke up and clearly have nothing better to do (other than party all day and nite duh!!!) I pretended to go to school as well. Except I didn't actually go that would be weird. I just gathered the necessary materials to do so:

• A sturdy binder for all the assignments you'll obviously do! Mine is my dad's old briefcase binder. Complete with the pleather and handle! This is strictly business, kids
• Notebooks for cute doodles. I got those bad boys from Urban Outfitters and they have been well used

•  *~dEsIgNeR pEnCiLz~* show your peers that doing math, science and writing 1000 word essays can be lots of fun with these puppies!!!!1!
• Glue stick, scissors, HIGHLITERS (A MUST-HAVE FOR JUST ANYTHING), pens, pencil crayons

•  Adorable stationary to send notes back and forth with your friends during class when you should be studying

I'm just including this for fun because it's my grade 10 (I think) binder and I want to show the world how cool I was! Woah Obama! The Hangover cast! Ha ha! So funny! Such inspirational quotes! Okay seriously though cut me some slack I ALSO SEE Carey Mulligan, Logan Lerman, She & Him, Twiggy, and old Popeye candy label (I was OBSESSED with those things) and the word "bright" (which was completely necessary). Not bad. COLLAGING IS A LIFESTYLE.

In the other hypothetical situation in which I would be going to school, I have been feeling some heavy "My So-Called Life" vibes and channeled Angela Chase for this day. If I was going to school I would wear something like this:

Thrifted floral dress and belt, beaded crop top, Topshop cardigan (again), old locket, Lost Girl pin, leather brown satchel, American Apparel high socks (not seen), combat boots (not seen). Sorry these photos are so horribly awkward, but seeing as I'm alone always I had to take these myself in my small mirror.

But since I am not going to school, I am wearing something like this:

I'm surprised I'm still even wearing pants at this point. Ciao kids!

 

back to school creeps

 

bad kidz from hblaisauce on 8tracks Radio.
Psychotic Girl The Black Keys Bad Kids The Black Lips I Was A Teenage Werewolf The Cramps Femme Fatale The Velvet Underground Lay Down In The Tall Grass Timbre Timbre Little Black Mess Shivaree Lose Your Soul Dead Man's Bones She's Not There The Zombies

 

coyote flats

So the other day I ran into this random girl that let me dress her in my clothes and black lipstick and drive out to abandoned fields and take photos of her...how weird and convenient right? That's because: September fools! None of that happened. Well okay it all did except for the random girl part. The model you see is just my brave BFFAEALXOXOXLALALA Brooke, who let me dress her in my clothes and black lipstick and drive out to abandoned fields and take photos of her. SEPTEMBER FOOLS AGAIN SHE'S ACTUALLY AN ALIEN. I don't know. It's late. Why do I always post so late? Anyways it was super fun because we made really fun, random cozy outfits and went back in time to the 70's and posed on old washing machines and lost my sunglasses (that part was a bummer)!!! I'm surprised these turned out as well as they did considering they were taken on my iPhone 4S because my Nikon was dead. *Need a photographer for your special event, but can't afford the outrageous professional prices!? Well worry no more! For the mere price of a pair of new sunglasses you can have your photos taken by ME on my cell phone!!!*

Dex cardigan, thrifted dress and belt

Black Forever 21 platform pumps

Vintage bowl hat

Thrifted velvet top, knit scarf, XXI bell bottoms

Thrifted button down, Topshop cardigan

Rose skirt from a pal, cheetah print mittens

Lost Girl pin, my Mom's old necklace

My worn out combat boots

color my life with the chaos of trouble

I made a crazy (fall) color collage!! You got your greens! You got your reds! You got your purples! I need my meds! (just kidding I don't take meds psssshhhh NOT SAYING theres anything wrong with that ha ha ha....*awkward shifting*)(also that rhymed)

Acceptable fall patterns/textures. You can't sit with us if you're wearing polka dots, sorry.

Also, happy first day of September (well technically it's the second seeing as it's midnight WHERE DID THE TIME GO WHILE I WAS WASTING MY LIFE AWAY WATCHING DAWSON'S CREEK??)!! I wore my new fuzzy Topshop cardigan in celebration of this day and effortlessly channeled fallish-vibes while effortlessly sweating away in the still summer heat. So cute!! Love me, male specimens!!