Meet my future son:

It's okay not to like Taylor Swift. I DONT!

This post is dedicated to all the Jenny Lewis fans out there that understand good female artistry.

So out of nowhere, "Silver Lining" popped into my head today. So as usual, I rush over to YouTube (WHAT would I do without You' ?) and play the video.

The video plays and now, I'm not sure how often you do this, but if you ever take the time to read the comments on pretty much ANY video on YouTube, you will be so impressed by the sheer HILARITY that ensues on these comment postings. I guarantee it!

Well I was impressed this time. There weren't so many inane comments as there were some COMPLETELY GENIUS ones riling about how "Taylor Swift should be banned from radio and tv" and how her "voice is shit" and just about everything that my one fellow anti-Taylor co-conspirator and I have been desperately wanting to hear from other than just each other. All hail individuality, singularity, and as I stated in my last post, self-sufficienty-- but hey if "great minds think alike" well then "the more the merrier" !!

My new best friends:

That last "Good comment" thumbs up was from me =)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This looks promising

The past few nights my dreams have been "out of control" in the best of ways

I don't know why, I assume it has to do with how everybody keeps reminding me that I'm graduating, but recently my dreams have consisted of random people who I have known throughout gradeschool and beyond, just happening to BE THERE, in my dreams.

Last night in one of these dreams, I guy I once knew named Hani appeared. Of course, he brought his wonderfully ripped body with him. Now, I'm not a touchy-feely kind of person--

but I totally touched Hani. He had a six-pack of epic ab muscle just lying there in front of me and though I have never sexually touched a boy or a man and don't intend to until I have to, Hani's abs got it. I act like they got it but really, I got it-- the feel, the enjoyment, the utter satisfaction of just indulging in someone else's zillionth ab workout. I don't even remember what it felt like, if anything at all (do you even feel things in your dreams?) but just seeing myself running my hands on his abs was very satisfying. Weird, because it's Hani-- who I am the least bit attracted to-- but satisfying.



So anyway I woke up, and did some crunches.

Crunches? Why am I doing crunches-- Hani was the one with the abs...

Well, as obsessed as I was with Hani's abs, the obsession probably stemmed from my obsession with my own abs. But there's definitely something more to it.

I believe in self-sufficiency, sure, but there's also a part of me that's anticipating the day that I'll find my "other half" and we will live happily (for the most part) ever after, making decisions together, building a life together, etc. etc. So it only made sense to me that he would pick up where I left off... or never began. For example, if I had a knack for giving the wrong people too many chances, he'd be the one to judge you from the first impression, if I could never be on time, he'd be the punctual one, etc etc, like yin and yang making a perfectly well balanced whole.

For a while I thought like that. That everything I wasn't could be made up for by somebody else. One day however, I was talking to my friend Jayna, who was telling me about a Professor she knew at UCLA, Dr. Jain. Basically Dr. Jain was (and most surely still is) an amazing man with a Ph.D. in some sort of spectucular engineering, with patents and inventions to his name, along with an appreciation for the arts, culture, literature, etc etc etc etc etc and the list went on about how he was everything and everyone and good hearted and selfless and giving to boot and etc etc--

and I was just CRUSHED that he had just left his position as a Faculty-In-Residence and now I would never get the chance to meet such a man and be simultaneously floored and inspired.

For a while I sat there moping. Which I don't do very well. I'm a solutionist. A problem-solver. If there's an effect well there's a cause and the cause must have a solution. Well the issue at hand was that I was upset that I would not get to meet this person and be in the presence of his greatness. Why did I want to be in his presence? Why did I want to meet him? Well, mostly because I wanted to be him. Right? Truly. I think it was then that I decided, adamantly, that I would be the things that so admired in Dr. Jain. If I could be all those things, well then I wouldn't have to feel so upset with never having the chance to know him.

An extreme resolution, maybe. But a great excuse to be great. Not that you ever need any sort of excuse for such a scheme. ;)

Well on a sort of similar note, I decided that I didn't want to put such pressures on whoever I was just depending on to be the Yin to my Yang. He could be the Yin or the Yang. I, however, decided that I would be happiest being both. That way he could even be neither and I'd still be okay. So what if I feel like I give people too many chances? Well I'm not going to depend on my future partner-in-crime to tell me when to nip one in the bud. I've isolated my personal problem, and now I'm going to fix it. How about that Yin?

So. I got up from bed and did my sit-ups. Of course, a six-pack on my sig-o (significant other, you can refer to the Lo Ling Lexicon on the side panel ;P ) is desirable, but I'm not going to depend on him for that. And another thing, I simply feel better about expecting things from others when I can hold myself to accountable for these things as well. Must be the justice-inspired libra in me.

So I did my crunches, and resolved that although I say I don't care how my future husband LOOKS--


I totally care how he feels..


Hahaha

Things that came up today:

• a Cola float
• Nelly "#1" on Nellyville
• Jenny Lewis "Silver Lining"
• "Sex and the City 2" Trailer
• crunches

Happy New Year brought to you by DJ Earworm

So "Hard" to deny-- Rihanna Reigns Queen

IT'S HERE! I must post before I host...

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Well everyone knows I love Rihanna.

I won't list all the reasons why (although I wouldn't mind)-- but I'm not one completely blinded by love and I can see maybe some of you would find a few things on my list arguable.

That's fine. But here's one thing I dare you to argue--

I love Rihanna if not for anything else but the fact that she is a true fashionista/fashion icon/"rockin this sh*t like fashion"-- and this music video, I'm positive, is doing the runways prrroooud.

"Hard" is pretty much a lookbook in motion, actually I'd say it's an editorial-- Rihanna's devotion to couture clearly makes it so, and not only is it just the pieces, but the fact that she is the first to see the potential in these upcoming trends, embrace them, and make them all her own that makes me love her and LOVE "Hard"--the video (Naturally, I love the song as well).

The girl knows whats up and she owns it.

The December Issue of Harper's Bazaar just stated "White" and "Utilitarian Chic" as two of the five upcoming Spring trends--

Let's see we got some Mariacarla Boscono in white lace by Ricardo Tisci for Givenchy...

And Rihanna...

And then my least favorite trend, Utilitarian Chic (which to me is a nice way of addressing worn out looking khaki material, but it's growing on me, slightly. Eh.) But Rihanna works it:

Some Jean-Paul Gaultier

And some Rihanna:

BY THE WAY

How nervous did Rihanna make me when I caught a glimpse of THIS in the preview for the video--

At the time I had nothing to hint at me there was a flesh-toned body suit involved. But there was, as you saw in the previous video-still, and I could breathe easy.

And I thought the play on the usual under-eye war paint was brilliant.

And this next statement piece, the last I will point out was my absolute favorite-- since I love the zany--

THE GIRL EVEN GOES GLOBAL!

The December 09 issue of German Vogue featured an editorial highlighting Chanel Iman rockin Minnie Mouse inspired headwear:

And as usual,

Rihanna's ON it--

And yet no matter how much one might argue RiRi is just following trends--the video is still all Rihanna. Bullet bra anyone? Bright pink lips? Come on now, that's my girl all the way.

--

P.S.

Just followin' trends? Who says. This girl is clearly a trendSETTER:

Even Lindsay Lohan and Lili Allen took a pointer (pointer finger) ;p

So now Shh.

Things that came up today:

• Dark Chocolate Truffles
• Blastulation
• "Crazy" KC & Jo Jo
• "Get Buck in Here" DJ Felli Fel
• How awesome would a cover of Gaga's "Paparazzi" by Rihanna be???

If you could have only one bottle of nail polish for the rest of your life, which color would it be?

The following was a question posted to me on my formspring.me account (totally fun!)

If you could have only one bottle of nail polish for the rest of your life, which color would it be?

I love this question! Not only because it has to do with nailpolish, but because I know it must have been a true friend of mine that would ask this question =)

...and it's a tough one! As much as I love bright and unconventional colors, I wouldn't want that for the rest of my life. I'd want a color that is just wild enough yet grounded enough for my nails to hold their own in almost every situation--whether it be a party or a med school interview.

So my first instinct was OPI's "Pink of Hearts"

After giving it a little more thought (picking one color of nailpolish to use for the rest of my life is a very important decision), I decided that as versatile Pink of Hearts is, after a while it would start to lack the excitement or edge that I'm usually drawn to unexpected colors for.

So, my thoughts then turned to a CoverGirl color I once had, "Rouge Coquet"--which I can't find anymore but this link gets the point across:
Edgy yet subtle, classy and versatile...

BUT

Apart from changing my nail color every so often, I've also adopted changing the nail shape. Short, long, square, round... and not all colors necessarily complement all nail shapes, in my opinion.

As much as I love Rouge Coquet, given the wrong time and place, if I were to wear that on long sharply rounded nails, I'm pretty sure the effect would be a little more dramatic than I would have gone for.

So at last, I will resolve happily to settle on a color such as Essie's "Steel-ing the Scene"

or Revlon's "Steel Her Heart"

to be the one for the rest of my life. I think it has it all--except a real "color", which I think would actually work out wonderfully in this case!

Great question!!

Ask me anything

If you could turn into any astronaut from 1987, which would you turn into and why?

This was a question posted on my formspring account-- which I really appreciated because it forced me to learn something entirely new and RANDOM (my favorite!)

If you could turn into any astronaut from 1987, which would you turn into and why?

James S. Voss, because that is a spectacular last name and an excellent middle initial.

Ask me anything

What message would you want to put in a fortune cookie?

The following was a question posted to me on my formspring.meaccount (totally fun!)

What message would you want to put in a fortune cookie?

Congratulations! You've been chosen to be a hero. Go help a stranger!

Ask me anything

As if Google couldn't get any better

Thanks to Jo Dang for this one:

Google "Where is Chuck Norris?" and click on the "I'm feeling lucky" button, next to "Search". No need to ask any questions, just do it.

Enjoy. Or run. (You'll know what I mean by that)

Things that came up today:

• my residents are funny
• sticking tape on people's backs never gets old
• if you want something done right, do it yourself
• oversleeping
• undereating
• Queen "Under Pressure ft. David Bowie"
• Ja Rule - "Mesmerize ft. Ashanti"

Before I forget

Things that came up today:

• Ontario Airport
• "Ride" Cary Brothers
• Tyler Shields
• Fareed Zakaria GPS
• Eric E. Schmidt
• my biggest fear: miscommunication/inefficient communication/no communication
• "Shoot Me Down" Lil Wayne
• "Cudizone" Kid Cudi
• Every Kanye West sample ever video
  
• "1901" Phoenix
  
• a resolution to shoot like a bullet
• persimmons
• pushups

New Video for Miike Snow's "Animal"

and it's so the shit i can't contain myself UHH!



I'm reposting the old one because it's still the shit as well




Things that came up today:

• Keke Palmer performing on a float at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
• Thanksgiving
• "Polish Rider" not by Rembrandt
• "By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell--and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed." --Adolf Hitler
• Sonatina in C Major
• "Two Weeks" Grizzly Bear
  

Give a Hoot

Give a Hoot

MUST. HAVE.

THIS HAT!-- !!!!

well yeah okay Pharrell would be nice too...

BUT THAT HAT!!!

(the original MUST HAVE, which I still probably prefer over the above pictured):

I was never a fan of My Little Pony

but this is amazing

Things that came up today:

• spitting milk out of one's nose
• LeBron James all up in the "Forever" music video
• mating systems
• P!nk's video for "Funhouse," which I like
• an acceptance from SUNY Downstate Medical School

P!nk - New Music - More Music Videos

As if

I could ever stop loving you!

Look at her in that fer!

You know where I'll be tomorrow night at 10/9 central -- watching abc as Rihanna reveals all!!

(What a great move, doing it right as you release your new album, your people make me so proud) ;p

Things that came up today:

• more masquerade masks to add to my collection
• peacock feather earrings (that were busted and now I need to get new ones)
• Hello Kitty calendar (to gift)
• a massage appointment
• a quite horrendous yet hilarious midterm
• followed by a very rowdy classroom

You've got some power in your corner now

some heavy ammunition in your camp ;p

Rediscovered yet again how great this song/movie is...



Things that came up today:

• "Never Had a Friend Like Me" - Robin Williams, Aladdin Original Soundtrack
• STIs are sexually transmitted infections. STIs are any infection that may be acquired as a result of having oral, anal, or vaginal sex, or genital-to-genital contact with an infected person.
• a slice of pineapple pizza and uneaten chocolate cake
• pretentious are the people in Styling
• a society that values bravery over skill and intelligence as a result of our society evolving faster than our genome
• the Happy Birthday song

Here's a good line

your miss, your fault-- and don't dare to spit my shit back at me

Things that came up today (or yesterday):

• hoop earrings (I miss thee)
• slutty wench (is that redundant?)
• slutty policegirl
• OxyClean guy
• Green Lantern
• Winnie the Pooh
• Backpacker (clever!)
• Sailor Moon (I wonder how long till that reference dies)
• a nerd
• a nothing (or 20)
• a Mardi Gras mask
• a cancelled dinner
• too much leftover candy
• a video of Taylor Swift falling (enjoy!)

Ooh baby the postman... is about to deliver

and Earthtone, a favorite YouTube cover artist, has just covered "Girl I Wanna Lay You Down", a favorite song

of course I'm going to post

Things that came up today:

• marshmallow peeps
• "shady"
• nice guys finish last
• "morbidly obese"
• Rilo Kiley - "Silver Lining"
• Rihanna - "Russian Roulette"
• allergies to latex... yeah right

"Classroom of De Stijl"

I feel like a baby.

B A B

B Y

Older.

Older Prettier

Redder

Bigger Fatter

All tatted up like you've been somewhere

like you've "seen things"

big foreheads and big wrinkles

or that one forehead covered pristinely

with her bangs and her red lips and she

looks

so

old

but pretty

but old

but

why the hell you here.

He's speaking with an accent!

Get out of here

GO!

G O

Is it that or your deep voice. Or his

bald head under his bowler hat

and her fluffy fancy outfits

lacey

noir

red lips.

Maybe they'll tell me how to say "Mommy wow"

and I'll see how you stole big kid from me now.

I'm the baby big kid

big kid baby

or just the

big baby kid

And you look huge

and you limbo

on my education

on my time

on my walk

on my voice

in

my place

me

Where are my babies.

Seeing Sounds

via UCLA-ITS Technology Blog

"Need a unique gift for someone in your life? Check out The Sound Advice Project! The Sound Advice Project takes your choice of words and creates a tangible, wearable keepsake by mimicking the shape of the soundwaves of your voice with beads.

Originally created as outlet for parents to encourage and support a drug-free lifestyle for their children, there is no limit to the sentiments you can record and display as a bracelet. And with a selection of different bead and cord colors, it's a fashionable choice, too. Priced at $25." {http://www.thesoundadviceproject.com/}

States United

how cute-ingenious is this

I pledge allegiance.

Haha and I had to throw this in there:

love or hate Miley, I don't care, this cover really works for me

...And Party...And Bullshit (in the USA)

Things that came up today:

• nuclear fission vs. nuclear fusion
• Bangladeshi food
• air-drying your laundry
• Philip Treacy designs shoes for Valentino
• Lucifer Liege by Luc Viatour

Milliner Philip Treacy Designs Shoes for Valentino

my own

Francisco Garcia for me, Photography for you

This is one of his shots for the f/w 09 Talula campaign, modeled by Rachel at MUSE NYC.

I dig this style of shooting, which if you get a chance to see the rest of the shots , you might agree with me that it's very reminiscent of Juergen Teller. A little more demure (but then again I have yet to see the rest of Garcia's works hahah)

Besides that, I've been wanting one of those vests since a long time now. The hair is good and so is the quilted leather couch.

Pretty soon my co-conspirators and I at the UCLA Cultural Affairs Commission-Art Series will

be heading up a blog regarding all things relevant to Art in LA. We're thinking about calling it "Art LA"-- let me know if you have other suggestions. Until then, let this be your source of updates. So here's the latest:

• Shoot for Shoot Photography Competition - Deadline October 26th
• Irving Penn (OMG!) at the Getty until Jan 10th (article)
• Annenberg Space for Photography's Pictures of the Year International Exhibit, until Nov.1
• Downtown LA Art Walk, every 2nd Thursday

"Art is not a thing; it is a way."

-Elbert Hubbard

Things that came up today:

• Sam Sparro "Black and Gold"
• Matisyahu "King Without A Crown (Live)"
• John Legend "I Can Change ft. Snoop Dogg"
• "decorating" the drunk and passed out
• don't pass out with your shoes on
• Constructivist art movement
• Degrassi
• Cultural Affairs Commission UCLA Fall retreat

Irving Penn

Cigarette 17
New York, 1972

(one of my favorites, not featured in the exhibit however to the best of my knowledge)

Let me make your day

Things that came up today:

• feta cheese in a vegetarian omelet
• you think you know candy until you walk into a candy shop (Rx Candy, 1st Floor, Ackerman Union), you think you know ice cream until you walk into an ice cream shop; the wonder of specialty shops
• Paper or plastic? Neither.
• how fast is too fast to be moving in on someone else's ex
• one new follower (you are awesome!)

Patent Leather and Lace

scratch that... and CHAINS BABY!!

So first Converse had the genius to come out with a jersey design, and now what do the geniuses do? PATENT LEATHER CONVERSE-- talk about a yum.

(All links to product after the jump.)

Next up,

I was eyeing these all summer. Realistically at this point in my life I would have no wear to wear them so I have not yet splurged. I think what turns me on the most about these is that Rihanna's ghost stylist (WHERE THE HECK ARE YOU THESE DAYS?!) would totally have approved.

Not bad in this color either:

I guess more realistic options in terms of day to day use would be:

However in price, my first choice (the heels) are probably more buyer friendly (in this day and age anyway)

Oh and by the way yes, my birthday is indeed coming up =P JUST KIDDING

...Well it is, but EH YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN ;-D

1. http://store.alloy.com/item.do?itemID=50462
2. http://www.gojane.com/38238-shoes-strappy-chain-link-snake-heel.html
3. http://www.freepeople.com/index.cfm/fuseAction/products.detail/_/Chainiator-Strappy-Wedge/productID/525ba41e-2e6a-417b-8e66-1be2fbc5c53c/categoryID/d708c546-8ea0-407d-a581-143d7122c41a/?cm_mmc=Performics-_-Affiliates-_-Shop%20It%20To%20Me-_-Free%20People%20Logo%20120x60
4. http://www.freepeople.com/index.cfm/fuseAction/products.detail/_/Giselle-Chain-Wedge/productID/4fe4309e-2cde-4d4c-8ae4-d34c3b2b85f7/categoryID/d708c546-8ea0-407d-a581-143d7122c41a/?cm_mmc=Performics-_-Affiliates-_-Shop%20It%20To%20Me-_-Free%20People%20Logo%20120x60

Things that came up today:

• Creme Brulee
• the inconvenience of construction work
• the joy of receiving packages, even if you self-ordered them
• a leaky water bottle
• a new water bottle (ALUMINUM AND ECO-FRIENDLY)
• hot. hot. heat.
• Julian Casablancas' new solo album to drop on October 19th (my birthday!)

Empire State Building Green: Wizard of Oz's 70th Anniversary (Plus Fall "Ruby Slippers") by Elizabeth Monson - News - StyleCaster

Empire State Building Green: Wizard of Oz's 70th Anniversary (Plus Fall "Ruby Slippers") by Elizabeth Monson - News - StyleCaster

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Moments by Will Hoffman

My own exhibit!?

Well not quite. But I do have to say my favorite part of being a Resident Assistant, besides the satisfaction of knowing you have touched lives and inspired young'ns to drink their alchy and smoke their mary-j elsewhere, is having over 60 plus people that have no choice but to subject themselves to viewing your work, and, satisfyingly enough, having 60 plus people to do the work for.

These days I seem to be posting the work of other people, and I'm not entirely comfortable yet with posting my own-- but today I decided eh, what the hell! So here we go.

Door decorations-- each room gets one of these. Here's some random ones I selected to photograph:

mine, I like it the best because I didn't write the names in it.

As you can see each of them pretty much have their own thing going on, which was fun for me (and much less stressful than creating identicals.) And not gonna lie, I was clearly inspired by Adrian Johnson from a few posts ago.

A little story behind those door decorations-- when I was creating the prototype some time ago in the office, some people would walk by and quite pessimistically state to me or to the air around them, "Oh that's going to take forever" "Why are you doing that? You're a returner you should know better!" Etc. Etc. Etc.

Well, this nuisanced me in a number of ways, most because a. Just because you couldn't do it quickly doesn't mean I can't. Don't impose on ME, YOUR limitations, and b. Rome was not built in a day, and I don't have to either.

Quite fittingly, just a few days before, I had picked this quote up from one of the training sessions. It was posted unnoticeably on one of the walls on a horizontal 8.5" x 11", but I saw it and will never forget it:

"Never be limited by other's limited imaginations." -Mae Jemison

So I dared to dream and I dared to do, and no, it did not take FOREVER-- but even if it had, I would have stuck through because I believe in HARD WORK.

"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves." -Thomas Alva Edison

Above is the calendar board of the foyer. So, essentially I focus on form over function I'd have to say-- which becomes apparent with this calendar. It's funny because on shows like Project Runway you always have a designer with an "out-there" concept behind his or her design, and you will hear them make mentions of, "I'm not sure the judges will get it..." I don't think I ever really understood what they meant by this, until I came up with this calendar. In case it's still cryptic, you read it going down, and only the odd numbers are shown. There are three months incorporated, and no, they are not labeled. Have fun!

Above is the lounge board which is supposed to contain some sort of useful information on it for the residents. What I liked about it was that when my supervisor saw it, she said she liked it better as it was, "like art," meaning... no having to staple up info!! (This is the best news an RA can hear hahah). But I will anyway because I believe in living and learning..

Anyways, I'm also going to post these because they are my most favorite things that I ever did:

Remember the Graffiti Facebook app? That was super fun

I did the one above while not paying attention during an Educational Programming Committee (EPC) meeting. It's sad because I actually have no idea where the original is. None. Not sad though because it is easily reproducable.

If it weren't for my mom this Bob Marley one would be in the trash too. I did it really quickly in 10th grade for some stoner seniors' entertainment, and before I finished it ( I'm not sure I was ever going to) my mom found it and framed it. I love moms.

I have no idea why the writing is coming out underlined... anyway. The picture came out poorly but basically this is all made up of watercolor dots sprayed on by flicking a toothbrush.

Yup. 10th grade again. My favorite. This when when I learned the power of a pencil. There are so many different pressures and strokes that went into this one.

Alright y'all. Thanks for viewing. Leave whatever comments and criticisms.

Ooh. another one

Things that came up today:

• All you can eat Korean BBQ
• Honeydew Melon Iced Boba Milk Tea
• the act of getting someone's number while driving
• UCLA student fees (on the rise)