Mama's Gumbo

Here's a skit I helped make for my French 201 class recently (I did all of the editing):

Thought

I'm getting tired of how porn-y LastNight'sParty has become. I mean, I get that some of the events are associated with the adult industry, which is beyond fine, but it seems like every photo set has some kind of quota it's got to meet for titty/vadge shots. Geez.

Clothing Optional

Here's some stuff I recently ordered from Urban Outfitters.

Pop Culture Martyr

Gripe

I am so tired of Urban Outfitters having wayfarers in EVERY SINGLE color/pattern combination that exists.

Love #1

I was naive / Your love was like candy

Artificially sweet / I was deceived by the wrapping

Got caught in your web / And I learned how to bleed

I was prey in your bed / And devoured completely

Oh, and it hurts my soul / 'Cause I can't let go

All these walls are caving in / I can't stop my suffering

I hate to show that I / Lost control 'cause I

I keep going right back / To the one thing

That I need / To walk away from

Oh, I'm about to break / I can't stop this ache

I'm addicted to your allure / And I'm fending for a cure

Oh, every step I take / Leads to one mistake

I keep going right back / To the one thing

That I need, oh / I can't mend this torn state I'm in

Getting nothing in return / What did I do to deserve?

The pain of this slow burn / And everywhere I turn

I keep going right back / To the one thing

That I need / To walk away from

-Walk Away, by Christina Aguilera

What I'm Wearing Today

-A gray Rolling Stones concert t-shirt

-Black jeans 

-Black belt

-White shoes

-Khaki military-style jacket

-Green scarf

Numbers

The photos I post on here are nowhere near the only pics I have that have to do with clothing, etc. I have a pretty sizable index of fashion-related pictures. Here's all of the categories with their respective sizes:

Victoria Beckham - 70

Camilla Belle - 9

Rachel Bilson - 48

Kate Bosworth - 70

Lauren Conrad - 17

Agyness Deyn - 22

Cameron Diaz - 10

Kirsten Dunst - 20

Peaches Geldof - 11

Pixie Geldof - 2

Anne Hathaway - 9

Lydia Hearst - 4

Paris Hilton - 5

Vanessa Hudgens - 10

Cory Kennedy - 7

Riley Keough - 4

Keira Knightley - 18

Zoe Kravitz - 10

Leigh Lezark - 16

Blake Lively - 17

Lindsay Lohan - 153

Courtney Love - 4

M.I.A. - 4

Leighton Meester - 17

Sienna Miller - 59

Taylor Momsen - 12

Heidi Montag - 10

Kate Moss - 46

Ashley Olsen - 46

Mary-Kate Olsen - 57

Kelly Osbourne - 11

Sarah Jessica Parker - 48

Gwyneth Paltrow - 21

Random - 102 (This folder is for the non-famous people/any celebrity with only one pic)

Nicole Richie - 56

Rihanna - 34

Samantha Ronson - 3

Runway - 76 (This is obviously pics from various designer runway shows)

Separates - 284 (This is for all of the shots from various online stores where it's just one piece and not the entire outfit)

Chloe Sevigny - 10

Ashlee Simpson - 16

Michelle Trachtenberg - 2

Emma Watson - 13

Michelle Williams - 3

Amy Winehouse - 3

Arden Wohl - 3

Evan Rachel Wood - 3

Yelle - 3

Rachel Zoe - 14

Obviously this shows who I admire for their fashion sense. If I had to pick I would say Victoria Beckham, Kate Bosworth, Zoe Kravitz, Leigh Lezark, Lindsay Lohan, Sienna Miller, Kate Moss, the Olsens, and Nicole Richie. 

What I like most about these people is the fact that they always look good (or at least thought-out and interesting) on the street and on the red carpet. One, I'm not a big fan of red carpet looks because, to me, it just seems like a bunch of pageant dresses. Two, I hate it when someone looks amazing at an awards show but then you see them going out (maybe to dinner or a club, not exactly the grocery store) and they look like shit. It then becomes so obvious that they have no input on what they wear and it's all up to some anonymous stylist. 

My Weekly Horoscope

PISCES (February 19-March 20): One terribly fortuitous feature to your week ahead is the conjunction of exalted lovely-lady Venus, goddess of love and money, and anarchic Uranus in your sign. We can interpret this aspect quite simply: Be open to receiving the universe's fruitful benefits (in love and/or money, as well as more generally) through unexpected, surprising or out-and-out unsettling happenings. This is astrology at its most basic… and just the generic sort of horoscopic advice that leaves a band of skeptics in its wake. Let me add more, then: Venus also faces an opposition to Saturn in your 7th, which indicates that, if you aren't welcoming the cavalcade of beneficial fruits supposedly due to arrive, the obstruction is a result of your relationship with another individual. Now, the core of the horoscope comes into clearer view. The promise of blessings and bounties is inextricably tied to a willingness to embrace this quality of unsettling surprise, especially as it bestows upon you a surge of individual freedom and excitement… yet, at the same time, appears to threaten a continuance of the same-ol' status-quo situation in that principal relationship. Is your relationship important enough to limit your openness to unforeseen opportunities? Does this person keep you healthily grounded, or keep you from evolving? I don't know the right answer for you. Ask at least three friends, if you need additional feedback.

from Astrobarry

I Am A Pisces

Likes:

-feeling appreciated, feeling loved, freedom, stability, mystical settings/enchantment, dreaming, having their input valued, being unique

Dislikes:

-feeling vulnerable, having no goals to move toward, feeling invalidated, being criticized, illiteracy, having no sense of structure

from Wikipedia

I Am A Pisces

"The inner conflict of pisces is extremes of temperament and conflicting emotions. They are trying to pinpoint themselves on the real world while their spiritual world can cloud their vision, they will try to escape or avoid a situation instead of confronting it." -zodiac-signs-astrology.com

Winter

Here's my winter playlist, which I made a long time ago and have listened to ad nauseam.

1. Where's My Love by Caroline

2. In the Cold, Cold Night by The White Stripes

3. Complaint Department by Lykke Li

4. Caroline's A Victim by Kate Nash

5. Nobody's Perfect by Madonna

6. The Dance by Charlotte Martin

7. Eye by Smashing Pumpkins 

8. We Own the Sky by M83

9. Coldest Winter by Kanye West

10. Hide and Seek by Imogen Heap

11. Road to Somewhere by Goldfrapp

12. Teardrop by Massive Attack

13. What A Catch, Donnie by Fall Out Boy

14. Deep Honey by Goldfrapp

15. Voices by Madonna

16. Sentimental Heart by She & Him

17. I Believe by Simian Mobile Disco

18. Early Winter by Gwen Stefani

19. The Beginning is the End is the Beginning by Smashing Pumpkins

20. Love Lockdown by Kanye West

21. Take A Bow by Muse

22. Concerning the UFO Sighting Near Highland, Illinois by Sufjan Stevens 

23. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart by Al Green

24. L.E.S. Artistes by Santogold

25. Criminal by Fiona Apple

26. Mr. Hurricane by Beast

27. Der Koenig by Palms

Self-Portrait #2

Xmas Gifts: Movies

from firstshowing

Iron Man is the lighter, funnier side of the superhero coin we got this year, the other side being The Dark Knight, of course. I feel like people tend to forget how good Iron Man is because of its tone (kinda like how comedies usually don't get nominated for film awards), but that tone is one of the many reasons why the movie is so great. Iron Man perfectly captured the playboy character of Tony Stark and the sleek, over-designed world he lives in. I started watching it again recently and the chemistry between the actors is so infectious it just makes you smile. I can't wait to see where they go with this franchise (hopefully more of the James Bond + superpowers thing). 

 from cinemaverdict

What can be said about The Dark Knight that hasn't been said a million times already? It's

one of the best movies of the year. It's easy to single out Heath Ledger's unbelievably committed

and feral performance as the Joker, but everyone in the cast does a great job. I think the biggest

achievement of The Dark Knight is its ability to make you forget you're even watching a superhero

movie. The idea of Batman, the Joker, Gotham City and everything else in the movie is conveyed

so impeccably that the audience is able to cross that line from being an outside viewer to being

someone just experiencing a story.

from myokyawhtun

Wall-E is another movie that doesn't need any more praise. The fact that animated robots

in this movie have more personality than many real-life actors speaks to Pixar's talent. Wall-E

combines the past and the future of movies. A lot of the running time lacks any words, instead

relying on the magic of the moving image to tell the story, while the amazing animation shows

that filmmakers now the have the ability to do almost anything they want.

My Weekly Horoscope

PISCES (February 19-March 20): We've seen it approaching for a while now. The definitive moment when we finally must take action on whatever situation we've watched worsen, deepen, deaden, intensify, slip further down the hole, or turn ever more entrenched or hopeless… And at last, that moment has arrived. The signs are everywhere. Things will change—either through our courageous choice to turn this ship around and humbly regroup, or by passively allowing external circumstances to deteriorate further, pushing us toward a crisis we'd rather hide from. How will you have it go, Pisces? These closing couple weeks of the year are an ideal moment to consider your strategies for confronting Pluto's new longtime home in your 11th, the house of our larger social connection to friend groups, communities of shared interests, niches of like-minded individuals, and society at large. Over the coming months and years, you'll be confronted with the consequences (good and bad) of aligning yourself with certain individuals—or, as the case may be, of isolating yourself from them. Again and again, you will encounter examples of how powerfully your wishes and ideals are influenced by those you keep company with. Which begs me to ask: Are the current peer influences on your behavior healthy, or not? Are you surrounded with the folks who will bring you closer to the life you want to lead, or with those who distract you from (or even actively undermine your relationship with) what's really important? Remember: Your life is not merely a set of circumstances passively stumbled into, but also (and rather profoundly) the results of decisions made. Saturn's station to retrograde in your 7th indicates a revisiting of the recent work you have (or haven't) put in, in terms of holding sane practically-minded boundaries in your primary one-on-one relationships so they fuel your real-world goals (rather than steal energy from them). And, to hear Venus and Neptune in your 12th tell it, don't underestimate the force of projecting massive blasts of positive loving energy to yield mysterious miracles that may well unite people you never thought you'd see come together. Of all the signs, you, Pisces, can create some major magic by channeling your idealistic love for all creation into intentions that help heal the world. With Jupiter in your 12th throughout all of 2009, the planets obviously expect you to lend a heartfelt hand in that arena.

from Astrobarry

My Horoscope

PISCES (February 19-March 20): If what I wrote to you last time indeed resonated with your internal sense of what's going on with you, then, Pisces, you'll agree there are crucial life-defining questions presently confronting you. It's possible that the sheer magnitude of what you're facing—and the choice of whether to assert personal agency or passively settle for whatever you're dealt—has snuck up on you, Pisces, after at least a year or so of gradual growth. For instance, what seemed like 'a minor chronic inconvenience' last time you consciously checked in may well have metastasized into 'a soul-crushing albatross'. 'Less-satisfying' situations might've invisibly devolved to the point of 'unlivable'. And yet, if you want to preserve your hope in a much-improved tomorrow, you'll have to acknowledge the circumstances have worsened to the point you must take action—even while your sensitive soul might require some degree of 'shielding' from the most brutal emotional realizations, lest you become shocked into paralysis. If you were to read these words while under the influence of some blissfully intoxicating substance or totally idealistic mindset, they might not sound nearly so mammoth in consequence… and you'd perhaps be better able to swallow the whole truth, though without maintaining much initiative for carrying out the real-world steps necessary to pull yourself out. That what's so ultimately self-defeating about escapist behaviors: They may soften the emotional blow, but, along with it, anesthetize away the sensation of 'crisis' necessary to get us off our asses. I wonder, then: Is it possible for you to achieve a convincing inner calm, based on 'escaping' some of the worry that might otherwise incapacitate you, while still maintaining enough pragmatic awareness of your life situation that you remember to keep fighting?

from Astrobarry

Generation H20

Generation H2O from John Overwine on Vimeo.

Here's a video my sister helped make for school. I think its really great!

Kristen Stewart

Can I just say that I'm starting to love her? I refuse to see Twilight, but with the unconventional fashion choices, weird talk show appearances, mysterious smoking-pot-on-the-porch pics, and greasy hair, I have to admit that this girl is getting on my good side.

from The Skinny Website

Fight H8

Gay music and video from NewNowNext.com

Underestimated