Quote Wednesday

"We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."

Friedrich Nietzsche 

Music Monday

"Wavvy" Mykki Blanco

Hawt Daym

"Fineshrine" by Purity Ring

'Nuff Said

Beach Love

With the coming of summer comes my absolute obsession with the beach. If I could lie every single day with sand in my hair and collect sea shells I swear, life would still be perfect.
Last week, I went to my parents house in Connecticut. The beaches in our sea shore town are small, but  in a quaint and familiar way. Our neighborhoods are communities that really revolve around the water, docks, boats, sand, etc. The main beach in both my parent's neighborhood is the closest one in all of our town, therefore very crowded. Sometimes, a girl just wants peace and quiet. During my visit, I went on the search for the perfect getaway nook. A place where I could read and tan without being found. I stumbled on "The Meadow."

A nature trail where the grass is as tall as I am, and not a sound from the outside world can be heard. I felt like I had fallen down the rabbit hole, but instead to a peaceful place where I could get lost in my thoughts and smell nothing but flowers and grass.

Lo and behold, on my walk through the meadow, I found none other than a tiny, private, unoccupied beach.

Well, unoccupied except for a couple seagulls.

For the first time, I am actually patiently awaiting my next trip home.

Yay or Nay?

Tipped Out

Even Stevens? Well there goes my childhood

Much like when I found out Harry Potter was going to be buck naked on stage for Equis, here is none other than Shia Labeouf doing the full-frontal thing as well. And it is, well, it's full-frontal.
However, that peeny clip is a mere less than a minute and is the only normal thing in this strange film. The whole thing reminds me strangely of how I feel when I find out someone hot is gay (confused for a  second, disappointed, yet still aroused), and the first time I got high.
Well watch for yourself and tell me what you think.

My jam right now

Out the Blue- Sub Focus

Summertime Soundtrack

Here are just a few jams to get you in to that sunshine mood. Click here to listen to my summertime soundtrack and go sunbathe in the park.

1. Anna Sun- Walk the Moon

2. Blister In the Sun- Violent Femmes

3. Born to Die- Lana Del Rey

4. The Boys of Summer-  The Ataris

5. Daylight- Matt and Kim
6. Colours- Grouplove
7. Feel So Close- Calvin Harris
8. Hello- Martin Solveig & Dragonette
9. Candy- Far East Movement ft. Pitbull
10. Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win- Beastie Boys ft. Santigold
11. Get Free- Major Lazer ft. Amber of Dirty Projectors
12. Janglin'- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes 
13. Polish Girl- Neon Indian
17. My Girls- Animal Collective
18. Summerboy- Lady Gaga
19. Video Games- Lana Del Rey
20. We Are Young- Fun
21. Up Up Up- Givers
22. Home- Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes
23. I Love It- Icona Pop

What a great song to start off the morning with :)

Trend Tuesday:

I love beauty and fashion as much as the next girly girl. I am guilty of spending, at the very least, an hour and a half getting ready in the morning.
However, when it comes to the beauty,  I'm a strong believer that one should enhance her strengths rather than try to hide her weaknesses. The most beautiful girls are the ones who look unique.
Apparently I am not the only one who thinks this.
According to Refinery 29, Julia Bluhm is upset with Seventeen Magazine's use of photoshop to airbrush it's models and images. So upset that she is protesting outside of Hearst Tower tomorrow... with a petition signed by 13,000 people. The even more awesome part? Bluhm is only fourteen. Read the rest of the story here.
To go along with our "real beauty" theme, here's a video I saw recently from the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, and I am sort of in love with this message.

Quote of the Day

"But then they danced down the streets like dingledogies, and I shambled after as I've been doing my whole life after people that interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"

Jack Kerouac

Music Monday

If April showers bring May flowers, then April brings a plethora of acoustic ballads perfect for cuddling up on a rainy day. Meet Angus & Julia Stone. Brother and sister duo full of songs of love, and love lost. Grab a blanket, some green tea, some Kerouac, and enjoy.

"Big Jet Plane"

"And the Boys"

"Yellow Brick Road"

Trends to Try Tuesday

Call me crazy, but I had a strange dream about this particular quote last night. As a result, today I'm obsessed with the Fabulous Bette Davis; or more notably, "Bette Davis Eyes."

For Trends to Try Tuesday I bring you 1950's Inspired Makeup. Think all of the iconic beauties such as Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, and of course, Miss Bette Davis herself. 

For more of a Bette Davis look, line the inner rims of your bottom lash lines with white eyeliner. 

Seriously, they look exactly alike!


And in case you could not get enough 50's inspired makeup...

MAC is launching a Marilyn Monroe inspired makeup line!

Living proof that trends may come and go, but class is always in style.

Movies Recently Watched

Project X
Every single party should strive to be like that party. Oh and the soundtrack is awesome. I liked the use of unknown actors to make it seem more like a documentary. It did not have any catchy one-liners, but it's definitely a must see for college age kids. Mostly because I'm sick of going to parties where it's a couple people talking and some lame game of beer pong. Come on people...

The Hurt Locker
Okay almost an exact opposite, I finally saw The Hurt Locker. I mostly wanted to see it for Katheryn Bigelow's Oscar win for Best Director. I was not disappointed. It was an incredibly powerful and moving story. It is very sad, but all around done very well. It certainly puts a new perspective on life and Jeremy Renner makes the movie. Also, a must see but in such a different sense.

Song of the Day

Scavenger- School of Seven Bells

Spring Break?

Let me give you a little outlook of today. The sky has been every single shade of gray imaginable. It has been alternating between rain, snow, and freezing rain all day long. Our house has stayed at 59 degrees. On top of that, there has been absolutely NOTHING to do. NOTHING. Nada. Zip. Zilch. Nein. Nothing.
I could be planning a spring break trip to tropical Punta Cana. Five days and five nights of clear blue water, sandy beaches, tropical drinks, sunshine, good music, hot muscular boys, and paradise. Jesus christ just bring a grape and some boys with fans and I would think I had died and gone to heaven.
But no. Guess why. No really, guess.
I'm broke.
Well.... not broke. Certainly not able to afford a trip to anywhere. I could not even afford a trip to fucking Maryland if I wanted to go.
Now I am stuck in goddamned New England with the fucking rain, and the fucking snow, and the goddamned fucking cold.
Fuck.

Beauty Tip Tuesday: The Beauty Department

http://thebeautydepartment.com/

My new favorite website for all things beauty. I love their hair and make-up tips, but my favorite are the nail tutorials. Their nail ideas are so cute and so simple to do. No tacky nails. They even give you ideas for how to do your hair depending on what outfit you are wearing! Check it out

84th Academy Awards

For us movie-buffs, the Academy Awards are more important than the Superbowl, the Presidential Election, Christmas, etc. From the dresses, to the actual winners, the Academy Awards have been my favorite night of the year since I was five years old. Every year I watch and dream what one day my Oscar dress will look like, who I will thank in my Oscar speech, who I would see and thank for all of their inspiration.... but mostly what my pretty dress will look like (Black off the shoulder gown. Preferably a Valentino design).
This year, the excitement was no exception. And the Oscars were no disappointment. Here is my little overview of the 84th Annual Academy Awards:

Best Dressed:

#3

Rooney Mara in Givenchy

#2

Mila Jovovich in Elie Saab

#1

Jessica Chastain in Alexander McQueen

My Favorite Winners of the Night:

Octavia Spencer for Best Supporting Actress in "The Help"

Christopher Plummer for Best Supporting Actor in "Beginners"

Meryl Streep for Best Actress in "Iron Lady"

Jean Dujardin for Best Actor

And "The Artist" for Best Picture.

The Best Oscar Moments:

Melissa Mccarthy and Rose Byrne with the "Scorsese" drinking game.

Angelina Jolie and her "Right Leg"

Sacha Baron Cohen as The Dictator spilling ashes all over Ryan Seacrest.

"If anyone asks you what you're wearing, just say 'Kim Jong Il!'"

The Perfect Rainy Day Song

Broad Ripple is Burning- Margot and the Nuclear So and So's

Why do relationships come with rules? Why can't people simply "feel things out" and do what comes naturally to them? There's always a "don't do this" "do that" "don't say this or he'll think that" "say this so he'll do this."
But no one does what they were meant to do. The head has been told so many things that the heart forgets how to lead with the utmost passion it should. Remember in kindergarten when you gave the biggest candy bar to your Valentine, because no one told you not to? Remember when you would simply walk up to your crush and say "Will you be my boyfriend/girlfriend?" It was the scariest thing to do, but it felt so right because you said exactly what was on your mind.
No one does that anymore.
I get told not to say I want to see someone because I need to be "the one in control."
It's not a dictatorship. Hell, it's not even a relationship. When you know someone wants to see you, and you want to see them, why do we get so scared to just to say so? Why do we get told to not do that natural thing and just say, "What are you doing tonight?"
Passion and love don't come with rules.

Skinny Love- Bon Iver

When it comes to most things, not a lot really pisses me off. Especially with guys. For some reason, I'm totally cool with the fact that guys are messy sometimes or do guy kind of things. 

But I have this little pet peeve that really pisses me off to no end. 

I hate when you have a guy over and he leaves his condom and wrapper on the floor. 

REALLY? You realize I'm not going to see that for at least a couple of days and dirty semen covered condom will just be sitting on my rug, seeping into my carpet. How do you know the little sperms won't crawl their way into me and BAM- pregnancy; all because you couldn't simply take your dick rag and place in the garbage can. Would you like it if I left a tampon on your floor for you to pick up? Didn't think so.

The guy I've been seeing lately has done this twice already. And I didn't know how to politely bring up to him that if he did it one more time I was going to shove the damned thing down his throat. I had him over again this past weekend and even moved the trash can into a visible place closer to the bed hoping that he would pick up the hint.

Thankfully he did. Phew. I was worried I would have to pick up old dirty condom later. 

Now maybe I can train him to make the bed too?

In Honor of Oscar Week...

How to Care for Your Oscar

Fashion Inspired by Marlene Dietrich

http://www.collegefashion.net/inspiration/a-history-of-style-fashion-inspired-by-marlene-dietrich/

Her and I share the same birthday so I figured this was a little necessary<3

Guess Who's Shaking the House

I feel like there's this unspoken game in our house called "Guess Who's Shaking the House."
The more appropriate title would be "Guess Who's Getting Laid... And is it Good." Obviously the quality depends on the Richter scale of our apartment. Bonus points for any sort of yelling, moaning, or slapping sounds to accompany said shaking.

I just moved into a brand new apartment this past weekend. Perfect it's about half the price of the place I used to live in and the biggest room in the house. Definitely a steal. What's the catch? (there's always a catch)
I'm living with five other guys. Yep. Five guys and a blonde.
Two of them I know from high school so it's not like I'm just moving in with five random dudes. One of them was our homecoming king in high school and seems to be the cleaner of the roommates (not that the other guys aren't clean... ish). The other is pledging to be in a frat at the moment. As for the other three; one is older than all of us and has been in the military, one is a pothead with ADHD, and the other is a Korean who is never here.

When I moved, the previous guy left a lot of stuff still in my room. Here's a tiny list of the things he left in the room.

Things left in the room:
- A poster of naked women... which my mom took to give to my 13 year old brother #smh
- A gold satin pillowcase full of- ahem- single unmatched socks.
- A bald eagle poster
- A chain tied to the radiator with handles on each end (debating on keeping this one)
- God only knows how many pencil sharpeners (who uses pencils anymore)
- A pink lamp (definitely keeping that one)
- What looks like a Curious George ashtray, complete with banana.
- A seatbelt.... no, wait. That's a belt.

I would just like to welcome myself to the wonderful world of Blogspot and my first professional blog. Hell to the yes. I'm still trying to figure this whole thing out, but we're getting there. For the time being, I would just like to say "Oh hey there bloggers. 'Sup?"

Good night all
xoxo