227. Nice day for a skulk, or are sombre reptiles invading my bookworm life?
December 21st, 2009 § 19 Comments
Minnie Wilde toggle coat, thrifted velvet vest (meant for Michael!), H&M skirt, scarf from Delhi (gift from Karan,) Hansel from basel gold thread tights & socks, vintage Dexter boots.
When I was 19, “Les Demoiselles” by Harmonia was my favorite song, I played it before bed and during baths and during daydreams, it still sounds like slow cowboys to me, and the Picasso painting is good as well, only later, did I begin to like Brian Eno, even more when I realized he created the Windows start-up sound, even more when I realized he came up with ambient music while convalescing in a hospital after a car accident, even more when he said in a Guardian interview:
I started to notice that you could buy keyboards of such complexity that you basically press one note on them and you’ve got a career as an ambient artist. I thought, there doesn’t seem much challenge in that any longer.
That’s only the most brilliant and hilarious thing that Eno could have said and he said it.
In high school, I walked around staring at other people in buses and on the street and in parks, creep that I was, I wrote everything down in notebooks and reread it while listening to Belle & Sebastian and wishing I knew a skinny boy with glasses from Glasgow who could have tortured feelings about me. (Blair Waldorf would say, “Um, it’s called a cliche.”) I bought my red plaid toggle coat from the San Francisco label, Minnie Wilde, now defunct, and like all of the clothing I own by Minnie Wilde, I love it to death. I left a Minnie Wilde floral motorcycle jacket in Switzerland, and a skirt in Russia, and a long sleeved dress in Latvia because I’m the way I am, a flake in the midst of snowflakes.
My inspiration for my holiday outfit today was the nail polish my perfectly beautiful and beautifully perfect friend Sarah gave me last Saturday. Because I’m virtually unable to perform any detail oriented tasks, you can only sort of make out the color in the fourth and last photo–it’s a dark teal blue color called Muse from the brand Illamasqua. I’m obsessed with it, also obsessed with Michael Silverblatt, his extraordinary eloquence, his sincerity and ability to weave disparate narratives from the far-flung corners of every kind of personal and literary experience moved me deeply when he came to Iowa this Fall to give a Q&A. He told a story about going with his mother to the hairdressers and Lewis Carroll and carrying at least four different genres of books with him at all times and needing a lot of pockets, and disbelieving Ezra Pound (yes!) and I think I had tears in my eyes and the craziest thumping in my heart the entire time he was giving his talk!
His interview with Dennis Cooper on Bookworm is astounding. When he came to Iowa, he apologized for trying to dazzle us, in the interview, he uses the word ‘twinkling,’ and I realized I should use the word twinkling much more than I do, and dazzle, as I am dazzled by the package of books that arrived at my doorstep today. Some of them I dumped on the floor in a puppy pile with my clothes and slippers and things, and the others are on my bed, in the same twinkling puppy pile shape, waiting for me now to say hello and let them know I have not forgotten about them.
Hi! I have not forgotten about you.
Love, Jenny
I love the vest and skirt is sweet!!
Thanks lady! I need to steal some inspiration from you and try a hat for once in my freakin life.
Your skirt is so amazing, love the red boot too!
I think I was also part of the cliche in my teen year, the one with Belle and Sebastian, dreaming about skinny glasses boy.
-Coco from Our Paper Moon
We were the same dreaming girl back then!
I don;t think I know that song…. will go look on youtube now.
I’ll send you the song, but which song are you referring to? Les Demoiselles?
you look so awesome in that white puffy miniskirt! i like the blue vest with it too. and look at all those books! im so glad that some of us in the world still read. sigh.
I wish everyone would read a ton so that everyone could talk and gossip about the latest book they’ve read. In my fantasy world, book talk would happen over a lawn tea party where everyone gets to wear a puffy floral tea dress and gloves!
great vest/skirt combo! i like the menswear vibe with the short girly skirt. you look very festive, especially in the snow.
Haha, I only like the snow in New York. I often feel like punching the snow to death in Iowa because it never goes away!!
If you don’t mind, whereabouts in NY are you? (Email me if you’re ok with sharing and don’t feel comfortable saying here.)
I’m going home to the ‘rents today in NY too (about 1 hr north of NYC)! It would be such a coincidence if we lived near each other.
Awesome coat and boots. I still sort of stare at people from windows and on busy streets…but I don’t write it down as much anymore.
Oh me neither, but I think I should carry little notebooks around and only wear things with pockets so I can write it all down!
I love your red duffle coat and your Dexter boots. They are lovely. The color red is really growing on me.
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog and commenting! I’m glad you love the dress and I hope you get the zipper fixed soon. :}
And I think you write so so poetically. It’s refreshing! I feel like listening to Belle & Sebastian now…
- Amy
Thank you Amy! I’ll be visiting your blog all the time. I need to get my lazy butt to the tailors. I love the dress so much!
this outfit is perfect on so many levels…from the skirt and the vest to that jacket! the sunlight is gorgeous in your photos as well.
hope you’re enjoying your holidays and all
my goodness, you look adorable!
i adore that vest.
and the snow is just magical
xoxo
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whoa, we posted comments on each other’s blog at the exact same time! Oh and: F.U. Skat Fartzgerald, that’s all I gotta say.