i need this coat in my life

but i'm actually so desperate. i've been obsessed with leopard print coats for like a billion years, and i've never seen one available anywhere that i liked. and now thanks to various labels like cacharel and topshop releasing their versions in recent times, knock-offs will probably be hitting the stores here like crazy in winter. i've already seen a princess highway one in dangerfield, but it was in an ugly bomber-jacket style. of course, soon everyone else will have a leopard print coat too, and that pisses me off a lot.

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also, i recently saw american beauty, and all i can say is what a ridiculously amazingly beautiful film.

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my love for edie sedgwick will never die

breathless

"i don't know if i'm unhappy because i'm not free, or if i'm not free because i'm unhappy."

~ jean seberg in a bout de souffle (1960)

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walking in the rain

the more i listen to this song, the more i think that it's probably my absolute favourite song of all time. it's best listened to at full volume, the wall of sound will blow your mind. the beginning of the chorus still gives me chills.

bubble gum

this could be the cutest outfit ever, courtesy of 60s yé-yé singer sylvie vartan:

i adore her, a recent musical discovery in my neverending quest for more french 60s pop. pictured here with john and paul:

in other news i was reading this blog today and fell in love with her DIY ramones bag:

isn't it gorgeous? might have to try something similar myself one of these days

currently listening to:
la noyée ~ serge gainsbourg
bubble gum ~ brigitte bardot
some kinda love ~ the velvet underground
love is the drug ~ roxy music

ciao! manhattan

is on youtube in its entirety. go go go and hit that shit up before it gets deleted for copyright or gratuitous nudity. kind of an awful movie but edie is mesmerising as always. i took some stillz

she was sssssssso beautiful but i guess you already know that

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cry-baby

everything about traci lords in cry-baby is perfection.

no fun

"people like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

albert einstein

often i wish i could be more like this:

and less like this:

to the best of my knowledge, at least for a time andy warhol felt the same way

may be going clubbing soon, a state of drunkenness must be reached as soon as possible in order to feign an air of normality


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age of consent

my cat wanted to go outside, but it's nighttime so we wouldn't let him. he then proceeded to run up to the open window, slam his body against the fly screen to open it, and run away into the night. i admire his persistence.

work was okay really. i was just being melodramatic. unfortunately i have to cancel a sleepover i was going to have because they were insistent i work tomorrow. this is irritating because it's occured to me that every weekend is going to be a battle now that i'm working nights. so much for partying these holidays.

saw a gorgeous indie guy on the train. HE HAD A QUIFF. we kept on exchanging glances and at one point he turned around as if he were going to speak to me but he didn't. we got off at the same station. he disappeared into the distance. shattered

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i went to a vintage clothing sale, bought:

floral tea-dress ~ $20

denim jacket ~ $10

open-toed flats ~ $10

grey leopard print cardigan ~ $5

was fairly pleased with my haul

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life is okay, would have been better if i was proposed to by the indie guy and we got married and lived happily ever after, but whatever.

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currently listening to:

cheree ~ suicide

i wanna be your dog ~ iggy & the stooges

lust for life ~ girls

without you i'm nothing ~ placebo

summer inspiration; debbie harry

shopping list

a dress exactly like this one. i don't know why but i'm obsessed with it and i think pixie looks fabulous in it

these adorable gloves

a dress with super long sleeves like the one edie is wearing. probably going to have to make this one

a cassette necklace that i can write my favourite lyrics on

a vintage t-shirt i can tear up and reattach with safety pins etc

this outfit. it's kind of amazing.

oooh

i need to diy this jacket ssssoo bad

in a luminous day-glo shade

pixie's pink rinse is toooo cute.

i know it's a little passe but i think both of these girls are fab.

women i wish i looked like

brigitte bardot

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marianne faithfull

edie sedgwick

anna karina

nico

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so clearly a beautiful, troubled sixties waif look would be great.