I think I will stay at wordpress. my people are here. or my person, apparently. it is strange when people isolate you from their lives and don’t give an explanation why.
well anyway, today is my birthday! it doesn’t even feel like it. my birthdays never seem special and they only hit me until about a week after.
I went on the most spontaneous trip ever to Chicago 2 days ago. I went to the diner here with a few of my friends. We decided at midnight we were going to leave at 7 the next morning. and we did. hopped in the car and went to Chicago. spontaneity is a beautiful and rare creature.
lots of good music,good people, sangria, and Bukowski. I posted some pictures on my flickr from the trip. check ‘em out.
oh and we stopped in New Buffalo, michigan on the way home. nice little hideout in this god awful place.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: new york, new york city, nyc, photography, travel, usa
Wow… so I almost totally forgot about blogging since last week. anyway, as you all know I was in New York City the last few days. it was quite honestly one of the best trips I’ve been on. I went with a ton of my friends too so that made it better than I ever thought it could have been.
If I could take 1 carry on suitcase with me right now and leave everything else behind and move to the city right now, I would. No questions asked. the city feels like a beating heart or something, I can’t even describe it. and hell I didn’t even SEE most of it. We stayed in midtown most of the time to be honest, and some uptown. I didn’t even make it to Greenwich village or Strawberry fields… epic fail I guess.
I plan on road tripping in the summer. I don’t know how I’m going to work this summer at all if I’m going to do that, trek across the English channel to Paris and London and back again, and try to gather things to move in to Chicago. it’s going to be insane.
any of you moving to/back to New York in the summer? I need a place to stay… :-/
anyway. New York is the best place to take pictures. here are some of my favourites [CHECK OUT THE REST OF MAH SHIT HERE]
again, check this shit.
Anyway…. god I would update about what we did but I don’t even remember. it’s all a blur. I might later. the one thing that was kind of awesome was that we were there for fashion week (or the end of it). I saw some of the most stylish people ever. here are some good photos from it.
anyway, update later. promise? x
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: martha stewart, new york city, nyc, omg, photography, travel, wtf
Maybe I should blog about something that is of any substance/interest for a change.
Before I start into all the interesting stuff, Martha Stewart made me cookies.
I wish I was kidding when I said that. I wish I meant Martha Stewart as a nickname for someone I know that is good at baking, but I mean the Martha Stewart. THE. MARTHA! I don’t know why. I’m not sure if I should eat them or fossilize them and stare at them for all eternity? That woman is my hero.
I am going to New York City (!!!!!!!11oneoneone1~) on Thursday morning (it’s so early in the morning it’s basically still Wednesday night) so I won’t be updating this (tear tear, I know you’re hurt) for a while. I will be coming back late Sunday night (so late it’s basically Monday morning) and I will be pooped out for a while I’m sure. But whatever. I’ve been to NYC before for like, a day, so this is my first real time there. I’m so excited. Excited is the biggest understatement in the world. I’m afraid that once I go I will never want to come back…
I don’t know what the hell we’re doing besides the art stuff. I think we have a ton of free time. Suggestions for fun things to do, anybody?
I cannot wait to be back in action taking photos. I have essentially stopped photographing anything around here because if it’s around here, I guarantee I’ve photographed it. I’m taking like, a trillion cameras and it’s taking up a shitload of my carry on space but that’s all worth it to me. I cannot wait to be somewhere new and breathe new air and experience the city life again. the only places in the world I feel right are big cities.
I am feeling the cheesy New York music right now. I am listening to some lame/awesome Frank Sinatra… and “Mona Lisas and Mad Hatters” by Elton John.
Anyway, I’m off to continue to spaz over packing everything into a tiny suitcase, charging all my cameras, updating my iphone and ipod, and to generally freak out like the school girl I am.
It’s all happening
Back soon(ish). x
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: help me, joy division, new york city, nyc, travel
I just realized that I don’t like anyone that doesn’t like Joy Division.
I leave for New York in a little over a week and I have to fit all my things for 4 days in 1 carry on (and my massive purse). Anyone have suggestions on how to do this successfully? I am not just going to wear jeans and a t shirt every fucking day, so that’s out. You all know me so you know that I need tons of clothes and tons of shoes to choose from when I travel. HOW CAN I DO THIS!? LIKE, REALLY!?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cards, drawing, friends, holidays, london, noel gallagher, paris, school, travel, UK, wtf
I kind of forgot about writing in here for a few days.
I went back to school yesterday. It was appalling. The entire experience. School is so pointless to me at this point. And that for me is the hardest thing to do, go through something you don’t want to when there is absolutely no purpose to it.
I don’t know what to blog about. Does anyone else hate the ‘b’ word?
OH HERE’S SOMETHING. I’m going back to London. For the first time in two years. In June. My best friend’s parents are taking us and we’re using their friend’s flat. It’s 10 minutes walking distance from Hyde Park. I can’t even deal with that awesome. And well, the plan for about a year was we were going to spend a fortnight in Paris. But I can deal with being in London and commuting to Paris a couple times. Wow. I need to get all the info about it and let you all know what it looks like. This news is the ONLY thing getting me past finals.
In other news, Patrice sent me this wonderful thing in the mail:
a homemade holiday card. It made my day 
And in other other news, Abby drew Noel. And it’s fucking incredible. LOOK AT IT BIG.
This post has been utterly useless. I hope you are all doing fantastic.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: edinburgh, great britain, london, love, photography, travel, UK, united kingdom
I was going through my flickr photostream today and I came across my Glastonbury photos from 2007, then I started to look at all my photos of London. Over the last year or so I haven’t been longing for London as much as I normally do. All of that interest kind of shifted back into the US with all this Barack Obama hullabaloo and into Paris. Looking at my photos I realized how much I miss London. I haven’t been in over a year and a half but it honestly feels like eternities.
I think London is the best city in the world, and without a doubt, has the most interesting people I’ve ever met. The first time I went to London (although the first time I went was a 2-day stay or something like that in 2005) I kind of felt at home. Ever since the last time I left (end of June 2007) I feel like I left a part of my heart there or something. I know how lame that sounds so spare me. There is an energy in London that I haven’t felt anywhere else. It’s undeniably busy and fast-moving but there is always a quiet place to go if you need it. The romanticism that surround the idea of London is all true as well. Everything is just.. different in London. Things fall into place, at least for me. People that are normally labeled “freaks” around here (or most places in the US) are just normal people in London. Everyone is different but is normal at the same time. I don’t know why, and as lame and sap-ass as this sounds, but existing in London just makes sense. If I could live ABSOLUTELY anywhere in the world, it would be either Camden or Notting Hill in London.
Of course for someone like me, the art culture in London is unbelievable. I think London is getting a major second wind, almost like how it was in the ’60s. I mean, I can’t fully account for that because I haven’t been in over a year but it seems like the 3rd and 4th time I went, people are so alive. There is an anticipation in the air when you walk along Oxford Street or into a small bar on Portobello. Music is buzzing again. People are making art in so many different forms, it’s just churning out of the city. The film stars are getting popular again and so is the fashion. I think if I could go back right now, wearing what I’m wearing with nothing else, I would go. Actually I would need a camera.
I love a lot of places in the world, don’t get me wrong. I’ve been a lot of places. I love Chicago, I love New York, I LOVE Edinburgh, I love a lot of the east coast. But I either haven’t been to those places as much as London, or I don’t ‘get’ other places as much as I get London. I think it’s the latter.
Here are some of my pictures that made me feel as nostalgic. I’ll give you the links for the bigger versions on flickr too.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shes_electric/273360958/in/set-72157594334713358/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shes_electric/273370826/in/set-72157594334713358/
this is one of my favourite places in London. it’s a really musty and kind of grotty Garkfunkel’s off of Oxford Street. this tiny street called Duke Street. I love how you can see the guys chilling in the guitar store and in the apartment above it but also the commuters.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shes_electric/273376646/in/set-72157594334713358/
absolutely my favourite place in London. the smaller Rough Trade Records shop in Notting Hill on Talbot Road. you know, the place that signed the Libertines, the Smiths, the Strokes… you know. no biggie whatsoever.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shes_electric/458902671/in/set-72157600076322674/
and you know, the people you see aren’t too shabby either. Tom Meighan from Kasabian in april 2007. pre-obsession.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shes_electric/526465936/sizes/m/in/set-72157600076322674/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/shes_electric/730349762/in/set-72157600544443466/
Trafalgar square at night. I think this was after Glastonbury and Madelaine and I decided that London was too perfect to waste a night sleeping in it.
alright, this is mildly random, but these are some of my favourite photos. they are all from Edinburgh in Scotland. I don’t know why my film turned out this colour. I’ve used my red filter before but they turned out especially red this time. Edinburgh is a great place too, again, really lively. and gorgeous.
