another pastis cocktail avec a splash of grenadine.
oh, how i used to adore shirley temples.
Sunday, July 20, 2008
friends of a feather
the other day, i met spiro. i was sure he was a french sailor, in his stripe shirt,
holding his parrot coloured drink. in from port, thinking of his only love, la mer.
he reminisced about marseille and told me that certain locale informed his
drink choice of the evening.
le perroquet (the parrot)
one ounce pastis
one splash of creme de menthe
four ounces of cool water
stir and serve, its a sin to add ice cubes, they would say in marseille.
your love is right in front of my eyes.
i'm amazed it took this long to occur to me i could be seeing through hearts.
considering my love and fascination with the human heart. and hearts of all sorts.
the search begins for the perfect pair and i see lanvin and karl jumping on this for spring oh nine.
it becomes more clear to me.
after three years
paul verlaine
pushing the narrow sagging gate aside,
i walked into the little garden-bower
which the sun, that morning, softly glorified,
bespangling with wet sparks the smallest flower.
nothing had changed. i saw it all: the humble
trellis of wild vine, the rattan chairs...
the fountain murmuring its silver air,
the old aspen everlasting atremble.
just as they used to be: the quivering rose,
the haughty lily on the wind-swayed stalk.
i still know every lark that comes and goes.
i found the Veleda standing even yet,
her plaster scaling, at the end of the walk
-gracile, in the dull scent of mignonette.
Monday, July 14, 2008
le rouge du maroc
back in april, when my mum visited, we dined at wd-50 and
enjoyed this brilliant syrah from morocco.
never pass up a layer cake.
my roommate jacked a bottle of this from a party he worked a few weeks back.
its splendid.
Sunday, July 13, 2008
dark decades avec anouck
i've had an affection for model, anouck lepere since i met her a few years back and she
had me laughing hysterically. here she is in french playboy. i love this and find it
world wild and inspiring and anouck is an absolute stunner on the page.
art, events, films, locales to discover.
+self healing material. nature.com
+superjam.co.uk
+exploding flowers. mummeryschnelle.com
+artist, roger dean. flights of icarus from floating islands series
+cassiemercantile.com
+herdubreid at home
+stalker directed by andrei tarkovsky. mosfilm. 1979
+artist, phi frost. totem
+der garten. arno fischer. riflemaker.org
+stardust. riflemaker.org
+stan brakhage. mothlight, 1963. by brakhage:an anthology. criterion 2003
+artist, peter doig. tate britain. judith nesbitt. tate.org.uk/peterdoig
+fiskedon by goran dyhlen. tate britain
+radical lave and subversive knitting. museum of arts and design ny.
+threads of light. chinese embrodiery from suzhou. UCLA fowler museum of cultural history
+hieronymus bosch
+simonfinch.com
+hotel portillo. www.drn.cl www.skiportillo.com
+artist, helio oiticica. the body of colour. tate modern. london
+gary hume. american fan XXVI (gloss)
+pear light by nick foley
+ruth.gurvich.free.fr
books to find
+an illustrated life. charley harper.
+wabi-sabi:for artists, designers, poets, philosophers. leonard koren.
stone bridge press. ISBN 1880656124
+l'espirit serge lutens: the spirit of beauty. edition assouline.
+wabi-sabi for writers. richard powell.
+real allegories. olivier richon.
+garden people: valerie finnis and the golden age of gardening. ursula buchan. thames/hudson.
+the gentle art of domesticity. jane brocket. hodder/stoughton.
+living normally-where life comes before style. trevor naylor/niki medlik. thames/hudson.
+the architecture of happiness. alain de botton.
+sanaa houses: kazuyo sejimat ryue nishizawa. augustin perez rubio. actar/musac
+rare bird of fashion the irrevent iris apfel. eric boman. thames/hudson
+william christenberry. e.brown/walter hopps/andy grundbery/howard n fox. aperture.
+dominant wave theory. david carson/andy hughes. booth-clibbon editions
+sweet earth-experimental utopias in america. joel sternfeld. steidl
+snapshot chronicles:inventing the american photo album. stephanie snyder/barbara levine/
matthew stadler/terry toedtemeier. princeton architectural press.
+svenska formgivare. caroline soderhold. historiska media
+domestic landscapes:a portrait of europeans at home. bert teunissen. aperture.
+audubon's birds of america. john james audubon.
+reflex:a vik muniz primer. aperature.
+masterpieces of the mineral world. wendell e. wilson/joel a bartsch/mark mauthner
publisher harry n abrams inc.
+element and shape. ratoruzv. ISBN 489977074x
projects to research
+domestic sticker murals. domestic.fr
+laughter in the face of conflict. face2faceproject.com
+the tissue culture and art project. we-make-money-not-art.com
+remembering the future. refu.fi
+the mentalist association. mentalistassociation.co.uk
+FRONT swedish design
+alternative communities. findhorn foundation
+community mapping. fallenfruit.org
+beach hut festival. bathingbeauties.org.uk
spring quartet
spring haikus:series of four by mario batali, borrowed from issue one of dossier journal
violin necks/
the fiddlehead ferns
swollen skyward yet higher
to ejaculate
low country caviar/
ramps verdant scent
with garlic and linguine
dust with breadcrumbs
michigan nonna/
morels lay so lo
hidden in frittata
spring antipasto
spring creek/
limpid pool so sheer
negligee for piscine forms
trout rise to surface
nice ice.
been on an extreme popsicle creating kick for the past few weeks-
+bananas, milk, cinnamon, vanilla
+blueberries, bananas, yogurt, milk, cinnamon
+bananas, yogurt, milk, peanut butter, chocolate syrup
+charred marshmallows, vanilla ice cream, milk, chocolate syrup
+lavender, blood orange
+cucumber, chili, mint
+avocado, chili
+honeydew melon, basil
+earl grey
+fresh lime, left to freeze with tequila then dipped in sea salt
+watermelon aqua fresca
half fresh watermelon
two limes, juiced
quarter teaspoon fine grained sea salt
one and one half cups of st germain liqueur
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