Hot Chip

I’ve liked Hot Chip for about 2 years now. I got a late start, with Made in the Dark being the first album I’d heard of theirs (thanks to WRKC, my college’s radio station, which I miss so much because I got cool music all the time for free). Afterwards, I got the rest of their albums and fell even harder.

I love my fair share of mellow, melancholy, folksy music, but for some reason, I got into this electropop kick back in my junior year of college and that was it. It’s a major staple in my music tastes. But this is about Hot Chip…

I honestly believe they have something for everyone, especially in Made in the Dark, which carries some fantastic simple sad songs. But really, put them on if you wanna have a blast and dance all night in neon tights with a lightening bolt painted over your eye.

 

I think what intrigues me even more about them is…well, look! They are just a bunch of British men, pretty average looking, but they make these incredibly fresh beats. Which brings me to their latest album, One Life Stand. When I got my hands on it, I was so excited and consequently let down. There was something missing. But on a second listen, and the viewing of the video below, I might be changing my mind. I’ll still love them regardless. And Joe Goddard’s voice is heavenly, even when it’s being manipulated so.

Oh, and if this electro-craziness isn’t your style, check out this song. I love how beautiful and sad it is.

Eye Candy.

I just adore Vampire Weekend. And Ezra Koenig has the voice of an angel.  And these boys have style. Like, their own personal style. Which is really important to me.

Clothes are basically the main way I choose to express myself. I feel like, when you look at me, what you see is what you get. And I like to see a guy who can do that too, because I usually feel like most people think that’s only for girls to do. Buy your own clothes, boys. Don’t look like your mom dressed you (I don’t think your mom knows what she’s doing).

Be yourself, whoever that is.

Phony

I went shopping by myself today (which is one of my favorite things to do and also something I do super-frequently). I wasn’t looking for anything in particular, I just wanted to get out of the house while the sun was shining. So I drove the half hour to Wilkes-Barre and looked around at all the different stores.

I had always been tempted to get fake hair clips, especially since I had dyed my hair once before and, because I work a boring ass job with prude people, I can’t do it again. Whip It! was also a huge inspiration. So, I noticed a few weird ones on sale at Hot Topic and thought, why not?

These clips are purple with pink hearts on them. I also got pink animal print and teal. I don’t know why. I just did. I’m excited to have some fun with them.

My Heroine

Since junior high, I have been a follower of Natalie Portman. I saw her do an interview on Oprah with Susan Sarandon for the film Anywhere But Here and I thought she was so pretty and cool. My adoration has had it’s peaks and has since dropped a little (I can’t lie, most of her movies aren’t that great, though I do love Closer and Garden State), but I still think she is insanely gorgeous.

Want my hair to get this long!!!

 

Can you believe she even seriously went bald for her role in V for Vendetta? And she looked amazing. Crappy movies or not, she is truly a style icon for me.

{All images from here}

Reasons and Purposes

I guess I should’ve mentioned that a large part of my nervousness, anxiety, and extreme uprising of panic attacks has a lot to do with the fact that I have no idea why I am alive, why I am lucky enough to wake up in the morning and breathe fresh air and look at beautiful skies and feel cold breezes against my skin. Why I get to hug people, have people come into my life and change me and maybe I change them. Why I get to listen to music. Watch great movies. Experience things. Unfortunately, I’m letting all the wondering scare the shit out of me. I feel powerless. But I must have some sort of purpose. We all do.

Existential Crisis

I am having panic attacks lately about all the serious philosophical questions that one usually comes to ponder at one point in their life or another. The only difference is, people think about it and move on. I think about it and feel like I’m falling into a terrible pit of despair. The moment it hit me, it literally took seconds to ruin the next couple of days of my life. I don’t really want to blog about my mental issues, but I do want to keep going with it because this is one of the things I love in my life. I love music and movies and food and friendship. But I’m letting all these crazy thoughts and things I have no control over worry me. Currently, I’m stable. So I’m going to keep trying to sleep, because I honestly feel that I have exhaustion and burning the candle at both ends to blame for my sudden weakness. I guess the reason I wanted to mention it on here is because I want people to know that they aren’t alone if they worry like this. I feel alone, but I’d like to think that we all go through it at some point. And hopefully all the rest and relaxation I get today will heal everything up so I can continue being happy like I was a few days ago. It’s just another hurdle to jump.

The picture above was just something I did to take my mind off crap and because my hot pink Doc Martens make me happy.

My Sunday in photographs…

Needless to say…I had a pretty great day.