i keep you guessing, watch while you come undone

How perfect is this coat by Paul & Joe Sister?



Yum…

Meanwhile I am more than in love with A.P.C’s Fall 09 collection and the lookbook for Play by C. Ronson at Urban Outfitters.

While the latter isn’t very suitable for our damp and dreary weather, add a cardigan or chunky scarf here, some tights there and you’re sorted.











I really really REALLY want these rock chick-like jeans from Topshop… I’ve tried them on and they’re skin tight ankle grazers.



I honestly can’t remember the last time I wore jeans on a night out, but I guarantee I’ll be wearing these the next time I tear up a dancefloor down south. Along with an oversized ripped t-shirt, crazy hair and dark eye makeup.

Or is that too cliché?

Meh!

My obsession with Love Song has now extended to EVERYTHING by Sara Bareilles. It’s not often that I take so well to such a mellow sound.

Gravity and Responsible, both from her debut album Careful Confessions, have been the soundtrack to my day. I’ll be hearing them in my sleep.

Dear American Apparel
Who in their right mind would honestly go to school like this?



Seriously, like!

unusually hard to hold on to

Have you ever heard a song like a million times before you actually LISTEN to it and realise “Oh wow! I love this!”

For me it’s Sara Bareilles’ Love Song.

I didn’t even know it was on my iPod so can’t remember if I downloaded it or it was sent to me.

I love it though. It’s like she’s in my head.

***

It never fails to amuse me when people I’ve never/rarely spoken to know my name.

I’m always in shock ‘cos most of the time I just seem to blend into the wallpaper.

Or when someone says “I’ve read your stuff in the paper”.

It’s cool. Makes me feel all glowy. And giddy.

***

Sometimes I wish I didn’t have an ATM card. Especially when I’m out and decide that yes, I do need to take out all that money and spend every cent of it.

Back in the day when I first started going out I brought a set amount of money with me and if I spent it that was my own tough shit.

Oh it was a system and it worked…

***

It makes me sad that I’m finished college. It’s going to be weird not living the student life anymore.

I’ve already sworn to attend all the parties but it’s the impromptu drinking sessions, chats ’til dawn and sleeps ’til noon that I’ll miss most.

Nana just doesn’t cut it.

***

I hate Nokia phones.

I used to be one of those girls that Des Bishop mocked but then I desperately wanted a pink Motorola.

I foolishly forgot my phone charger this weekend and had to borrow my 13 year old brother’s Nokia when I was going out.

Isn’t drunk frustration the worst kind?

And after a day spent hungover on the couch, I’ve decided that maybe I should stay away from Bulmers. Indefinitely.

Part of the fun of being at home is my mom’s cooking so when I can’t keep any of it down, it kinda ruins it…

I like to

dance dance dance

YAY!

autoKratz are Parisian label Kitsuné’s latest electro dream.

Their debut album is due for release on August 25th but ’til then, click here for their myspace or here for their hypnotic website.

They’re fresh. They’re fun. They’re midweek dancing ’til dawn, fueled with a mixture of vodka and cider, when you have work the next morning and just don’t care.

ps - listen to this and you might realise (like me) that you already know them

hmmm

Lady Gaga’s performance on So You Think You Can Dance? has me on the fence.

Kinda weak, no?

you could have been anyone at all

Today I watched one of my all time favourite movies - You’ve Got Mail.

Don’t laugh.

I love it.

And everytime I watch it, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy inside and, for a blissful few minutes after it ends, I believe that there’s someone perfect out there for everyone.

Then I wake up.

Not that I don’t truly believe that. I do. I’m just afraid that I’ll never find that person. I haven’t even come close yet.

And, as my mother pointed out last week, it doesn’t matter where or when I meet this person because if they don’t fit into my plan exactly where they’re supposed to, then I don’t want them. They’ve messed it all up and it’s not meant to be.

No one’s ruining my fairy tale. There will be a happy ending. But only where I want it to be.

THE END

But what I LOVE about You’ve Got Mail is Meg Ryan’s bookshop.

Part of me wants to open up a children’s bookshop just like it. And maybe one day I will. Once I’ve done everything else I want to of course.













Do you remember when you were a kid and could snuggle up with a good book? Everything around you disappeared. Nothing mattered but that book, those words. Hours could pass and you wouldn’t notice. And every time you finished one, you were disappointed because it was the best book you’d ever read and you never wanted it to end.

And the BEST best books were the ones you could read over and over, yet still get that feeling.



Kids don’t read enough these days… or maybe I read too much.

Anyways, I love that “Anyone At All” by Carole King plays over the credits at the end of You’ve Got Mail.

Funny how I feel more myself with you
Than anybody else that I ever knew
I hear it in your voice, see it in your face
You’ve become the memory I can’t erase

You could have been anyone at all
A stranger falling out of blue
I’m so glad it was you

Wasn’t in the plan not that I could see
Suddenly a miracle came to me
Safe within your arms I can say what’s true
Nothing in the world I would keep from you

You could have been anyone at all
An old friend calling out of blue
I’m so glad it was you

Words can hurt you if you let them
People say them and forget them
Words can promise words can lie
But your words make me feel like I can fly

You could have been anyone at all
And let that catches me when I fall
I’m so glad it was you

Ain’t that sweet?

baby you’ve got me thinking

“Left Behind”, the new single from CSS’s forthcoming album “Donkey”.

While the video is a bit meh, the song itself is awesome.

Myspace

yeah I know your hands will clap

Lykke Li, my new obsession



This Swedish lovely released her debut album “Youth Novels” in Ireland on June 6.
Stereogum have described it as a mixture of electro, soul and powdered-sugar pop.

I’ve been listening to it on my way to work all week cos it makes me smile.



Listen to:
I’m Good, I’m Gone
Let Me Fall
Everybody But Me
Little Bit

She plays the Sugar Club on June 12 (tomorrow).


Topshop


Office


Office

I love this record baby but I can’t see straight any more

A friend sent me this during the week and I can’t stop dancing to it.



Lady GaGa - Just Dance

£24 from American Apparel



$5.80 from Forever 21

dancing at discos

As you start to get into Hercules And Love Affair’s “Blind”, you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d heard it before.

I certainly thought so.

There’s something about it that reminds me of those nights where I’ve had a tad too much of everything to drink and I’m on my own in the middle of the dance floor after losing all my friends, eyes closed, sleepily smiling and arms swaying over my head to the best song I’ve ever heard.

A friend recently described H&LA to me as “a funky Carpenters”.

When I listened, I heard disco. Pure, lovely, dancey, old skool disco. The kind that gets you in the mood for a night out. The kind that unashamedly gives the finger to all that DJ-this-DJ-that, with their sped-up lyrics and uns-uns-uns.



“Blind” is the one I have on repeat. “Time Will” has lovely lyrics like Don’t lie to me/Don’t make it up/Don’t snake it up. “Hercules Theme” (click here for free download) fills me with an urge to don white flairs and strut down the street swinging my paint can á la John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

Check out their Myspace. They play Dublin’s Academy on June 1 (aka TOMORROW). I won’t be there as I’ll be shaking my waistline to Santogold in Crawdaddy.



$24.50 from Alloy



$39.50 from Delias



€50 from Office



£15 from Topshop

P-p-pedal down the foothills, wheelies on the front

Despite my obsession with all things electro since I started college in 2005, hiphop will always be close to my heart. And while I couldn’t be whiter if I tried, it allows me to indulge my ‘ghetto’ side.

I recently (and randomly) came across these guys:

The Cool Kids are old skool hip-hop at its absolute best. And when I say old skool, I mean old skool. Their beats are straight outta the 80s and their lyrics take the p*ss out of all the other hip-hop artists who rap about nothing more than their 22-inch rims and hustlin’ lifestyles.
The Cool Kids are Antoine “Mikey Rocks” Reed (from Illinois) and Evan “Chuck Inglish” Ingersoll (from Michigan). They were listed in Rolling Stone’s Ten Artists To Watch In 2008 .
Do yourself a favour and check ‘em out on Myspace.

Listen to:
‘88
Black Mags
Flossin’