photo by iroas929 on flickr

This weekend I am excited for The Folk Art Museum, a meat and beer extravaganza (here), the garage flea market, and finally tackling some design and illustration freelance I’m quite excited about. I’m also looking forward to the movies I’ve been stock-piling on my netflix instant queue. There are so many good ones right now! Including: Paris, Texas, Rebel Without A Cause, Amadeus, Romeo + Juliet, La Strada, and Synecdoche, New York. Where do I begin?!

Have a great one, see you Monday.

I’m in the mood for a good hunk of crystal (thanks, Alison). Or maybe a prism (thanks, [blogless] Margot) for my window sil, for rainbow-tastic moments? Or maybe, because the last time I saw the stars in this city was exactly never, a star projector (thanks, Erin.)

And yes, I named this post after a pretty amazing American song, with an equally amazing music video that I find while I may or may not have been a little bit drunk and laughing so hard it hurt:

(and yes, we listen to America at least once a week, non-ironically. But that doesn’t mean we can’t laugh at their music videos)

Nich Hance’s photos of Alaska (what I’ve gathered is Alaska from some detective work) are blowing my mind. I’ve never had much of an urge to go to Alaska, but now I do.

In fact, I wish I could time travel back to the vacations of my childhood. We rarely went on vacations, but when we did, they were budget trips to visit family in places like Montana and South Dakota. Driving trips that took us through mountains, prairies, and wilderness that I obsessively think about these days. What I would give to take a few weeks off and drive from my grandparents’ home in Sioux Falls (my birthplace) to home in Seattle, taking a million pictures along the way. I’ve been to gorgeous places like the Black Hills, Glacier National Park, and Mt. Rushmore all the while hating every moment of it because my other friends got to go on fancy vacations to places like Europe and Mexico. I just want to go back in time and smack myself, hand me a camera, and tell myself to document those moments before I never get the chance again for a long, long time.

(photos via freckle farm)

There is some serious eye candy on French shop Manon‘s website. Oh my.

via Darling Dexter

Apparently I’m obsessed with horses lately, in various aspects. I keep seeing the majestic creatures popping up on clothing recently – vintage and new.

Shop Ramona West
Spool No. 72
Mad Girl Vintage

The much anticipated second album from Charlotte Gainsbourg, IRM, is out today – a collaboration with Beck, and I’ve mentioned my excitement for it already way too many times. Oh my lord, it’s good. Can’t wait to buy it on iTunes when I get home so I can scare Wendy with my dance moves.

Also, Urban Outfitters latest mix of 25 free tracks is out, and as usual it doesn’t disappoint. I’m crazy about the first track by Tune-Yards and the Cold Cave track.

Oh and this has nothing to do with music, but on the subject of things to get you through the week (January is always so hard for me) how about we watch the new puppy cam? The pups are still kind of gerbil-like, but I love Shibas SO much that watching the cute mom is enough for me. Like, all day.

Free TV Show from Ustream

Loving some of the interesting vintage finds at Found Vintage Style.

Pentagram’s book, The Making of Fantastic Mr. Fox, looks like it’s full of some amazing details (and inspiration) on my favorite movie of last year. I would love to curl up with it for hours…

via Vic

(and if there was sound in this post, I’d close it with Mr. Fox’s signature whistle, which I did every ten minutes for a month after seeing the movie.)

“Sweet Thing” on repeat. Decided to give “Wild Horses” a rest.
ps. his people are very, very good at keeping Van Morrison off of youtube. dang.
(Update: I was ordered to take the song down. Which confuses me because I thought embedding Lala players was legal, but I guess not. Sad.)

Multitasking while I watch Netflix Instant movies.

James Dean in East of Eden. How was it even legal for someone to be that attractive?

Moonstruck. Oh Cher, oh Nick, let’s go back to you in those days, ok?

Making these brownies twice in one week. Which has actually nearly become a monthly ritual.

also:
An episode of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia at least every other night. Charlie, will you marry me?
Amazing Sales sales sales and new things for Spring. (or is that a bad thing?)
new blog love (via design sponge)

This weekend was nonstop working. It’s my fault for saving so much to do for the shop update until the last minute, but I guess that’s just how I roll:) I only left the house twice to run errands, so I barely have anything interesting to share! Sometimes a few days of crazy work feels good though, it’s satisfying to fall into bed and just pass out. Now excuse me while I pass out on the train to work…