Itinerantdaughter's Blog

I like the Olsen twins.  Well, I don’t really like them as actresses or public figures, and what do I know of them at their core, as human beings?  Zilch.  However, I do like their fashion line Elizabeth and James (reasonably affordable, though it’s all relative), and they seem to be trying to adopt a lower profile these days, which is always nice.  (We like celebrities more the less we see them?  Is that a Trow-ism?)  There’s an interview with them in the Bergdorf Goodman catalog this month, which is actually pretty funny because the writer asks a bunch of questions early on that are sort of condescending toward Mary-Kate and she is obviously slightly pissy throughout the remainder.  (“Mary Kate, the press makes it sound as if Ashley is pulling the fashion train?” “But when people think of me as not being involved, I have to laugh…”  Not in context, these quotes, fyi.)

I digress.  As usual.

So in this article, MK and A (I speak Tween) talk about some of their influences, and I’ve gotta hand it to them, cinema-wise…

BG: So talk about The Row and Elizabeth and James.

MKO: Elizabeth and James is a little more trendy.  We use a lot of Japanese and Italian fabrics.

AO: We create our own prints.

MKO: We dye old things, and use old wallpapers.  We try and do simple, beautiful pieces.  Also, we play around with it, trying to do fun, experimental pieces, using three prints, or being inspired by the 60s, or The Lost Boys or Wild at Heart.

Damn, little girl!

My roommate just told me that last week, she went drunk shopping at the fancy deli in our neighborhood and bought half a pound of veal because she has a crush on the meat counter guy and needed an excuse to talk to him.

My roommate is making jewelry right now, and it’s pretty badass, like, I’d pay for it if she weren’t my roommate and felt obligated to give it to me for free…beside the point.  Any way, she’s got her gigantic toolbox down here and a number of different sized pliers and a ring sizer, which is looks like a Shaker S&M tool or something (I know, I know)…seriously, though, check it out.

http://www.amazon.com/Sizing-Stick-Sizes-Jewelers-Mandrel/dp/B000VNYRLY

Although hers is larger and black.  D, this one’s for you.

Tomorrow I am going to Concord, Massachusetts to attend a friend’s wedding (yes, the friend who alerted me, once and for all, to the sinfully boring institution of registries.)  Concord was the home of Thoreau and Emerson and Louisa May Alcott’s March family, a locus of New England literary life.

I have serious delusions of isolationism, but none of them take place in New England (perhaps because I am weary of the familiar.)  Got to give props to my man Thoreau, though, the original society-shunner.

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me. Where I lived was as far off as many a region viewed nightly by astronomers. We are wont to imagine rare and delectable places in some remote and more celestial corner of the system, behind the constellation of Cassiopeia’s Chair, far from noise and disturbance. I discovered that my house actually had its site in such a withdrawn, but forever new and unprofaned, part of the universe.

Now, of  course, the name “Walden” has become a great selling point for a number of the areas local B&Bs.  I myself will be staying at the Holiday Inn.

There is something strange about realizing your thoughts can be categorized in retrospect…I realize now two categories that emerge clearly from the entries in this blog…I can’t quite put my finger on why that is bizarre…I think it has something to do with either a) fatalism or b) the fact that I’m overly analytical.

New Categories are:

Poems

I Hate Writing (this one I started the other day, but I realize I have to go back and put a LOT of entries in there.)

Middle aged and FAT is not a disability, okay, so don’t look at me with those disapproving eyes and pout your lips when I’m sitting down on the subway and you have to stand, I actually think you SHOULD stand because it’s not good to be overweight, I’m actually trying to PREVENT late-onset diabetes, okAY, so don’t look all constipated because I’m not standing up, I do my fair share of it, and perhaps you should, too.

My boss is dictating and comparing our winter home, the Savoy Hotel in Miami Beach (eek! Whereabouts!) to a Southern Plantation.

Ladies and gentlemen of the Nabokovian jury, I present to you:

The Savoy

and…

a typical “Southern Plantation,” retrieved from GoogleImages.  (What else?)

I tried to tell him numerous times that he’s wrong, wrong, wrong, but nobody listens to me. I’m like Rodney Dangerfield.

8:24:53 PM     PS: Umm, there is a girl no older than 10 reading “50 Successful Harvard Essays” here.  Fuck this life!

8:34:42            PS: In all honesty, I want to move out of society.  Not a pipedream!  Can and must happen!

8:35:28            PS: (and yes I just sent that in a text message)

Aphorism, schism, agnosticism, gnosticism, polytheism, futurism, absurdism, existentialism, nihilism, occultism, stegophilism, barbarism, anarchism, hedonism, masochism, sadism, terrorism, Orientalism, fascism, communism, Marxism, Judaism, Hinduism, Jainism, Shintoism, romanticism, Neoclassicism, classicism, modernism, post-modernism, Catholicism, freeganism, Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Antisemitism, feminism, heroism, anachronism, alcoholism, consumerism, solipsism, isolationism, autism, evangelism, creationism, pacifism, militarism, separatism, loyalism, Mormonism, fanaticism, Calvinism, ageism, racism, historicism, revisionism, nationalism, socialism, patriotism, Kitty Chism, voyeurism, Anglicism, vegetarianism, veganism, neologism, onanism, Zoroastranism, Darwinism, baptism, formalism, anti-formalism, reductionism, botulism, symbolism, eroticism, behaviorism, witticism, altruism, asceticism, exoticism, anthropomorphism, stoicism, Naturalism, activism, monasticism, Protestantism, Impressionism, relativism, expressionism, positivism…
Keep it going, kids!

B and I are wondering…who invented MASH?  Is anyone credited with this?