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Title: Office Yoga #1 - 5 min.
Artist: YogaDownload.com
I think this is one of the greatest things ever created. You know when you’re at work and you realize your entire hunched-over body in your office chair is making you feel more tired, uncomfortable, stressed, prone to binge-eating from the office pantry, etc.? This is the best remedy for it. When I’m having a stressful day I just take five minutes to do this at my desk and it helps more than you can imagine.
via yogadownload.com
I am beyond, beyond, beyond excited for this bright/loud/glittery movie to come out. Baz Luhrmann creates insanely over the top flamboyant movies that make me cry and also immediately buy the soundtrack on CD, move my boombox into my bathroom and loudly sing in the shower for weeks with lots of hand gestures. Many a blue transparent Sony boombox has been ruined due to water damage.
I bought The Great Gatsby as an audiobook back in the day to help pass the time during my five hour car rides back and forth from college, so I guess you could say I’ve heard roughly half of it multiple times while hung over. I should add that this audiobook was read aloud by Tim Robbins. Why? No one knows. His voice while reading Daisy Buchanan’s dialogue sounds like a 95 year old Jewish woman from New Jersey coughing up a lung. It just felt… kinda forced, man. So I’m looking forward to an actual woman playing Daisy Buchanan.
P.S. on the trailer — kind of random that they felt the need to bring Kanye, Jay and Frank Ocean into this. What happened to era-specific music?
P.P.S. see the marquee in the beginning that says “Ziegfeld Follies”? My great-grandmother was one. KEWL.
Weird and wonderful
These beautifully creepy handbags by former lawyer turned designer Inés Figaredo remind me of the equally creepy but good Pan’s Labyrinth.
Handbags via Honestly WTF.
Chipotle Tomato Salsa
It’s exactly as good as it sounds. Alex & I will be feasting on this as we run all around town getting ready for Gold Cup tomorrow.
Ingredients
1 pound tomatoes
1/2 large white onion, cut into 4 wedges
3 garlic cloves
1 tablespoon chopped canned chipotle chiles in adobo sauce
1/4 cup finely chopped cilantro
Heat a dry large heavy nonreactive skillet (not nonstick) over medium heat until hot, then cook tomatoes, onion, and garlic, turning with tongs, until all are blackened in spots, 10 to 12 minutes. Purée in a blender with chiles and 3/4 teaspoon salt. Return to skillet and simmer, stirring occasionally, until slightly thickened, 15 to 20 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and cool to room temperature, then stir in cilantro.
via Gourmet.
Seven straight days of gray skies
has got me feeling a leetle bit restless and cranky. I need the SUN!
obsessed.
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Title: Anna Sun (Fool's Gold Remix)
Artist: Walk The Moon
summery jam
Unconventional Gold Cup
Gold Cup is coming up for us here in the DC/VA area and I’m browsing for some outfit inspiration while trying to stay away from the “Lilly-Pulitzer-riding-Ralph-Lauren’s-Pink-Pony-while-wearing-a-Vineyard-Vines-tie” situation. aka my four years of college.
These are all on my wish list, especially that Dannijo necklace— it’s bonkers. Their jewelry is way out of my price range but their stuff is incredible sexyeyecandy. I’d compare buying their jewelry to investing in ART, folks. One of their designers has a blog I’ve followed for a while and she is super out-there/quirky/hilarious.
Hat: Forever 21 $13
Sunglasses: Warby Parker $95
Dress: Opening Ceremony $275
Necklace: Dannijo $495
Belt: Linea Pelle $121
Shoes: Kate Spade $225
