Tuesday, December 21, 2010

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day,

 when they were lying side by side near the nursery fender, before Nana came to tidy the room. "Does it mean having things that buzz inside you and a stick-out handle?"

"Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real."

"Does it hurt?" asked the Rabbit.

"Sometimes," said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. "When you are Real you don't mind being hurt."

"Does it happen all at once, like being wound up," he asked, "or bit by bit?"

"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."

- The Velveteen Rabbit

Monday, December 20, 2010

Best/prettiest lip gloss ever (and smells the best, too!~ like how 2% tastes!):  

Peach Water Gloss in "Ddalgi Wooyoo" #2 by Etude House. my sis says #5 "boksoongah wooyoo" is prettier.  that one's not pictured here.

Good job, Korea.

*golf clap*

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

BACK in a ♥ attack!

can u see me peacing?  hallluuuu there!!!!  anyways, howdydewdy blogosphere!  so it's been a long break since we spoke last; i've missed you so!  we had company come and go in the form of Robbin oppa from LA who is just uber cool!  he met all our friends and brought me and peas this OMAZING lipgloss from korea that makes ur lips look so plump and peachysheeny that i'd apply and then stare in the mirror in wonder and glory.  He even took us to see the hawks and our seats were disgusting.  he says next time he'll take us to a falcons game, but i'd probably just implode from excitement and not make it.  sometimes i'd look at him and wonder, are u santa claus?  we did a lot of drinkbingage and of course i hairline fractured my chin by falling on my face.  apparently, i'm so talented that i can break the fall of my entire bodyweight w/ just the point of my chin like some kind of chinese contortionist ~ i just need a leotard and some balancing balls.  i know i'm probably annoying w/ this by now, but i'm sorry ~ it's just that i think it's omazing how i've never actually broken anything!  i always get hairline fractures (like my pinky when i played basketball once).  i've decided it's due to the unbreakability of my superhero milkfed bones. i have the bones of a thick-set dwarf or michael turner.  ho ho ho.  (i've decided i'm sick of writing puhahaha or hahaha or AHAHAHA-for something extremely funny- and say ho ho ho.  cuz my sister actually laughs like that.  it sounds like oh ho ho ho~.....  annoying and strange.)

What else went on that i haven't written about....   hmm......  oh! E came to visit from Ha va eee and we met up with him at Havana Club.  It was crunk up in there!  I think people were on E or something... on E for E!  This svedish fish kept following E around also because he was overwhelmed by E's cuteness.  He was slightly creepy but non-threatening being a eurotrashling.  E is adorable, quick-witted, and hilarious as ever, with perfect hair and perfect skin just as i remembered him.  He is still the most original and cleverest guy i've ever met; definitely the brightest crayon in the box--like hot pink.  But he got super skinny(er) and i was worried that maybe he is overly working out or something.  Which means Mitchy probably got Hedi Slimane skinny.  After that we had to leave and go to Gold Room to say hello to Mark who was in town from LA.  Honda Xmas party was superfun!  i ate 79,002 crab claws and drank 4 jackcokes and a shot w/ the greasemonkeys of whatever they smuggled inside.  and some patron, of course.  i wore an off-white herve leger dress and covered my chin and collarbone scabs with bodymakeup and in general, felt super ladylike for once in my life!  i've decided i really like having brown hair.  it is not as attention-grabbing and ostentatious but my personality is not like that anyway so i'm comfy and happy!  some facts bout me u may not know:  i rarely wear heels and i can't really accessorize well or tote my chanel bags because i feel gaudy or something.  i love red lipstick so much, but i get too shy and end up wiping it all off with a napkin.  i could never be one of those bombshelly girls because i don't have the guts (or fashion sense) to be one.  i get happy when ppl notice or compliment me, but i feel sick to my tummy when they do.  oh well.  i think that's how all of us girls are, right?  we dress to impress and when it does, we're like OMG WHO IS THAT CREEP~ HE KEEPS STARING AT ME~AAAH!  we girls are weird creatures fo sho.  fo sho. 

The one downside to having dark hair (particularly dark asian hair) is that it does not get as much volume up top at the crown like blonde hair gets and i am obsessed w/ volume and u know the higher the hair the closer to God.  (Note:  for volume, you have to use the catwalk your highness products:  the thickening serum and root boost spray are to die for!  and their shampoo and conditioner, of course.... trust me~ nothing else works better than the catwalk your highness line and i've tried everything in zeeworld.)  anyways, i'll have to finish updating later coz i have to catch up on laineygossip (my favoritest site in the world).  talk to you later!

Love, Liz

[edit]: ok so it's later now around 1am and we just got back from seeing Black Swan.  I think i might have nightmares. :(  i'm sad to admit that Natalie Portman will have absolutely no competition for the Best Actress Oscar.  My poor Michelle Williams.  But natalie portman.... man.  What a freakin performance.  She is scary perfect.  and the scene where she's on mdma--that is EXACTLY WHAT IT FEELS LIKE.  ha ha ha!  nailed it, portman/aronofsky!

Monday, December 6, 2010

Quote of the Month

"She can rescue as many babies from as many countries as she wants to...I don't f**king believe you ... she gives interviews saying, 'I don't have a lot of female friends.' Cause you're a f**king c**t ... you're a f**king b***h."

- Chelsea Handler on Angelina Jolie (haha, i freaking love Chelsea Handler.  She reminds me of my blunt girlfriends.   and why do i SO agree w/ her on this one. Angelina Jolie comes off to me as someone working very hard to offset her bad karma)....

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Michelle Williams Talks Blue Valentine, Meek’s Cutoff, Playing Marilyn Monroe, Female Directors

Thompson on Hollywood
Michelle Williams has a lot going on. Not only is the actress enjoying her Indie Spirit nomination for Sundance/Cannes/Toronto fave Blue Valentine (while decrying her co-star’s Ryan Gosling’s omission), but she’s fearlessly stepping up to playing icon Marilyn Monroe in the upcoming My Week with Marilyn. She’s enjoying working with two women directors, Kelly Reichardt (Wendy and Me, Meek’s Cutoff, which goes from Venice and Toronto to Sundance) and Sarah Polley (the upcoming Take This Waltz).
Clearly, this young actress is picking well, from Tom McCarthy’s 2003 The Station Agent and Ang Lee’s 2005 Brokeback Mountain opposite the ill-fated Heath Ledger (the father of her five-year-old daughter), which earned her Spirit and Oscar noms, to this year’s role as Leonardo DiCaprio’s daffy wife in Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island. I stopped by the Four Seasons with my flip cam to see what makes this actress tick. I found out, among other things, that she cries easily, once did a play with Mike Leigh, and would love to work with him again…
Here is our Sundance interview with Blue Valentine‘s Ryan Gosling and director Derek Cianfrance.


Monday, November 29, 2010

Hola!  Coma estas?  Bien, y usted?  Muy bien, gracias!  How was everyone's Thanksgavan?  Mine was mas o menos.  I didn't eat much because i'm having those weird appetiteless streaks where i lose mad weight.  Plus, i know you cooks out there know this--but when you're the one who slaves away in the katchan, you don't feel like eating your own cooking most of the time.  So i ate other peoples' leftovers.  Is that sad?  WUTever.

Because of this ubercold weather, i find myself breaking appointments to meet friends and putting off grocery shopping or eating out.  Is this why they say that winter is the season of sitting at home, watching football, and abusing

Cuz that's what i hear.  That's what a knowledgeable birdie tolt me.  ahdunnoes.  *shrug*
All i know is, it better start getting warmer fast because i cannot tolerate the cold.  I can tolerate anything BUT the cold (tattoo needles pokin 'n shading me for 3 hours, root canal nerve pain that shoots through the entire side of your face and down your arms, bullet wounds ~ jk no bullet wounds).  I remember the one single time in the history of the Life of Liz that i was so cold that i started becoming disoriented (like how they say it happens in those disaster movies like Alive-u know, that movie where their plane crashed and they et each other) and i started hallucinating and had to keep telling myself not to go to sleeeeeee~eeep.... don't close ur eyes Liz!! don't close your eyes!!!!.....  This was at the Georgia Dome for the American Idol auditions.  Not me, u crazies!  I cain't sang worth jack!  I can't even sing at karaoke when i'm drunk and get all brazen thinking i'm the fifth member of 2ne1, the OLDEST BITCH IN THE GROUP *SADFACE SADFACE SADFACE* *SOLITARY TEAR* No ~ I graciously volunteered to go with my friend Karlos to support her dreams of being a supastaaaa!! *cue molly shannon kneeling VICTORYYYY*  It was about 13 hrs of Saw XXVII JIGSAW TORTURE.  We shivered so hard that suddenly we didn't shiver anymore and delirium set in as we began to see rescue helicopters dropping hotpockets and hot chocolate inside the dome and ryan seacrest looked uberly hawt and the lawn was actually sand on a caribbean beach.  It's crazy that Karlos was freezing because Karlos is NEVER cold since she has the blood circulation of one of those penguins in Antarctica that chills on an egg in minus 30 deg weather.  it's because she is evil. 
jk.
Omg. longest tangent ever.  This post is actually supposed to be about interior decorating.  
Moving right along... 
When it comes to interior design, it's not that difficult.  Simple and clean is best.  Minimalism is my preference.  And i love, love LOVE dividers, whether it's curtains (my fave) or bookshelves as room dividers, or actual dividers (i like the asian panel shoji screen dividers ~ tres exotica and cute-ica).  Here are some pictures i've collected of room setups that i <3.  i take great pleasure in maximizing the functionality and personality of a space and i like to flip through catalogs and am one of those weirdos who goes nuts in furniture galleries.  remember that Ikea scene from (500) Days of Summer?  ahhalmostbustedanutyo!  i sometimes fantasize of hiding in one of the showrooms until the store closes and popping out when everyone's gone so i can play house.  like natalie portman did inside a tent at walmart.  COOOL!!!!!

ps. i want a bookshelf with a ladder.  i love bookshelves with ladders.  MY FAVE!!!  i'd SO roll around on it and belt out a tune like Belle.  i wish i could have a library!




























OK WAIT! TIME OUT! TIME OUT!  i dunno about this one up thurr. ^  This layout looks a lil TOO modern/contempo for me.  like if i look out the window, i might see aliens or something.  this is the shit that we will look back at ike, wuhhhh?  *like how we look at the interior design of the Brady Bunch house (those weird stairs) and That 70s Show (the browns and greens and oranges ~everything looks like it stinks of mold and weed)...

Friday, November 26, 2010

Peas and I are selling our home and acting as our own real estate agents.  So please buy our home! :)

<3, Liz!

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

All Hail! *bow, and then continue to fall flat down on face*

V i v i e n n e    W e s t w o o d
aka Vivienne Isabel Swire 
aka My Hero and Goddess of Cool

  • She doesn't watch TV or read newspapers or magazines b/c she believes they are a waste of time.
  • She has two sons: Ben Westwood, a photographer of erotica and Joseph Corre, the founder of Agent Provocateur, the creme-de-la-creme of undies and all things sex.
  • She dropped out of art school after one term and said, "I didnt know how a working-class girl like me could possibly make a living in the art world." Instead, she became a primary school teacher. 
  • Her clothes became were first seen on the sex pistols.
  • John Fairchild (owner of Fairchild Publications and Editor of WWD) rates Vivienne Westwood as one of the world's six best designers in his book Chic Savages.  She is the only female on this list.
  • Westwood is an activist for several causes, among them: anti-consumerism, climate change, civil rights, and nuclear disarmament.
  • Westwood walked out in the first ten minutes of the London premier of Sex and the City because she says that the clothing Patricia Field featured in the film were "frumpy" and "boring". Also, Sarah Jessica Parkers character, Carrie Bradshaw, was gifted a Westwood wedding gown.
SPRING/SUMMER 2011: Lookie Lookie, she STILL gots it. i love her signature gaudiness.  all that color.

* Listen carefully to the paradox she says toward the end of this clip.  jaw droppingly faboosh. I mean, seriously, how ballsy is this 69 year old grammy...the quintessential personification of cool.


Tuesday, November 9, 2010

"Geometry's easy, yo."
--Artie

OMyfreakingGAW~ that slightly manic smile.... that personality and voice... those CARDIGANS... i think i'm totally in love with Artie from Glee.  He is so freaking adorable!  I love him!  i just want to sit on his lap and let him wheel me around the hallways!  AAACK!!!  I can't handle it... anyways, Astrid and I are currently 100% makeupless (quelle horror!) in our beloved sweatpants and curled up on the lambskin rug in the middle of the living room floor in front of the huuuge HD screen watching Glee and eating Yummy Earth organic gluten free gummy bears and i'm drinking a burr.  i drink burr a LOT these days.  yep. forgot to tell you that.  i have this weird thing with soda ~ like i need that painful carbonation in my throat and when i'm out of soda, i have to drink beer.  well~ i've been out of soda for like 2 months.  so's i drink burr every other day.  one burr makes me feel purty good.  two makes me feel a little tipsy but it only lasts like 30 mins.  strange, it only makes me tipsss when i'm @ home but if i'm out and about, it doesn't work at all.  i just HAVE TO order a jack and diet or a shot of something to start off.  i have to.  anyways, back to Glee and Artie.  I just cried my eyeballs out watching today's episode with Kurt and the homophobic bully who is secretly gay.  i love Kurt, also.  he has such a dainty voice.  he'd make a pretty girl.  he is so adorable also!

kay, back to tv vegetation time.

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

I thank everyone that has caused me to suffer, without you I would have no reason to express myself.  --anonymous


Since my sister's been home in Atlanta for the Fall/Winter for her extended holiday, we've been catching up and watching dvds, and mostly just chilling indoors in her attempt to steer clear of the booze + temptations.  We went to see the ocean and watched dolphins and basically tried to imitate shaolin monks.

And then it all fell by the wayside once Halloween rolled around.  and i mean "rolled" around.  jesus. ayudame!

Now the Asterisk is deathly ill with something... and my mum candidly admitted to me that she peeks into her bedroom from time to time just to check and see if she has stopped breathing.

Anyhow.  It's almost Winter now.  Usually i hate the cold weather, but these days i've been loving the gray, colorless sky and the snapping cold winds.  It matches the mood i've now begun to escape from.  For the past few months... well... since late August, i was in what i refer to as my "dark hole."  On the outside, i am quite normal, but on the inside i am like a walking shell.  So, dear readers, that explains my absence on this blog and even out in public.

Since i was about 19 or 20, i began to get hit with these depression spells where i can barely get dressed and don't put makeup on and can hardly eat anything.  It's so debilitating that I tell everyone i'm sick or not feeling well and hide out.  I don't sleep well and the thought of going outdoors gives me massive anxiety.  I think a lot of people are like this?  The reason i call them "holes" is because my life is peachykeen and these are the inexplicable blemishes.  Smooth roads and then BAM! pothole!  Smooth sailing and then BAM!  freak storm!  I've dealt with this for almost a decade.  This time, it lasted for over 2 months and i'm finally, slowly crawling out of it.

I tried fluoxetine (prozac) and amitriptyline (tricyclics) in my late teens and early twenties,  but all they really did is make my pee neon green.  Now i'm in my late twenties and it's really embarrassing for me to even talk openly about my holes because i feel like it sounds made-up and people might say, "isn't she way too old to be emo and shuffling her shoes?"  I don't treat these spells anymore ~ i more or less let it flood over me and wait til it leaves and let my mom put her hands on me and pray it away.  They happen a lot less frequently now.  This might sound sliiiightly scientologist of me, but in some cases like mine i feel that Rxs are totally avertible and extraneous.  Ya just need ur mom to put her hands on you and tongue-speak it out of you.  (my mum's speaking in tongue sounds like this:  "WA SHA RI MA lalalalakamaraka..." etc. etc.)

Anyhoos.

Something that i've been TOO often reading about in the news is the influx of teen suicides, especially that of gay teens.  It makes me so sad... like, despairingly sad.  It makes me burst into tears just writing about it.  I'm an empathetic person by nature and when i read these things, i mull and agonize over the magnitude of hopelessness and pain you have to be in to want to end your life... and it eats me.  People should never be in that much suffering.  Not even animals--not any of God's creatures.  I just want to help them somehow.  I am so thankful when i see public people banding together for the "It Gets Better" campaign and it makes me think there is still some humanity left in a world where currently we have genocide in North Korea and nobody seems to bat a motherfreakin eyelash.

Well, i'm happy to be back to my normal happy self!  I'm in an amazing mood despite these skies that look  like they're about to unleash hail or snow.  I'm thankful to God that i have it better than so many people out there, even when i'm down in the dumps.  I'll leave you with this beautiful quote i read today:  

When I look at ugliness, I see beauty. When I am far from home, I see old friends. When there is noise, I hear a robin's song instead. When I am in a crowd, it is the mountain's peace I feel. In the winter of my sorrow, I remember the summer of my joy. In the nighttime of my loneliness, I breathe the day of my thanksgiving. But when the sadness spreads its blanket and that is what I see, I take my eyes to some high place until I find a reflection of what lies deep inside of me.
 --Navajo saying

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Princess Peanonoke

This is my current favorite pic of my sister, because

she looks like Princess Mononoke.

GROOL!

Ps.  this is random, but the way Bobby Flay cringes in displeasure and is barely unable to conceal his vexation whenever he WINS the throwdown vs. whatever-mom-and-pop-shop he challenges, makes me love him more.  

Thursday, October 21, 2010

Blue Valentine

i am reeeediculously overexcited and anxious for this film's release so i can go see it.  Hopefully the mpaa will lift the NC-17 rating (allegedly for an oral sex scene!  which brings me to ponder...why is it that when women are on the receiving end, a film's slapped with the nc-17 commercial kiss of death?  when it's a dude on the couch or getting road head its funny and Rated R)... annoying double standards.

I hope Michelle Williams gets an Academy Award for this movie.  i just know she probably killt it!
 

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Ode to The Sixties


If there is any era that I could possibly want to be a part of... it's the sixties.  I mean, I'm sure that's pretty obvious: Miniskirts, kohl and lashes, big hair, the rise of feminism, Woodstock, Motown, the Stones, The Velvet Underground, Breakfast at Tiffany's, la Nouvelle Vague, Mary Poppins, Twiggy, Jane Birkin, Francois Hardy, the bikini, speed, weed, Kennedy.  I know I must have been born a hippea in another lifetime.  That, or maybe a squirrel.  I have a limited attention span and I constantly forget where I place things.  Anyways, i wish i had been around to see these things during the sixties.  i even love the tackyass wallpaper and interior decorating of the time.