Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin...

Kind of obsessed with Edward Gorey right now:


Gorey edited The Haunted Looking Glass, a collection of some of his favorite ghost stories along with creating original art to accompany the 12 stories by authors like Bram Stoker, Charles Dickens, Algernon Blackwood and Wilkie Collins. So sweet.
Get it at Amazon

Gorey's most known for his macabre "children's" stories involving death, misfortune and other mayhem, what I would think Wednesday Addams would want to hear before bedtime. If you like Gorey you'll love Poe, and probably Lemony Snicket.

My favorite Gorey:
The Gashlycrumb Tinies is a bit of a different take on the alphabet...

"A is for Amy who fell down the stairs, B is for Basil assaulted by bears" and so on.
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Also recommended:

The Doubtful Guest is about some sort of creature wearing a scarf and chucks who decides to invite himself to live at a familiy's house:

"It would carry off objects of which it grew fond/and protect them by dropping them into the pond"
Apparently to be a film (??)
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The Hapless Child, about a tragically unfortunate young girl named Charlotte Sophia, is like an even more unfortunate Lemony Snicket.

"Her only other relative, an uncle, was brained by a piece of falling masonry. Charlotte Sophia was left in the hands of the family lawyer."
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Gorey also did the intro to the old PBS show Mystery!:






not really sure what the lady fainting and moaning on the wall is about...

Mas Fall 08 RTW Favorites:

ThreeAsFour: I guarantee you any girl would kill to wear this



Alexander McQueen: Beautiful! all of the looks were fantastic =D



Louis Vuitton



Louis Vuitton- wish I could've worn this to my prom...



Vera Wang



great idea at Maison Martin Margiela: tux "dress" over tights



YSL- interesting shapes and cuts



Luca Luca: fantastic



colorfulness at Pucci (for a change ;)



beautiful dress at Micheal Kors



also want these glasses at Micheal Kors

interesting take on cat eyes at Chado Ralph Rucci

All photos from Style.com

Fall Ready-to-Wear Favorites:

Just Cavalli



Want these glasses



Gap



Gap



Gap



Derercuny



Derercuny



daryl k and kerrigan



Christian Dior by John Galliano



from Chanel Spring 08 couture- cute idea, ruffled skirt with tux or military jacket



Burberry Prorsum



Burberry Prorsum



Burberry Prorsum



Burberry Prorsum



Burberry Prorsum



Agyness Deyn- love the spectators


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Another Blog

Nowadays it seems like everybody has a blog. My dad has a blog (I've only recently found out-long story, I'll explain later). I put off a blog for awhile because I wondered why anyone would care about my random thoughts on whatever I found interesting, but if the popularity of blogs is any indication, apparently somewhere someone is interested in the same random things and wants to know about something just as much as I do. And it seemed fun. So here it is --Another Mixtape.

'Another Mixtape' seems like a random choice for a name, but I've been making mixtapes as long as I could remember- back when people still used actual cassette tapes- and I'd always put a random assortment of music on them, anything from Crystal Waters to Dr. Dre to Boyz II Men. OK that's not that random, they were the popular artists then, but nowadays my mixtapes (and music taste) range anywhere from punk to jazz to (still) hip-hop and house.

I also wanted this blog to be about random topics, basically anything that interested me -music (I'm always looking for new artists to listen to), fashion, books & magazines, writing (umm obviously), poetry, photography, world culture & religion, street art & grafitti, food, baking & cooking, psychology, history, even physics. So this is like a mixtape of random interesting goodness. I live in NYC so there's no shortage of material.

But for now, it's dinner in Brooklyn Heights with Liz. Stay tuned.
~e