austin or else

I flew out to Austin on a Wednesday. The Long Beach airport already had a party vibe at about noon (my dad always drops me off extra early at the airport) since one half of the terminal in my section was going to Vegas. My gate had all the band members/music execs/scouts/groupies/etc. all asking why each other was going to Austin/what are doing there/who are you seeing/etc. The other half (to Vegas) was a bunch of 30s-40s men in matching baseball caps ready to start drinking early.
Once I got to Austin I took a cab to Comune's 'cabin mansion,' cracked open a beer and changed. Jason had left three days earlier with three of the Comune dudes on a road trip out there to shoot Braydon Szafranski and Gareth Stehr. We drove out to 6th Street and ended up at the Coyote Ugly mistakenly. Which was interesting. Then took a cab out to a warehouse to see our friends Magda Wosinska and Ethan Fowler's band Green and Wood. It was byob so we took the band van to find some booze but I GUESS hard liquor isn't sold after 9 (i did not know this!). The guys settled on either cases of beer or mad dog 20 20. I settled on a nice warm bottle of cook's. we chilled in a field til the band played, and then chilled in the field some more. It was cool. I loved it.
Thursday (St. Patrick's Day) at noon we headed to get breakfast at an Argentinian restaurant (that the guys ended up going to everyday, oh men) to have mimosas or beer mosas. Then we headed to the Thrasher party at the Scoot Inn to watch the half pipe. Then the day just, well, kinda unfolded. I saw my cousin which was amazing. We went to Shangri-LA and saw Dirty Beaches. We started walking to see The Strokes in downtown and hitched a ride (the 7 of us) in some girl's small car and ended up at the Wu-Tang show 3 hours early. I had an amazing home-made Oreo. I had an amazing food truck grilled cheese. We met up with the directors of our Cee-Lo video Dori Oskowitz and Marc-Edouard Leon. We met up with Dustin Beatty. We rode in a cab with a man who was playing the most relaxing jazz, and we did not want to get out. We went to a house party with Classixx. Then we went back to the 'cabin mansion' and threw a tennis ball around. yes.
I flew back the next day. I was able to have lunch (and mimosas at 'their' usual Argentinian restaurant) but then had to leave. Jason and the crew stayed til Sunday. I wish I had. I had a blast.I love Austin.

COMUNE ROAD TRIP // SXSW from COMUИE on Vimeo.

...and god created woman

This editorial from 2006 just popped in my head the other day. I remember I ripped it out and copied the makeup.

alive and kicking

So I've been sick for a week now and I've never slept so much in my life. Probably 20 hours just yesterday! Which means that I am going insane. Why is it that having a sick day always sounds like such a good idea until you actually are sick and miserable. And of course always comes at the worst time. 4 months until the wedding, and we have so much to do! Laying around all week means that I've been laying around freaking out over wedding inspiration blogs. You should see my desktop right now. Well, this morning I made a decision to not be sick anymore. There, said it, done.

P.S. See those trousers Erin Wasson is wearing down there? They are from Novella Royale and I ordered myself a pair earlier this week. Mine are white and black though, and they fit so hot. I can't wait to get better so I can go strut my stuff in 'em.

dirty texas

I'm back from SXSW and recuperating because I'm as sick as sick can be. BUT I had an awesome time. I can't wait to share photos from the trip but at the moment they are either in film or polaroid form sitting in a van driving through New Mexico. Soon soon. For now I wanted to share this video of Dirty Beaches. We caught his act Thursday afternoon at Shangri La and every one of us were into it. His music makes me feel like I'm in some dark movie driving through the desert. Heres the vid of one of his songs we caught overlayed with Gareth Stehr frolicking through the front (back?) yard of our cabin mansion. Also, the video is from Comune's tour diary. Check it out it you want to see what the Comune dudes have been up to on this southwest trip, and if you want to catch some ultra trashy photos of yours truly. Im not sure whats up with me snarling so much, Austin must have brought out the evil woman in me.

COMUNE ROAD TRIP // SXSW // DAY 4 from COMUИE on Vimeo.

the only one

ahhh, the 90's. CK One takes me back to my younger days...and nothings changed. I'm still that 10 year old in purple cut off overalls, a cropped baby tee and sun pendant necklace watching music videos on MTV and reading Sassy magazine.




Off to pretend I'm Alicia Silverstone in an Aerosmith video. Which I do on a daily basis. See ya on the flip side.

the moon and stars