///hammer///

oh mannn do i miss the westside. i used to live on sepulveda x national - where the 10 and the 405 meet [as augustine would say]. that was my first la apartment. i lived alone in a pretty spacious one bedroom apartment. i miss gatherings in that dark 126 cave. sedated, opiated, tranquilized, stoned, inebriated.. all over the floor. i miss living alone. walking around in my underwear, singing at the top of my lungs, vanity photoshoots galore.

last night, i drove to my friends' place on the westside to meet up before heading to hollywood. when we got to hollywood, my friend that was driving realized he had forgotten his wallet at home. so we drove all the way back to get it. on the way back, along wilshire, we passed one of my favorite free museums - ucla's hammer museum in westwood. the window display and what i could make out, made me smile. i miss westwood. namely thank you mart where everything is $3.99 and where i used to buy all my dresses. the ones i'd buy ankle-length then cut to ass-length and leave un-hemmed.

the friends i went out with last night are moving away from the westside this morning. i got wasted last night and ended up staying over. so here i am, still at their place, watching them pack up their stuff, slowly emptying their soon-to-be former home.

last july, i moved away from the 10 and the 405 to downtown. now i'm by the 110, and i guess the 101 and the 5 as well. i liked my old access better. i've never lived in the city city before, it's a nice view. noisy as fuck, but lovely if one just plugs their ears.

a few things you can see at hammer right now:
peter van der heyden - desidia [sloth] 1558 - this is sooo epic, i'd have it near my bed.

christopher russell - trellis [after william morris] 2008 - pretty idea, i'd definitely subscribe to a paper that looked like this.

shirana shahbazi - various works in the hammer lobby - 2008 - this is what i saw when we drove past, love them as a whole even though i think butterflies are disgusting.

erin cosgrove - what manner of person art thou - 2004-2008 - i would buy this for my brother as a gift, he's just that kind of person.

///table for one///

do you get the feeling that here in LA, dining alone is thought to be really strange. as if the thought of doing so never even crosses these people's minds. they're such social characters, who would they talk to if they dined alone. perhaps their blackberry. i find it so weird, cos back in auckland or manila, i would go places alone all the time. not a big deal. not just dining either, but like an entire date, by myself! eating, shopping, coffee, what have you. i seriously want to be able to do that still.. but it just doesn't seem to fit in with the LA lifestyle. i have no idea whyyy. sure, yeh, i could just not give two shits about anyone else, but just thinking about doing it feels so taboo. tripping me the fuck outtt.

ok. so, really, the fact of the matter is.. everyone has work or
school today and i'm craving karaage, baked crab rolls, and sashimi. aaand i want to shop around a bit.. or at least have a peek at end of season sales along with new season collections!!! lucky fish + barney's @ b.hills.. rahhh.

love from tania's iphone.

///lines///

piano.. keys. and lines and cards and bills. la douleur needs to be killed. here i gooo..

///barreleye///

Macropinna microstoma


Picture taken in 1994, but only released yesterday. And known about since 1939. Such a cute leetol bubba with its transparent head! Aww.

///TARGET AMERICA///

Opening Eyes to the Damage Drugs Cause



I drove past these banners advertising the new California Science Center exhibit the other day near Century City. I've never actually been to the science center.. But I miss those kinds of hands-on science fieldtrips from elementary school. Everything's free to browse, save for the [IMAX] showings.

This particular exhibit caught my eye, though.. Cos yeh, it's about drugs. I've been pretty sober lately, so I think it'd be safe for me to go there and not look like a truly ironic visitor - a junkie checking out the anti-drug show. I'm too lazy to explain it all, go [HERE] to find out more. It's on till May 3rd, 2009.

Anyone wanna geek it and watch the Under the Sea 3D IMAX flick with me this week? The Cali Science Center's got the biggest IMAX screen in LA, seven stories high or some shit. I also need to pay a visit to the Griffith Observatory someday. Gahhh, there's so much I still haven't seen or done in Los Angeles. I should learn how to save better, really. Put your date in my iPhone calendar. Or DM me on [TWITTER].

///furs&skins///

kate with the furrr and the cracked out chic, black-bandanged like a mummy, cigarette in mouth, lazy eye forever.




















effie from skins and cracked out chic, she got it from her mummy, cigarette in hand, femme crush forever.

///25///

[From Facebook]

25 [Degrees, Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles].

I either do things last minute or extremely late. I'm not a winner, truthfully.

0. Only remembering through photographs, comical reminders.
1. Underlining excerpts I fancy in books I am reading, with a pencil.
2. Watching fashion shows on silent and doing my own commentaries, then re-watching with sound.
3. Sleeping and waking on Manila time, whether I am in Manila or not.
4. Having only plans of future jetsetting, nothing else.
5. Drawn to long distance relationships, I'm all about foreigners.
6. Creating numerous blogs, about nothing in particular.
7. That bulimia wherein one eats a fuckload one day then absolutely nothing the next couple days, and so on and so forth.
8. Never fully unpacking my suitcases after coming home from a long trip abroad, mental disorder of sorts.
9. Always starting and stopping school, perhaps a huge flaw.
10. Wishing for a Telephone Company Loft with the amazing architecture to be free, come July.
11. Hoping for a Barcelona Birthday next month and more Europe during the summer, never before been.
12. Missing Ethan more than any of you others, sometimes I forget.
13. Dissapointed with self over this month's $469 phone bill, hello strict internetworking.
14. Only ever needing to do laundry once a month, in reality.
15. No longer a "player" and I'm not even joking - mama told me off.
16. Finally learning morality, yup.
17. Slowly learning happiness, yup.
18. Turning twenty-three this year, minus six.
19. Liking them artsy and older, but not too old.
20. Kissed straight boys, straight girls, gay boys, and gay girls.
21. Useless at saving, hating on bank schemes.
22. Addicted to Diazepam, even when I'm not.
23. Not as fashion-savvy as you think, mathematics are probably more me.
24. Good at most things, but never a specialist.
25. Still dreaming of TNT - insidely-cryptic, don't even try.

///coraline///

after musing over the amazing advertisement along melrose, it's finally out. in 3D! will you come with me?

///smart///

august '08. no further comment.

///bailey rae///

don't forget about her.

i remember hearing this song for the first time in val's car in 2006 and i immediately fell in love. with corrine and val both, haha. it's such a feel-good-sunny-day track.


and this song, this song seems to become relevant in new ways each year.


opposite time zones =

///midfebmidmar///

since i can't have stockholm, all i want is a barcelona birthday. free as a bird.. a bird just as free. TNT.



the omm looks immaculately inviting, doesn't it?





or the creatively designed claris?






or the dark yet colorfully modern cram?





or the granados, which feels to me to be very trendy in a pour homme kind of way?

///babybabybaby///

m.i.a. is preggae!

and her and hubby are such a cuuute couple.