things we googled over the christmas holiday:

- piss christ
- how did bob marley die?
- is phil spector dead?
- how tall is obama?
- how tall is napoleon?
- lard v. butter
- mashed potatoes recipe
- jesus take the wheel
- price per acre property in maine

Be polite, kind, generous and giving; but never a doormat.

love

waxahatchee

you can dust it off and try again.

Arguably the best thing on the internet right now

serious throwback

:)

pretty delightful

obsessed. completely obsessed.

love love love. the skin town album is fantastic. even pitchfork liked.

this is quite special and wonderful

whoa

nsfw?

no place for promises here

Please remove your shirt and lift it above your head in the same manner as if it were a propeller on a helicopter.

Favorite bits about 26.2 through NYC

- Befriending the most delightful Englishman on the ferry (he indulged me in banksy talk)
- Waiting for coffee in the starting village with the loudspeaker blaring announcements in every possible language
- An amazing singalong to Frank Sinatra's 'New York, New York' as we stood on the entrance to the Verrazzano
- A tall kindly blonde man smiled, laughed and gave me a hug, when I croaked "Oh. My. God" at the starting line
- Helicopters hovering at the center of the Verrazzano Bridge
- Gossiping with other runners about Pamela Anderson's whereabouts down 4th Ave
- Little kid high fives on Flatbush Ave
- Fort Greene brigade singing and dancing to YMCA
- Church Choirs and Brass Bands and Drum circles and Bagpipes
- Wall of cheering and amazingness on Bedford in Williamsburg
- Quiet calm of the Queensboro Bridge
- That wall of sound that hits you upon entering Manhattan
- The boy in a fancy suit who handed me a life saving banana in the Bronx
- Awesome strangers yelling "Yeah Borky!" in Harlem
- The guy who chanted "Every step counts" outside Central Park
- Uncontrollable happy tears from miles 25-26.2
- Name in the New York Times (!!!!)

I love you, New York. Thank you. That was amazing. 

current emotional state, pre-marathon

i love this

all i need is some sunshine

The Life and Times of Lola Firmingham: Table of Contents - DRAFT

Introduction: Just a picture of a dog wearing a sweater

Chapter 1: Birth

Chapter 2: 14 Years of Piano lessons

Chapter 3: A bleeding-heart liberal at an All-Girls Catholic School

Chapter 4: Philosophy major/College radio dj: Rumblings of a proto-hipster

Chapter 5: That time I lived in a convent in the Vatican (Law School)

Chapter 6: Multivariate Analysis and Diet Pepsi Max (Graduate School)

Chapter 7: Living with comedians - New York Part 1

Chapter 8: The sights and smells of Philadelphia

Chapter 9: A bike without brakes - New York Part 2

may or may not be in love with this 23 year old

not okay not okay not okay not okay not okay

The perils of falling asleep to spotify.

A few weeks ago I came home from the bar and wanted to listen to one, ONE, Selena Gomez song. Unfortunately, I fell asleep and spotify played the entire Selena Gomez collection. Top spotify artists for Lola? Selena Gomez now may or may not be in the top five.

where's lola?

I just want to watch this over and over again

fascinating

What will make ALONE look good to you? You have to work on that. Because single life needs to look really, really good, you have to believe in it, if you're going to hold out for that rare guy who makes you feel like all of your ideas start rapidly expanding and approaching infinity when you talk to him. You need to have a vision of life alone, stretching into the future, and you need to think about how to make that vision rich and full and pretty. You have to put on an artist's mindset and get creative and paint some portrait of yourself alone that's breathtaking. You have to bring the full force of who you are and what you love to that project.

nsfw

rihanna is arguably putting a feminist spin on the dude in a throne concept

damian marley and nas



beanie man


rihanna

obsessed

Random thought on living in New York:

Sometimes it feels like we are one big focus group

hearts and stabs 10.8.13

hearts
- banksy in new york 
- CHVRCHES
- peanut butter jelly and jalapeno sandwiches
- the tapering phase of marathon training
- bierkraft
- municipal elections
- crispy fall weather clothing options
- amazing new fragrance boutique that opened near my apt


stabs
- fall allergies
- government shutdown
- rabies
- pretentious elitist jerkbags
- the queue at the genius bar
- people who call it a "queue" instead of a "line"
- that one barista at the coffee shop with the perpetual sigh of contempt

Jesus already gave me two burrito forks. One at the end of each arm. They're called HANDS.

gentle reminder

this song about boners was #1 in 1998. and everyone was okay with that.

incredible.

tame impala tame impala tame impala tame impala

Don't think about it too much, too much, too much, too much

completely obsessed with this song

Breakbeats

I spent a significant portion of 1999 listening to Deejay Punk Roc's album, ChickenEye. And when I say "listen," I mean I had mini raves in my bedroom dancing like a maniac. I love this album. And it is a major contributing factor to my ridiculous dance moves.

need to find this on vinyl

Ridiculous things that happened in the past 72 hours

- Dog bite

- Razorblade flat tire

- Epic quest for rabies vaccine

- Quality time in ER with giant, groaning woman

- Death battle with giant cockroach that crawled through my kitchen window

- Hair tangled in hot curling iron

- 31st birthday

Yaaaaaaaaaas

Love love love love love this

Life improvement/personal growth ideas that I have yet to follow through on

- Juice cleanse

- Supportive shoes?

- Convert pension

- Organize paperwork in that drawer (related)

- Raw diet/paleo diet/diet diet

- Write a think piece about the state of modern infrastructure

- Become excellent at basketball

- Sleep more

- Locate other shoe

Closer, but with dogs.

As if I could love Tegan and Sara any more

stop! dimentica

In the darkness comes, another, another...

4, 5, 6

Spent a lot of time watching Yo MTV Raps and MTV Jams in the morning while I got ready for middle school and high school. This resulted in a deep love for 90s hip hop.

One of my favorites: Sole, who is pretty much pre-Trina. Sharing below.

love

This

I don't even know where to begin on this one.

fake monday, real tuesday

90s delight

What a girl wants. What a girl needs.

I loved this so much that I decided to give it a go. The results: What I want according to gmail ads...


I want the #1 selling Gluten free bread

I want to register my own .com as soon as possible.

I want beautifully crafted furniture made from sustainable materials.

I want to get a leg up on other actor/actresses auditioning for Tyler Perry movies.

I want to launch my LLC in 3 easy steps.

I want to know the truth about high fructose corn syrup.

I want to send money to the Philippines.

I want thousands of items from local businesses delivered to my doorstep.

I want the top 10 dividend payers to smash competition to pieces.

I want to rent a private villa in the Turks and Caicos.

I want to see live jazz, but at half the price.

I want a delicious pot pie.

don't forget about lovage

In college, my friend and I called 4fact and sang the guitar riff to discover the source of the sample.




4fact didn't know, but after much deliberation we landed on "Enter Sandman"

Love this guy

Theme Songs

In general, I think it's fairly important to have a theme song. (If not multiple theme songs.) This was mine in college. I think it remains as part of the repertoire.

"You'd never know it, but buster I'm a kind of poet, I got a lot of things I want to say..."

Love you, Papou. Countless wonderful memories to last a lifetime.

what have you been listening to lately?

nadine shah - aching bones

natasha kmeto - vodka diet

m.i.a. - bring the noize

lcd soundsystem - home

Mayer Hawthorne ft Kendrick Lamar - Crime

Arguably the strongest track on the new album. Willing to discuss this further.

videos youtube thought i might like based on viewing habits

You know me so well, youtube....


Robert Baratheon slapping Cersei Lannister



Dave Chappelle - Ja Rule



Flight of the Conchords: Racist Fruit Stand



Drunk History: Al Capone was a Syphilitic Moron

lyrics born - callin out

3 years

Love you very much and wish you were here. Miss you and think of you every day. Rest in peace, dear friend.

bon iver

jagwar ma

breezeblocks

"If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. ... We need not wait to see what others do.” - Gandhi

lillypad

Lil bit of pop

Young Galaxy - Fall For You



Elliphant - Live Till I Die

Get Free

Favorite track from the new Major Lazer? Perhaps.

when the sun goes down

Listened to this on loop during my run yesterday. Am I the only one who still loves Cassius? Can't stop won't stop.

still love you JT

nsfw

Whoa

why?

Fourth

You collect and craft your syllables so artfully.
Gilded, euphonious, vowels.
Yellow plated half-truths.

Words are empty mason jars
Hollow, vacant, unoccupied
Stacked side by side like the royal guard.

They're just sounds.
Without actions, gestures, implications.
Fragmented non-facts.

A point well-made is worthless
without authenticity.

Ivy

it's all a matter of locating
identifying, naming and processing
before it spirals.
before it grows like ivy
covering he walls of my brain
hiding and skewing the synapses
between logic and emotion.

the feeling sits ontop of my chest
like a clogged artery
or a giant gulp of peanut butter.
rocks stretch across my lungs
oxygen trapped by granite.

we all start anew.
buds start from scratch.
the world breaks apart to make room for the good.

Vague links and updates

- saw these people.

- made some of this. (except completely deviated from recipe)

- Oh, I'm sorry about that.

- this happened. 

- now obsessed with this place

- starting a new job very soon

- relevant

- currently reading several books simultaneously

- typical

and a song to close...

Can of wine

Rave nostagia

In 2000, I saw Dj Brisk in Pittsburgh at a random club near campus. Unclear how I made it through an entire night of happy hardcore, but it was kind of amazing. PLUR?

this is all so crazy, everybody seems so famous

Can't stop listening to this

Problem Solving

All of the things

- Love the new hood in North Slope

- Giorgio Moroder dj set. (sidenote: HOW DID I MISS THIS?)

- The most amazing smoothies ever. So amazing they've ruined all other smoothies forever. Can't turn back now.

- Just play it on loop. It's fine. I'll never get sick of it.

- I didn't know this was a thing, but now I do. And I fully support it. Psychic house.

- Alright Mayer, I'll bite.

robyn. looove.

Question

Is it super meta to sing Milli Vanilli at karaoke?

Mousepads!!!

Things that happened in the past 72 hours

- Moved to a new apartment
- Ran 6.5 miles
- Laundry service (haven't done that since Rome)
- Made $55 at Beacon's
- Sublet old apartment
- Gave old bike to a little girl
- Got a frigthening free haircut
- Ate excessive kale
- Drank a guava margarita
- Found the filming location of the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Found the filming location of Spiderman/ London Calling, again
- Blackberry banana muffin = <3 p="">- Fell in love with a new band...

Young Galaxy - Pretty Boy

what have you been into lately?

- snoop lion as a concept
- almond butter
- dune
- enhanced appreciation for empire of the sun sparked by dune
- the new ghostface killah
- military style fitness bootcamp
- running up and down bouncy bridge
- internal clock started waking me up at 3am simply to remind me that this is a time that exists
- chia pudding
- subletting my apartment

so much love.

Things I'd like to discuss further

- Oh it's cool, we just found a portal to the underworld... Gates of Hell found in Turkey

- How apartment hunting in new york is very much like entering the portal to the underworld.

- Almond croissants. Don't really want to discuss, just bring me one.

- Awkwafina

GOFT

Please don't ask me to defend it, but I heart Lil Wayne. Especially the new track. The basslines are ridiculous. Lyrically? Teeming with misogyny. Should be offended, but somehow amused. Regardless, I must listen to bunch of Trina to counteract all this.

Love Me

Things I haven't formed an opinion on yet

Carrot Pineapple muffins

Squash

GMO

Grimes

Toothpaste man

I *was* feeling stressed, but then I saw this. Love.

let's do the fork in the garbage disposal

DINGDINGDINGDINGDINGDING

Well I hope you like wildflower, cause that was a lot of it.

it's important not to forget how awesome radiohead is

What have you been up to lately?

- Running! And more running!

-Reading things. Many things simultaneously.

- Unexpectedly loving Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Thanks, Hulu.

- Lots of smoothie making. Raw diet 75% of the time is kinda awesome. So much kale in my body.

- High line awesomeness.

- Epic day trip to Philly for deliciousness and shopping and sweating and a 3 dollar beer

- Entirely too much working. Not so awesome.


Yelle - L'Amour Parfait

that escalated quickly

shranky drank is back

...and i can't stop laughing. you guys are amazing.

hilarious and gross and true

How To Live With Bed Bugs from FUTURE MACHINE on Vimeo.

hmmm

Darwin Deez "You Can't Be My Girl" from Keith Schofield on Vimeo.

what have you been up to lately?

- Clearly not blogging. sorry about that, guys.

- Just finished Going Clear. Goodness gracious the culture around Scientology is fascinatingly bonkers. Highly recommend this read. Drawback: the book jumped around a lot. I prefer a chronological approach when it comes to 'nonfiction', so the jumping around was not my favorite.

- Currently re-reading Hamlet. It's been 14 years since I've last read it, and I still love it. Heck yeah, Horatio.

- Officially all caught up on True Blood.

- Obsessed with smoothies. Delicious, delicious smoothies.

- WHERE ARE MY DRAGONS

- Marathon training begins again soon and I am a little too excited about it. I should probably just train year round because I dig it so much.

- Need to go dancing. Soon. More electro in my life, please.

happy valentines day, guys

have some jack white.

what have you been listening to?

elliphant - down on life



dj shadow - this time



tegan and sara - closer

yesssss

Tell me why you couldn't try, Couldn't try and keep me here

let me show you a few things

Looooove. So excited. If this track is any indication, Imma love the new album.

Diary #19

Lola. Age 12.

December 21, 1994

Dear Book,

I GOT MY ARIEL! My no-handed cartwheel! I'm so excited, I could scream. I will hug everybody I'm so happy.

Bye,
Lola

I actually remember this and it was awesome! As a wee Lola, I took gymnastics classes from toddler time to high school. While not particularly graceful, I was fearless when it came to tumbling. How many back handsprings do you want me to do? 4? Done. It took me a while to get my no handed cartwheel, but it was badass when I finally hit it. Also, I'm fairly certain I would break myself if I tried to do it again now. 

things i'm currently obsessed with

- kale

- new necklace from loyalty and blood

- query building

- Mayer Hawthorne - Green Eyed Love

working at the pyramid

nsfw. nope. not at all. but maybe my favorite frank ocean track?

lolz

source

"A gang of white kids rapped horribly in and about cargo shorts this year. More of them will be coming in 2013. Paint your door post with lamb's blood."

Diamond Rings - You & Me

Loooooove

But I definitely like this

I cannot decide if I like this or not

HNY

Happy New Year! I know it's 2013, but I'm still going to listen to this song on loop. Can't stop won't stop.