white chalk outlines around your heart

pj harvey's album was released in the UK today, and the leaks have started already. white chalk is devastating, the more i listen to it. it sounds like the music heartbroken ghosts would write while watching their former lovers put on makeup to go on a date with someone alive.

the images she evokes with her lyrics (lovers choking each other, teeth being smashed with hammers, abortions, dying children, etc), bring you back to maybe a farmhouse in the 1700's, decades back to elaborate mirrors and candle-lit haunted houses, back to times when people couldn't love whomever they wanted, when tragedy was kept under blankets at night.

if you're looking for a quick rock album, this isn't it. this isn't 'to bring you my love' or 'uh huh her'. but if you're looking for 34-minutes of a time capsule, of resounding, haunting piano, of searing broken hearts and dying romance, of vibrant decay -- this is it.

LISTEN UP LUSHES!

have you ever wanted your lips to be soft, natural, and still taste like a mix of frosting and apple pie? then my god, this lip balm is for you.

Lush's Lip Squeak is possibly the best thing to ever grace my lips besides your boyfriend's semen. sure, it's seven dollars, but you'll have the most amazing lips on the planet and then you can give my boyfriend head in a quest for revenge. but i won't care because i didn't like him anyway.

this product is 100% critical to your success as a woman. and as a quick sidenote: everything else at Lush is also perfect. try the Karma soap.

friday foreplay

mmm, disney and kotex bring you the story of menstration. listen up girls, there's a reason your vag is weeping red! ew, i just grossed myself out.

peter bjorn and john blog

I figured I would keep their whole merchandising motif going - considering their stand included a black tote bag which read "peter bjorn and john bag" in plain white caps -along with tees, posters and pins. Not to mention the back drop and bass drum on stage. Must be a Swedish thing.


However, I really should focus on the show at the Roseland Ballroom this past Thursday rather than the goods. The Clientel blew (not blew me away, just blew as in boring - I don't care if they are super respected among indie dorks, or if they have like 3 or 4 coveted albums, they can suck my dick - but they might be bad at that too) And to my delight PB&J opened with 'Let's Call it Off' Also, when introducing Ms. Nicole Atkins for the female vocal on 'Young Folks' Bjorn actually mentioned that she's from "New Yersey". It was a fun time but I really am not a fan of that whole scene, full of faces trying too hard to look blank.

On a side note, I guess this guy gave up his mission. It's official kids...PB&J's gonna stick to the roof of your brain.

jezebel gets hearts

hot damn, jezebel ruined some lives at fashion week with this little stunt:

At precisely 2pm today, two badass young broads clad in eggplant-hued stewardess outfits sidled up to the cement staircase facing NYC's 6th Avenue bearing gifts for the dazzling yet dispossessed: Jezebel barf-bags. Inside the bags? More fashionista fun, namely, Ex-Lax, tongue depressors and, to top it all off, Tic-Tacs.

goddamn, we better top that for next year, ladies.

Here's Something I Just Thought Of...

Real quick readers, if Hill wins the election, she will sit day in and day out at the same desk where her husband got a hummer and gave Monica the old in'out with a Cubano.

How comfortable would you feel in that position? Think she will get the carpets in the oval office steam cleaned? Will she find an intern of her own to sit under that desk? She must have pondered the possibility.

ahhhh yesssssssssssssssssss