A new favorite song of mine. I found this through Kanye West’s blog. Whether you like his music or over the top and more than slightly annoying personality or not, his blog is actually pretty interesting. By interesting I mean, damn, this dude is a bit of a closet goth, design snob and likes to post a lot of inspiring pictures. Check it out if you’re curious.
Personally I like these from his blog:
(You can order this shirt here)
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Make you laugh
Katt Williams Every Day I’m Hustlin’
(I love that song to tell you the truth.)
Because WordPress.com won’t let me embed this video: Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn’t seen it)
Jizz In My Pants from SNL.
Twilight version of Jizz In My Pants starring Edward Cullen.
“Ding Dong Song” by Gunther, this one is a favorite of mine. It will be stuck in your head for days, but it’s awesome.
Girl’s Night out with Mary Olson.
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Truthfully, I’ve always been a bit of a fashion snob. Gift giving holidays when I was a child consisted of family members purchasing and lovingly wrapping dresses, vests and all sorts of clothing that proper little girls should be wearing. When I would open the packages I would respond with wrinkled faces and a promise to wear the garments at some point. I insisted on trying dresses on over my jeans when shopping for picture day outfits and generally being a pain in the ass to my family members.
In high school I was a big fan of white or silver eyeliner, wearing rings on all of my fingers and having no less than three pounds of jewelry adorning my body at any given time. Now my wardrobe (and jewelry addiction) has tamed considerably. While I still wear jeans and tshirts most days, that is mostly out of necessity as I don’t have the infinite monetary supplies to expand my wardrobe.
Anyway, none of that really matters. What I meant to say is that I just purchased Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You by Simon Doonan recently and I am in love with it. Allow me to share some of my favorite parts:
Eccentric glamour!
Create it. Grab it. Feel it. Be it, and do so knowing that, even if you walk down the street wearing a gold leotard with your lesbian aunt Sylvia’s mauve nylon fanny pack cinching your midriff, nobody is judging you. Some people may not even notice you. Most people will be enjoying you.
Before you make any purchase–big or small–take a moment to consider the meaning and significance of what you are buying.
“I once wore a pair of jeans and sneakers on the subway and never did that again because of how approachable and vulnerable that suddenly made me. A dash of eccentric glamour gives you the power to keep the wrong kind of men away.” — Isabel Toledo
Eccentricity, that vigorous aversion to preconceived ideas and bourgeois notions, is the oxygen that invigorates a happy and creative life.
And my favorite section of fashion related advice in the book so far, because I absolutely agree with this philosophy towards aging…
‘Til Death You and Your Lipstick Doth Part
Let’s end with a universal tip for Existentialists, Socialites, Gypsies and all combinations thereof:
Your thirtieth birthday is an important landmark. You are now ready, after ten years of dicking around with your personal style, to select a signature lipstick. This is the lip color that will be with you through thick and thin.
When you are screaming for mercy during childbirth, this is the lipstick that will be smeared across your face.
When you kiss the corpses of your dead parents, this is the lipstick that will stain their cheeks.
If, God forbid, you ever get arrested for drunk driving, this is the pigment that will leave a pretty residue on the Breathalyzer nozzle.
This is the lipstick that will flow into the fine lines and wrinkles around your mouth as the death rattle grips your throat.
Choosing this lipstick is therefore a momentous task.
In order to complete it, you need to be slightly drunk.
After a Cosmo or two, head to your local beauty counter and start trying out the lipsticks on your hand. Just for kicks why not ask if any of the lipsticks has won a Nobel Prize? Don’t expect to have some kind of epiphany when you find “the right one.” Your selection should be, within reason, fairly arbitrary. If it has a great name–Catfight (Nars), Shashimi Mimi (MAC), or Pink Ballerina (Chanel)–and it doesn’t make you look too hideous, then that’s probably good enough. It’s just important that you pick one and stick with it.
When you have made your choice, buy a total of three hunder and sixty lipsticks. (The alcohol helps numb the pain of having to cough up all that dough.) This stash will last you the next sixty years. Yes, Einstein, that’s six per year.
That crate of lipsticks, lurking in your closet, will never let you forget that the clock is ticking and that life is for living. Every time you extract a new one and propel it toward your naturally aging mouth, you will think of the pointlessness of trying to hold back the sands of time. That diminishing lipstick stash will be a constant and salutary reminder not to waste time dating crappy men, watching lousy television, working dreary jobs, or worrying about the appearance of your fine lines and wrinkles.
Have a nice life!
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Organization
My new favorite song, Hilary Duff’s “Reach Out” (which samples Marilyn Manson’s cover of “Personal Jesus”):
That’s not what I wanted to talk about, but it’s making me groove like mad.
Last year I started out with a good plan for organization. I bought the right tools, I was using the stuff for school, it was perfect. What I didn’t count on interfering with that plan was Addmyartjournal and Carmine Magazine. I made the mistake of not writing my schedule for those things in my planners and they ended up being put in a drawer for most of the year. I started using the weekly planner, out of desperation for organization, in November when I started posting with Carmine hardcore again. It was a really good move.
I’ve been using the hell out of my weekly Moleskine planner so far this year, sure it’s only a week in, but it really will make my life much easier this year. I took a picture of all the Moleskine notebooks I have in my possession yesterday (with the exception of my 2008 daily planner because I forgot about it completely). It made me realize a few things. One, I have a problem sticking with things and two I need to be more organized. I completely forgot about some of these books and a lot of the drawings in them. That’s sad (and an expensive habit).
Yesterday I read through the entries I did make in my 2008 daily Moleskine (around April or May). It made me really sad that I hadn’t picked up a daily one for this year. I needed a bigger one last year which is one of the reasons I didn’t end up sticking with it. So I bought one on Amazon last night. A lot of people have been saying they’re getting messages from places saying they’re sold out after they order them, so I’m not sure if I’ll end up getting it. 
I also picked up a large, lined, hardcover moleskine notebook from the bookstore today. I hate their new soft cover books. I far prefer the hard covers. I’ve started writing out article drafts in it for Carmine Magazine. Oh My God. It has already helped so much to be able to have one specific, well made, place to handwrite this stuff. I’ve also almost finished rewriting the new interview questions that I’ve been trying to work on for the last few weeks.
It feels really good to be productive. I’m going to have to keep it up in order to keep Carmine running and I have every intention of doing that for as long as I possibly can. I really hope the daily planner comes. It was so nice to read back on the days from last year and remember things I had completely forgotten. I want to be able to do that with a whole year. Blogging is nice, but I’m too censored about things sometimes, and sometimes mundane things are nice to remember.
My pens, sticky notes, etc supplies:
(Clay)
(Scrapbook Sticky Journal Stax, LOVE these)
(Inner cover, yes that’s Gala Darling. My inner cover of the Weekly Moleskine has inspirational people and pictures.)
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TUT (Totally Unique Thoughts)
It’s within you: the answers you seek, the direction you want, and the power to be whoever you want to be. Your dreams are not yours by mere whim. They’ve been meticulously matched to the gifts you’re now developing. Designed to lure you within, where your true power lies, and then out into the world, beyond imagined limitations and fears. Trust yourself. Listen to your heart. You have the right stuff, you know what to do, and it can all be yours.
Hosanna in the highest,
The Universe
My favorite mailing list, hands down, is TUT’s (Totally Unique Thoughts) Notes From the Universe. I get a few daily inspirational mailing list things, most of them are okay, but this one truly thrills me whenever I see it in my inbox. I highly recommend it.
I want a Thoughts Become Things tote bag and Thoughts Become Things… Choose The Good Ones! bracelet from that site as well.
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Good Reads
BAH! I really wanted to paste one of the nifty Goodreads widgets into this post, but WordPress.com and livejournal.com (the other site I use far too frequently) both block the script.
I really need time to read more. I picked up a few books at the used bookstore near me recently:
I have a thing for futuristic dystopian environments in books and movies. According to a few places online these books are supposed to fit that theme very well so I am terribly excited to read them. Unfortunately I have been so, so busy with Carmine Magazine that reading anything not work related has been hard. Soon I will make time for it though.
Speaking of things I need to read, my issue of Coilhouse no.2 just came the other day (!!) and I’m still not through it. I love the articles in this issue though, there’s only been one that I’ve skipped so far (Devo, I’ll read it another time), but all the others have been so terribly fascinating. I’m pretty sure I annoyed the crap out of my husband by continuously reading him passages while he was playing around on the internet the other night.
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Inspiration
Images that I find inspirational or pretty. I don’t own any of them and I’m not entirely sure who does.
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Zombie Curls
Hello all,
This is Jami Lee Rosa from Carmine Magazine. I decided that having a personal blog to share cool things I come across, random thoughts, etc. This will sort of act as a brain dump for me of all the cool things I come across that don’t really belong on CarmineMag.com.
Stay tuned, but don’t expect this to be particularly profound. 
Jami Lee Rosa
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