i’ve been thinking of doing this for a while now. after i saw this floating around, i wanted to make my own version to hang on my wall. and knowing me, well, i had to make it all ~shnazzy~ so i made this 11x17 poster. i made it so you can download yourself one too, if you like. it’s a nice PDF file so you can take that to Kinko’s and blow it up and hang it nicely in your room or whateva.
our checklist of 50 classics for every Matchbook girl’s closet from our premier issue!
I’m pretty sure the placement of this necklace over Sicily is totally random since it is for sales presentation purposes, but I’ve been wanting to go back there so much lately so I especially love this image. It is such a lovely place to visit.
I’m planning my escape…
(via peircy)
To go along with the last entry, I love this and want it. Though I guess it would only be meaningful if I received it from someone else or gave it to someone else.
“The Constant” is quite possibly my favorite episode of Lost. So beautiful. It makes me cry like a baby and after I first saw it I was convinced my life was changed, haha.
stellar87: (via loveyourchaos)
I will add this to the list of “Things that will definitely not be completed before I turn 30”. I think I honestly only read 9 of these books in full and I read a lot (well, I did in the past at least). Though some I have no genuine desire to read at all. At least Joyce isn’t on this list. I’ve been trying to read Joyce for well over a decade and it just isn’t happening.
The 30 books listed here are of unparalleled prose, packed with wisdom capable of igniting a new understanding of the world. Everyone should read these books before their 30th birthday.
I have often considered organizing my bookshelves by color, as I too tend to be very visual. I was the random kid who always had to have her box of 64 crayons ordered by color and then as I got older I had to have my closet organized by color as well. However, for some reason I can’t stand not having my books ordered by height from tallest to shortest (though I do separate them into basic categories as well). It is very aesthetically pleasing though so I always reconsider it.
roy g. biv has a posse
laura, my former badminton adversary, recently linked to a very interesting guardian article on the topic of bookshelf arrangement. she then asked her readers how they chose to arrange their bookshelves. i answered that i (after a long period of introspection) finally arrived upon a chromatic system.
this drew a certain amount of incredulity from some mutual friends who impugned me privately and asked if i was goofing or being 1000‰ honest the way that i usually am. as evidenced above (and with this as precedent) you can see that my record of always telling the truth remains without pimple or blackhead. with my honour restored, let me tell you: the benefits of such a system are numerous:
- utility: as i am a visual learner, in many cases it is the cover rather than the author (or even sometimes) title of a book that i can recall, thus a chromatic index proves very useful when i need to locate an old tome.
- æsthetics: as exhibited by my dolce & gabana® trousers, rolodex™ wrist-watch, and armani® hair gel, i am all about looking good. and what is more visually appealing than a rainbow? answer: books arranged like a rainbow. another answer less germane: naked babes.
- ragbaggedness: as the very soul of this blog shows, i get an extreme charge out of random juxtapositions. a system of index that eschews subjects helps to create such serendipital collisions. consider: tin tin living in the same neighborhood as lucky jim, or the new-found meaning of goya’s caprichos when they are being absorbed by bakhtin and his dialogic imagination.
in conclusion, another thing that i arrange chromatically is the drawer where i keep my underpants.
