Besties of the Week

Lots of little things made this week lovely.

Best thing Niall made me buy:

Tom's Cinnamint toothpaste: yum and no tongueburn


Best treat:

Flattened banana from Trader Joe's + German chocolate in the same bite


Best compliment-getter:

my MAC Mattene lipstick in Orange Dare a la Chloe


Best listening:

Of Montreal covering M.I.A.
mp3: Of Montreal - Jimmy (M.I.A. cover)

Swimmer One: part Swell Season, part Cut Copy
mp3: Swimmer One - Largs Hum


Best visitors from London:

The City of Miracles

These two are the whole reason I got to go to Glasgow. Mitch & Niall's wedding was one of the most beautiful and enjoyable I've ever been to. Maybe they'll adopt me. See how gorgeous Mitch looked? The dance party portion of the evening was pretty rad too. I did a last minute dj set (right before Bob here, as in Bob Hardy of Franz Ferdinand--that's right I'm name dropping) which was pretty non-profesh, especially considering Bob's an actual actual rock star. I mostly played what I would have had Mitch & I been dancing in the living room. But as soon as I have time I intend to record for Mitch & Niall the mix as it should have sounded had I had all my gear. (don't mind that my slip had crept up from dancing sooo hard.)

Also, did you know you can actually call it St. Glasgow now? That's right, enough miracles have occurred there. In fact, they were all while we were visiting. It happened something like this:
1. After losing my camera and being totally depressed about my inability to digitally immortalize the trip, an unnamed cab driver drives all the way back to our hotel to return the camera I'd dropped in his cab, I come home from hen night to find it on my bed with a note.
2. Perfect weather the entire time: 60s and sunny.
3. Subways come right when we want them.
4. I'll tell you when I remember
5. Finding the lost video camera battery.
6. something else awesome I forgot

Ok so we lost momentum. But we only needed three.

pulverizing

Perhaps old news to some, but new news to me is that Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange will star in an adaptation of Grey Gardens for HBO. I think I approve. Although I happen to think Mitch would actually do well at playing--and dancing--Little Edie. Can't you just imagine her doing that flag dance?! For the few in the world who are unfamiliar with her, my heart aches for you. Oh how I miss that girl.



And for the few who are unfamiliar with those Beales, see here.
Seeing Grey Gardens on Broadway on my last NYC visit and the original 1976 documentary changed me. I am just amazed by Little Edie and the range of responses she elicits from me (admiration/sorrow/hilarity/frustration/...) and of course as a psychologist-in-training I find it fascinating how the Edies ended up where they did. Now let's all watch one of my favorite bits of Little Edie and her revolutionary costume:



mp3: Rufus Wainwright - Grey Gardens
mp3: Stars - The Woods (Have you ever noticed Little Edie's monologue about her lost scarf on this track? Haunting.)