girls just want to have fun.

I think what everyone really wants is someone to have fun with. And all that other stuff just gets in the way.

And, um, not to state the obvious but I really want to be that girl with the sunglasses and the hula-hoop.

Summer of Books = Summer of Love

(FOUND in one of the top five coolest bathrooms in St. Louis.)

DUMPSTER DIVING FOR KNOWLEDGE!

You Know You Wouldn't Want It Any Other Way

Dear Drag Queen at the Grey Fox Friday night,

Thanks for transporting me back to 1997 when I wore high ponytails, round glasses with little shapes etched into the frames, a Catholic school uniform, and sang this song with my sixth grade bffs on the playground.

Love,

Michelle

PS- Your dance moves were the best of all the drag queens.

Meredith Brooks - New Music - More Music Videos

don't worry...

xo, michelle

One More Time For Suzi!

Weird/Totally Rad Suzi Quatro video for ya!

In The Sun

This cake is a birthday party necessity.

Um, my birthday's coming up, guys. Someone needs to help me figure out how to make it.

i want summer to feel like....

paolo is too cute.




and um, m. ward is all i can currently listen to...




this would be a perfect summer...especially if i was actually with little joy...in rio...

xoxo,
kat

A New Noise

"Right now I've been in this room in this city for so long I don't see it anymore and you know I'm not being stimulated. Lately I've just been doing a lot of cleaning inside my brain. My eyes are not seeing anything around me. So I've been dreaming a lot, recording dreams and trying to look within, but I'm not worried about it. I'm just waiting for the moment when I'll get to take a train or plane someplace and I know I'll spurt out because I've just got to see new things. I think Rimbaud said he needs new scenery and a new noise and I need that. " -Patti Smith

At least as alive as the vulgar

My Heart

I'm not going to cry all the time

nor shall I laugh all the time,

I don't prefer one "strain" to another.

I'd rather have the immediacy of a bad movie

not just a sleeper, but also the big,

overproduced first-run kind. I want to be

at least as alive as the vulgar. And if

some aficionado of my mess says "That's

not Frank!", all to the good! I

don't wear brown and grey suits all

the time,

do I? No. I wear work shirts

to the opera

often. I want my feet to be bare

I want my face to be shaven,

and my heart-

you can't plan on the heart but

the better part of it, my poetry,

is open

Frank O'Hara

I keep coming back to this one. Luv u, Frank!

xo,

Michelle

Real Jobs + Summer

These photos are amazing!!!


I guess I am an adult now. This is something I would be much more okay with if adults had summers. I have a real job and it's totally putting a damper on my style, but this, I guess, is growing up.

I just want to go back to St. Louis this summer, and New York to see my sister, and San Diego to see my cousin and Shruti, and back to Portland, and finally see Austin, and maybe make it to Nashville....

Is that too much to ask?!?!

xoxo,
the snail