A While Ago

Posing in the staircase; Birgit Jürgenssen Exhibition.

I’m happy again.

Today I got rained on by an amazingly dramatic, Hollywoodesque April shower that seemingly came out of nowhere and was quickly replaced by beaming sunshine again. I ran but got soaked to the skin through my trenchcoat, and then huddled beneath a bus shelter with a crowd of boisterous school kids, who were singing “I’m singing in the rain”, loudly, and completely out of tune. It struck me that, probably, none of them had ever heard the song in the original. (They might know it from Glee, though.)



Can acting silly in public and not caring what others think please go back in style?

Some emotional panic including inevitable hyperbole.

Not having your head confined to the bubble you’re living in can cause difficulties, like knowing of the existence of an outside world and wanting to go there but not being able to ever do that without bursting the bubble and making everything you ever had fall into the bottomless abyss.

(via nickel cobalt)

I’m having, as they say, a bad day.

Some discontent. Diverse influences.

(via everyday i show)

from John Ruskin’s Seven Lamps of Architecture

from John Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice

(via everyday i show)

The Church Sveta Nedelya in Sofia, Bulgaria, after its destruction in 1925 (via here)

(Claude Cahun (1894-1954), Femme au balcon)

(Claude Cahun (1894-1954), Selfportrait)

This “Everyday I Show” blog is truly the best thing I’ve found in a while. EXCLUSIVELY wonderful pictures. I want there to be more like this. I want to be aesthetically forcefed. Or something.
So random.

Hey Senorita!

Anyone feeling down? Just take a page out of these guys’ book!



I’m currently jumping around my bedroom in a similar manner while listening to Paul Simon and doing my spring cleaning. There is no particular reason to be in a good mood, but I just am. Thank you, music.

“There is a girl in New York City who calls herself the human trampoline.”

Things I Like 11/03/11

Random Things I Like 11/03/11 von housewitheyebrows

• Cavalry Twill Trousers (American Apparel)
• Tit (haha) Print Sweater (New Look)
• Wooden Heeled Sandals (Zara)
• The Moon And Sixpence by William Somerset Maugham (my Mum’s old Penguin edition from 1977, complete with borderline racist cover design)
• Primroses symbolising the advent of spring
• Matryoshka Measuring Cups (pretty neat gimmick, if you’re not as OCD about pointlessly dirtying dishes as me)
• Grey Nail Polish (H&M)
• Kohlrabi
• Allo Darlin’’s album Allo Darlin’ (Double apostrophe for the win!)
  
• Dinosaur Plastic Necklace
• Green olives with pit
• Green Loafers

 

Not at all liking:

• The current situation in Japan. :(

Allo Darlin’ ...

Dear Allo Darlin’!
Thanks for making my prevening by playing a fantastic demi-accoustic gig at Record Bag. You were rad.
Yours,
D.

PS: And cheers to Ms. dot for the heads up!

Apropos Bookday.

Have I died and gone to heaven?

(from Stylish Wanderer)

Gimme, gimme!

Things I Like 11/02/25

I’m one day late, sht, don’t tell anyone.

Things I Like 11/02/25 von housewitheyebrows auf Polyvore.com

• Bicycle Totebag (ELLE)
• Nostalgic Milk Jug (Good Green Gifts)
• JUGS (Jack Russel-Pug Mongrels)
• Acorn Pendant
• Striped Swimsuit (New Look)
• Fox Earpins (ASOS)
• Tapestry Brogues (New Look)
• Floral Cardigan/Bolero (LaRedoute)
• Piglet Ballerina “Socks” (New Look)
• Sandcoloured Fifties Skirt
• Sandcoloured Parka
• Cute Bento Box
• Platform Sandals (Free People)
• Everything from Green Gate (not pictured)

Go West.

Last week Max and me joined my parents for a couple of days in the snow. We went skiing and snowboarding - actual visual proof of this remains on my mum’s mobile phone, because I wasn’t insane enough to take my huge Canon up on the mountain with me. Here’s a couple of pics from the train and Altenmarkt, the town where we stayed. (Here’s a map.)

Things I Like 11/02/11

Things I Like 11/02/11 by housewitheyebrows

• Green Heart-Pattern Cardigan (Anthropologie)
• Tote Bags With Prints (Alphabet Bags)
• Frog Necklace (Topshop)
• Poäng Rocking Chair w/ Woodland Print (IKEA)
• Sweet Sweet Moon CD (Siluh Records)
• Chocolate Bath Towel (IKEA)
• Black Diagonal Stripe Tights (Topshop)
• Wooden Platforms (French Connection)
• Ryebread, Ricotta Cheese and Strawberry Jam (The Ultimate Combination)
• Black Ruche One-Piece Bathing Suit (Modcloth)
• Racoon Hat
• Red Satchel (Cambridge Satchels)

Interrail, #6: Avignon

Wow, another Interrail post, and it’s about time! (If I keep up this pace, I won’t be finished before June.)
After Nice, Max and I made our way North, heading for Paris, but incorporating Avignon into our itinerary. We didn’t spend the night – we arrived there by TGV in the early morning, and left again in the evening, to take the last TGV to Paris – but this small stop-over, in retrospect, feels like an important part of the trip, and if I remember correctly, Avignon even made it into the top 5 of places visited in 2010.
Avignon is famous for its annual theatre festival, and it’s important to know that on July 13th, the day we spent there, this festival was in full spate - that means that not only were the streets plastered with theatre posters, but also were they filled with actors, thespians, mimes, some of them in full dress up, who spent the daytime advertising for the plays of the evening. There was a carnivalesque sort of atmosphere, very appropriate for the quaint little town with its winding cobbled streets, and its medieval architecture. Of course we didn’t miss the papal palace – which featured an interesting exhibition by Miquel Barceló – and what’s left of the famous bridge. (Although I think we refrained from dancing on it?)

But enough text, let’s have the pictures.

Max is being touristy in front of the Hôtel de Ville.

Theatre - That’s what it’s all about!

A Miquel Barceló sculpture in front of the Papal Palace.

Model of the Palace. (I love models. <3)

Inside the palace. The expression of the man in the background, who has just realised that a photo is being taken, is pretty priceless.

That’s what I call a well-kept lawn.

Cheese-shot.

Ah, stained glass!

Ah, Christian art!

Not so Christian art. Barceló being positively heathen.

Heathen.

Square.

What’s up there? I don’t even remember.

Some rock-architecture-symbiosis, and some more theatre posters.

Voilà, le pont.

More of a pier now ...

The papal palace from the outside ...

There is always a flea market.