Currently Enjoying

1. ElectroPop Collection from China Glaze - I'm a sucker for pastel and bright nail polish and that's exactly what this collection is. 2. Cool Lemon Ice Cubes from Ice Breakers - I don't think I've ever had lemon gum. Yum. It doesn't last that long but while it does it's tasty! 3. Oh Lola! by Marc Jacobs - This has been my favorite perfume since I bought it a few months ago, can't get enough of it! 4. Baby Lips from Maybelline - I love the packaging, scent and feel of these. They just make me smile when I pull them out of my bag! 5. In Style Magazine - InStyle has quickly become my favorite of the fashion magazines a lot of great features and fun columns. <3 6. Mossimo Vilda Flats in Turquoise and Pink from Target - I just discovered these yesterday and had to have them in both of these colors. The Turquoise are only online and the pink are in stores only.  7. Blue/Teal Mini Skeins from Candy Skein - Yarn + little skeins + my favorite colors = happiness. These are so cute they are already sold out but check back in March for a whole new batch. Great for the Beekeeper's Quilt! 8. FaceOff on SyFy - I saw a commercial for this show and thought I would check it out. I have tons of respect for all art forms so I thought it might be interesting even though I don't really watch the types of programs these makeups would be done for. Turns out I LOVED THIS SHOW. I can't get enough of it! 9. 24 Hour Color Tattoo from Maybelline - I like cream eyeshadows and kind of went crazy when these came out and I heard how good they were. <3

What are you currently enjoying?

** I bought all of these products myself!

Erm Wow or What the Heck Happened To My Magazine!!!

So today I got PASTE magazine in the mail, love it that's great. I pick it up and look at it and um what the heck happened to it! Forget the bottom and the side, which are both cut all strange, LOOK AT THE TOP, part of the headline is missing! (Click the picture to enlarge) What happened to it! Everything but the spine is cut up all weird. And in some cases the cover is cut differently than the inside of the magazine. It's some strange organic shape, that's for sure, at least the cd didn't get hacked up! I get a lot of magazines and have never seen anything this strange! Does anyone else get PASTE? Did your copy get all hacked up too???!

Rolling Stone got a makeover!

Got home and saw the newest issue of Rolling Stone in my room. At first, because of the size I assumed it was some sort of election special issue. But no, it's a new format and I LOVE IT!

Rolling Stone has gone from an oversized staple bound, crappy paper magazine to a smaller, perfect bound, really nice feeling paper magazine! I will definitely be carrying Rolling Stone around a lot more with me now. It's so much more portable! They have also added more pages to bulk up each section!

Apparently last summer they produced an issue in this current size and sent it to 3,000 subscribers to see what people thought and people loved it. I definitely have to agree, this is a great move on their part! They even mentioned using a adhesive sticky address label instead of printing onto the  cover itself. I'm a total dork for details!

Any Rolling Stone readers out there? What do you think of the change?

Entertainment Weekly: The Photo Issue

I don't think I've talked about one of my favorite magazines, Entertainment Weekly in a long time. Probably since before any of you were reading lol! Well I have several favorite issues, one of them being the photo issue. This is a pretty good one!

There is a Hollywood at Work section featuring Tina Fey on the set of 30 Rock! Another great piece is The Hardest Working Actors in Showbiz, which features all those actors that you remember from this and that but you can never remember their names! It's a great article including Tina Majorino from Napoleon Dynamite among other things, Stephen Tobolowsky who has a whole movie that's him telling stories about his life in the movies, Stephen Toblowsky's Birthday Party and John Slattery from Mad Men. I love watching a show or movie and screaming, usually to myself "Oh that guy!" Another great feature is The Year's Best Outtakes from their photo shoots throughout the year. 

Past issues have included themed photo shoots with actors and other great things. I miss those. I think this issue has gotten slimmer each year but it's definitely still worth checking out!

This is one of my favorite magazines, what's one of yours?

Adrian Tomine's New, New Yorker Cover

For anyone not familar with Adrian Tomine, he's a ultra talented graphic novelist/cartoonist. He publishes the comic Optic Nerve, who's last three issues were turned into Shortcomings, the book which has done pretty well in the mainstream market I believe . He also does several New Yorker covers a year. Definitely one of my favorites.

Best Issue of Bust Ever!

I gasped when I saw this. I was so excited. And then a week later it came. In my mailbox was the new Oct/Nov issue of Bust featuring a cover interview with Miranda July! Ever since I discovered Bust about a year ago (late on the bandwagon) it's been blowing every other woman's magazine out of the water. And now this. Holy crap! And then it got better, I started reading the interview and heard about Learning to Love You More, which I had somehow missed even though the project had been going on for years! (Goodness I feel out of the loop it started in 2002) Loved her movie, loving her short story collection, so I had to preorder the new Learning to Love You More book. (It was supposed to come out last week but I don't think it's out yet) Anyone know more about this project than I do?

All I know is Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher started the project where they volunteered tasks for others to accept and complete and all the responses are posted on the website. It's such a great idea, I cannot tell if the tasks are still active or if they have stopped creating new ones. Definitely would like to give one a try. What a great idea!

Couldn't be more excited!

This weekends Entertainment Weekly's cover story is all about Harry Potter the book series! Two weeks ago the cover story was about the Order of the Phoenix movie no mention of the book. Now I see why... they were saving it all for this sweet issue. Cannot wait! Sure to be helpful in mourning the end of the series and remembering it in the years to come! Pick up your copy Harry fans! Mine should be coming in the mail tomorrow!

UPDATE: got my issue and it was fantastic! pretty good overview of all the books, a yearbook, history of harry potter in popular culture and many other things!

Currently Enjoying

The Movie The Host








The Little Miss Sunshine Soundtrack










The Plain Janes Graphic Novel










August/September Issue of Bust Magazine




What are you enjoying? I really would love to hear!!!!

A Word on Younger Women's Magazines

With the almost confirmed rumor that Jane magazine has folded, i've been thinking about the state of younger women's magazines. I had just recently begun reading Jane magazine and was very much enjoying it. I had not realized that according to most it was going downhill. So what are we left with in my opinion? Nylon magazine which is continually putting tabloid celebrities on their covers in between the rare more interesting cover stories. I find it strange that month after month they publish readers letters protesting that they do away with the celebrities we hear about everyday and go for someone else (Zooey Deschanel for example) Kinda funny she's on the cover of the last issue of Jane. What I like even more than Nylon is Bust magazine. Love their cover stories and range of articles. The only problem is it only comes out once every two months and is very very small. So I subscribed to Nylon to try and supplement the in between time. When I originally subscribed to Nylon they were featuring people such as Kirsten Dunst and Amber Tamblyn. Wish they would bring that back! So yes, any of you magazine readers out there. Comments, thoughts, suggestions?

Nylon Magazine May Issue

Check out the new issue of Nylon Magazine. Not for the Lindsay Lohan cover article cause that's just strange. But for the 21 stars of tomorrow article. I recognized about 4 of the people so it's pretty sweet. Not like your normal "new young stars" article when you know all of the people but one. Definately worth the 4 dollar cover price.