SS13 Antipodium

I'm pretty much in love with this jacket. See more at the Cutting Class.

In fact, the entire show is pretty bangin'. The palette is what is most striking. The burgundy, the blush, the perfect addition of orange and fatigue green. Colors one would ostly associate with Fall, somehow flawlessly speak to Spring in the same breath. Versatile, sporty, classic and edgy, I really love this collection.

*via160grams

Spring and All

I

By the road to the contagious hospital
under the surge of the blue
mottled clouds driven from the
northeast-a cold wind. Beyond, the
waste of broad, muddy fields
brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen

patches of standing water
the scattering of tall trees

All along the road the reddish
purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy
stuff of bushes and small trees
with dead, brown leaves under them
leafless vines-

Lifeless in appearance, sluggish
dazed spring approaches-

They enter the new world naked,
cold, uncertain of all
save that they enter. All about them
the cold, familiar wind-

Now the grass, tomorrow
the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf
One by one objects are defined-
It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf

But now the stark dignity of
entrance-Still, the profound change
has come upon them: rooted, they
grip down and begin to awaken

-William Carlos Williams

2013 Calendars and the Year of the Black Water Snake

I'm always late to buy a calendar and here we are in the first week of January, and I consider this to be an improvement. So, I did some searching around town the internet, and found these. I really enjoy a nice tactile calendar, one with soul, one that can speak to the year. Which is also noteworthy as the year of the snake. And, as long as we're on that subject, perhaps I'm not late to the calendar buying game as I thought - the Chinese new year rolls over on February 4th (celebrated on the 10th) this year, so, actually, I'm early.
Here are some attributes associated with the year of the black water snake:

• Steadfast progress
• Snake is Yin (female)
• Snake is fire and thus as a water year it is Fire under Water - it has a calming effect on the animal's nature
• If you're sign is Monkey or Goat, take advantage of the year, for you are in favorable territory with the Snake
• Don't make commitments that are overreaching
• Be weary of spending outside of your means
• Supposed year of peace - fingers crossed

Teen Dream

the full moons drama queens | the bar as the stage
whiskey and water | every man's teen dream

spin in circles to find | where it was we were
before | before this place
where there is no cure

the howling of your throat | against rock and silt
carnal passages | we commit to our notes

spin in circles to find | where it was we were
before | before this place
where there is no cure

And I've been sure | for how long to hold on

And from where we left off | 2am empty
alone and stumbling | our self induced turnoff

turn in circles to find | where it was we were
before | before this place
where there is no cure

And I've been sure | for how long to hold on
to that teenage dream

Christmas, that Mysterious Beast