olive oyl

saturday night. one friend is watching an ultimate fighting championship, one friend is out of town and jse is in south texas tending to cows. so i made an olive oil cake. vodka tonics are overrated. spelt flour, rosemary, olive oil and dark chocolate are not...

recipe: the wednesday chef

ps keep your eye out for kim boyce, she is an up and coming culinary star!

jungle love

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knock knock, who's there

(nytimes) from the general creative director of hermes, on the appointment of a new designer:

I think the appointment of Christophe is very ambitious. Maybe in five years I will look back and think it was a terrible mistake — or a wonderful surprise. I like that. I think we need that. Hermès is really born out of movement. Christophe shares very simple and basic values with Hermès. There is a definite love of simplicity without losing a sense of fantasy and joy.

one of my great hopes of my aesthetic, of my life, is that simplicity will always drive my life but that i'll always make room for fantasy and joy...what a great statement!

a wednesday kind of love

three things i love (category: music):

seeing people dance in their cars (please oprah, let's never make the car a "no dance zone")

that my mom was right when she said one day i would appreciate that she made me play the piano every day for over a decade

clapping and snapping in songs

daily candy

when i see new pictures of my nephew, i scrutinize the pictures, always anticipating that he's going to start looking like me. but alas, no, the only thing we've ever had in common is a furry forehead. love you, nephew.

green pastures

well, i hate to be a hipster, but i really do have a soft spot in my heart for pastoral rock. oh man it makes me bob my head and tap my toes. i never listened to fleetwood mac or crosby stills and nash. my first exposure was to the decemberists, years ago. but they're a bit medieval...and maybe the shins too. i'm starting to develop a taste for long tiered skirts with plaid flannel tops. maybe i will start my own farm to table restaurant or make my own honey. all joking aside, it's good music, but it takes a bit to adjust...i'm off to take my daily walk in a field of wheat.

fools/the dodos
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white winter hymnal/fleet foxes
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blood bank/bon iver
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wired

i really like this artist - his name is javier requejo fernández and he lives in galicia, spain. i looked to see if he was represented stateside, he is not. anything can be personified, it seems...


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