I cut a corkboard in the shape of stacked books; think it turned out cute.

I love my Nine Wests and the natural light this place gets.

Jack and I pulled a locker off the street, out front the school up the street, and he’s painting it Apple Green.

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These scans are from Anthropologie’s catalog, I received yesterday. I like to keep them around purely for inspiration. They always has the best interior designers whether it’s for their photographs in their catalogs or their stunning stores. I would love to live in either!

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This is a neat collection of books I came across very recently. Perfect for any music buff. (I told you I would start to get into the music stuff soon!) I picked up “OK Computer” (my favorite album) the other day and it was fascinating!

33 1/3 is a series of short books about a wide variety of albums, by artists ranging from James Brown to the Beastie Boys. Launched in September 2003, the series now contains over 50 titles and is acclaimed and loved by fans, musicians and scholars alike.

It was only a matter of time before a clever publisher realized that there is an audience for whom Exile on Main Street or Electric Ladyland are as significant and worthy of study as The Catcher in the Rye or Middlemarch…The series, which now comprises 29 titles with more in the words, is freewheeling and eclectic, ranging from minute rock-geek analysis to idiosyncratic personal celebration. - The New York Times Book Review

Radiohead’s OK Computer (Thirty Three and a Third series)

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I’m not sure why, but this has always been a topic of interest for me. Never really had serious body image issues, I think it’s just a fascination with their culture…

French people eat until they’re full, Americans eat until the food’s gone
Furthermore, we have found that the heavier a person is — French or American — the more they rely on external cues to tell them to stop eating and the less they rely on whether they felt full,” said senior author Brian Wansink, the John S. Dyson Professor of Marketing and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab in the Department of Applied Economics and Management, now on leave to serve as executive director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion until January 2009.

Via Boing Boing

Along the same lines, close friend of mine also recommended the above book to me French Women Don’t Get Fat.

…you’ll find simple tricks that boil down to eating carefully prepared seasonal food, exercising more and refusing to think of food as something that inspires guilt. It’s both a practical message and far easier said than done in today’s ‘no pain, no gain’ culture.

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