JC AA HM

snapped some pictures in the street around sunset last week. it was so cold out!

k.

blue valentine...aka rip my heart out

SO, i'm no movie critic, and i won't try to write like one, butttt i must scribble my two cents about derek cianfrance's blue valentine! i saw it on saturday and wow, talk about heart wrenching. i was happy to find ryan gosling and michelle williams in a hipster's dream, dancing, singing, loving. then sad to watch their marriage deteriorate. go see blue valentine, but here's the caveat: prepare to have your heart ripped out, it's insanely adorable and sickly sad.

here's a few tracks from blue valentine that you should definitely check out:

x. "you and me" -- penny & the quarters

x. "you only hurt the ones you love" -- ryan gosling

x. "easier" -- grizzly bear

k.

lampredotto

in italy, it is safe to say that food is everywhere. you can't walk 5 minutes without passing a tabacchi (a typical convenience store that can see everything from lotto tickets to a cup of cappuccino) or a latteria, macelleria, pasticceria, etc etc. i have had so many great opportunities and experiences with food since being in italy. which sounds like a lame and "fatty" thing to say, but it is the truth. the italians pride themselves on their art of the kitchen. anything and everything you can eat, should be eaten. i've stuck to the basics of the italian cuisine, though mistakenly by the advice of a family friend, i think i might have tried cow intestine, trippa. barf. in fact i wikipedia'd it, and i did. oh well, it tasted, well, yummy and that's the furthest i'd like to discuss on the topic....ANYWAYS, besides my random indulgence in the insides of cows, i do enjoy a pretty regular gelato, the daily salami, mozzarella, and tomato panino, etc.

k.

NYE

nye 2011

k.

"le meglio vestite del 2010" -- thebestdressedof2010

SEIDIMODA, which i mentioned in an earlier post, is the fashion section of the italian newspaper La Repubblica, and has great pictures, articles, and archives to offer! they recently posted a "best dressed of 2010" list and it's just a cluster of beautiful frocks, pumps, and women...please check it out!! HERE :)

k.

buon natale

holiday festivities including an adorable snow man ice cream cake, ornament cupcakes that my sister baked and my cousin dillon & i decorated, our dining room all set up and decorated for christmas eve dinner (and the bouquet i bought my mom as part of her gift, she died when i gave them to her!), and lastly our family christmas tree that i decorate with my mom-mom while everyone else was at work. we also baked chocolate chip cookies! i love the holidays :)

k.

louie louie, ohhhh baby

LOUIE, you've done it again. and then ten times over, again.

k.