I ♡♡♡ GIRLS!

January can't come soon enough... Lena Dunham rules!

FLYING LOTUS

Flying Lotus' latest video is cool; his previous one was amazing too...

...directed by David Lewandowski

i got you babe

HOLY MOTORS

Leos Carax blew me away with Holy Motors...  go see it:

Monsieur Oscar travels by limousine around Paris to a series of nine "appointments," transforming into new characters or incarnations at each stop. Oscar begins the day as a captain of industry. Then he becomes a gypsy crone, begging for spare change. Inside a digital production facility, he's a ninja warrior transformed by cutting edge technology into a reptilian sex god. Next he's a gibberish-spewing troglodyte who kidnaps a fashion model from a photo shoot in Père-Lachaise cemetery. Then he's the melancholy father of a teenage daughter, followed by a shadowy assassin sent to kill his own doppelgänger, a dying old man, and finally a thwarted lover revisiting a flame from his past atop a decaying Right Bank department store.

NOVEMBER MIX (playlist)

here's my November playlist.  except for BeBe Winans' "Thank You" there isn't a thanksgiving theme here.  just a few good tunes for a fun break - some for singalongs & others for dancing...  click HERE to download as one folder. click here to also play MP3s... enjoy & share the wealth!

01. Nat King Cole ☆ Nature Boy
02. BenZel ♡ Jessie Ware ☆ If You Love Me
03. HAIM ☆ Send Me Down
04. Disclosure ft. Sean Smith ☆ Latch
05. Rhye ☆ The Fall (Maurice Fulton Rmx)
06. Nicolas Jaar ft. Scout LaRue ☆ And I Say (Xinobi Edit)
07. For Tet ☆ Locked
08. HAIM ☆ Forever (Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas Rmx)
09. Aeroplane ft. Jamie Principle ☆ In Her Eyes (Beni Rmx)
10. Visti, Meyland ☆ Yes Ma'am (All Nite Long) (Trentemøller Rmx)
11. Aeroplane ☆ We Can't Fly (Oliver Rmx)
12. Neil Davidge ☆ Awakening (Gui Boratto Rmx)
13. Giorgio Moroder ☆ From Here To Eternity (Aeroplane Rmx)
14. Jazzanova ☆ You Ain't Really Down (Jazzanova's Hey Baby Rmx)
15. Blood Orange ☆ Champagne Coast (Mike Simonetti Rmx)
16. Tensnake ft. Syron ☆ Mainline
17. Niki & The Dove ☆ The Gentle Roar
18. Joe Dassin ☆ L'été indien
19. Buscemi ☆ Welcome to the Mile High Club
20. Jessie Ware ☆ No To Love (George Fitzgerald Rmx)
21. Tame Impala ☆ Feels Like We Only Go Backwards
22. Mark Ronson ft. D'Angelo ☆ Glass Mountain Trust (Re-Funk)
23. Ambassadeurs ☆ Second Thoughts
24. Get People ☆ Back To Dust
25. Israel Kamakawiwo'ole ☆ Somewhere Over the Rainbow
26. Flight Facilities ft. Christine Hoberg ☆ Clair de Lune
27. BeBe Winans ☆ Thank You (MAW 12'' Rmx)
28. Suzanne Kraft ☆ No Worries
29. Tame Impala ☆ Elephant
30. El Perro Del Mar ☆ Walk On By

if you want music put together with thanksgiving in the heart, check out these tunes or better yet this playlist. definitely do the Apache!  two other recent mixes here and here.

and then, here's a classic...

 

THNKR: DJ FOCUS

15-Year-Old Kelvin Doe is an engineering whiz living in Sierra Leone who scours the trash bins for spare parts, which he uses to build batteries, generators and transmitters. Completely self-taught, Kelvin has created his own radio station where he broadcasts news and plays music under the moniker, DJ Focus. 

Kelvin became the youngest person in history to be invited to MIT's "Visiting Practitioner's Program." THNKR had exclusive access to Kelvin and his life-changing journey - experiencing the US for the first time, exploring incredible opportunities, contending with homesickness, and mapping out his future...

DRUG OF CHOICE

Rare Bird of Fashion Iris Apfel talks career highs and guilty pleasures with friend Ari Seth Cohen, founder of Advanced Style...

...more in The Avant/Garde Diaries

BEST COVER OF THE YEAR!

GRACE CODDINGTON IS EVERYTHING!!!  thank you i-D!

MARILYN & N°5

does anyone born in the sixties or later even wear this, or find it appealing enough to put it on in this day & age?  even my mom whose 1st perfume it was as a teenager in the early sixties wouldn't be caught dead smelling like Chanel N°5!  this ad is really beautiful & very sweet, and such an improvement to the Brad Pitt fiasco, but i doubt it will make any modern woman want to buy it...

TRIPPY COOLNESS

Tame Impala turn me on  big time!  their latest video by Becky & Joe is a trip - It Feels Like We Only Go Backwards sounds like sex...

speaking of trippy, Andy Huang's latest video for Björk is up there...

last but not least, LEGS did this beautiful piece for Raquel Allegra...

L'ÉTÉ INDIEN

Joe Dassin sure had something deep to share and sing about in his indian summer... i hope you're all having a good one!

BRAIN POWER

another great short on THNKR:

documentary filmmaker and webby award founder Tiffany Shlain explores the affect that media and technology have on our brains and human interaction... learn more about Tiffany Shlain and her film - Brain Power: From Neurons to Networks

IF YOU LOVE ME

BenZel & Jessie Ware...

 ...video by Kate Moross 

BenZel is Umi Takahashi (15) and Yoko Watanabe (16). Originally from Osaka; Umi and Yoko both travelled to New York through their local foreign exchange program. they met in early 2012 through an online message board about ankle socks and quickly discovered they each had a profound appreciation for 90's R&B and J. Dilla. after many failed attempts to create a hypoallergenic ankle sock, they decided to put their efforts toward other creative ventures. following hours of soul searching; they decided to start BenZel... and have been lucky enough to get Jessie Ware on board!

VOTE, BABY VOTE!