February Hit List
art house archives, Sustainable Swabs, and the chocolate of the future.
We’re over 1 month in to 2020– Are you still feeling fresh? Personally, I could use a long hot bath and a stiff drink, but I’ll settle for the goodies below.
Welcome to Hit List– where I purge my pockets once a month of all my current obsessions because, what’s the good in keeping them all to myself?
Contrary to popular belief, my winter has been less about social gatherings and trendy events, and more about staying home in my pajamas, gathering ideas for decorating my home, and watching foreign language films. There’s a family of squirrels living in my wall, and I can’t say I’m not a little jealous of their hibernation lifestyle, which I’ve only made easier by feeding them bowls of peanuts on my fire escape. Believe me, if I could sign up to sleep in a hole all winter and live off free peanuts, you bet you would find my name at the top of list sheet. Instead, I’m settling for a healthy 7-8 hours a night, and my favorite peanut butter smoothie every morning. Besides, squirrels don’t get to enjoy any of the following simple pleasures, so jokes on them.
Okay, why are you even spending money on Netflix anymore when you could be throwing a measly $11 at The Criterion Channel every month for unlimited access to their entire library. HELLOOO? Where else can you binge John Water’s Multiple Maniacs, followed by gorgeous Czech new wave film Daisies, with an intermission of Sofia Coppola’s short Lick The Star? Consider the remainder of your cozy winter nights MADE.
Mesh bags are not only “in” right now, they’re also the most practical accessory I’ve ever stuffed into my day bag (I’m famous for stuffing bags into other bags like the Turducken of carryalls). These expand when you fill them up (same) so you probably only need to bring two before you blow half your paycheck on kale-related items at Whole Foods.
This jail-striped sundress and modern sunglasses combo from Jean Luc Godard’s 1960 film Breathless literally left me breathless (see what I did there?). If you don’t know what I’m talking about, it’s worth it to just stream the damn thing (Hint: you can watch it on Criterion).
Punk’s alive and well in Australia. Everything I hear from this band blows my mind, including their latest video release which makes me feel like I’m 15 and hopped up on my own contempt for reality, which is actually a weirdly productive mood for me.
My favorite current procrastination is browsing the ever-scroll home design galleries on Domino. It’s like window-shopping– except instead of shop displays, it’s people’s fancy houses… which basically makes you a pretentious peeping tom for taking part in this with me.
This pajama top from Ban.do has two styles of matching bottoms, comes in 6 sizes, and makes me feel like I own the Playboy Mansion when I wear the set. I pretty much live inside until it’s Springtime, so I may as well dress cute for my work-from-the-couch days.
I bought one of these reusable silicon swabs on a whim, and now I can satisfy my weird OCD urge to clean my ears without contaminating landfills across America with my own disgusting ear goo. I know reusing a swab sounds icky, but it takes like 1 single second to clean these, and they come in a million different colors so you don’t have to share with your dog.
Turks NYC looks like a film set when you pass it by on one of those prevalent “up and coming” streets in Bushwick, and promises technicolor interiors (fucking look at that interior) as well as vegan options. I think I saw pink hummus in another photo. 10/10 worth buying an entire new outfit for.
When I first found these solid color HAY Mono Notebooks at the Moma Store, I promptly spent exactly half the money in my bank account at the time on 4 of them. From this shiny piece of info you can glean the following: my bank account was having a really bad month, and these notebooks are so gorgeous they’re worth paying my phone bill a week late for. More colors available, “haaay”!
I recently learned that you can 3D print in chocolate, and I’m completely overwhelmed by the possibilities which are not only highly impractical, but admittedly, totally stupid. Chocolate party hats? Chocolate life-size versions of your pets? A chocolate box filled with regular non-3D printed chocolates? Choose your own adventure.
Menswear used to mean pulling on a blazer and some straight-leg slacks in a dark color with a freaking fedora hat, but if the future of masculine dressing continues to look like all my favorite fashion things reimagined in boxier cuts, I might stop shopping in the women’s section all together. Look is from the Bode Fall 2020 show.
