i was there for a full art cycle.

top foto by sP.

from manana to manana...

mi senor is coming home manana!!!!!!
+on saturday, we'll celebrate all kinds of american independence+hot dogs.

(hopefully we can still see the fireworks? apparently they've moved them over to the jersey side-for the 400th yr anniversary of mr. hudson's initial adventure:(

it's really just simple arithmetic, i'll take 1 of each.

i gots to diy, given that i just got a couple of these french boater shirts in tossa..one with a lace up front+one without..
so...

is anybody REALLy good at the c's? or have a bunch of excess cash laying about?
i always make one way different than the other.
(let me know if you can help..seriously)

AND, i'm n love with these!!


the chloe sevigny for opening ceremony buckle ups...
i want these dreamE numbers for my turning 30 time.

simply irressistible..on las ramblas.

this guy made kat+my afternoon.
wow.
he's got very specific tattoos, so intense but radically succinct..
partial shoe/partial socks/fake bottoms from behind...
wow.
bidness in the back, party in the front.
HIlarious.

hey woman, you know i like you.

i took these for you in madrid+cadaques respectively.
xL

i thought of you wiles/while i came upon this guy.

he passed on a side street in barceloneta..

a lady for ladypantalones.

i give you a virtual painting, with love from casa nun in cadaques.

i thought of you on this teeny tiny street we were on by mistake.

for jD.
xL

a splendid sapphire salut.

one heart shaped cloud happened to cultivate the song for our afternoon..

many delightful daydates.
2 years+one month anniversary in cadaques.
fotos y besos.
my best trip to spain.
+i can just tell, the next one will be even better.
gracias.
xL

*soundtrack to cadaques was:
besosyfotos6 mix from spring 2007..
including some gems which will be in rotation once again this time around :
summer of love/B52's..thank you/ledzep..marrakesh express/crosbystillsnash+young...hung upside down/buffalo springfield..please mr. postman..and i love her/the beatles..+some built to spill, france gall, acetone, bravo silva, the smiths..+such. it was a good switchback rd song roster.

pause of might.

tossa de mar por amor

betrothed and bedazzled..

congratulations to two of the most splendid and spectacular dear ones in my life!!!!! my tears spilt over my jamon serrano because of the overwhelming fantastic.

cheers to you and endless love (+a mighty fine bling from doyle+doyle!)

he said, she said.

indeed it was*

stuck in a mindset of cornflower mediation.

say hi!

what a delight to have kat+andrew visit us in barcelona.
so much love, so many fireworks..

feel the flow.

vista on the road to cadaques

just do it.

to

back to life, back to reality.

the home is where the corazon

an easy breezy trip home..including a happy 4 hr delay, which led to a goodbye lunch with mi senor and back to the aeroporto...
it's been a magical month and i'm delighted to be home..

+ yea, my car service driver really brought me back right, this globe sure sparkled the whole way home through bklyn/queens...gotta love some kitch.

un petit promo

(did a lot of passing things out this weekend..but mostly i forgot to take pictures..)

para ti miss T

thought of you love..+looking forward to seeing your new abode upon my return!
xL

back to bcn so soon..

it's been lovely here.
so many good people.
muchas gracias guapos y guapas.
xL

no blood on these tracks.

a beautiful vista the whole way from barcelona to madrid...the landscape is kind of a mix between arizona/new mex with all sorts of interesting plateaus and the like+the rolling green of tuscany. bonita indeed.

made it to madrid

lots of pictures from train travels+funtime last night..and so many from bcn playa time at la playa..but it's a quick weekend here (xabi has his visa meeting on monday..) and then back..we'll see how much i can do before heading back to meet the enthusiast+adf in bcn (we have wireless here, thank god. i've missed it so).

ai yai yayy alpargatas!!!

sari and i stumbled across the lovely little shop, la manuel alpargtera, on the way to barceloneta, not far from the pappabubble shop here..of course it was closed but it was open when we headed home early due to cloudy weather..i found a ton of them that i wanted but held back and only got 5 pairs..i mean they are so cheap and so awesome and so euro-fantastic..how could i not?! it was a bit tricky as they spoke little to no english and we spoke little to no spanish but we got by with hand gestures and exclamations..

i will be going back as i have a few gifts to get, a straw shopping bag and a few more colors i'll need to pick up. +honestly, y'all would be so proud-i'm budgeting terribly well-making bocadillos at home and not shopping..+these are the only things i've bought, well except for one super cheap victorian blouse i found at the flea market.. sari and i stumbled across the lovely little shop, la manuel alpargtera, on the way to barceloneta, not far from the pappabubble shop here..of course it was closed but it was open when we headed home early due to cloudy weather..i found a ton of them that i wanted but held back and only got 5 pairs..i mean they are so cheap and so awesome and so euro-fantastic..how could i not?! it was a bit tricky as they spoke little to no english and we spoke little to no spanish but we got by with hand gestures and exclamations..

i will be going back as i have a few gifts to get, a straw shopping bag and a few more colors i'll need to pick up. +honestly, y'all would be so proud-i'm budgeting terribly well-making bocadillos at home and not shopping..+these are the only things i've bought, well except for one super cheap victorian blouse i found at the flea market..

dios mio, the deisel story.

major oopsEdoops....

we picked up the car...kindly being lent to us by omar, the dude we are doing the apt swap with, and realized the gas tank was empty..neither of us had ever driven around bcn before so it took some time to find a fill up station..but after about 20 minutes we succeeded in finding a petrol station on diagonal.

feeling glad+proud we carried on for about 15 minutes, headed towards sagrada familia, so i could get my bearings of where i lived with the papabubble kids in '03..then the car stopped. dead. at an intersection. completely immobile. perhaps the car battery?

some kind gentleman helped us push the car to the side and then gave his advice about how to restart, but to no avail..he thought it was maybe the carberator..but then again i used to always say there was something wrong with the tranny when i'd bring my volvo in..just cause it sounded good, and like i maybe knew what i was talking about..so he might have been bullshitting..

anyhoo, there we were, pulled over on a teeny tiny side street, with just enough room+nary a clue as to what to do. xabi found an insurance number in the glove box so we called+they said in about an hour a truck would come. lucky for us there was a little cafe on that street so we watched the full moon rise over the city while we waited..

finally he showed up+xabi ran over to find out the dilly.

we had put gasoline in a deisel car.
shit.

but how the fuck was i supposed to know?! i've never been in a diesel, driven a diesel and thus have certainly never filled up a diesel. and xabi doesn't have a licence so he hadn't done any of the above either.

so off the little VW went into el noche.

we picked it up a couple days later+it was all cleaned up and filled up with the right kind of fluids...i was wowed by the outfit of the guy on the left, not only was he wearing a totally rad jumpsuit but he had bejangles around his neck..a charm necklace! with a horseshoe and wishbone and various other divine trinkets..so i took my first (+only thus far) street style shot of the two mechanics.

we thought the story would end here.

but no.. after a lovely but slightly exhausting trip up to maricosca (the street signs here leave much to be desired!), we got back to bcn and had a bit of a time finding his underground hidden garage..but we did and were feeling like finally we'd conquered the streets. then we exited out the door that said salida-exit..but it was a dead end. we got trapped inside a weird and certainly locked storage building. now, i have to say, this is a feeling i've not had and hope to never again...feeling completely trapped from the inside and the out.. so after going up an down all the stairs and exhausting every possible option, we were left with no other but to call the police.

after a few cigarettes and a little jane eyre, they showed up. we passed them the keys (through slats in the one door to the to the street) to open the two locked doors into the garage..where they would then have to open the salida door to let us out. so they did. but then guess what. they couldn't get the main doors opened either!! so the 4 of us are all looking rather panicked..or xabi +i looked that way, while they looked kind of irritated that these two kids had trapped them inside too..they pushed and pulled, opened the mechanical box attached to the door..nada.

but we finally got out. turned out, there was a button that opened the garage door but it was unmarked and unlit...so we left and were finally able to get on the metro to go get some food...

anyhoo, that's the story of the car.
it was some kinda wild ride to be sure.

temporary home sweet

114 d'enric granados
bar-th-elona, espana.

white wisps of transient topography

one life to live

so far, i've read jane eyre by charlotte bronte, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius by dave eggers, and i'm just about halfway through the andy warhol diaries (which at 810 pages is no light addition to the beach bag)

some kind of wonderful indeed..

2 of my favorite people in the universe:mi senor y mi sari anne+easy metro to the beach+mojitos on call+georgia o'keefe clouds=a day of delight y splendor.

muchas gracias.

intially, she was calm...

but then this woman really just kept putting her ass in sari's face for like an hour..i mean how long does it really take to put down a blanket+get beach ready..sheesh:)

first day foto sums it up:

*

apologies for the lack of updates yáll but we are without an internet connection--there will be lots of fotos to come-->ñot sure that i told you but my digi is back in effect!!
so stay tuned.

un abrazo y un beso.

xL

p.s. check it out!!

tangled up in blue got a very lovely review on dossier!!!
-have to say, i've never met mr. jared killeen but he seems like a real nice fellow.

*a perfect time for vacation!

catch you on the flip.

it's 8:51am, i haven't slept. i'm hoping to trick my body into sin jetlag territory.
(flying out at 6:45pm, arriving at 8am...with xabi+sari in bcn already.)

woop de woop..si, si!
y si senor, mi amor..2 months later, it's finally time!

ciao for now.
besitos.
xL

p.s. my camera was returned from the fix it shop via u.p.s. yesterday afternoon, so i'm back in bidness with the fotos part of the equation.

look at that face.

i feel guilty.

barcelona in less than 24 hours!!!

foto by senor AdF

yale m.f.a. remix

babes of blogtown uptown romp

see the enthusiast+lady white lightning for a fuller report.
in one word:BEST.

(i have a couple of amazing polaroids from our stupendous adventure but you'll have to wait-as i'm leaving to spain in mere hours.)

danke darling.

yowza, she's not just a beauty, she makes the best pasta primevera i've ever had in my life.

+omg, that's me by heather on andy warhols old couch in'03.

bushwick modern

happy trails are made of this.

thursday on 54th st.

sunday on south 5th st.

memorial day

notes from brooklyn

uncannily akin

procrastinating packing post:

pastis lunch with mumsa: beater T from high school/kate moss for topshop jeans/samma necklace/see by chloe platforms
vintage maxi from elizabeth-swap/capezio ballet flats/alexander wang cardi/textile tote from santa fe flea market
candy bagging day:spanish flea crop top from fiona from rachel/american apparel skirt/cons from college
heathers birthday at daddy's:blouse from lady lightning's sample sale/imitation of christ high waisters/alpargatas from madrid-gift from xabi
babes of blogtown epic uptown adventure: max azaria top, rag+bone chiffon skirt/drugstore hose/alaia platforms/vintage lady di necklace from chelsea flea market(RIP)
collective crystals opening:a.p.c. moto/american apparel tank/vintage victorian petticoat from love saves the day in new hope
errands+landscaping:american apparel dolman T/vintage guess jean shorts/a.p.c. gladiators
tangled up in blue opening:vintage boys button down/grey ant high-waisters/marni pebble platforms/6th ave? door knocker earrings/love jangles from loves
eyelash extentions+art pick up+install day: vintage landlubber jumpsuit/frye boots/a.p.c. moto/aztec earrings
80's flashback-gossip girl screening at the tribeca grand:american apparel dolman T/moto/tripp nyc zebra jeans/acne corset wedges/vintage necklace found uptown/downtown doorknockers
sunday stuff: vintage dress/vintage belt/acne wedges
minnetonka booties from a trading post on i40/h+m tights/vintage dress from elizabeth-swap/moto +
radical wooden earrings with handpainted aztec designs-fuck yea jersey thrifting! you can take the gal out of the west but you can't stop her from finding the west on the east.
savalas+san loco: old altered T from college-newly altered with shredding/lux jeans/vintage shoes
moto (boring but true-i don't ever take it off)/vintage huey lewis tank/547 striped skinnies/vintage shoes/portobello rd scarf/vintage crocheted bag
vintage bud light tank-soho street/moto/samma/red vintage ankle cowboy boot/vintage 684 levi's (i now have the 31,32+34..+like goldilocks-i actually need the 33 for the not to tight, not too loose-so let me know if you see them anywhere!)
drinks at diner+kyle's bday bbQ+jeanann's bday:altered+shredded T/vintage betsey johnson kelly kapowski dress (the kind which the birthday girl was also in:)/acne wedges

i love a mcnugget but don't tell..

wow, check out my dear cousin, sinton vignos!!!!!!!!!

how spectacular, how seriously awesome.
here he is...just doing his part to get the family more famous..i.e he went ahead +had himself installed all over a parisian train station!

amazing.
seriously.

+really i have to especially thank aunt diane+ pamela for forwarding the jpeg i'd been wanting for months!! so jazzed.

(p.s. i'd been trying to cut his hair for YEARS..but as it turns out i needed a corporation budget to make it happen..c'est la vie.)