U R B A N M U T H A F U N K A

Stuff I love II.

lalaleah — Wed, 19 May 2010 15:37:51 +0000

Chesterfield sofas

Comic covers that I might actually be interested in

Coachella randomers

Artsy bookcases

Old-skool Madge

Cool maps are to geographers what Earl Grey tea is to British people

Big gay love

Recycled wrapping paper

Obama sushi

Nautical stripes

Morning shower antics

The new-but-not-really-new portrait of British politics

The Virgin Suicides

Everything about Holly Miranda. Standard.

Chloe Sevigny in her young-model days

The power of ad-campaigns

Parabolic images

Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

Nietzsche-isms

Silver rings

Rudeboi-chic: Hackney style

Gig photography

Existential statements

Faking it until you make it

Bondage art

Jewish greeting cards

Anna Wintour

Clichéd truisms

Santo Domingo Boots

Tina Fey and all her Tina Fey-ness

Raging health concern statements

The truth about America

Filed under: Leah the Chumscrubber Tagged: advertising, anna wintour, aphorisms, art, bondage, Books, british politics, chanel, chesterfield, chloe sevigny, cigarettes, coachella, david cameron, fashion, florence and the machine, gay, geography, gigs, gordon brown, graphic novels, hackney, holly miranda, homophobia, Homosexuality, jew, jewish, Love, madonna, map, mazel tov, nick clegg, nietzsche, obama, photography, Professor Green, recycling, Religion, santo domingo, sushi, the virgin suicides, tina fey, yiddish

Leah discovers the magical world of zines.

lalaleah — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:46:57 +0000

Take a moment to indulge in this brilliant zine created by Catherine Elms (University of Nottingham’s Women’s Network). It’s a little different to your average zine in that it isn’t front-to-back angry-lesbian rants (please don’t take too much offence, I really do enjoy those rants!). Rather, Artemis is a zine – created through the portal of the Women’s Network at the Nottingham Uni – that acts as a podium of female expression within an educational environment.

It’s pretty cool. Plus, I feature in the Winter ’09 Issue:

http://issuu.com/artemiszine/docs/artemiswinter09

Filed under: Leah the Chumscrubber Tagged: alternative literature, Artemis, communication, University of Nottingham, UoN, Women's Network, zine

LDN UNDR UR SKN?

lalaleah — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:24:39 +0000

Street urchins and rats and warts and bombs and concrete and slime and damp newspaper and phones-on-loudspeaker and chips and long drinks on oak tables and Brixton and Astoria and please-mind-the-gap and parks and gum and received pronunciation and “sorry” and “cheers mate” and “can you spare some change, love?” and “two bunches for a pound” and “change here for the Piccadilly line” and cracks and puddles and Church and Synagogue and Mosque and Basilica and Mandir and Kingdom Hall and Mary Poppins and fitted caps and Hoxton Grill and strong tea and red buses (on diversion) and blue oyster and black cabs and green light and yellow line and Greenwich Meridian and benches and congestion charge and Angel and Serpentine and Groucho and Radio 1 and XFM and Big Issue and roasted chesnuts and Blitz and mockney and Carnival and irrepressible youth and butcher and baker and candlestick maker.

Filed under: Leah the Chumscrubber Tagged: Astoria, Big Issue, black cabs, blitz, Brixton, Carnival, chips, city, cockney, double decker, England, Greenwich, Groucho, Hoxton, London, London town, london underground, Mary Poppins, mind the gap, mockney, newspaper, Oyster, Poetry, pound, radio 1, sorry, strong tea, tube, UK, xfm

Stuff I love.

lalaleah — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:52:12 +0000

It’s that time of year when most people start to reflect upon their time spent over the past months, and I am one of them. I have a lot of great things to reflect upon; I took a year off between school and university, and so much of that year was spent filling time with anything that would distract me from the 14 years of being institutionalised in primary and secondary education: time spent dozing on my desk at work (as a receptionist), time spent in used-book shops, time spent dating (hilariously bad ones), time spent typing up painfully long and philosophical emails to friends, time spent watching all six seasons of The L Word 5 times over, time spent time spent travelling around Southeast Asia and China, and time spent bumming around friends’ houses over summer thinking about how I should spend my time.

It has been a year of epic procrastination. We all do it. But I like to think of my own procrastination as a rather productive act (excuse this horrific oxymoron), in the sense that I thoroughly enjoy the ‘google and peruse’ tab in the webpage of my life. In honour of this season of reflection, I have decided to give you a peek into the thought-cupboard of my brain – this really is what you would see if you were to actually to step inside. For realsies.

Catcher in the Rye

Louise Brooks

Sangria

Tweed

Old VW camper vans

The Mighty Boosh

Barbarella

Mapo Tofu

LDN

Hitchcock

Tito's Handmade Vodka

American naivety

Roseanne

Poutine

Suave and debonaire clothing

Puppies

Gram shoes

Lily Allen

Cupcakes

Jewish rosaries

Jager tube shots

Flight of the Conchords

Rad city chicks

1984 advertising

Thai ice tea

Awesome collaborations

Garbage Pail Kids

Religious art

Corduroy

Dubstep

Adventure

Smut

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