Currently Playing: Roisin Murphy

Ever since Vie made her post on Wade Robinson, I've been kinda obsessed with this song.

Shameless Promotion: Dear Fighter

Here is another installment for my Mini Magnum Opus for poetry class :) Enjoy.

Dear Fighter,
You have buried your smile
Under a land mine of stars.
From here
I wish I could unravel it
Unravel it.
From here
I wish I could kiss you
Kiss you.
I am a victim of a hopeless love
Because men with grenades
Sometimes
Do not come home.
I am a victim of your eyes
Because they melt me.
I have a hole on my face,
On my cheek;
The place where I have tried to wipe
Away your kisses.
I have wiped it raw;
I cannot stand your smell,
When your body is not here to
Follow it into me.
Oh, the horror of the universe
Has fallen upon my chest;
And it has the face of war.
And its victim is you.
While I sleep it bares down on me
Teeth bared, playing your voice
From its mouth.
I think this means I love you,
I think this means I need you.
I know this means I miss you.
But, as long as you are breathing you
Cannot come home.
It has you by the throat, a gun forced
In your hand,
The word war
Always on my mind.

Fashionista: Coco Rocha

Currently, I am obsessed with Coco Rocha. Not only does she take amazing pictures, but her style outside of the portrait studio is awesome.







And here is her style outside the studio

Currently Playing: Cloud Cult

Caitlin got me into these guys a little while, and I've been listening to their album Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornado's) on repeat all week. Thought I'd share.

Currently Playing: Metric

Emily Haines is a genius with a fabulous wardrobe.
Serious kudos to any woman who can perform live with a genuine band + actually play an instrument and make a synth not sound like cheesy 80s crap. :)

"Sick Muse" video:

Tune In To: ANTM Cycle 13

Although next week is the season finale of America's Next Top Model cycle 13, I would still like to write this article and inspire you all the check out the season online because it's been truly quite entertaining to watch. The premise is of course quite simple: thousands and thousands of girls audition to be models on the show that is Tyra Banks' search of the next top model.

However, one highlight to watch for this season is the twist they've added: Cycle 13 is all about petite models! No 5'9"+ requirement, and proof that not all models need to be tall to be successful. As a result, many of the models on the show have had little experience, assuming that they would never have a career in modeling. Throughout the season the progression is fairly outstanding (this compared to last year's, the only season I've watched thus far).

Also this season I find there has been many memorable photoshoots, and thus by default many photographs that I absolutely adore. Here's a few selections that I find quite stunning:

Book Review: Ship of Magic

Title: Ship of Magic
Author: Robin Hobb
# of Pages: 832
Published: 1999
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 3.5/5

Summary:
Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown''s oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia.

For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy unjustly denied her--a legacy she will risk anything to reclaim. For Althea's young nephew Wintrow, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard ship, Vivacia is a life sentence.

But the fate of the Vestrit family--and the ship--may ultimately lie in the hands of an outsider. The ruthless pirate Kennit seeks a way to seize power over all the denizens of the Pirate Isles...and the first step of his plan requires him to capture his own liveship and bend it to his will....


This is a three book series that takes place in between The Farseer and Tawny Man trilogies. It's not necessary to have read these other series, nor does it really add much to the books if you do. This book was definitely enjoyable, but I think the Tawny Man trilogy is going to stay my favourite, for now.

I like Althea. She started of the book as a being just a spoilt girl, but her growth through the book was believable and interesting. Brashen kinda went in the opposite direction, but I like him anways. Loved the bits with Amber, as well. Wasn't a huge fan of Wintrow, because I thought he was stupid and annoying. Malta... I don't like her, but her p.o.v. is sufficiently interesting to keep me enjoying her parts regardless. Kennit I like as a character, but not really as a narrator.

Overall, good book and well worth the read.

EDIT: Yeah, three quarters through the second book now and it's awesome. This one gets 5/5 for sure.