I love shoes

and these are awesome. Why do I work in an operations job where these shoes are a Health and Safety risk? Why do I date a guy that is a tad smaller then I am? Why? I want to wear my heels! I want to own and wear those heels! They are by Lela Rose according to the one fashion blog I read. I am not allowed to read more as it would end in bankruptcy

My Kigu

A couple of months ago I went to a P Party. Dressed as Penguin Kigu (www.kigu.co.uk). I loved it... before the party I ran around in my Penguin Kigu over Oxford street with a Pint in my hand. Classy! - not really, but at least I was well covered up ;-) And since my friend used it during a stag do and made the stag play football (also called soccer in some parts of the world) while wearing it. I still have not seen the pictures though :-(

And since then I see Kigus everywhere - especially at festivals. I am going to Bowlie 2 in the Butlins in December - curated by Belle & Sebastian - not to be missed, and I want to wear my Kigu. And then the FB fan page said you can now make custom Kigu's! How awesome is that??? So I have designed and ordered a Ninja Turtle Kigu. It's going to be epic.

Here the initial design:

The inspirations:

I will add their proposed design, pictures of the end result and me wearing it later on... The plan is a detachable bright neon pink eye ribbon that matches my awesome neon pink high top Reeboks... I am going to drag it to Kenya over Christmas and wear it as pyjama to keep all the naughty bugs at bay... yeah

TV shows

Annyong

I am positively, absolutely and irrevocably obsessed with US TV shows... I compensate my not having a TV by watching at least 3-4 episodes of something each night on my projector/1terrabytestorage/laptop combo. And I mean night, not evening :-) I can not wait for this Fall season, I am checking out the new season premieres at the moment, and there is some good new stuff coming up. And I loved the Summer as well - Covert Affairs and Haven have me hoooooooooked. Too long until it starts again, and I found out if Mossy survives. I am even using daily a tv show tracker website to track when what is coming as I am following 150+ shows. Check my profile out, it is absolutely ridiculous: http://sharetv.org/user/roosterw. I am an expert on this website without ever having posted anything! By just logging in every single day...

But all the above is actually just rambling as the reason for today's post was this awesome picture I found of the best comedy ever made. And coincidentally probably the only comedy I truly like as I prefer spies/fantasy/criminal investigation/scifi (and project runway). Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you: Arrested Development

 

PS: Michael Cera looks so cute and chubby... who would have thought he would turn into the actor who can only play Michael Cera?

The faces of Procrastination

If you google Queens of Procrastination, this should be top of the list

 

 But Google does not think so and provides the following results:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=queen%20of%20procrastination

Kristen Ann Rose Corbisiero; she goes on myspace, facebook, youtube, lime wire, reads, dance, eats, showers, cleans, applys makeup, tlaks to people, etc. while she's supposed to be doing an assignment The queen of procrastination is absolutely right all the time. Don't question her motives... Mmmmmmmmh??? Beside of my contribution not being top straight away, the spelling of it bugs me as well. Oh well, at least it is not text speak... :-)

guild'ed

I can not believe I only discovered the Guild this week... I watched Dr Horrible when it came out but never did read the surrounding press otherwise I would have know about this awesome geeky websitcom...

And can you believe that the guy is Wesley from Star Trek? I used to have the biggest crush on him (the only reason I ever would watch that show) and it turns out he is not the coolest geekiest guy ever - beside of the facial hair... I am seriously considering comicon next year (I put the booking date into my diary already) to get a real life picture!!! But while on the topic of Wil Wheaton's hair, this picture is awesome as well.

Long live deviantArt

Why do nights out turn into photo shoots?

So I went out last night - surprise!!! It was the last day of my Birthday week, and I stumbled accross this awesome event on one of my many many ticket info emails - a Harajuku Night in Camden. As my usual geek friend was not available, I posted it on Facebook. First time ever I did the sad thing, openly acknowledged my lack of friends and asked if anyone was up to join me. The shame! But it turns out that the girls at my work are as cool as I always suspected them to be, and S and C were totally up for it.

So the three of us have been hyping each other up for days about the fancy dress, the theme, the color scheme... basically how to look japaniiisiii...

The result turned out to be lots of fun at home as we were getting ready at mine with vodka, pink eyeliner, pizza, glue on stars, gluten free dinners, gin, fake eyelashes and lots and lots of pink clothing.

And then the cameras came out... We had not even left the flat yet! I am pretty sure the picture on the left was taken on the way to the venue. Which we were lucky to find as we all assumed to kind of know where it was, and that one of us knew for certain where it was... We found it, we got ID'ed (dear door man, I am wearing a silly costume, I did not bring my brick aka the handbag with me, therefore I have no ID on me, please look into my pink-framed eyes and believe me I wish I was still young enough to worry about carding...), we got in, and then were a tad/mightly/distinctly underwhelmed... where was the visual kei, the gothic lolitas, the cosplay, the Harajuku district vibe??? (see here for inspiration: http://www.harajukustyle.net)

So what to do with the cameras, now that there was noone in daring, awesome, out there, we love it outfits... Easy, first off sit down, get some drinks and take lots of pictures of the random older japanese couple sitting smack bang in front of the indie band. I mean, he kept nodding off, and she kept sipping her diet coke, during a indie rock concert! Then wander around, meet: 1 Pickachu, 2 gothic lolitas, a handfull of kawaiiiiiiiiiii girls and two dudes who recognized my cosplay. Score!!! (http://www.crunchyroll.com/skipbeat)

And then the evening turned into one continuous random photo session. C kissing some random picture on the wall, S making poses like another random person on a picture in front of said picture, me doing the same for another picture (see underneath), C sitting on the lap of some cool Japanese dude, S sitting on the lap of the same cool Japanese dude, different combinations of us taking pictures of each other. Eventually we had exhausted the photo potential and then moved to new objets d'arts on the way home. Me climbing on a bronze horse, S embracing a bronze statue, C doing a Marilyn underneath some huge silver statue.... pose, picture, walk, pose, picture, walk.....

And this is not the first time this has happened. Recently it seems that I am taking more and more pictures. Growing up taking pictures was expensive, but with the arrival of good affordable digital cameras I started building up a nice gallery of pictures. And since I got my new cell phone with a 7.1 cybershot camera, my picture drive has exploded. I have 2 shoe boxes full of old fashioned print out pictures spanning the first 22 years of my life, one 700MB burned CD spanning the next 4, one 4GIG burned CD spanning the following 4, and another 4 GIG spanning the last 2... anyone see a pattern here? The exponential growth is alarming. So, I have probably of my longest, oldest and best friend D 30 pictures, and at the same time I have the same amount of pictures of the cool friend of a friend that joined us for N.E.R.D on Thursday... Where will this lead? I just got a Terra of outside storage as a birthday present, I am sure in two years time it is full of pictures of my second cousin's flat mate's ex-boyfriend's best friend's little brother. I hope he is cute if I dedicate my TB to him.

Panic! I do not even remember her name! I need to make her my facebook friend before I forget it, I hope she was tagged in one of the albums of that night... ;-) all good fun, eh?