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Got a girl crush on: Finally Punk

Sorry for the major lull around here. With the holidays, me moving to San Francisco and Meg on the road trip of her life, we haven’t been the greatest of bloggers. But, perhaps this totally righteous Nirvana cover from all-girl band Finally Punk will make up for it?

(via YETI Magazine #7)

Got a girl crush on: Baby-faced Kate Moss and Christine Turlington videos on RUSSH

Like two peas in a pod. These videos are kind of amazing.

(via RUSSH)

Got a girl crush on: Tao Okamoto

I was just thinking to myself the other day who this pretty Asian girl was that was showing up all over the place these days. Well, it seems like Who What Wear Daily must’ve been reading my mind because look who popped into my inbox this morning. No one carries that bowl cut quite like Tao does.

(via WhoWhatWear.com)

candywarhol:

i revived my love for miss gaga

Keep rockin’ the absurd, Gaga!

Got a girl crush on: The Shiny Squirrel

Check out Meg & Andrea’s holiday gift guide over at The Shiny Squirrel (thanks, Jess)!

Got A Girl Crush On: Lesley Arfin

Big Mouth.

The girl does not hold back. Be it her tell-all book, Dear Diary, which airs all her adolescent drug-addled dirt of her youth or an updated (but less bender-esque) recounts of her nyc romps in her blog.

I can’t get enough of Leslie’s cheekiness. Like, ever.

And now she’s using her sordid history for good!

Another cool thing that I’m doing is getting my counseling license. It isn’t the coolest job in the world or anything but it’s something I’m really interested in and have been wanting to do for a while. It’s specifically drug/alcohol counseling. It seems like a pretty dark career choice but I’m ok with that. I really like the TV show Intervention. It’s so good right? Anyway, I know I will be really good at this and maybe one day I will go for an MSW or PHD but who am I kidding here? Probably not. MAYBE!?!?! WHO KNOWS!?!?!

(photo by the selby)

Got a girl crush on: Joan Didion

[Guest Post by Erin!]

Joan Didion did some superficially cool things like hang out with the Doors and drink in the afternoons, but that’s not why she’s crush-worthy. Didion’s nonfiction, particularly personal essays from her 20s like those in White Album and Slouching Toward Bethlehem, came to symbolize what only an observer, not a participant, could glean from Southern California in the 60s. Her writing was unemotional and impassionate (she was, first and foremost, a journalist), yet it conveyed a subtly cunning point of view that a reader automatically agrees with, understands and applies to herself. Didion has the inimitable ability to make you reframe everything you thought you understood about yourself. One of her most well-known passages:

“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”

Got A Girl Crush On: Audrey Hepburn

I mean….duh?

Got a girl crush on: Claudia Kishi, of The Babysitters Club

I was browsing through Opening Ceremony’s blog today when I came across this girl who cited Claudia Kishi as an inspiration. I thought that was absolutely brilliant and said to myself, ‘Hey, why not?’. I mean, she’s known as the fashionista of the Babysitters Club and is daring when it comes to experimenting with her personal style. What she lacks in academic excellence she makes up for in artistic creativity and a knack for hiding junk food. Sounds like my kind of girl. Doing a Google search shows you that others out there feel the same way. In fact, there’s even a blog out there dedicated to her outfits.

So here’s to you, Claudia!

(Photo via BSC Headquarters)

Got a girl crush on: Rachenl Antonoff and Alia Shawkat

Why? Because anybody who pays tribute to the “Top That” scene from Teen Witch gets gold stars in my book (this includes Kenneth the Page). Can’t wait to see the video look book!:

“To promote her spring collection, Rachel Antonoff recruited pal Alia Shawkat (who’s already starred in one of Rachel’s campaigns) and brother Jack—who’s in the bands Steel Train and Fun, which was recently profiled by our Music Blogger) for a video look book that’s as much an homage to 80’s teen flicks as it is the designer’s girly vintage style. In the video, the two reenact a scene from the cult classic Teen Witch—which starred Robyn Lively (Yes, Blake’s real-life sister!) as the titular heroine who uses her sorceress skills to become the most popular girl in school—specifically, the hilarious rap battle that takes place in the film.”

(via Teen Vogue)