love & beauty with Gala Darling. 3.23.09
what makes you feel wonderful?
Writing, creating, plotting & planning, loud music!
what makes you feel beautiful?
A strategically-dropped compliment from someone I have a crush on.
if you are having a sub-par day, what do you do or say to make yourself feel good again again?
I turn up good music & either dance or hoop around my living room; I do a nice, long ashtanga yoga session; I write; I sing; I talk to my friends or I use EFT (a self-healing technique). Sometimes I do a combination of these things. & when I’m home in New York City, I throw on shoes & sunglasses & go for a long walk. Walking around the city is an amazing antidote to a day that’s dragging.
where do you think love hides?
In the pockets of strangers.
when do you feel most loved?
When I share a real connection with someone.
what do you think is the most beautiful thing about being a girl?
Everything. Really, everything.
what is your favourite rainy day activity?
Sitting really close to someone I really like & doing anything. Talking, dreaming, laughing.
if you had to make your friend a cheer-up box what are 5 items you would put in it?
1. A fortune — maybe from a cookie, maybe from a mechanical fortune-teller, maybe one I made myself.
2. A letter telling them exactly why I love them.
3. A copy of one of my favourite books.
4. Snacks.
5. Cute knickers.
Everything would be colour-coordinated, of course.
when you hear the word “beautiful” what image immediately pops up in your mind?
The light that shines out of people.
when you hear the word “love” what sound resonates in your ears?
A delicious menagerie of all my favourite musicians, spun together.
love & beauty with David Horvitz
2.18.09
david horvitz is a dreamer, blogger, adventurer, artist, book maker, polaroid taker, extraordinary person that you really must know. we came across him when he was touring with xiuxiu & could not get enough of the beautiful simple way his brain works. so ahead: get lost in his words & ideas. join his mailing lists. fall in love. we dare you.
what makes you feel wonderful? I think the world and being is itself wondrous. It’s easy to forget that. But there is a moment when you wake up before you fully enter “reality” when your mind is still dreaming, and conceptualizing life and death is such an absurdity and everything is weighted down in a kind of wonder. That feeling should be sustained at all waking hours.
if you are having a sub-par day, what do you do &/or say to make yourself feel good again? I try to accept all things as things that exist, and that I should not deny or reject anything. Like, if I’m feeling sad, I don’t try to deny it. I just accept it as a way of viewing and interacting with the world. However, if it is stress, or if I am really hectic in my head, I feel that is something I generate myself, and then I try to clear my head and ease things.
where do you think love hides? It hides under rocks and behind clouds, and on the back sides of islands that you can only see from airplanes or boats. And also on the top of people’s heads, inside a bowl of rice that’s been in the refrigerator for a few weeks, and on the tail of dogs. And sometimes on trains when you are lost, or in the sun when it sneaks into your eyes.
when do you feel most loved? When someone yawns and puts their head on your arm.
what do you think is the most beautiful thing about the city? Millions of lives living at once.
what is your favourite rainy day activity? The rain.
what do you think is the most beautiful thing about people? They are alive.
when you hear the word “beautiful” what image immediately pops up in your mind? I will close my eyes. Now I will ask who is across from me (Ooxe) to say the word beautiful out loud and I will write exactly what I see. Here it goes: It depends on who is saying it. I hear a song with the word beautiful in it. What comes to mind is in the context of the song. It is the context that beautiful is used. So it is always different.
when you hear the word “love” what sound resonates in your ears? The voice of who said it.
anything else you’d like to share? A cup of tea to slow down the world while you are going as fast as you can.
FIND HIM: website, flickr, tumblr, xiuxiu blog
love & beauty with Matt Pond PA
10.24.08
what makes you feel wonderful? Writing music makes me feel wonderful.
what makes you feel beautiful? I’m not certain I really know what it is to feel beautiful. Or maybe it’s impossible to recognize the feeling when it’s upon me. Maybe I feel beautiful when I sleep.
if you are having a sub-par day, what do you do or say to make yourself feel good again again? Sometimes, I harass myself into getting my shit together. Mumbling humbling swears under my breath like a ghostly gym teacher living in the back of my mind. Curling my way back to a positive position. Reading can help, too. Reading ‘Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut’ somehow knocks the brain back into whack.
where do you think love hides? That is the question. Because if we knew that — then we’d all be running off into the middle of the marsh, digging up the hidden love. The view of our horizon would eventually be overtaken. All those prospectors out for love. Honestly, I don’t think anyone knows where it is. And that’s what keeps us alive. Looking for love until the end…Which is hardly pessimistic. Because there are two sides to the game for a reason: hide AND seek.
when do you feel most loved? Pardon me, but I fear the absolute honestly of these questions. I don’t think I’ve ever been asked or expressed the answers to anyone. And you know… The triteness of the truth may be too much for some to bear. But. It’s about loving yourself. Or at least letting go of all the negative gnawing. And THAT’S when it happens. THAT’S when it hits. There’s really no other way. Not for me.
1 Comment
April 11, 2009 at 4:45 am
FANTASTIC!