The Weekly Spill #2
Boots, Bookshelves, and Birth Charts... oh my!
Welcome to issue #2 of The Weekly Spill! To give updates from last week: Baggu heard my prayers and is allowing pre-orders for a restock of the Sandy Liang collection. Hallelujah! I have received word that Overalls are officially trending, at least with very cool people. Thank you to all of my sources who sent me confirmation and photo evidence. So with it now being confirmed that I am perhaps the cultural North Star, here are the things on the brain this week:
Cillian Murphy being tiny: The greatest cinematic achievement that Christopher Nolan achieved in Oppenheimer might have been making this man look tall. I was so shocked when I saw this photo.
I sent it to my brother, the Nolan stan of the family, and he already knew and was not surprised at all. Still intrigued, I spent my fleeting time on Earth looking up the heights of the entire Oppenheimer cast. I didn’t understand how he stood next to so many people in the movie and I didn’t notice him being 5’6. Turns out, they are a relatively short cast. I still think it is a little bit genius.
Sentimental Garbage Podcast:
I found this podcast over a year ago through a recommendation to listen to the Sentimental and the City mini-series. The host, author Caroline O'Donoghue, has people come on to talk about the trashy pop culture that they love. Dolly Alderton (whom I love) is the guest for all of the episodes on Sex and the City. I’ve been re-listening to those episodes as I rewatch SATC again, but I’ve also been going back and listening to the other ones too. Some of my favorites this week were the Nora Ephron episode and the Cher episode. Shocking, I know.
Lana Del Rey in Arkansas: This has been taking up a lot of space in my mind because I wish I was at the concert and I am jealous of everyone who was.
These Ralph Lauren cowboy boots from eBay:
These boots will haunt me for a while. A Salvation Army in Oklahoma was selling these for $15. The same boots were being sold by other sellers for close to $1000. The issue was that they weren’t my size or even close to my size. I thought about buying them to try to resell them, but that seemed like a hassle, so they went to someone else. Other things I am contemplating buying secondhand right now are a first edition of Joan Didion’s The White Album and this Sonny Bono for Mayor t-shirt.
Girl in a movie dinner: Not to be confused with the over-discussed “Girl Dinner,” this is when you eat Chinese takeout and feel like the main character in a romantic comedy.
It is imperative that the takeout comes in cardboard boxes and you must eat it out of those boxes. You can not plate this food under any circumstances.
You are either eating this food with your best friends while gossiping or you are alone contemplating life. If you are alone, you still order enough food for like 10 people. Then you follow your Chinese feast with some ice cream which you can either eat from the carton or put into a really big bowl.
You might be asking, why would you put the ice cream in a bowl? Because product placement isn’t free and this is a movie! Keep up!
RushTok: I was starting to wonder if the very disappointing HBO documentary killed the RushTok thing, but then I saw a meme about it today, so I guess it’s just not showing up on my FYP. My gift as a former sorority girl to those who are enjoying #rushtok is this playlist of songs that aren’t real, they are just for sororities to use in recruitment and bid day videos. Sort of like the fake songs in Selling Sunset. So crank it up, and pretend you are in your very own recruitment video. Laugh at nothing, drive a jeep while holding a flag, and clap in a doorframe!
Karl Lagerfeld’s desk and bookshelves: Of all the beautiful things that were in the Karl Lagerfeld exhibit at the Met, the one thing I can’t stop thinking about is his desk. It’s been over a month since I saw it, and it is stuck in my head, I keep looking at pictures of it.
What is all of that stuff? How do you get anything done when your desk looks like that? Are all of those papers important? Does he just never throw away his garbage? How long has that stuff been accumulating? Did he have days where he deep-cleaned and then just let it pile back up again? Or is that pile as old as the desk? I want to root around and see what all of the things are on it. It also allows me to look at my messy room and call it the product of a genius mind.
I have been obsessed with his bookshelves and massive book collection for a long time now. He was said to have owned over 300,000 books. He stored most of them horizontally, which I was going to say is weird until I looked over at my bookshelf of horizontal books. I love that they go from the floor to the ceiling. I love the spiral staircase. I love the catwalk. I want to go to there.
When Interview Magazine published President Ford’s dog’s birth chart: Someone get the birth info on Biden’s dog that keeps biting the secret service agents, and do his chart immediately.
Courtney Love crashing Madonna’s interview at the VMA’s: In honor of her 65th birthday, I present one of my favorite Madonna moments.
