Hello Gorgeous: Audrey Hepburn
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Caffeinated Links: Candles, Novels, and Grand Theft Auto
Est Magazine, one of my favorite curators of design and lifestyle products and content from all over the world, released a “Tiny Things” edition, which included this list of the world’s top 10 covetable candles. I drool, especially over the Jo Malone Grapefruit.
The New York Times beautifully reviews Jhumpa Lahiri’s new novel – “Jhumpa Lahiri first made her name with quiet, meticulously observed stories about Indian immigrants trying to adjust to new lives in the United States, stories that had the hushed intimacy of chamber music. The premise of her new novel, “The Lowland,” in contrast, is startlingly operatic.”
Grand Theft Auto V has been making massive amounts of money. “Given the massive sums of currency changing hands (seriously think about it, where do you PUT $800 million dollars? Like, which banks even DO that sort of thing?) it should surprise no one to state that gaming is an entertainment industry set to eclipse the old vanguard of film.” RT Pajiba
Sir Patrick Stewart got married to his lady love presided over by Sir Ian McKellan and then he and his bride jumped in a ball-pit. It’s pretty much the greatest thing ever. RT Pajiba
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Gap Back to Blue: Alexa Ray Joel
I’ve always had mixed feelings about Gap in the same way I do about every luxury retail brand (as in, is it really necessary to make or sell clothes that cost over $100? What body image are you selling? Are you contributing to the same desperate frenetic cycle of “more is better” and there is one right way to live that 99% of the companies in the U.S. seem to be marketing?)
Regardless, Gap’s latest TV commercials are lovely – this one features Alexa Ray Joel sings her version of father Billy Joel’s classic, “Just the Way You Are.”
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How Journeys Begin
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Caffe Latte
All good things begin with coffee.
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Food
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Caffeinated Links: Wood Design, Breaking Bad, Mumford
The world’s lightest timber table (8 kilograms!) showed up at the London Design Festival this weekend RT
Grantland beautifully unpacks the latest, heartrending episode of Breaking Bad -“Certain things just aren’t supposed to happen. We’d never seen something so ordinary twisted into something so ugly. Certain people and institutions aren’t supposed to be punished for the sins of one individual. When and if they do come, the metaphorical chickens are meant to roost home-adjacent, not inside the walls of the baby’s nursery.” RT
Birchbox highlights a multi-tasking face cream French women adore RT
“Your books on your shelves start becoming much more organized and they stop falling over because you’ve got bookends. It’s the main way in which it’s affected our lives, a real tangible way” –Marcus Mumford, on how life changes after winning awards like Grammys, RT
YESSS. British actress Billie Piper has just signed on to star in our highly anticipated new drama series PENNY DREADFUL. Piper will play “Brona Croft,” an Irish immigrant to Victorian London trying to escape a dark and sordid past. She joins recently announced stars Josh Hartnett, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Reeve Carney, Rory Kinnear and Harry Treadaway. RT
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Pop Bits
Austenland is a ridiculous but, surprisingly, highly entertaining little flick. As long as one goes in with the understanding that there will be not a dollop of seriousness in this effort and that it’s straight flimsy from start to finish, it’s a really enjoyable ride.
And on that note, I just realized that JJ Field, who stars in it alongside Keri Russell, is also in a film with Benedict Cumberbatch, called Third Star.
So the film stars these two men –
Need I say more?
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This Week in Trailers
Booyah. Statham beats people up again, this time with a kid on the side. Also, I approve of the recent trend of casting James Franco as a douchebag.
Colin Firth. Post-war angst. Revenge. Forgiveness (?). Nicole Kidman. I will eat this up with a spoon.
Coffee and Irony 