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nogoodforme ix: Favorite Cookies!

LAURA JANE CONTEMPLATES THE RELATIVE BANALITY OF OREOS I try to do most of my eating at places where you can buy a certain number of things and then they give you a free one. It's so validating when...

Beatles Photo of the Week: John Pushing Paul Off a Roof

LAURA JANE: I like to imagine that this photograph is not staged. What if John Lennon actually tried to murder Paul McCartney? I bet if Paul McCartney was actually about to be pushed off a roof, that's what his...

Soundtracks: Awesome Swedish Indie Pop Chanteuses

first row, l-r: Jonna Lee; the cover of Frida Hyvonen's Until Death Comes, which I adore; El Perro del Mar second row, l-r: Sally Shapiro; Lykke Li If there's anything about autumn 2009 that I will remember besides the...

Imaginary Shopping Spree: Faux Fur Coats, Perfect Shitkickers

FAUX FUR AND FOXY I don't know why I missed out on last month's Imaginary Winter Coat Edition of ISS; probably I was busy practicing witchcraft and becoming a lesbian, to quote that bumper sticker lots of girls used to...

All-Time Top 5 Reasons Why "Hello Goodbye" by The Beatles is the Best Video Ever Made

I. THE DANCE SEQUENCE, THE WAVING-AT-THE-CAMERA BITS, AND EVERYTHING BEFORE, AFTER & IN-BETWEEN What I mean is: If you've never seen the "Hello Goodbye" video before, you should probably watch it now, as it's maybe the most happy-making thing...

Snapshot: Listening, Watching, Reading, Wearing, Wanting

+ Kat Listening: Lately it has been about songs for me: "Human Nature" by Michael Jackson, "There's No Fucking Rules, Dude," by !!!, "Ethiopian Dream" by Lee Scratch Perry, "You Came To Me" by Beach House, "Garlands" by Tori Amos....

"Let It Bleed To Death & Die Of Natural Causes," by Laura Jane Faulds

ABOVE: John Lennon & Paul McCartney on The Tonight Show, 1968. Things look a bit tense. The Beatles, "The Night Before"- 1. LAURA JANE ON... ALTERNATIVES TO MAKING LEMONADE: A smart one I thought of once is: "When life...

Heavy Rotation: Disco Fries, Hall & Oates, Kurt Vile, Dizzee Rascal, Busta Rhymes, Mary Hopkin

Disco Fries, "Body Move" The Disco Fries are currently dancefloor remix monsters, making Top 40 songs palatable and bootytastic for the pulsating club masses. I really don't have much to say about "Body Move" that will shed light or...

A Day In the Life: Clothes That Make Us So Sentimental

ARMY PARKA OF DARKNESS Not to brag (but yeah, to totally love up the things I have), I'm really happy with my wardrobe. I have just the perfect amount of stuff and everything is pared down enough so that I...

Love: Envelop

This is one of those sites that makes me rue the fact that I don't live in Europe! Belgium-based Envelop takes artist- and member-created graphics and patterns and applies them to all sorts of sundry articles: aprons, place mats, tote...

We Dream of Beatles, and of Stones: Rockstar Cameos in Our Nighttime Reveries

Not so many moons ago, a reader named Laney asked nogoodforme.com: "When you dream, do you dream of Beatles?" "Why yes!" we cried in unison. "We do dream of Beatles, and of other rockstars too!" And so for the third...

Soundtracks: Zoé Wolf from the Konki Duet

I love it whenever Zoé Wolf from the Konki Duet does something with a guitar. I love the whole of Konki Duet, of course, but there's just something so classic and intimate about a girl, a guitar, and some home-recording...

Too October For You: Our Fave Posts From the Last Month

+ One thing's that nice about nogoodforme being a troika is that there's something for everyone! Case in point: the latest installment in our epic How To Live category, a primer on cosiness and how to get it. With...

Imaginary Shopping Spree: Pixi Beauty, Many a Killer T-shirt

WELCOME TO KAT'S DARK SIDE, WHICH IS REALLY A LIGHT SIDE: PIXI BEAUTY I often miss doing more fashion/beauty stuff on nogoodforme, like I did at the beginning, before I began to be more obsessed with charting my cultural obsessions...

Happy Birthday, Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz!

Today (October 31st, 2009), Adam "Ad-Rock" Horovitz of the Beastie Boys (my third-favourite band of all time) turns forty-three years old. Forty-three strikes me as a creepily old age for Ad-Rock to be; Ad-Rock, you don't look a day...