2012 favorite things days 24-30

i've become extremely lazy at this point in the cataloging process. forgive me.

i discovered, quite recently, that i really love the colors that butter nail polish offers, which is really too bad because they cost $14 each. i did, however, buy this color (called "two finger salute") this week and find myself often admiring my nails as a result.

kate zambreno's heroines combines critical thought and memoir- not that those two things are ever necessarily exclusive- in a way that feels like home to me.

i have rohin to thank for bringing marina into my life. when her first album came out i was like, yawn whatever i like her voice but the music is meh. then this record came out and i fell madly in love with it, which led me back to her first record for a second time so that i could fall in love with that too. i saw marina live this year, supporting this album, and she is full of the kind of exuberant stage presence that leads me to believe she would've been a madonna-level-famous new wave pop star in the '80s.

2012 is the year i read christopher isherwood for the first time, and i am now working my way through all of his novels. he is a most excellent storyteller and character-drawer, sassy and funny. an interesting look at a particular brand of queer life in europe in the '30s and '40s, particularly in war-time germany and england.

i have long loved pamela love's beautiful and snazzy jewelry, but it is pricey. i had my eye on these earrings for months and then they went on sale at that bastion of gluttony and unrequited-lust, net a porter. i enjoy wearing them very much.

i read this book recently and goddamn if it isn't the best thing i read this year, so you should read it too.