My boy Rumoku, weekend flea markets, shopping for girlishness, the perfect 1950s, super red lipstick, NYLON and BUST, makeup goodness from Benefit, flowers in my hair, Bettie Page bangs, my Lumix and Lomo cameras, beautiful writers like Miranda July and Aimee Bender, cutest mary-janes, geek chic, short shorts in fiction, whimsical art, milky colors and of course, moist chocolate (cup)cakes!

Vampire Weekend, Kiiiiiii, The Happy Hollows, Taken by Trees, Moms on Strike, Edith Piaf, The Whitsundays, Björk, CSS, Of Montreal, Bitter:Sweet, El Perro del Mar, She and Him, Voxtrot, The Pipettes, Paris Combo, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Talons & Eagle, Goldfrapp.