PeSuit and Tie

  books of the week it was a week to celebrate the brats, it girls, and icons. and you'll see that with all media i consumed.  i read reckless , book #3 in the gossip girl spinoff the it girl . we're following jenny and her boarding school bitches through the trials and tribulations of spoiled teenagehood and confusing teen love.  currently i'm on hold for book #4 - unforgettable. while on hold, i am reading  jackie  - the clothes of camelot  - a coffee table book on jackie kennedy's style through her white house days, and after. i got this book at a book sale a while ago, and i was always a lee radziwill style fan, but there's something so chic about jackie o's white pants, giant sunglasses of the 70s. new style icon unlocked. and every summer, i get into a kennedy obsession! i was a lucky girl at the coffee shop the other day. they had a mini library and i audibly gasped when i discovered midnight sun , the newest book of the twilight series, just waiting...

  music of the week lot's of discussion was held this past week, between sib and i, about croatian music and what's listened to in our diaspora community. you've got your classics, in croatia labeled "trash" aka standard mainstream: thompson, severina, magazin, many more. this is entry level croatian music. you were born into the community simply knowing these songs by default. it's to the point that boyfriend (non-croatian) recognizes some songs. but croatian rap is still slept on. if you don't count the rap songs that are soccer fan songs. and maybe kuku$ - that was briefly popular across the pond.  my duty is to educate my people. here's some old rap classics  and newer finds from my days of growing up in cro and digging through the more obscure charts. be  alert, many of these songs highly misogynistic and still never get skipped when they come on shuffle. fil tilen - debela pare di su - 2late 7 ujutro - hiljson mandela ganga i rera - peki, vojko v...

  books of the week i finally  read great tales of horror . beside the blatant racism, the fantastical elements and lore were super interesting.  i read my vogue adria living   edition sib brought back for me from cro, and indulge in the luxury of hotel resorts and incredibly beautiful and incredibly expensive home decorations. different tax bracket here, but it was sweet to read an article on the art of olive picking. something i grew up with considering far from luxurious, but the end result always was a lusciously goldish elixir. how charming to know i plan to be there for my parents' farm this fall myself!   my new by-the-pool read is notorious , book #2 in the gossip girl spin off called the it girl , which follows adventures of jenny humphrey in boarding school. i read most of the gossip girl series books and they area bit problematic, sexist, and at times, inconsistent. then again, there's charm in the flawed teen character. i found some of the ...