Book Club: Longing for Carla

"Two telephone calls with Carla. Beautiful moon. Wanted to walk under it with Carla but she couldn't."

Written on Friday June 14th, 1946 in a travel diary belonging to a unnamed gentlemen traveling through Japan. Don't worry guys, he went to a tea ceremony with Carla later in the week.

xoxo
Rachel

Book Club: Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

“I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.”  - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys. by Viv Albertine from the Slits

I'm not usually the first to sign up to read a music autobiography but who doesn't want to read about hanging out with Sid Vicious when he was awkward with girls, being a leading pioneer in the punk scene, being intimidated by Vivienne Westwood in the 70's, and living as a strong feminist while still longing for someone to love you? Viv Albertine is surprisingly relatable and a true badass. Plus, the fashion. Come on.

x
Rachel

Photo of The Slits in 1979, Viv is far left.

Book Club: Wuthering Heights

“If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.” - Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

Cue heart in eyes face, classic broken heart, stream of tears face emoji characters in that order...


-Rachel

Still from the 1939 film adaptation