WE WE WE All The Way Home: Madonna's New York Film Premiere

(Madonna in Roberto Cavalli with new blood, Andrea Riseborough)

Madonna made a movie and brought it home to New York this week. 

The difference between the premiere at MoMA and the previous presentations at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals? 

"No one has gotten me a glass of champagne like they did in Venice and Toronto. So I’m sober"

Oh Madonna, I'm drunk in love with you! And your guest list ain't so bad either

(Parker Posey decked in red and a serapi)

(Umm... was there a crimson lady motif, Chloe Sevigny?)

(Olivier Theyskens and Richard Chai debate Like a Prayer versus Like A Virgin)

(Olivia Palermo, never match your shoes to your date's pocket square!)

(I guess Anne Vyalitsina looks good, but where's your boyfriend? He look better!)

(Luckily, The Silver Fox was there holding down the cute...)

(and Adrien Brody too!)

(I hope Madonna located the bar. But then again she always knew where to find the boys and the booze!) 

How I Spent my Staycation

Tomorrow I go back to work. -sigh- It all happened so fast. But I spent my time wisely nicking off my goals and just enjoying my doing what I want to do and not 

what I have to.

On Saturday I went to the museum

Well... technically I went to the museum.... just didn't go in. It was madness (I forgot how crazed Saturdays in the city be!) and Miss M.T. forgot her MoMA pass so we decided that the best museum day is a day spent at Bergdorfs!

I haven't spent a day in Bergdorfs probably since I first moved here, so it felt right to wander through every floor and take in all the curations of resort and spring designs

Decision well made, Saturday well played


On Sunday Mr Taurus woke me up early to go to the Housing Works volunteer appreciation brunch where I won an award

and Mr G and I donated 3 bags of clothes to H.W. and found this vaguely racist dress
I wanted to get for my friend Miss J

(minty green wool cap sleeve dress with embroidered rickshaws, $35 at Housing Works, 245 w 10th Street, 212-358-1618)

All in all I'd say staycation well stayed. I didn't make it to Washington heights, but it's not going anywhere. I'll get there. And I didn't open an Ebay store, but donated the clothes to a good cause instead. And now I'm feeling refreshed and raring to go! Doin' it!

Staycation, All I Ever Wanted

I've been feeling my battery run down a bit lately, what with the holiday blitz and the working, working, working, so I decided as part of my new year's resolution, to pull a week of straight up, old fashioned "ME time"

I'm taking a week off (Monday the 10th-Monday the 17th) to do what I want to do versus what I have to do

And with this commitment comes a list. I can be a man of lists, but sometimes I lack follow through. But now I'm gonna post the list here in the open and hopefully the pressure will be on to complete all my goals for the week. Ready? It's time for stock photography!

1. Visit a Museum

My New Year's resolution is to remember why I'm in New York and part of that is culture. Some of the best museums in the world lie in the 212 and I rare to never go. Some of them, like MoMa and The Whitney, I've never even ventured into in my 6 years here. Shame spiral!

2. Open an Ebay store

Remember that holiday blitz I was just referring to? Well that includes lots of presents I now need to find room for in my Chinatown apartment. That means ish gotta go! And who doesn't like a little dough on the side, child? 

3. Go to the tailor

This has been haunting me for a few months everytime I open the closet and see these amazing Trovata pants just mocking me with their needing of a hem. A must!

4. Land a freelance gig

Again, a little moolah on the side ain't never hurt nobody. I got a jump start on this one Friday and set up a gig covering the Moda Manhattan show today. More on that later, I'm sure.

5. Cook a dish I've never made before

I like to cook and I'm always open to something new. Over this coming week I wanna prepare some recipe I've never made. Plain and simple.





6. Re-visit Washington Heights

I first moved to New York via Washington Heights and something is pulling me back there. I can't explain it and who knows if it will just be a five minute reunion but I need to pop back round, although it won't be the same without you, Mrs Peacock.


So that's my list and I'm sticking to it. Or at least hope to get as many checked off as I can before next Monday. Wish me luck!