Dear Usher...

Dear Usher,

Remember your cd "My Way" and how much of a classic album it is, with songs that make teenage girls and women alike quiver with the delight and imaginative thoughts for their lovers (real or made-up). Ok...Good. Now stop making not-so-good albums at lightning speed, go back to your roots, stop trying to keep up with the "youngbloods", and do what you do best. Please. For the sake of female fantisizers everywhere. Fantasizing about your crush just isn't the same with "Love in This Club" in the background. I will wait. Trust me.

Your (questioning) Fan,

Milana.

Au Revoir.

*Sob*

I wish I dressed like this.

I need a varsity jacket. I've always wanted one.

Those shoes. I don't know if I think they're ugly, but I want them. It's like that boy that you like but you don't want to say because your friends will tell you that he is not attractive...but you really want him in los pantolones.

I also want white shorts (but those are rather attainable)

i wish... by milanocookie featuring ASH shoes

Stupidity: An Unexpected Blessing

Here is a conversation that I had with one of my favorite friends:

"friend" will remain "friend" until I have permission to post his name.

Milana: euro makes me question religion i HATE it

Friend: LMAO

Friend: comp religion makes me question religion

Friend: haha

Milana: intelligence is depressing

Milana: mediocre ppl must b really happy

Friend: truer words were never spoken

Milana: can u imagine just not questioning the world around u

Milana: ??

Friend: no

Milana: do u kno how happy u would b

Friend: i can not

Milana: not contemplating life after death

Milana: the meaning of life

Milana: purpose

Milana: whether god exists

Milana: if religion isnt merely a construct used to justify & separate. who is rite?

Friend: just living

Milana: nd who will spend their days burning in a manmade hell??

Friend: wud be amazing

Friend: poetry much milli b?

Milana: hahah gracias

Think about it.

Au Revoir

Hot Peas & Butter Baby Come & Get Your Supper

I love lyrics like this (and in the song below). Granted these are 90s songs, but for some reason women still aren't owning their sexuality. I love it when women are aggressive with their sexuality. As it's seen in literature, there is a direct connection between sex and power, and as long as women allow themselves to be the submissive ones in sexual relations, we will never gain true equality. Every time a man is turned off by a woman who approaches him, every time a girl is labeled a whore (by both males & females) after deciding she'd rather have multiple sex partners than find her one true love, inequality, however subtly, rears its ugly head.

I'm very serious about the notion of sexuality & power. When I can explain it more fluidly, I will do so. But for now, just think on it.

There's something beautiful & fresh about a woman just being comfortable and confident and possessive with and of her sexuality. It's potent. It's sexy (for lack of a better word).

Don't Know How You Do the Voodoo that You Do.

She Makes Me Want to Grab a Noose...

Originally I was going to post about my favorite model Chanel Iman, but then I realized that everybody and their momma loves her, so I figured I would exhibit the amazeballs-ness of another gorgeous woman who makes me want to grab a noose and say goodbye world (because she's so beautiful and creative and entertaining).

She's not a model (though she might as well be).

VASHTIE KOLA.

I stumbled upon this gem while reading Nylon. Not only is she gorgeous, she's extremely talented (she directed the Us Placers video-which you can watch in an earlier post), and like me, she's obsessed with 90s music. Vashtie is an aspiring music video director. She owns her own clothing company, Violette, which has adorable tee-shirts and tanks that are perfectly loosely fitted and perfectly overpriced (but that's ok). She has an extremely cool life, that puts my daily listening to music, while reading & drinking tea to shame, and a kitten named Vladimir. oh yea, and she used to date pharrell. check her out.

Au Revoir.

Oh Barb...

Barbara Henrickson is a character on one of my favorite shows Big Love. If you haven't seen the bus posters, or the commercials, or the emmy they won, then I'll tell you. Big Love is a show about polygamists living in Utah. My favorite character, though she continues to disappoint, is Barb. I, however, HATE Bill, the patriarch of the family. I get it. Bill has vision. Bill is great. But sometimes, Bill pushes too hard. He has asked Barb to give up so much: her monogamous marriage (they were originally monogamous christians then all of a sudden he was like OH WAIT i want to have two more wives -__-), her family, her mother's love, her religion, her job, the list never stops. He makes her compromise her morals. He chastises her. All for his vision. There are times when I see the fire burn within Barb, and she has moments where she leaves, but she always comes back. WHY!?? I never want Barb to leave the show, but at the same time, just once, I would like to see her stick to her guns and tell Bill "no." Just one time. Why does Bill continue to act out? Because she will always come back, and frankly...that is BS! Barb get it together. Leave Bill or fix the relationship. Do something. Because you are disappointing me. Your biggest fan. By the way, this is not just for Barb.

Words don't mean much of anything. ACT. Barb, ACT. Random reader, ACT. Boy who feigns interest in my blog so that he can get in los pantolones, ACT (though you might get denied).

Acid Trip for the Kids: BOOBAH!

I CAN'T HANDLE THIS:

SUMMER! ?

neutral draping by milanocookie featuring Bottega Veneta tops

Items in this set:
Jersey racerback tank, $260
Drape Motor Vest, $675
Siwy Denim Shorts, 220 EUR
Cocobelle Flat Class Shell Sandals in Beige, $39
Night suede shoulder bag, $275

I know I can only afford the sandals...A girl can dream of summer & expensive clothes.

Au Revoir.

Ou Est CRS??

C.R.S. Child Rebel Soldier. The super group: Kanye West, Pharrell & Lupe Fiasco.

WHERE IS THE MUSIC FROM THIS GROUP??????

I have been patiently waiting since hearing "US Placers" (which came out in 2007 fyi) a while back, but this is absolutely ridiculous. After all this waiting, whatever they produce had better be on some next shit.

Nevertheless, here are the only two tracks available (to my knowledge) :

CRS makes Godot look timely. (10 points for Gryffindor if you know the literary reference. 10 more if you know what show I stole this joke from)

Au Revoir.

The Value of the V

I have an issue with our society. Why do we put so much value in a woman's virginity or sexual virtue? I get it. Throughout the years woman have been taught to attach emotion to our sexual activities, but seriously, why? Sex is sex is sex is sex is sex. I admit that I'm sure emotional sex means so much more than a random hookup, but that doesn't mean we can't have both. And if we do decide to have both, we should all respect the choices made by others (unless the woman in question is having sex to feel pretty)

Right. SO sexual virtue. I'm not saying that it's meaningless, but our society NEEDS to stop teaching girls that their value lies between their legs. If I wanted to have sex on a first date, the most it should say is that I felt an extremely intense attraction that I couldn't ignore. The end. I am still interesting. I am still funny (sort of). I am still intelligent. I am still pretty. I am still strange and adorably awkward. I am still many, many things that a man could be attracted to and possibly fall in love with. Sex is sex is sex is sex. At the end of the day...it is a hole. My value is not within a hole. My value is within my personality.

So, some might say that despite this truth, men will still look down upon a girl who has sex on the first date (I refuse to say "gives it up" that would suggest that I submitted to some man's desire, when I am simply indulging my own). And for every man that would look down upon me if I were to have sex early on in the relationship, well "see you later. big ups to all my haters!" I could honestly do without you, and you are the type of man that I would never commit myself to.

Au Revoir.

P.S. That wasn't very eloquent, but this is my stream of consciousness and not that of a Faulkner or Woolf character.

Blast From the Past

Hey. Remember this classy lady?? This is Aaliyah, and I just (as in since like a month ago) fell back in love with her. I don't exactly remember what she was like, but when she died there was a lot of "fallen angel" talk. In any case, I miss her music, and when I listen to her songs these days I tend to think about what she would be like now. She transformed with her third cd "Aaliyah," but if she were still alive I think she would've continued to morph and surpass the likes of the Bey (beyonce). If you weren't aware of her, check her out and don't blame me if you frown because your desire to hear more goes unfulfilled. Here are some of my favorite Aaliyah tracks:

1. Are You That Somebody

2. Don't Know What to Tell Ya

3. Extra Smooth

4. One in a Million

5. A Girl Like You

6. If Your Girl Only Knew

Au Revoir.

5 Songs I Am Currently Bumping

1. Don't Stop- Brazilian Girls

Literally got into this an hour ago. I love it. The lyrics are obvious & provocative & sexy.

It makes me want to get up and dance like a high white girl. I love it.

2. Pussy- Clipse

The title is vulgar. Nevertheless, the song is delish. Don't be a pussy, check it out.

3. One Day You'll Be Mine- Usher

This makes me wish that I had a boyfriend. This song reminds me why I hate the new Usher. Old Usher's voice is smooth. Old Usher is sexy. Old Usher makes me wish I were a 90s teenager in love.

4. As We Enter - Nas & Damian Marley

The beat is hot. Nas is Nas (if you don't know what I mean, leave my blog and never come

back). The verses are a delight & are in perfect harmony with the beat. Nas says:

"and (pronounced like Anne) frankly speaking" get it? Anne Frank. (he probably has no idea that he is doing this) No matter, I like it.

5. First Date Sex- Mike Posner

Alright. His voice is odd. It's not crazy clever. But for some reason, it makes me laugh.

"So take off your Ugg boots and let me hit it" Nuff said. Bump it. Delete it in a few days.

Au revoir.

Oh, hey...

Well, because I am avoiding studying and such, because I'm told that I should blog, because I prowl the net like a bandit, because I have an intense opinion about many things, because I have obsessions with music & beauty that need to be sublimated, and because I love hopping on a bandwagon (especially, after I kind of started that whole xanga thing at my school in middle school, nbd) I decided to make a blog. So...like it. Oh and just housecleaning (though no one will read this save for bored friends & boys feigning interest in order to get in los pantalones):

-Actually, no housecleaning, just wanted to say that thing about friends & boys.

Au revoir.