love #5.

It's time for a new Love List. Let's take a look at what we are loving at TT&CF.

Love pho. There's a great article here on dineLA on where to find the good stuff--all but one are in the San Gabriel Valley. However, my friend Fran and I stumbled upon It's Pho! (love those crazy pho word plays) on Cahuenga in Hollywood, and it was very, very satisfying.

Photo by Clarissa Wei via dineLA

Love Viggo Mortensen and love Oscar Isaac. So, I'm LOSING MIND MY MIND that they are in a movie together--The Two Faces of January, based on the novel by Patricia Highsmith. You know it's going to be good.

I came across this article in the L.A. Times on literary film adaptions for 2014. In addition to January, I'm most looking forward to The November Man with Pierce Brosnan and John Le Carré's A Most Wanted Man with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel Adams.

I love spy movies.

Viggo Mortensen, Oscar Isaac and Kirsten Dunst in Patricia Highsmith's 

"The Two Faces of January."

Love crazy neon signs. Check out this article on L.A. Curbed on this city's landmark signs. I was happy to see North Hollywood's scary booze clown made the cut.

Love, love, love the dresses of Plenty by Tracy Reese, found at ModCloth.

Love starting a new book--really excited about this one.

Love this photo of Neko Case looking baddass in what seems like skeleton leggings at Sasquatch! Festival 2014.

I'm still loving the haunting photography of Saul Leiter. Here is one more.

 
Love the Nashville home of Libby Callaway, featured on The Selby.


That's all for now, guys, but I'm coming back soon.

friday.

Hello! And happy Friday. I found a couple of events I would LOVE to attend tonight, but alas, I am spending the entire day being infused with all kinds of chemotherapy. However, that doesn't mean you can't check out these fabulous shows. 

REDCAT kicks off a new exhibition called Apotomē by artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla with an artist talk and performance. I can't possibly do this justice by trying to explain, so just click here to check it out. It amazes me where the human mind can go.

If something musical is more your speed, head on over to the Norton Simon Museum for their Summer Music Series. It's free with the price of museum admission, and the concerts are fantastic--listening to classical music surrounded by some of history's greatest works of art. Tomorrow night, cellist Maksim Velichkin plays pieces by Hans Werner Henze, Gaspar Cassadó and Los Angeles 21st composer George N. Gianopoulos.

Seriously, I have been to one of these before, and it is so so so so cool. Stroll the gardens, check out the Matisses and Van Goghs, chill with some music--and then head out to dinner.

Cellist Maksim Velichkin

See more the entire Summer Music Series here.

And here are a few more discoveries for you to enjoy:

The photography of Saul Leiter, who died just last year.

The whimsical print dresses of designer Peter Jensen.

Prints by Peter Jensen: Lodge, Diana Ross and Central Park, via Asos.

This tiny kitchen.

Pops of red all around Paris. I want to go back!

That's all for Friday. I will see you soon.

well, hello.

Lord, how the holidays take out of the game. Just starting to get back in again.

I'm not going to bother you with any New Year's resolutions re: blogging, because I don't have any.

I'm just going to try putting up an article at least once a week.

That is all for now.

More to come this weekend.

love. tacos.

Well after all, it is Taco Tuesday.

 It's about time someone came up with this idea--besides Taco Hell and Hell Taco. Nicely done, Tinga.

And yes, if I was God, you're damn straight tacos would grow on trees and ride unicorns.

This post is mostly an excuse to test out the new SnapSeed app. It's tricky, has lots of features to fiddle with, but I think I'm liking it.

weekend.