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 ♥ My Fashion Blog: Couture Cult  ♥  My Music: Alana Joy Music  
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 </description><title>believe&amp;trade;</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @alanajoy)</generator><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>uber hot. gimme.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/pswOJLMsabq2rrgzAMK7SIsm_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;uber hot. gimme.</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/43196685</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/43196685</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:10:19 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Overtime - Girl Talk</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/43187914/kLNun04UVbqqlh1vsPXckalj&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Overtime - Girl Talk</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/43187914</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/43187914</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:17:32 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>oh, hai.</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://julia.nonsociety.com/post/43180306" target="_blank"&gt;juliaallison&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;I’m bored senseless with my music.  Anyone have any great Girl Talk songs I should definitely download?&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Overtime. Night Ripper. Girl Talk.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(uploading audio on my next post…)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Smashing Pumpkins… Rob Base.. Fleetwood Mac… 69 Boys etc.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;xo&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/43187760</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/43187760</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:15:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>"There’s a difference between being honest and using ‘honesty’ as a justification for being an..."</title><description>“There’s a difference between being honest and using ‘honesty’ as a justification for being an asshole.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.emilymagazine.com/?p=345" target="_blank"&gt;Emily Gould&lt;/a&gt;. (via &lt;a href="http://keepinganotebook.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;keepinganotebook&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Soooo true, lol…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/43171002</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/43171002</guid><pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 13:49:37 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>HELP!!!</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I just updated my iPhone.. and somehow in setting up my “mobile me” account, even though I synced everything before doing this, I have lost allll my contacts! Guess I didn’t sync my contacts! I am devastated! If anyone knows a way to somehow… go back? Is it all lost now? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;$#!t.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42986404</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42986404</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:04:06 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>American Boy - Estelle featuring Kanye West</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/42788485/kLNun04UVblcjf95pcdrMaDL&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;American Boy - Estelle featuring Kanye West</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42788485</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42788485</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:45:12 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Funny on so many levels…</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/hnZb5wi_jsU&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/hnZb5wi_jsU&amp;ap=%2526fmt%3D18" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Funny on so many levels…</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42774113</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42774113</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:09:29 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>7 Amazingly Unique Beach Houses and Lake Houses</title><description>&lt;a href="http://weburbanist.com/2008/07/17/unique-beach-houses-and-lake-houses/"&gt;7 Amazingly Unique Beach Houses and Lake Houses&lt;/a&gt;: Yes, please.</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42764258</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42764258</guid><pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:45:25 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Starstruck - Santogold
* I love that my 16 year old sister is...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/42609439/kLNun04UVbj7m6otOOhsnhko&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Starstruck - Santogold&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* I love that my 16 year old sister is listening to this stuff. Makes me proud. Good taste obviously runs in the fam.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42609439</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42609439</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:51:53 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>It's official: Jews can get tattoos now.</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/fashion/17SKIN.html?_r=1&amp;scp=2&amp;sq=tattoos&amp;st=nyt&amp;oref=slogin"&gt;It's official: Jews can get tattoos now.&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;p&gt;I’m like, the least Jewish Jew, lol. I have always considered myself spiritual but not religious. I think religion was the OG politics: population control. And here I am blogging about the two topics that are supposed to be off limits. Even on my blog? hehe Nothing is off limits! Anyway, I digress. I got my first tattoo when I was a kid. Yes. A kid. I was 14, my friend had a homemade tattoo gun. The truth? I just wanted to be cool. LOL. Hey I admit it. I was 14! The result was an ugly little rose that makes people go “what IS that?”. I’ve been on the fence about whether to have it removed, or put something over it. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since then, I’ve gotten more. 2 kanji’s on the back of my neck. One that means pride, and one that means friend, that I got together with my best friend on the way back from a Vegas weekend. I also have a tribal depiction of the infinity symbol on my left shoulder blade. I was 19 when I got both of those. Also when I was 19, right before I moved to CA, I got my only colored tattoo… a butterfly by my bikini line. Got it with my then best friend right before I moved. She has the same one. (2 best friend tattoo’s, hehe). The other? My latest one, that I actually love the most. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/25659203/siempre"&gt;…and I am left knowing that I love you more than my own skin.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I got it to honor the love of my last relationship. Though there are a lot of things about it I wouldn’t mind forgetting, it was the first *real* adult “grown folks” kind of love that I just really don’t want to ever forget. Just as much about the victory of discovering that I can love that way, as it was to honor the woman. And no I don’t regret it. I am glad I got it. Because now, as the walls from that relationship that restrained me from being who I am fall down around me, through the cloud of bitterness I sometimes feel… I can look at that tattoo and remember simply… the love.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;When I got my first one, my grandparents “plotzed”. I can still hear gramma saying, in her heavy NY Jewish gramma accent, “NOW you can’t be buried in a Jewish cemetery!” Who ever said I wanted to be buried? I want to be cremated. Ashes to ashes… dust to dust. I can’t stand the idea of my physical body, the car my soul drove all my life: rotting and being infested with bugs deep deep in the dirt. Ugh. Another point she made was the tattoo’s the Jews were given in the Holocaust, with the numbers used to identify them. That was horrific, yes: but totally different.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Gramma explained that the Jewish religion said you can’t deface your body. I cleverly pointed out that her getting her ears pierced was no different. She didn’t buy it. I’ll have to forward this article to her. I wonder what she’ll say… &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42603986</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42603986</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 10:00:57 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>"When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?"</title><description>“When you’re taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Marilyn Manson (via &lt;a href="http://affremblequotes.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;affremblequotes&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42421262</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42421262</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:17:14 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Great DJ : The Ting Tings</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/42421117/kLNun04UVbh3aiohPJ46uDiY&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Great DJ : The Ting Tings</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42421117</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42421117</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 23:15:22 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Today at the Mayfair Market by my house, on Franklin… I...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/kLNun04UVbd1nvzuHjDGVbRb_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today at the Mayfair Market by my house, on Franklin… I saw &lt;b&gt;Amanda Seyfried &lt;/b&gt;of Mamma Mia, Mean Girls, and HBO’s Big Love… talking on her cellphone and looking lost wandering from aisle to aisle. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Love her!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;* This is the 2nd cast member from Big Love that I have seen about town. And it’s one of my favorite shows, so ya, it does something for me. Last year I saw Mary Kay Place who plays Adaleen Grant at (yes, I’m serious) Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;** If I meet Chloe Sevigny… heck, if I even SEE her… the day will forever be known as the “shriek heard around the world”. No joke.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42081768</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42081768</guid><pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 03:18:00 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>The Wackness</title><description>&lt;a href="http://www.sonyclassics.com/thewackness/"&gt;The Wackness&lt;/a&gt;: Ben Kingsley, Mary-Kate Olsen, and Method Man: gimme!</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42043998</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42043998</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:37:03 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>"It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know..."</title><description>“It’s true that we don’t know what we’ve got until we lose it, but it’s also true that we don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;someone who’s got their shit together &lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42043722</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/42043722</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:31:53 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>"You taste like a vacation…"</title><description>“You taste like a vacation…”</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/41715510</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/41715510</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:24:26 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Fourth of July debauchery downtown…</title><description>&lt;embed width="400" height="322" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i69.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/aj90015/Summer%2008/M4V06567.flv"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Fourth of July debauchery downtown…</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/41520305</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/41520305</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:55:31 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Much of the weekend was a blur… kinda like this.</title><description>&lt;embed width="400" height="322" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i69.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/aj90015/Summer%2008/M4V06542.flv"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Much of the weekend was a blur… kinda like this.</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/41520256</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/41520256</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:54:46 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>Stuck in the airport on the way to SF Pride</title><description>&lt;embed width="400" height="322" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" src="http://i69.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid69.photobucket.com/albums/i45/aj90015/Summer%2008/M4V06519.flv"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Stuck in the airport on the way to SF Pride</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/41520125</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/41520125</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:52:57 -0700</pubDate></item><item><title>poser. 
xoxo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://media.tumblr.com/kLNun04UVb57cyayQYbKGSQd_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;poser. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;xoxo&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/41376715</link><guid>http://alanajoy.tumblr.com/post/41376715</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 15:36:20 -0700</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
