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Missy | Southern California | Modern flapper and sunshine princess. Vocalist, musicologist, and librarian/curator. Silent film enthusiast. Dedicated Teschologist. Loyal Lloydian. Beach Boys disciple. Mildred Davis is my queen.

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Carey Mulligan photographed for The Sunday Times Style | October 2018

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The melancholy of the fragment is allied with the melancholy of the collector. The art of collecting is recognised as one of the most melancholy of tasks, profounding contemplative, and filled with persistent longing. The collector is always searching for items, yet at the same time seeking to elude completion. Like a lover’s melancholy which rests upon unrequited love, collector’s melancholy is built upon an eternal infinity, the prospect of the collection never being complete, a perpetual non finito. In this context the partial nature of a fragment is everything, it is the core of melancholy, gesturing to the impossibility of completeness, to the passing of a prior entirety. For the time of modernity this can be conceptualised as a forever backwards contemplation, to that time before that was, perhaps, complete, and subsequently fell into ruin. The poignancy of these ruins derives from the unattainability of the past, that ‘we may kneel to gather a fragment but it stays a fragment and can speak to us only of a beauty which is lost forever.’

Franco Rella, from “Melancholy and the Labyrinthine World of Things,” Substance (vol. 53)

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living the dream.

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found a bookstore in the middle of rome.

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I know, I know everything’s gonna be alright

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Pop fans of a certain age may only remember Esperanza Spalding as a spoiler, the interloper who once robbed an obsessively worshiped teen idol of his Grammy.

The year was 2011. Spalding, then 26-years-old and little-known outside jazz circles, had been nominated in the coveted best new artist category alongside Drake, Mumford & Sons, Florence + the Machine and Justin Bieber, the obvious favorite that night. No one expected her to win, least of all herself. But the upset was less shocking for the vitriol of spurned Beliebers— of which there was plenty — than as the first and only time the award has been given to someone who self-identifies as jazz artist.

Spalding has undeniably made her mark within that male-dominated, musically conservative field. At the same time, she’s also shown her capacity to operate irrespective of its borders, an unusual achievement irrespective of her gender.

Esperanza Spalding Is The 21st Century’s Jazz Genius

Photo Illustration: A163/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images and Angela Hsieh/NPR

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Kacey Musgraves by Catherine Powell

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spotify: Today you get more than just a Golden Hour. It’s your Golden Day. Happy Birthday @spaceykacey 💛

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Cecile, simply… Cecile Mclorin Salvant, jazz

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I have to leave you now. I’m going to that corner there and turn. You must stay in the car and drive away. Promise not to watch me go beyond the corner. Just drive away and leave me as I leave you. Roman Holiday (1953), dir. William Wyler

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The Lamplight Lounge is one of our new favorite places to eat, and it’s definitely a picturesque spot!

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#I’m 6 years old again

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The Supremes in January 1968

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