10.6.09

Current/Elliott. . . Freeeee


 Chickdowntown.com and Rackkandruin are doing a Giveaway!!!  

Chickdowntown.com is a fantastic online retailer of designer (both high and low) clothing . . . they carry designer dresses (for one) from Rojas, Alice + Olivia, McQ Alexander McQueen, Gryphon, Marc by Marc Jacobs and much more. . .

They have offered one lucky Rackk and Ruin reader a pair of current elliot jeans (The Skinny in Cloud Wash Destroyed. . . retailing at $254!)

Just leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite movie (i've switched from book) that i probably haven't seen but should. . . (think obscure) and your email address and i will pick a winner at random in two weeks. . . June 24th.  

 Be sure to follow chickdowntown.com on Twitter or add chickdowntown.com on Facebook Fan page. Amy, founder of chickdowntown.com loves to know what you think of new items and trends! Also, she posts giveaways and special discount information on these. 

**Chickdowntown has generously offered to ship internationally if the winner lives outside the U.S.!!! 

175 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

OMG THE JEANS IS AWESOME! But i bet you don't do international mail. I'm a Singaporean and love reading your blog! Wish that lovely pair of jeans could be mine ):

June 10, 2009 at 9:40 AM  
Anonymous R said...

Hello fellow singaporean above- my sentiments exact. I wish everyone else luck in winning these snazzy pants!!

June 10, 2009 at 10:22 AM  
Blogger Sally Teresa Gregersen said...

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June 10, 2009 at 10:23 AM  
Anonymous nadhira said...

Ohhhh I want those so bad. Right now I like Magical Thinking by Augusten Burroughs.

rajanadhira@gmail.com

I'm in Australia though, so if it can't be shipped internationally I guess I'm out :(

June 10, 2009 at 10:23 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

ooh these jeans are amazing!
my favorite book would have to be Girl with Curious Hair by David Foster Wallace!

Lbauer@saic.edu

June 10, 2009 at 10:51 AM  
Blogger Lori said...

i love those jeans!

my favorite book is East of Eden by John Steinbeck. It's one of those rare timeless stories that triggers every emotion in you.

xbreakxxaway@aol.com

June 10, 2009 at 10:54 AM  
Blogger Arlie said...

my fav book... Running With Scissors - David Sedaris.

trowbridgeag@gmail.com

me me me! :)

June 10, 2009 at 11:00 AM  
Blogger Ashley said...

No idea if this is open to Canadian residents but I'll go in anyway..
my fave book is She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb.

fashionroadkill@live.ca

June 10, 2009 at 11:06 AM  
Blogger Catherine said...

love love love this blog! thanks for doing a giveaway! my favourite book at the moment has got to be Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom. so sweet yet so sad. it really is touching!!

cat.louie@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:09 AM  
Blogger OhReallyLili said...

Maryland? haha
and I love The Clocks by Agatha Christie.

lilipopova@hotmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:09 AM  
Anonymous kahliaaa said...

fav book: Trainspotting- irvine welsh
the book is written in awesome Scottish slang.

xkahliax@aim.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:11 AM  
Anonymous Jossan said...

Oh I really want them... but I live in sweden, too bad. But I still think you should read a the books by Stieg Larsson. They are great :)

(my email adress is alltingannatvarredanupptaget@hotmail.com, if you do ship to sweden... but I donät think so ;)

June 10, 2009 at 11:15 AM  
Anonymous Safiyeh said...

Gotta love giveaways! My fave book at the moment has got to be God Bless You Mr.Rosewater by Kurt Vonnegut, Fantastic book, and it should be considering it's Vonnegut!
My email is s.uddin256@hotmail.com. Thanks!

June 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM  
Blogger Alexandra said...

My fave book right now is Marie Antoinette The Last Queen of France by Evelyne Lever. Love your blog! My e-mail is azalicki@yahoo.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:23 AM  
Blogger sarah full of grace. said...

current/elliot is amazinggg!! my favorite book has to be the lovely bones by alice sebold!

greenhaw_sarah@yahoo.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:26 AM  
Blogger rachell said...

One of my top five is The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe True story of the author following Ken Kesey spreading the word in his techicolored bus and Kool-Aid.

ragergen@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:27 AM  
Blogger Dead Years said...

It's too hard to choose, so I'll give you four of my favourite books: East of Eden (John Steinbeck), Down and Out in Paris and London (George Orwell), On the Road (Jack Kerouac), and One Thousand Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez). The lattest is a very nice summer reading. Hope you find something you like! xx

June 10, 2009 at 11:46 AM  
Blogger Dead Years said...

Oh, and my e-mail address is whitecitygirl@hotmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:48 AM  
Anonymous nicool said...

it's hard to pick just one!
a few of mine are:
the giver by lois lowry
wind up bird chronicle by haruki murakami

and a few i just read that are amazing are:
reborn: journals and notebooks, 1947-1963: susan sontag
essays on the blurring of art and life by allan krapow

nicole@nylondip.com

xo!

June 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM  
Anonymous jae said...

crime and punishment -dostoevsky

j.zhou13@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:50 AM  
Blogger Fashion Serial Killer said...

oh SNAP!
Take the Cannoli : Stories From the New World by Sarah Vowell

It's actually one of the few books I have read. I'm horrible when it comes to reading-it took me 8 months to read it HA HA... it was pretty good tho.

Current/Elliot hurts so good.

June 10, 2009 at 11:55 AM  
Blogger Abby Sun said...

If you like science fiction...

The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K Le Guin

snowispretty@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:56 AM  
Blogger Alex Brown said...

kick ass jeans missy! i read your blog every morning to start my day :0 lol. good luck to everyone!

one book that is great is The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. It has everything you want in a book..EVERYTHING.

Im also looking for a good book.. i think im going read Push by Sapphire. Its being made into a movie but i want to read the book first. Dont know if its good but ive heard very wonderful things about it.

shutterbugalex@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:59 AM  
Anonymous allison said...

the torn skirt
by rebecca godfrey!

allison.fisher@uconn.edu

June 10, 2009 at 12:33 PM  
Blogger Tuco and Blondie said...

All Quiet on the Western Front

June 10, 2009 at 12:34 PM  
Blogger Victoria said...

I love your blog - between this and Susie Bubble you two are my favorite. I don't usually post but these jeans are great! So...one of my favorite books is Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Beautifully surreal and dreamy.

June 10, 2009 at 12:51 PM  
Blogger Cassie Wallace said...

Those jeans are hot!

My favorite book is Catch 22... fun and deep.

cassbwallace @ gmail . com

June 10, 2009 at 1:08 PM  
Blogger Natalie said...

You must read The Boat by Nam Le--it's a collection of short stories and they vary from Colombian drug gangs to a washed out artist in New York City to Australian surfers.
Very good. He's going to be a huge writer.

Or Netherland, by Joseph O'Neil (who lives in the Chelsea Hotel, husband of Sally Singer)

June 10, 2009 at 1:16 PM  
Blogger oldest daughter said...

a good read is "Black Hole" by Charles Burns. My boyfriend is really into comic books/graphic novels. I realized I had never given them a chance. Black Hole is really great, it is not cheesy or cartoon-y. I just finished it and it was amazing. it is about this STD which causes them to develop bizarre physical mutations, turning them into social outcasts among Seattle's youth in the mid 1970's



worth looking at at least

June 10, 2009 at 1:30 PM  
Anonymous Andrea said...

You must try Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury (a book much different in style than his other novels). Or Of Love and Shadows by Isabelle Allende (perhaps the most moving first line of any book I have ever read).


nihao.pizza@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 1:37 PM  
Anonymous Kate said...

Love these jeans! My favorite book is The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky. I love the voice it's written in and the insights it gives.

June 10, 2009 at 1:44 PM  
Anonymous louise said...

Stieg Larsson's millenium serie(3 books).they are a hugh succes in Europe and the first book(men who hate women) have been turned into a movie so you can watch the trailer and see if is for you, is a real pageturner.
The story is about Michael Blomkvist who is hired buy a millionaire and owner of a hugh company in Sweden to find out what happen to his young niece and who from his family killed her, many years ago.

The book is followed up by the second book called the girl who played with fire and Air castle which was blown up. He planned to publiced 10 books but died unfortunately of a heart attack in 2004.

Louise
/louisemoeller4@hotmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 1:48 PM  
Blogger rosemary said...

@ dead years: i'm sure you mean One *Hundred* Years of Solitude...

my favorite book is The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. it's wonderful.

June 10, 2009 at 1:50 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi, I love the book A Spot of Bother by Mark Haddon :)
keldaaa@hotmail.co.uk

June 10, 2009 at 1:55 PM  
Blogger Rachel said...

A Great and Terrible Beauty (first book in a trio) by Libba Bray is one of my favorites! Quite a page-turned I thought!
Good luck to everyone in the giveaway! :)

notesonstyle@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 1:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

June 10, 2009 at 1:55 PM  
Blogger Wenxin Liu said...

My recent favourite book is "The Woman in the Fifth" by Douglas Kennedy, although my long-time favourite before that was "The Incredible Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera. I think that is quite a popular choice, if not a bit cliched now.

My email address is unemployed_in_summertime@hotmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 2:07 PM  
Blogger Skin & Clothes said...

white oleander by Janet Fitch.. you must read it.. so much better than the movie they made based on it
been lusting over those jeans for a while!
PLEASEEEE

factoryfille@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 2:11 PM  
Blogger Hélène Heath said...

Favorite book of all time: To Kill A Mockingbird. Classic, educational and real. Or any biography. I love reading about people's lives :)

June 10, 2009 at 2:14 PM  
Blogger Anu said...

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June 10, 2009 at 2:16 PM  
Anonymous Maggie said...

favorite book: anything twilight!!! amazing series.

June 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM  
Anonymous Kathryn said...

probably sounds cliched but my favourite book... Alice in Wonderland... perfect ehehe can't wait for the film.
The jeans are stunning.
i'm thepinkpowerranger@hotmail.co.uk
i absolutely LOVE your blog, definitely ne of my favourites.

June 10, 2009 at 2:26 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The ugly duckling by the danish author Hans Christian Andersen. Beautiful and classic, I love it!
+ theese jeans would fit more than perfectly in my wardrobe right now.
Thank you for a fantastic blog.

xx Caroline from Denmark
caro_line_440@hotmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 2:41 PM  
Blogger Heist said...

oh, I'm in! LOVE these jeans. My favorite book is "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" by Dave Eggers...if you haven't read it already, I would highly recommend it!

June 10, 2009 at 2:52 PM  
Blogger Allthismore said...

Need those!
my favorite book is 'Please Kill Me" by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain
chelsxox20@aim.com

June 10, 2009 at 3:21 PM  
Anonymous Danielle said...

Awesome jeans! What a great giveaway!

June 10, 2009 at 3:21 PM  
Anonymous Mathilde Egeberg Hvidtfeldt said...

Hi there, love your blog - so inspiring ;)

I´ve got A LOT of favourite books, but you should really try Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer if you haven´t read it.. it´s really well written, and quite funny :)

hope you ship to Denmark too?
Love, Mathilde
Mathilde_cacao@hotmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 3:30 PM  
Blogger sarah said...

I'll add a vote of support to the folks that mentioned "East of Eden" and "Dandelion Wine." They are both excellent.

I'd also like to add "The Count of Monte Cristo" by Alexandre Dumas to the running, but make sure to get the unabridged version. So much happens that the condensed version makes no sense... and who wants the story to end that quickly, anyway? Ahh, revenge is sweet.

June 10, 2009 at 3:47 PM  
Blogger Crystal said...

I love Current/Elliott!! My favorite book is a book of related short stories called "Jesus' Son" It's by Denis Johnson and it is absolutely amazing. I could read and read it, I'd never get tired of it. The movie, starring Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, and Jack Black is surprisingly really good too.

crystalsaurusrex@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 4:10 PM  
Anonymous hilife.tumblr said...

My fave: Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (its one of his older books...he's got great dry humor...a new one just came out in stores too!)

coconutshakes@gmail.com

Aloha!

June 10, 2009 at 4:16 PM  
Anonymous Rachel Jensen said...

My all-time favorite book is Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk (of Fight Club fame!). My email:

damnpam@gmail.com

Thanks! Love the site!

June 10, 2009 at 4:29 PM  
Blogger Lucy said...

Yay for international shipping!

I've just started House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, and its sort of blowing my tiny mind to pieces with its craziness.

June 10, 2009 at 4:36 PM  
Blogger Sara said...

Those jeans are darling! My favorite book is The Virgin Suicides, by Jeffrey Eugenides.

June 10, 2009 at 5:07 PM  
Blogger jessicaaaaaayo said...

umm my name is jessica
my favorite book is the uglies by scott westerfeild
and my email is melonbrain@hotmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 6:18 PM  
Blogger Crimsonite said...

This is so fun!

Misery by Stephen King

crim_son_ite@hotmail.co.uk

June 10, 2009 at 6:33 PM  
Blogger miranda__ said...

Well it's a toss up btwn 'This side of paradise' by F. Scott Fitzgerald and 'The twits' by Roald Dahl. I think The Twits juuust wins though. Definitely recommend anything by Scott Fitzgerald - the succinct yet creative way he describes people will BLOW YOUR BRAIN.

miranda__88@hotmail.com
x

June 10, 2009 at 6:36 PM  
Anonymous jesse said...

i lLOE these jeans ther are to die for...
my favourite book by far is "the book theif" i just finished it and LOVED it

j_nel88@hotmail.com

im from AUS
x

June 10, 2009 at 7:32 PM  
Blogger TRIGG said...

I WANT THESE

June 10, 2009 at 8:16 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides !
oor
Life of Pi by Yann Martel!
or
Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts!
:)
--Carly
email= gnar_gnar@hellokitty.com

June 10, 2009 at 8:26 PM  
Anonymous Melissa said...

The Good Earth by Pearl S Buck

thanks for doing the give away!

maex14@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 8:30 PM  
Anonymous catherine a said...

my friend leonard by james frey

i know oprah practically condemed him to death... but you cant ignore the fact that the guy can really write

one book has never touched me so much... it was probably the best birthday gift i have ever recieved


catherine_settle@hotmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 8:37 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

what falls away by mia farrow, the diving bell & the butterfly by jean dominique bauby, or the five people you meet in heaven :)

ellenklee29@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 8:58 PM  
Blogger Miranda* said...

wow thats an awesome giveaway, the jeans looks super comfy!

my favorite book...

rapunzel by barbara rogasky and the lovely bones by alice sebold

June 10, 2009 at 10:28 PM  
Blogger Miranda* said...

oh and email is babybuttercup6@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 10:29 PM  
Anonymous caroline said...

hey ur blog is great..this giveaway is very cool i like they poured fire on us by the sky by benson deng...its about the lost boys, its def a tear jerker tho oh and my e-mail is: cyoussef13702(at)hotmail(dot)com...btw ppl should write their e-mails like this to prevent robots from getting their e-mails

June 10, 2009 at 11:02 PM  
Anonymous Elle said...

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, I promise you'll love it!!

shtuff888@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:05 PM  
Anonymous Holly said...

My favorite book is And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.

hollyytee@gmail.com

June 10, 2009 at 11:14 PM  
Blogger JelizaRose said...

Hello,

"I wanna be your Joey Ramone" by Stephanie Kuehnert. Raw, rock, and wild, like your fantastic blog. Enjoy !

jelizarose@ladiesroom.fr

June 10, 2009 at 11:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

"I predict a riot- murder, extortion and carrot cake" by Bateman :))

June 11, 2009 at 12:38 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Unbearable lightness of being. Best book I've ever read!

June 11, 2009 at 1:45 AM  
Blogger catsnarkle said...

on the road by jack kerouac

squirrelfraulein@hotmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 2:30 AM  
Blogger Priscilla and Katelyn said...

Momo by Michael Ende.

June 11, 2009 at 2:47 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

a fine balance by rohinton mistry

best. book. ever.


k_a_t_e_o@hotmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 3:04 AM  
Anonymous kate said...

Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk. then Choke and Haunted by the same author. amazingly sick & twisted but hysterical.

kathleenfanto@yahoo.com

June 11, 2009 at 3:04 AM  
Anonymous Shar said...

I know someones already mentioned this book, 'The Time Travellers Wife' by Audrey Niffenegger, but this is a book you simply have to read! It is heartbreakingly beautiful and completely unlike anything else I've read... haunting. Also Phillip Pullmans trilogy, 'His Dark Materials', the first ones called 'Northern lights' - oh so magical.
I've been reading your blog for a while now and I think it's Fabulous!! Your jewellery is beautiful too.
What a treat it would be to win such a gorgeous pair of jeans!

Shar
(From way down in New Zealand!)

sfor059(at)aucklanduni.ac.nz

June 11, 2009 at 7:56 AM  
Anonymous Felicia said...

Awwe, I love the jeans, but I'm not in the US! :(

June 11, 2009 at 9:05 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

books i recommend....
a recent book i've read call Naomi by Junichiro Tanizaki

and...Norwegian wood by Haruki Murakami

both by very well known Japanese writers.

Yeung_cutie@hotmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 9:05 AM  
Blogger Seraphina L. said...

I've just finished reading The Tenth Circle by Jodie Picoult.

It has an amazing plot and unexpecetd twists in the story, thumbs up for it.

I'm a singaporean and here's my email; babyleo_paws@hotmail.com :D

Love your items!

June 11, 2009 at 9:10 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

safron skies by lesley lokko
ticket to ride by dennis potter
Doomed love by virgil
11 kinds of lonliness by richard yates

a_l_a_n_a01@hotmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 9:15 AM  
Blogger Louise & Astrid said...

Wow those are beautiful jeans.
I really enjoy reading the classic "Pride & Predjudice" by Jane Austen. It's timeless and beautifully written.
also the book behind the new movie Slumdog Millionaire called "Q&A" written by the author Vikas Swarup is amazing and interesting.

louisetkock@gmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 9:23 AM  
Anonymous reid.damnit said...

Awesome jeans, I'm pretty sure I need them in my life - wrap your peepers around Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins. A brilliant mix of complexity and page turner.

reid.damnit@yahoo.com

June 11, 2009 at 9:27 AM  
Blogger sarah said...

The House of the Spirits, by Isabel Allende, is captivating. sarahrh@maine.rr.com

June 11, 2009 at 9:54 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

i think u would love 'rant' by chuck palahniuk

June 11, 2009 at 9:54 AM  
Blogger xtina said...

Confederacy of Dunces - novel written by John Kennedy Toole, published in 1980, 11 years after the author's suicide.

June 11, 2009 at 11:23 AM  
Blogger Daniella said...

My fav book right now - Valley of the Dolls... sooo gooood!! It's written in the 60s and takes place in nyc.. its rad!
AND HOLY shit its finally available to Canadians! HELL yesss.... i'm doing a giveaway on my site too also for current/elliott.. you should enter it!
x

June 11, 2009 at 12:07 PM  
Blogger Let's Bolt said...

the autobiography of jerry hall: jerry hall's tall tales.

As glamourous as those jeans!

June 11, 2009 at 12:23 PM  
Blogger Eveline said...

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June 11, 2009 at 12:32 PM  
Blogger Eveline said...

Hi,

i guess my favourite book(s) are the chronicles of narnia. My mom read all of them to me and my brother and sister and narnia was the most beautiful land in my imagination.
Another great is book is 'How I live now by'Meg Rosoff. The setting is a bit strange but the end really hits you.
I really like the jeans,

Eveline

evelinesingsallday@hotmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 12:33 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Well I Love the jeans, but A really great book I just read was the Time Travelers Wife. As Luck may have it they are making it into a movie now.

June 11, 2009 at 12:40 PM  
Anonymous Kelsey said...

Hmm...I can't name just one favorite book! Recently I've enjoyed, My Sister's Keeper, The Kite Runner, and the Last Lecture.

LOVE THESE JEANS!! So adorable...and look so comfy!

June 11, 2009 at 1:36 PM  
Blogger shebeen said...

I have to say I love "Edie: American Girl"
it´s wonderful!

sweet_chills@hotmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 2:02 PM  
Anonymous Audrina said...

Current Elliot Jeans = my fav. Thanks for the giveaway!

June 11, 2009 at 2:17 PM  
Blogger meesh said...

Confederacy of Dunces had me shooting milk out of my nostrils

michelletchuang87@gmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 2:35 PM  
Anonymous Stephanie said...

Last book I read that I really enjoyed was Angels & Demons. This was before the movie. I have yet to see it but I'm sure it doesn't do it justice, as most book-movies don't.

froggi0011@hotmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 3:28 PM  
Anonymous LIL J said...

he's just not that into you...
JUST KIDDING!
probably the crying of lot 49 (by pynchon) or anything by tom robbins....like, say, even cowgirls get the blues! hilarious, humanist, feminism (by a man).
minniemousej@hotmail.com
i'm from canada.

June 11, 2009 at 3:48 PM  
Anonymous Anna Hiort said...

My last book I read (and now favorite!) is called 'Shockwave: Countdown to Hiroshima' by Stephen Walker. Its a really awesome retelling of the first a-bomb, from invention to release, told by people on the inside. Its really amazing.

June 11, 2009 at 4:13 PM  
Blogger Eugenia said...

wow those jeans are crazy!
the new york trilogy by Paul Auster....amazing, disturbing, suspenseful, frustrating, fucked up, funny all wrapped into one book!

eugeniar_b@hotmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 4:14 PM  
Anonymous Anna Hiort said...

Forgot my email address!
anna.hiort@gmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 4:14 PM  
Blogger me melodia said...

niiiiice.
melody [dot] santiago [at]Gmail

June 11, 2009 at 5:13 PM  
Blogger me melodia said...

oopppps, "one hundred years of solitude"

June 11, 2009 at 5:14 PM  
Anonymous Easy Ryder said...

currently: "women who love men who kill"

http://www.amazon.com/Women-Who-Love-Men-Kill/dp/0595003990

non-literary: disposable - history of skateboard art

http://www.amazon.com/Disposable-History-Skateboard-Sean-Cliver

:)

leatherculture@gmail.com

June 11, 2009 at 6:15 PM  
Blogger Ashley said...

My fav books are Little Women, Wuthering Heights, and The Catcher in the Rye. Oh and The Great Gatsby. Basically all the books I hated being forced to read in middle and high school haha!

KikiZoe86(at)yahoo(dot)com

June 11, 2009 at 7:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

fave book..Where The Wild Things Are!
yayy, & soon to be movie.

lessthanjake@optonline.net

June 11, 2009 at 8:55 PM  
Anonymous Current/Elliot adorer. said...

"Just leave a comment on this post telling me your favorite movie that i probably haven't seen but should. . . (think obscure) and your email address and i will pick a winner at random in two weeks. . . June 24th"

Did I miss something or did you ask for a movie and not a book? Can you say confused?

Anyways, I think that if you can get your hands on it you should see Black Roses - an 80's horror movie about a hair metal band that turns their concert goers into zombie-monsters. If not the 1984 remake of Return of the Living Dead with the punk rock cast is incredible and by far the best zombie movie ever made.

amcbride_@hotmail.com

and those jeans are gorgeous!

June 12, 2009 at 12:39 AM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I refuse to not look at rackkandruin at least once a day. It must be Love! Well my favorite movie that I think you should watch is Mahogany, the Diana Ross movie. Its beautiful, and she looks spectacular. In it you see love fashion and determination, its one to watch! Email:uniquemodelchick@yahoo.com
Book

June 12, 2009 at 7:13 AM  
Blogger heleen said...

Not exactly obscure but just down right insane: Black cat, White cat.

June 12, 2009 at 7:50 AM  
Blogger Aly Fox said...

I think the post says "movie"? So my favorite obscure movie that you should see is probably "Julia of the Herbs" a documentary in french about this old french lady who lives on an island in france and feeds her dogs eggs. Its just great!

June 12, 2009 at 8:10 AM  
Blogger Aly Fox said...

I'm sorry, its "Juliette of the herbs" and my email address is

alysone.fox@gmail.com

June 12, 2009 at 8:15 AM  
Anonymous cece said...

my favourite movie is the french film Irreversible. Film critics raved about it at Cannes Film Festival despite several people walking out of the cinema in discust and feeling sick! It's all filmed in reverse, you watch the ending first and finish with the beginning. Irreversible is extremely gruesome and you need a good stomach but if you look past the violence it is a sad, sad story of love and friendship. It always make me cry!
cecebrocks@hotmail.co.uk

June 12, 2009 at 8:58 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Thanks for the great giveaway!

Fave book: Buy-ology: Martin Lindstrom

Fave Movie (right now): Knowing

June 12, 2009 at 9:43 AM  
Blogger Kath Dogg said...

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June 12, 2009 at 11:32 AM  
Blogger Evie O'Connor said...

My favorite book is pretty much whatever I'm reading at the moment, which is currently "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Allende. Movie...whatever's on TCM!

Thanks for the great giveaway!

June 12, 2009 at 2:10 PM  
Anonymous keli said...

certainly not obscure, but my fave: me and you and everyone we know by miranda july.
fofifofolle@yahoo.com
thank you :)

June 12, 2009 at 2:20 PM  
Blogger Vanessa Aricco said...

movie(ies): Guy Maddin, Saddest Music in the World.
Fellini. Juliet of the Spirits. Steven Shainberg, Fur(Diane Arbus)
Philip Kaufman, Quills (Marquis de Sade)

June 12, 2009 at 3:51 PM  
Blogger Vanessa Aricco said...

Oh, and Tarsem Singh's The Fall

June 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM  
Blogger Vanessa Aricco said...

oh email, vmaricco@gmial.com

June 12, 2009 at 4:29 PM  
Blogger Jenna Paige Wood said...

Australian Film: Samson & Delilah
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340123/

Made for about a million dollars using first-time actors in the middle of the Australian desert (we're talking kids that have lived in a town of 10 people their WHOLE life-no electricity, no phones) featuring next to no dialogue (main character says 1 word in the whole film) and it won Camera d'Or at Cannes this year.

Its aaaaamazing.

jennapwood@hotmail.com

June 12, 2009 at 7:16 PM  
Blogger paul said...

fav movie:
my favorie movie of all time is welcome to the dollhouse.
its one of the greatest movies ever made and heather matarazzo as dawn wiener deserved an oscar. im not even lying. the fashion in that film changed my life.

books:
i lost my heart to the tales of the city series of novels by armistead maupin

June 12, 2009 at 9:00 PM  
Blogger M/R said...

Hey you!

I love your blog. I read it everyday sometimes a few times a day so I'm highly grateful that you post allot everyday... I never win competitions such as this but i thought I would give it a shot!

A movie you should watch is

"Black Cat, White Cat"
It's an Emir Kusturica film...
beautiful film, awesome director.

And have you ever watched "Holy Mountain"? you should. Just for the sake of Avant-garde culture.

xo

Mora.elian@gmail.com

June 13, 2009 at 12:40 AM  
Anonymous Isobel said...

Film-wise, I watched Son of Rambow last night, and it was amazing! Watch it!
Books... Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons, or The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (maybe more your kinda thing)
Not all that unusual/avant-garde, but great all the same!

isobel_r_r@hotmail.co.uk

June 13, 2009 at 9:23 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

A really obscure, interesting, fun, different, genious, crazy, coloured, eccentric movie:
"Survive Style 5+"

Here's a link to the imdb page:
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0430651/

my email is elp(nospam)@elp.it
please remove --> (nospam)

thank you ^__^

June 13, 2009 at 12:29 PM  
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June 13, 2009 at 6:08 PM  
Blogger caroussel said...

Difficult question you know.
It's a toss up between 'Il y a lontemps que je t'aime' and 'Waltz With Bashir'.

They're not overly obscure, but both are exceptional films.

knocking.wood@gmail.com

Thanks!

June 14, 2009 at 1:40 PM  
Blogger ang said...

the believer! so good, with a phoenix sister and it was ryan gosling's first real movie. amazing.

June 14, 2009 at 6:23 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

High Heels (Tacones Lejanos)...or really any of Pedro Almodovar's films.
His portrayal of women and relationships is so amazing.

June 14, 2009 at 7:55 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

I totally forgot to put my e-mail in my post:

ink.sinks.in@gmail.com

June 14, 2009 at 7:56 PM  
Blogger Kara said...

I know you said "a" movie - but that's so tough! I'd say The Fountain because it's leads to great conversation - usually people have different perspectives of what actually happened in the movie.

A totally different movie, but quite adorable: The Seven Year Itch. It's the movie in which Marilyn Monroe's skirt flies up.

Pan's Labrynth is an adult fairytale that I really found entertaining as well.

Great question and giveaway! I LOVE those jeans.

June 15, 2009 at 12:24 AM  
Blogger Victoria said...

i already posted but i second the charles burns. a-mazing. i think you would like it. i grew up in seattle and went to the places written about in the book.

June 15, 2009 at 12:46 AM  
Blogger Konscia said...

Antichrist, by Lars von Trier.
Totally fucked up, but yet real beautiful in a way (especially visually).

June 15, 2009 at 2:38 AM  
Anonymous Alice said...

The movie 'Chinatown' is an amazing old film with genius photography and a wild plot. If nothing else, it is worth seeing Jack Nicholson in his prime


email: uhlyse@gmail.com

June 15, 2009 at 5:34 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The United States of Leland. Amazing film, Ryan Gosling and a cool soundtrack. Can't beat it!
rachelkronemeyer@hotmail.com

June 15, 2009 at 5:50 PM  
Blogger Lydia Shahmoon said...

Obscure movie...hmmm! I don't know if this is obscure, but it's definitely not a popular one:

La Vie en Rose, it's a french film (you can watch with english subtitles of course) about the life of Edith Piaf. So well done.

supatlydia@gmail.com

June 15, 2009 at 7:23 PM  
Blogger diamonds and rust said...

you should see Die Welle (the wave) !
really thought-provoking.


email: iris_friends12@hotmail.com

June 16, 2009 at 6:32 PM  
Blogger elias said...

The Station Agent



email: eldotc@gmail.com

June 16, 2009 at 6:39 PM  
Blogger stellaahn said...

"Daisies" directed by Vera Chytilova, a 1966 psychedelic Czech film with awesome clothes that got the director thrown in prison for radicalism.. cant get more obscure than that! :)

email: sjahn25@gmail.com


images:
http://www.mercurycinema.org.au/cteq/ct07_2/daisies2.jpg

http://23estudios.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/sedmikrasky_2.gif

June 16, 2009 at 7:06 PM  
Blogger Odessa Harrison said...

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
(1969)
It has Maggie Smith in it. The clothing in the movie is awesome,and the acting is....
I won't give any of it away,you have to see it.

-Odessa

southerndecadence@hotmail.com

June 16, 2009 at 9:45 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Have you seen "Christiane F"? I rented this eons ago. I don't know if I would say it's my favourite...but definitely some good inspiration for outfits, etc.

Here's a synopsis from Netflix:
Natja Brunckhorst stars as the titular character in this obscure 1980s drama based on the true experiences of 14-year-old Christiane Felscherinow, an impressionable German teen whose relative boredom led her to embrace a life of drugs and prostitution. An authentic period soundtrack includes songs by rock star David Bowie, who also performs live in the film. Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn, Body of Evidence) directs.

chroniclesofshred at gmail

June 18, 2009 at 3:24 AM  
Blogger PurpleCookie said...

I think you will enjoyed the new released "Up"! :)
stephypan (at) gmail

June 18, 2009 at 7:16 PM  
Anonymous becks said...

my movie is 'Atonement' with kiera knightly in.... she wears one of the most amazing green dresses ive ever seen - cecebrocks@hotmail.co.uk

June 21, 2009 at 5:33 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

The science of sleep

(or in French: La science des reves).

Michel Gondry is director and writer... man, how can it get any better?
Gael Garcia Bernal and Charlotte Gainsbourg (of recent Antichrist fame)

Absolutely excellent and dream like!

June 22, 2009 at 12:49 PM  
Blogger cloé. said...

my favourite danish movie is dark horse - its really cute and quirky.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Horse_(2005_film)

celluloidc (at) hotmail.com

June 22, 2009 at 12:56 PM  
Anonymous fiona said...

i'm a poor just graduated student and i need some fly pants :(

June 22, 2009 at 1:09 PM  
Blogger Juliette said...

Hey!
I'm Julie from Belgium!
My favorite movie is 'Aanrijding in Moscou'
It's a Belgian movie but is very succesfull in many other countries and is playing now at different places in the world

you have to check it out! :p
http://www.aanrijdinginmoscou.be/
it's about love but in a typical belgian way and full of humor and sarcasm
it really made me cry and laugh

my e-mailadres is j_u_l_i_e_d.b@hotmail.com

thanks for reading this and I hope you will check the movie out!

(sorry for my bad english! ;))

June 22, 2009 at 1:24 PM  
Blogger Juliette said...

&& oohyeah, I'm in love with the jeans! :D

kuss

June 22, 2009 at 1:26 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I would feel so lucky to get these! I have been really into the Outlander series for some time now by Diana Gabaldon. The books are long but easy reads, kind of like the Harry Potters, but for older women. Truly addicting reads.

June 22, 2009 at 1:48 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Silly me...Forgot to put my email

npatchi@umail.ucsb.edu

June 22, 2009 at 1:51 PM  
Blogger Lillian Fahey said...

i must say one of my favorite movies is called "Wristcutters: A Love Story" which tells the story of what happens after this guy commits suicide and is transported to this alternative dimension where everything is practically the same as the real world except it is duller. There he meets many cool people who also happened to commit suicide. He also happens to fall in love here. This movie never fails to make me feel extremely happy after watching it. :)
-lillian
lillylefay@gmail.com

June 22, 2009 at 2:17 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oops, I mean, commenting. Ahahaa.

June 22, 2009 at 2:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why did I just do that? What I meant to say is, my favorite movie ever is "Life is Beautiful." Amazing, amazing, amazing.

heycheri@gmail.com

June 22, 2009 at 2:37 PM  
Blogger Audrey Cantwell said...

Best movie is Wassup Rockers.
Audrey xo

audreycantwell@hotmail.com
blackmarketbaby.etsy.com

June 22, 2009 at 3:04 PM  
Blogger Jess said...

my awesome sister in law told me to watch this old black and white movie called Pirate Blood and I LOVED it! You should totally watch it.

xoxo,
sp

sushipie at surewest dot net

June 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM  
Blogger Tuco and Blondie said...

Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine.


Vincent Price forever.

-Marge

June 22, 2009 at 3:25 PM  
Blogger Ly Kim said...

Momento.

lyknguyen@hotmail.com

June 22, 2009 at 4:02 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

Pink Floyd The Wall ~ the trippy, weird, mesmerising, mindblowing, generally amazing drawn from their famous album, The Wall. I started watching it and was pretty much in an amazed trance after the first minute. Seriously an amazing film.

June 22, 2009 at 4:21 PM  
Blogger You Probably Look Better Naked Anyway said...

Love the blog,
Favorite movie? I dont know if this counts but i have a sweet burt reynolds poster from the movie Impasse, I haven't been able to find it but it looks amazing, the catch phrase is : Kill for it, Die with it. yep!

Kaitlinleeodonnell@gmail.com

June 22, 2009 at 4:22 PM  
Blogger Glamour Stains said...

I love the movie "Candy." so raw and poetic.

June 22, 2009 at 4:23 PM  
Blogger Sophie said...

Oh I have lots of favourite movies. I think Clerks is the best. In fact, all the View Askew films are awesome.

Cool giveaway :) my email is porcupineologyyy@aim.com

June 22, 2009 at 4:58 PM  
Blogger ChildishWildness said...

Oh Jesus. Hallelujah -They are out there.
I have been runing my ass off in the streets of Copenhagen to get me a pair of those.
They are freakin' awesome. Wauw.

Oh what luck if i were the lucky winner !

June 22, 2009 at 5:06 PM  
Anonymous lola said...

movie - requiem for a dream. this links the lives of several people persuing their own happiness. its just one of those trippy films you gotta see! cecebrocks@hotmail.co.uk

June 22, 2009 at 6:18 PM  
Blogger Barret said...

Harold and Maude. Wierd, bizarre and quietly lovely. just like those jeans.

June 22, 2009 at 7:12 PM  
Blogger Barret said...

and oh yeah - can be contacted at girlobsessed.blogspot.com - oops!!!

June 22, 2009 at 7:13 PM  
Blogger jenecklund said...

"Lars and The Real Girl"--a lovable introvert with emotional baggage...this movie manages to be
both sad and very funny.

-->LOVE the Current Elliott jeans!

email: jenecklund.designs@gmail.com

June 22, 2009 at 8:29 PM  
Anonymous Anastasia said...

You should watch 'Fat Girl' (French title, 'A Ma Soeur')

Mama like those jeans.

June 22, 2009 at 8:31 PM  
Anonymous Noir Corbeau said...

I watched Cashback few days ago. Again. It's pretty awesome.

June 23, 2009 at 5:20 AM  
Anonymous Noir Corbeau said...

Oh and I forgot to put my e-mail. Sorry :/
siren.of.the.woods@gmail.com

June 23, 2009 at 5:23 AM  
Blogger hanni said...

Mmmm movie ,mmmm movie i think "Mister lonley" it's really a good movie that a lot of people haven't see

June 23, 2009 at 6:09 AM  
Blogger ashlie said...

Just finished "Candy". Dark, in a lovely way.

splitsplatnyc@gmail.com

June 23, 2009 at 7:29 AM  
Anonymous Jojo said...

My movie recommendation is Lilja 4-ever.

hayliens@gmail.com

June 23, 2009 at 7:49 AM  
Blogger Demelza said...

It has to be the dark and beautiful Nói albínói. Nói dreams of escaping from his remote Icelandic fjord with the girl from the filling station.

Alex Cox's Sid and Nancy is also a killer - pardon the pun.

I also love Performance with a young and cherub-esque Mick Jagger - but you've probably seen it already.

Rackk and Ruin rocks!

June 23, 2009 at 11:34 AM  
Blogger Demelza said...

just in case it's

demelzadeburca@gmail

June 23, 2009 at 11:38 AM  
Blogger Amanda said...

Hey lady!! my fave movie-- that's a tough one. but one of my top 3 is definitely The House of Yes.

xx amanda

ford.am@gmail.com

June 23, 2009 at 2:48 PM  
Blogger Marlowe said...

read the catcher in the rye and metamorphosis- they are my favorites. I am currently reading the belle jar. twilight is also really good, but i hate all the press its getting, it was so much better before all the movies and crazy little fans. happy summer reading

June 23, 2009 at 10:42 PM  
Blogger kettu said...

I'm kind of new reader of your blog, dunno what movies you've seen or are willing to see, but my all time fave is Donnie Darko. If you haven't seen it, you should definitely check it out.

malfton@hotmail.com

June 24, 2009 at 9:56 AM  
Blogger Lin the Harlequin said...

Otesànek, in English known as: Little Otik by Jan Švankmajer and Eva Švankmajerová from the Czech Republic.

It is mind BLOWING. I hope you do get the chance to find it and watch it. Enjoy!

Hey*Charlemagne(a)gmail.com

minus the asterisk!

June 24, 2009 at 3:02 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Missed the deadline by ONE day! Great pair of jeans... I'm so jealous of whoever won them!!

June 25, 2009 at 1:50 PM  

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