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Attention Anaheim and Las Vegas: Get your tickets now! We really want to see you!

We love this outtake of Rumer Willis from her first NYLON photo shoot, a few months ago. She’s supposed to be the new face of Walmart, which is really odd, but who knows, maybe it’ll work. Anyway, let’s hope these shots are proof to some celebrity hounds that she’s quite capable of posing in front of the world.

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If you go down to Bayard Street in Chinatown, you will find a tiny Bubble Tea emporium that is my new favorite place.

First of all, it has a giant Homer Simpson statue outside.

Second of all, it has a giant Nightmare Before Christmas doll inside.

Then there are the vending machines – giant Bubble Gum dispensers that spit out Japanese charms of Pandas, Kitties, Robots, Tinkerbells, and other basic forms of amazingness.

And then there are the girls who work there.

If you can find a cuter, cooler, hotter, more stylish teenybopper in all of Manhattan, then I will buy you Bubble Tea, because this girl, with her dyed and crimped and teased hair, her liquid black-glitter eyeshadow, and her t-shirt slashed to the shoulders, is ah-mazing. I’m so in love. Should I try and dress like this tomorrow? xo faran

Today’s site is House of Cassette, an amazing streetwear line based in Los Angeles that also has a very cool following (see left).

The line is often styled by Josh Madden, the creative director of DCMA clothing who also made the cool pair of jeans that Ashley Olsen wore on her NYLON cover last year (see?  we just keep connecting it).

It’s a cool site for stargazing and denim crushing, and they’ll have a brand new lookbook up next week, so keep your eyes open.

Meanwhile, our song of the day is Killer B by Low v Diamond, because sometimes, you just wanna jump around the room…

You can hear it on their MySpace page, or on Indie 103.1, if you live in Los Angeles.

  Attention boys:

If you think you can look hotter than the guy at left in a pair of Diesel Jeans, you might be able to win some money.

Diesel is teaming up with FORD Models to launch their first ever model search in Union Square, NYC tomorrow.

Show up at 1 Union Square West from 4pm to 8pm and meet with Ford Model Scouts who could break open your pretty boy career…

  I fell in love with this boy last week because of his outfit:

Gray lightweight cotton jeans, huge bright white sneakers, and a Jeremy Scott hoodie from two years ago that he got in L.A.

The kid was just too adorable, so I had to talk his photo.

It even inspired me to pull my ancient Old Navy puff vest out of the closet and try to update it with giant metal pins from Prada and Karen Walker.

It was cute, but next time I’m totally sticking with Jeremy Scott’s ideas on how to rock a puffy jacket.

And maybe I can find this boy and he can help me!  xo faran

Site of the Day:
A lot of my smarty-pants friends moved to D.C. after college graduation to work as lobbyists or consultants, or underpaid but over stimulized writers at The Atlantic Monthly.

The one problem?

It’s hard to find rock ‘n roll in D.C.

Fortunately, there’s a new website that’s helping out all those New York / Boston / Seattle / Chicago / Philly / San Fran / Please-let-me-live-somewhere-cool transplants, and it’s relaunching this week.

Go to BrightestYoungThings.com to check it out, and if you live in D.C., make sure you click on their photo blog – they might have caught you in action.

Song of the Day:
It’s Tonight, Tonight by the Smashing Pumpkins, because sometimes you need to know someone believes in you, even if it’s just because that’s their most famous lyric.

xo faran

It’s now officially Spring, which makes shopping tricky:  While it’s finally okay to buy those sundresses you’ve been coveting, it’s also the season of massive coat sales.

My favorite so far is this military coat by McQ, the diffusion line from Alexander McQueen.

It’s incredible looking, cut to last, and it’s on Bluefly for $249 – the same price as an H&M winter coat in December or January.

But is it worth it to invest in something you’ll have to stash away until the snow comes back?  Let me know what you think in the comments section…

Oh, and major bonus points to anyone who can reference the title of this blog post… I bet someone from Tisch or Berklee College of Music could do it…

xo faran

Last night, Rogan Gregory threw a party at Barneys with Loomstate and Kate Nash. You could bring in your old t-shirts and they’d recycle them into Loomstate offerings for Christmas – and Rogan (left) fell a little too in love with my old yellow tee. So I traded him for a pair of Rogan for Target leopard print shorts. Good deal, huh? xo faran.