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Been waiting for this for months!  Dance party time…sorry girls who live below me.

charlenekaye:

The single is on iTunes today!! I’ve been so touched by all the nice tweets and messages from people saying how much they like the song! Thank you - it really means the world to us. Now go download it and put it on a mix tape for that cute boy or girl you like!

COVER ART CRED: Special thanks to Shervin Lainez for the photograph, Kimberly Chou for styling, Charlie Wagers and Cheryl Andrey for the text illustration, mask by Lara De Bruijn, and Crystal Ellis for layout and design!

People have been asking for the lyrics, so here they are - 

Animal Love I

This crowded room has a hundred ghosts
But it’s your pretty green eyes that please me the most
I fully know this is dangerous
But I’ve never been too good at control 

Cuz when I look at you baby it’s like looking straight into the sun
And I don’t wanna look away cuz I know I’m gonna lose my guns
Go ahead and take my conviction
Go ahead and take my everything
 
So let your bones show, let your bones show
Won’t have to hide, have to hide hide anymore
Our animal love, animal love
Will be enough to protect the both of us 

You’re crouching low like a jungle cat
But something tells me I’d be content to be trapped
One fleeting look and there goes my breath
But no pleasure comes without consequence

Tell me, is this for the moment 
Or do you really think we could last?
Boy, I really need to know, I don’t have time to be played like that
But suddenly you’re reaching for my hand
And every sturdy brick crumbles to sand

So let your bones show, let your bones show
Won’t have to hide, have to hide anymore
Our animal love, animal love
Will be enough to protect the both of us
 
Sick and tired of being alone
Take my hand, I don’t wanna go home
I just want a little bit of your ecstasy
The stars won’t know what hit them 
When they brought together you and me

charlenekaye:

Aaaand here it is, folks - the cover art for Animal Love! Photograph by Shervin Lainez, styling by Kimberly Chou, makeup by Paloma Bassani, feather headpiece by Anne Koch, and illustration/text by Charlie Wagers and Cheryl Andrey. 

Track list:

1. Animal Love I
2. Forever is a Long Time
3. A Million Years
4. Hummingbird Heart
5. Poison Apple
6. Until the Morning
7. Woman Up
8. Don’t Make Me Believe
9. I Dream an Ocean
10. Animal Love II

Album drops May 1, 2012! First single premieres later today and will be available for download on iTunes tomorrow!

vikingpenguinbooks:

Edith Wharton and the problem of sympathy

Jonathan Franzen introduces our Graphic Classic Deluxe edition of Edith Wharton’s Three Novels of New York

For the 150th anniversary year of Edith Wharton’s birth: her three greatest novels in a couture-inspired deluxe edition featuring a new introduction by Jonathan Franzen.

Born into a distinguished New York family, Edith Wharton chronicled the lives of the wealthy, the well born, and the nouveau riches in fiction that often hinges on the collision of personal passion and social convention. This volume brings together her best-loved novels, all set in New York.

The House of Mirth is the story of Lily Bart, who needs a rich husband but refuses to marry without both love and money. The Custom of the Countryfollows the marriages and affairs of Undine Spragg, who is as vain, spoiled, and selfish as she is irresistibly fascinating. The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Age of Innocence concerns the passionate bond that develops between the newly engaged Newland Archer and his finacée’s cousin, the Countess Olenska, new to New York and newly divorced.

Description via Penguin website

(via largeheartedboy)