One afternoon final yr, I used to be minding my very own enterprise, once I someway stumbled upon journal author Hunter Harris’s weekly e-newsletter, Hung Up. For the subsequent hour, I tore by means of the archives, together with an Olivia Wilde deep dive, a Top Gun: Maverick review, and arguably the best opening paragraph to a e-newsletter. She’s a popular culture genius! So, I used to be thrilled when Hunter agreed to share 12 of her favourite issues…
1. Restaurant: When the gods smile upon me and I get a desk at The Four Horsemen, it looks like getting away with homicide. However in an attractive, erotic-thriller type of approach. They don’t submit the menu on-line (which drives me loopy since I’m all the time the particular person to lookup the menu upfront), however each single factor is nice.
2. Exercise: There’s one thing satisfying about taking an extended stroll whereas speaking on the telephone to somebody you like.
3. Hair product: Pattern is my favourite waxy, thick edge management. It lays these child hairs DOWN, honey; Fort Knox ranges of safety, and with minimal white residue. (If you happen to use edge management, you recognize what I’m speaking about.) I grew up with my mother utilizing outdated toothbrushes on my edges, however the accompanying brush actually does make a distinction with this product particularly, since you do want stiff bristles to unfold your swoops.
4. Notecards: I regret my behavior principally in all places, on a regular basis.
5. Dwelling discover: I’m so into my flatware, which I discovered by means of a reddit gap concerning the flatware in Molly Baz’s cookbook. They’re an awesome mid-weight and are available in several colours/finishes.
6. Candle: D.S. & Durga’s Big Sur After Rain is an ideal, well mannered scent. Not too loud, not too intrusive. Breakfast Leipzig is a bit of louder, a bit of bossier, with notes of tobacco and leather-based. All I do know is that these candles discovered their approach into my condominium, and they’re my favourite smells.
7. Film: It modifications relying on the day, however proper now I can confidently say Casino. It’s a film about Vegas and the mob, two worlds which might be virtually hermetically sealed with their very own codes and traditions, nevertheless it’s additionally a film about attempting to fill the bottomless pit of the self — being solid out of Eden due to your individual gluttony. I really like motion pictures about male self-importance and male insecurity. This one is extra shallow than Goodfellas, however extra glamorous, too.
8. Desk accent: The $7 velcro cable ties on Amazon basically modified my life. I’ve one million cords for less than like six gadgets, and now I can preserve all of them neatly in my desk drawer. No extra pulling out a wire solely to get to the tip and notice it’s a usbc as a substitute of micro usb. (Me figuring out the distinction… sure I’m a lady in STEM!) Additionally, Play-Doh at my workstation — excellent for fidgeting throughout an extended assembly.
9. Physique wash: Nothing makes me really feel as supported as waking up and taking the most popular bathe conceivable. Proper now, I’m utilizing Naturium Glow Getter Multi-Oil Hydrating Body Wash. It has a mysterious consistency — an oil that someway lathers — and it’s very moisturizing. Doesn’t have a scent, however that’s sort of fantastic with me?
10. Resort: I’m going to L.A. loads for work — generally months at a time, generally weeks right here and there. The Cara is the most effective lodge in Los Angeles. I’m not staying wherever else, when it’s a brief journey. Attractive interiors, a restaurant value consuming at even in the event you’re not staying there, and everyone seems to be genuinely good and useful.
11. Snack: Blue cheese and crackers.
12. Celeb crush: The onslaught of Austin Butler in spring 2022 — we will likely be learning it for generations. This man tried so laborious to get me to have a crush on him and I noticed Elvis and it labored! Bizarre film however wonderful efficiency.
Thanks a lot, Hunter. We love your newsletter to the moon!
P.S. More people share their favorite things, together with artwork curator Gisela Gueiros and clothes designer Somsack Sikhounmuong.
(Portrait of Hunter Harris by Andrew Goble. Graphic design by Erin Jang.)
