American Apparel 2012 Catalog & My Vertically Integrated Farm

This is pretty accurate, especially since owner and CEO Dov Whatever-His-Name was under fire yesterday - yet again. Haha, this time not for sleeping with his models but for violation of labor laws. Apparently something like half of his factory workers were without benefits and were illegal aliens & employed illegally.  But he claims to be sweat-shop free. Yes, I feel bad because 2/3rd of my wardrobe is AA... I guess I like it for its controversy! I don't know why I feel the allure, I thought originally it was a good thing to be "buying local". There is really very little difference between LA or China. It's all bleeding together, and what is so wrong with that?

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One day after I've catapulted beyond the many chapters yet to come and I come to a time when my hair is turning gray and the lines on my face begin to tell their stories, I'll live in a home on a small working farm. There'll be cows and chickens and a huge garden used in every season. We'll make most of our own clothes, work a compost, set up a solar powered rooftop. There'll be a big porch with a wooden swing and a small stable for cows, goats, and pigs; and maybe a horse, if I can afford one. Perhaps I'll board a horse for someone else... hmmm, ideas... 

One thing is for sure, we'll eat fresh food picked from the ground and off the vines, we'll bake desserts from the small orchards, pick fresh sunflowers in the mornings, make our own cheeses, brew our own beers, build our own greenhouse. I'll play the piano before bed and fall asleep in the living room in a place that smells alive and like cherry wood, barefoot most of the time. There will be short walks on the moss next to the cold gray stones along the creek.  We'll have parties with bonfires and live music, we'll sing. We'll all have dirt under our nails, getting old and away from it all. No one will be aware of  "Vertically Integrated Fashion".

Time to start saving... Who wants to live on this farm with me?! It doesn't matter where... all we need is land. We'll be pioneers!