Cool Girl of the Day

Anyone who has the work title "Director of Mischief" is pretty damn awesome in my books.

Meet Jen Brill, the half-Chinese/half-Aussie beauty who dropped out of art school back in the day to launch her own lingerie line called Tinsley, who now flits about the town of NYC, charming everyone in the place and doing a myriad of enviable jobs, including the above-mentioned duty at The Maritime Hotel on West 16th Street. She also bagged the Director of New Business Development at Fred & Associates. Where does the girl get the time??

This girl can bottle her cool in jars, sell it for $10 a pop and become an instant millionaire. Her style is sexy downtown, without trying to hard -- though it's hard enough not to look at her. Uber-hip, bad-boy photographer Terry Richardson has been her other half for nearly three years already; when looking at snapshots of them, it's easy to see why they make such a great downtown, artsy pair. i-D Magazine did a great profile on Brill, with accompanying pictures captured by Richardson, including a breasts-exposed shot that had a slight "Girls Gone Wild" tone. Her crew includes the artists Ryan McGinley and Dash Snow, socialite Genevieve Jones and some other oft-mentioned party fixtures.

I'd want Jen as a friend.










I'm Lovin' it: My impending Thai massage with Austin Sakchai, who comes from a family of traditional massagers, at Smile Thai Massage. His gorgeous studio -- where you'll feel as if you're in Thailand for sure -- is at the Hudson downtown, and he's just so adorable! I heard his treatments feel like heaven, which is sure a lot better than feeling like hell. And my girl Sushi's coming into town tomorrow! Picking her up from the ferry and then, well, party's on.


I'm Over it: The phenomenon called road rage is directly proporational to the number of slow drivers on the streets. So, to the person in the red Honda Civic hatchback yesterday: Step on it, brotha.


Music of the Day: Anything from DFA Records, which houses LCD Soundsystem, Hot Chip and the Shocking Pinks. If you rather enjoy indie house and electronica, take an auditorial dive into albums from this label. Especially sweet tracks include "Roar" from Hercules & Love Affair (animalistic sounding, hence the track moniker) and the Still Going theme song (dance-y with a great bass line).







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