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Fashion and interior designer Kelly Wearstler reinvents classic and vintage styles in her design work. Her musical tastes range from the sexy sounds of Airborne Toxic Event and a Radiohead cover featuring the Belgium Girls Choir to the sounds she grew up listening to in Myrtle Beach, including the Rolling Stones and Flock of Seagulls.
For More: http://www.kellywearstler.com/
Tracks
1. I Scare Myself- Thomas Dolby
2. I Ran- A Flock of Seagulls
3. Sometime Around Midnight- The Airborne Toxic Event
4. Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones
5. Creep- Scala & Kolacny Brothers
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Piece Description
Fashion and interior designer Kelly Wearstler reinvents classic and vintage styles in her design work. Her musical tastes range from the sexy sounds of Airborne Toxic Event and a Radiohead cover featuring the Belgium Girls Choir to the sounds she grew up listening to in Myrtle Beach, including the Rolling Stones and Flock of Seagulls.
For More: http://www.kellywearstler.com/
Tracks
1. I Scare Myself- Thomas Dolby
2. I Ran- A Flock of Seagulls
3. Sometime Around Midnight- The Airborne Toxic Event
4. Gimme Shelter- The Rolling Stones
5. Creep- Scala & Kolacny Brothers
Transcript
Anne Litt: I'm Anne Litt and I'm here today with fashion and interior designer Kelly Wearstler. Today we will be playing excerpts of songs she selected that have inspired her over the years a part of KCRW’s Guest DJ Project. So Kelly, I see you have Thomas Dolby first up on the list. How did you come across this artist?
Kelly Wearstler: I went to school in Boston, it's such a great international city to go to school, lots of different kids from different backgrounds. A friend of mine introduced him to me and he's just a genius songwriter. Two songs that I absolutely love of his are “Screen Kiss” and “I Scare Myself. It’s just so beautiful and the instrumentals, piano playing and his voice are just genius and I really like how it was modern, but there are also classical strings. And the melody is just fabulous.
Song: Thomas Dolby – “I Scare Myself”
AL: I would think, as a designer,...
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Additional Credits
Host Anne Litt
