Now I understand.
If I made movies, I hope they would look half as perfect as this one did.
20 August, 2011
Good heavens.
Now I understand.
If I made movies, I hope they would look half as perfect as this one did.
18 August, 2011
the kids are alright
Okay! I have something to add to my band daydream of the other day. I knew what I wanted to do with myself - now I know how I want myself to look, too. I'll be a complete person before you know it.
I have been listening to an awful lot of the Who lately (I've sung la-la-la-la-la-la lies - just that bit of the song - about eight hundred times today), and then there was this editorial in vogue, and I've wanted a Vespa for forever (though mom says, "I couldn't convince my dad and you can't convince me. We both scraped too many motorcyclists off the side of the road.") - so I have decided to become sort of a mod.
It's the exact sort of clothes I like, and I'd get to have a scooter and be scornful of people who get drunk. It's perfect.
I just want to look like that. That's all.
The only possible problems I can forsee are:
1. I do not have the figure for A-line or boxy clothes, and I'm not likely to get it anytime soon.
2. I do not plan to engage in the whole "recreational amphetamine use" thing. I need sleep. I'm trying to think up a way of changing that line from Captain America (which I have seen twice and enjoyed thoroughly both times - have I mentioned that?), "a weak man knows the value of strength" into something to do with insomniacs appreciating sleep, but I can't. I'm too tired. Har har, what a bad joke.
3. I don't want to get into fights or be an existentialist.
But otherwise I think it will be fantastic. It's quite convenient that The Who is sort of a mods band, because I have the feeling that I'm about to go slightly mad for them.
It's like the time when I got my ukulele. All of a sudden, ukuleles were all over the place - in a magazine article, on youtube, at church, at school - and I took it as a sort of collective sign. This time I bought The Who's first album, and was googling Vespas, and then I got the September Vogue and - pow! - there was a whole editorial on mods called "My Generation". It all adds up.
I have been listening to an awful lot of the Who lately (I've sung la-la-la-la-la-la lies - just that bit of the song - about eight hundred times today), and then there was this editorial in vogue, and I've wanted a Vespa for forever (though mom says, "I couldn't convince my dad and you can't convince me. We both scraped too many motorcyclists off the side of the road.") - so I have decided to become sort of a mod.
It's the exact sort of clothes I like, and I'd get to have a scooter and be scornful of people who get drunk. It's perfect.
I just want to look like that. That's all.
The only possible problems I can forsee are:
1. I do not have the figure for A-line or boxy clothes, and I'm not likely to get it anytime soon.
2. I do not plan to engage in the whole "recreational amphetamine use" thing. I need sleep. I'm trying to think up a way of changing that line from Captain America (which I have seen twice and enjoyed thoroughly both times - have I mentioned that?), "a weak man knows the value of strength" into something to do with insomniacs appreciating sleep, but I can't. I'm too tired. Har har, what a bad joke.
3. I don't want to get into fights or be an existentialist.
But otherwise I think it will be fantastic. It's quite convenient that The Who is sort of a mods band, because I have the feeling that I'm about to go slightly mad for them.
It's like the time when I got my ukulele. All of a sudden, ukuleles were all over the place - in a magazine article, on youtube, at church, at school - and I took it as a sort of collective sign. This time I bought The Who's first album, and was googling Vespas, and then I got the September Vogue and - pow! - there was a whole editorial on mods called "My Generation". It all adds up.
11 August, 2011
the real question is, will I ever write a post that is actually about something?
Hello! It's been a while, hasn't it?
1. Okay, this house is so distracting. I get almost nothing done. The apartment was so depressing that you had to get out and do things and go the library all the time for the sake of your sanity. Now I just sit on the deck and maybe play ukulele and wham-o! All the sudden it's eleven thirty and my teeth aren't even brushed for pete's sake!
2. There are a zillion things I would like to take pictures of in the yard and house and boast about on here, but it's eleven thirty and I'm too tired.
3. Again, this house is distracting. I don't even want to watch movies anymore. Or, if I do, I have to wait till it's really dark or the bugs are snacking on me rather too greedily. I want to be outside all the time.
4. However, Cee and I went and saw Captain America the other day and shrieked for a bit afterwards. I'm taking dad to see it this weekend, hopefully. We can't pin down exactly why it was so enjoyable. I think because the main guy wasn't a jerk. In a lot of other hero movies the guy has to learn to be good. You like him in spite of yourself because he's funny, but you know he's a turd. Captain America was a nice, honorable guy from the get-go.
5. I don't know why, but when I see actors from, like, a Poirot TV movie or BBC mini-series on the big, big screen, I feel ridiculously proud and happy. I whacked poor Cee in the arm twice during Captain America for Richard Armitage (the tooth-cruncher) and JJ Feild (the British guy in the bad-guy's-lair-demo-team). I also sort of whispered in a very shrill voice, "Richard Armitage is going to be Thorin in The Hobbit! Augh! But doesn't he seem way tall?" I know, I know, they'll make him look shorter. But I just can't see it right now. He just is tall in my head. JJ Feild I knew as Simon Doyle in Death on the Nile. He was good in that, actually. Rather the way I always saw the character in my head.
6. I stayed up till two watching Wives and Daughters the other night. I am more than ever convinced that all British actors must all know each other. I mean, just one example: Keely Hawes (Cynthia Kirkpatrick) is married to Matthew MacFadyen. They met through MI-5. He played Mr. Darcy in the new Pride and Prejudice - along with Rosamund Pike and Tom Hollander, who were both in Wives and Daughters as well. And remember that Poirot I talked about? Well, Barbara Flynn (Miss Browning of Wives and Daughters) was also in it with Emily Blunt, who was in The Young Victoria with Rupert Friend who dated Keira Knightley for forever. And Keira Knightley was in Pride and Prejudice with both Rosamund Pike and Tom Hollander. I mean! And I've been talking about fairly obvious examples involving big-name people who do franchises and big-screen stuff. Don't even get me started on the people who rotate through all the Masterpiece Theatre movies. If the Masterpiece Theatre people don't exchange Christmas cards and go to each others' kids' birthday parties, I would eat a soft hat if I owned one.
7. I am, obviously, the logic master of the world. See #6 for proof, baby.
8. Also, I am great because I took the time to put all the movie titles in italics.
9. I need to go to bed. Several times today I found myself trying to stuff my purse into the refrigerator.
10. Good night.
1. Okay, this house is so distracting. I get almost nothing done. The apartment was so depressing that you had to get out and do things and go the library all the time for the sake of your sanity. Now I just sit on the deck and maybe play ukulele and wham-o! All the sudden it's eleven thirty and my teeth aren't even brushed for pete's sake!
2. There are a zillion things I would like to take pictures of in the yard and house and boast about on here, but it's eleven thirty and I'm too tired.
3. Again, this house is distracting. I don't even want to watch movies anymore. Or, if I do, I have to wait till it's really dark or the bugs are snacking on me rather too greedily. I want to be outside all the time.
4. However, Cee and I went and saw Captain America the other day and shrieked for a bit afterwards. I'm taking dad to see it this weekend, hopefully. We can't pin down exactly why it was so enjoyable. I think because the main guy wasn't a jerk. In a lot of other hero movies the guy has to learn to be good. You like him in spite of yourself because he's funny, but you know he's a turd. Captain America was a nice, honorable guy from the get-go.
5. I don't know why, but when I see actors from, like, a Poirot TV movie or BBC mini-series on the big, big screen, I feel ridiculously proud and happy. I whacked poor Cee in the arm twice during Captain America for Richard Armitage (the tooth-cruncher) and JJ Feild (the British guy in the bad-guy's-lair-demo-team). I also sort of whispered in a very shrill voice, "Richard Armitage is going to be Thorin in The Hobbit! Augh! But doesn't he seem way tall?" I know, I know, they'll make him look shorter. But I just can't see it right now. He just is tall in my head. JJ Feild I knew as Simon Doyle in Death on the Nile. He was good in that, actually. Rather the way I always saw the character in my head.
6. I stayed up till two watching Wives and Daughters the other night. I am more than ever convinced that all British actors must all know each other. I mean, just one example: Keely Hawes (Cynthia Kirkpatrick) is married to Matthew MacFadyen. They met through MI-5. He played Mr. Darcy in the new Pride and Prejudice - along with Rosamund Pike and Tom Hollander, who were both in Wives and Daughters as well. And remember that Poirot I talked about? Well, Barbara Flynn (Miss Browning of Wives and Daughters) was also in it with Emily Blunt, who was in The Young Victoria with Rupert Friend who dated Keira Knightley for forever. And Keira Knightley was in Pride and Prejudice with both Rosamund Pike and Tom Hollander. I mean! And I've been talking about fairly obvious examples involving big-name people who do franchises and big-screen stuff. Don't even get me started on the people who rotate through all the Masterpiece Theatre movies. If the Masterpiece Theatre people don't exchange Christmas cards and go to each others' kids' birthday parties, I would eat a soft hat if I owned one.
7. I am, obviously, the logic master of the world. See #6 for proof, baby.
8. Also, I am great because I took the time to put all the movie titles in italics.
9. I need to go to bed. Several times today I found myself trying to stuff my purse into the refrigerator.
10. Good night.
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