July 6, 2009
(ebay) Cute shoes you should get. Size 7 / 4.5 hours left / 0 bids! / starting at 10$ + 7$ shipping

(ebay) Cute shoes you should get.

Size 7 / 4.5 hours left / 0 bids! / starting at 10$ + 7$ shipping

July 5, 2009

I just got my first etsy order (Bad Movies) from someone who has both an IMDb page and a Wikipedia entry (modest, but nevertheless..). So exciting!

I knew taking advantage of my many celebrity friends woul pay off.

ps: I’m not telling who.

July 4, 2009
(etsy) One of my favorite etsy sellers these days - Thrush. I bought two dresses from her recently and they are amazing - really high quality vintage, super condition, and very affordable. Check out her stuff. She’s having a sale! She’s also very cute.

(etsy) One of my favorite etsy sellers these days - Thrush.

I bought two dresses from her recently and they are amazing - really high quality vintage, super condition, and very affordable. Check out her stuff. She’s having a sale!

She’s also very cute.

How am I celebrating the 4th?

- Cleaning up my room. My futon has been an island surrounded by a sea of clothes and books for well over a month now.

- Researching places to donate some school supplies. It’s harder to find a drop off spot than I expected; might have to wait until the fall when they have back to school drives everywhere.

- Bought pillows. I’m pretty sure I’ve had the old ones for about 10 years and maybe even longer. It was time.

- Picking up Matt from the airport! He’s been in Hong Kong for two weeks and I’m about done with the joys of having too much alone time.

Happy 4th of July, everyone!

July 3, 2009
(film_stills) I couldn’t help myself, I screencapped Anchors Aweigh. If you haven’t seen it, it’s on Netflix Instant Play now and despite being a pretty classic 40’s musical (not usually my thing..) it is pretty funny. Around 45 minutes in - an interesting scene in which Gene Kelly and Sinatra’s characters try to dissuade a guy from going on a date with ‘Aunt Susie’ by singing a little ditty about how slutty she is (“If you knew Susie like we know Susie / She’s not so choosy / Oh no not Susie” …”S is for sincerity which she’s got none of” …”E is for her eagerness to please us” etc etc) Around an hour and 20 minutes in - Gene Kelly’s dance scene with the mouse, which I have mentioned way too many times on this blog already The overall mixture of sexism (Gene Kelly is pretty much looking to get laid for the first half of the movie) and childish naivete (Jerry mouse? Really? Who is this movie for?) is really fascinating. I also love that despite the story taking place in LA the two Brooklynites find each other and fall in love. Watch it!

(film_stills) I couldn’t help myself, I screencapped Anchors Aweigh.

If you haven’t seen it, it’s on Netflix Instant Play now and despite being a pretty classic 40’s musical (not usually my thing..) it is pretty funny.

Around 45 minutes in - an interesting scene in which Gene Kelly and Sinatra’s characters try to dissuade a guy from going on a date with ‘Aunt Susie’ by singing a little ditty about how slutty she is (“If you knew Susie like we know Susie / She’s not so choosy / Oh no not Susie” …”S is for sincerity which she’s got none of” …”E is for her eagerness to please us” etc etc)

Around an hour and 20 minutes in - Gene Kelly’s dance scene with the mouse, which I have mentioned way too many times on this blog already

The overall mixture of sexism (Gene Kelly is pretty much looking to get laid for the first half of the movie) and childish naivete (Jerry mouse? Really? Who is this movie for?) is really fascinating.

I also love that despite the story taking place in LA the two Brooklynites find each other and fall in love.

Watch it!

Sorry. One more. It’s so catchy!

And the move at 2:12 kind of blows my mind.

Saw Newsies last night at Sunshine Cinema with a new friend I made at the zine fest.

It was even more fun than I anticipated. Kind of dumb, but definitely fun.

If they ever have a sing along of it at some NY theater, I am there.

Some things I probably hadn’t noticed last time I watched it on the Disney Channel when I was 13:

- there’s WAY TOO MUCH of dancing - most of it traditional musical-style stuff incorporating lots of slides and jumps and twirls, but some of the moves were ..a bit different, including one very surprising pelvis thrust towards the beginning. Well, that, and the cowboy dance by Bale during the Santa Fe song.

- terrible Brooklyn accents

- a number of scenes with kids smoking (cigarettes, cigars) and drinking something that looks like flat Coke (wine?). Thanks Disney for making bad habits look cool!

- a slight anti-semitic vibe that maybe only I picked up on (“Weasel?” “Crutchy?”)

- an interesting set of villains who are so evil I couldn’t help but giggle throughout - Snyder (Kevin Tighe), a juvenile detention facility warden who is so calm and quiet throughout he’s almost catatonic; the Delancey Boys whom we can distinguish from the Newsies by their dapper bowlers and endless smirks; Weasel (Michael Lerner) - your typical money-hungry underling; and finally, my favorite, Robert Duvall as Joseph Pulitzer ..a kind of mumbling fumbling parody of Donald Trump, constantly throwing out lines like ‘I want more money.. like TONIGHT!’ and punctuating his philosophical nuggets with weird hand gestures and sounds (“ch ch ch ch ch..”)

- Ann-Margret as a burlesque dancer who is a little too friendly (flirty..) with the teenage boys who are lusting after her

- Bill Pullman as a suspiciously rich journalist who also spends a little too much time with the kids and doesn’t appear to have a personal life like a normal adult might

- a lose interpretation of unions; a glossing over the suffrage parade that bleeds into the pro-newsie one towards the end of the film

- an (understandably) minimal, awkward love story

- an outdated fear of Brooklyn, whose newsies end up saving the day because they’re so tough and clever (yeah!)

- an unnecessary and very silly scene with Teddy Roosevelt

(Kate Beaton) Dangerous teen fashions.
(Kate Beaton) Dangerous teen fashions.
July 2, 2009
so much love!
July 1, 2009
(chelsea dirck)
(chelsea dirck)