Merylathon: an update [and a digression about Barbra, and another about hats]

One of my New Year's resolutions was to watch every movie for which either Katharine Hepburn or Meryl Streep was nominated for an Oscar.

I decided to do Meryl first because I had seen less of her movies. I had already seen Music of the Heart through years of Orchestra classes. I've seen that movie/Mr. Holland's Opus way too many times, The Devil Wears Prada, and Julie & Julia. So I started with Kramer v. Kramer because it was her first Oscar win [and I was NOT watching The Deer Hunter by myself in my room (her first nomination)] and it is my dad's favorite Meryl movie. I won't give anything away, but I was especially excited with the ending because somehow in my dad's description of it I interpreted it ending the opposite way. And of course, Meryl is supporting in this role, but not out shined by Dustin Hoffman [whom I also adore, The Graduate is my favorite movie of all time]

Then I went to Doubt, simply because it was on Netflix instant watch. And holy moley, if Meryl can make me hate her, it just makes me love her more. Possibly her least fabulous role I've seen, she plays a nun, she is still Meryl through and through and doesn't let up until the credits role.

These were all preludes to my now favorite Meryl movie. I think Kramer v. Kramer is better and she is better in it. But five words: Robert Redford sans Barbra Streisand. I could go on and on about how much I hated Katie Morosky in The Way We Were as the only reason to watch that movie is the boat scene, but I digress.

Out of Africa was amazing. I don't think I can capture how much I loved this movie. But I can capture how much I loved Meryl's hats.

This is not the first time a movie has been ranked higher in my favorite simply for millinery. See His Girl Friday and A Room with a View

bloomsbury

obsessed with bloomsbury, I am.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses. - Virginia Woolf

some inspo for you

fashion photos from style.com dires von noten 2004 spring ready to wear collection

1. these violet flowers looks like it was taken directly from vanessa's painting; 2. this mustard is the color of vanessa's kitchen; 3. morbid but...this coat reminds me of how virginia woolf killed her self, [put stones in a long jacket and walked into a river] 4. more american inter-war period but still deco, this color reminds me of daisy buchanan from the great gastby.

1. Charleston House, home of Vanessa Bell and Clive Bell-photo from Tate Museum website, 2. Virginia Woolf-Tate 3. Bloomsbury-group 4.Vanessa Bell's cover of Mrs. Dalloway, her sister's, Virginia Woolf, book 5. interior by vanessa bell 5. first menu from the omega group's dinner

behr color palette: serene sky 540c-2

daylight lilac 660b-6

plum shade 100f-6

chamois cloth w-f-110

bloomsbury

Happy Halloween! and Something Weird about flippee.

My post-modern peacock outfit. I love it. I wish I could dress this all the time.

I spent the night hanging out with Ethandear at the Williams residence. I do love that family. We watched The Shining. And omg, I remember seeing "REDRUM" when I was little and that moment scared me for life. But it was amazing. and not that scary. Much more Hitchcock like than I assumed. But I don't really get scared during scary movies and I get scared during movies I'm not supposed.

Here's a secret: My number one most scared moment while watching a movie was during...Breaking Away. Yes, you're thinking of the right one.

The bike movie.

When Dennis Quaid like jumps into the ravine with the lake and hides under the dumpster; I flipped out. I was convinced Dennis was a goner. But I think I saw this movie first when I hadn't completely separated fiction and reality.

Like during the period when I thought Mel Gibson actually was disembowled and racked and beheaded while directing Braveheart. I honestly just assumed that was the last scene that was shot.