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

happy birthday!

today is one of my dearest friend's 19th birthday. so I've been scoping out etsy for the past week for some lovely b-day presents. here's what I found!

cupkozy

How cute is this!? It a reusable cozy for a coffee shop cup! and it rolls up so you can carry it on your keychain. I think this would be perfect for a coffee drinker. I think I'll buy one for myself.

5dollarshakershoppe

One of my favorite shops! I love the idea of giving/getting vintage salt and pepper shakers. I love this shop. They are super sweet and have great service!

johnnyvintage

Can't describe how much I love this little green apple ben franklin! I was thinking something like this for my friend would be perfec, she loves U.S. History.

also from johnnyvintage! I actually found this by searching for my friend's favorite color after selecting vintage. so when I typed in "aqua" I got this adorable deer!

pajamaspajamaspajamas

Could Claudette Colbert get cuter? She rocks the too-short bangs and pencil thin eyebrows harder than anyone could ever dream to. It Happened One Night is one of my favorite movies of all time. and I love the clothes. There are about two outfits in the whole thing though, so you wouldn't think I'd get inspo from it right? negativo, my friend.

I mean they are travelling from Miami to New York and she has a sweater and skirt and an adorable kid hat. plus her wedding dress. albeit fabulous, I can't just wear a wedding dress in homage to Claudette. but I do love those pjs!

Of course Clark is looking swanky. I adore him in this. I undercover hate Gone With the Wind. I know. I am a horrible southerner or whatever. But the women are annoying and the men are abusive and/or drips. But Clark is just wonderful in this movie. I'm am a sucker for newspaper men. (Cary Grant in His Girl Friday? yes please)

A recent viewing of this movie has me craving some mens-style pajamas a la these:

Pajama Gram

The Cat's Pajamas

aerie.com

some more adorable pjs for you. I LOVE THE BANANAS IN PYJAMAS. so cute

inspiration december09/january2010 [thinking of spring]

went shopping today with my mom for christmas presents for the family. and I realized that I hate "fall colors." at least to wear. and idk why but they seem to bleeding into winter. reds and oranges and yellows. NOOOOO. give me jewel tones, pleaseeeeeeee. so I'm pining for spring right now.

anna sui's rtw spring 2010 collection looks like a peacock feather

primavesi by klimt, she looks like a model at the end of a runway no?

love the crinoline betsey johnson!

zooey deschanel and ben gibbard. my favorite indie couple.

behnaz sarafpour rtw spring 2010, reminds me of rosalind russell in his girl friday

behnaz sarafpour rtw spring 2010-love the asymmetry

behnaz sarafpour rtw spring 2010, mmm mustard, my favorite warm color

I WANT THESE BANGS.

anne hathaway at 2009 golden globes. love the color. I love purpley-navy in the spring

to read list

I've review a few movies on here, with plans for more.

But in my soul I am a literature person. So in 2010, I'm going to read/write a review for a book twice a month. 24 books! goals! I love goals, no matter how unattainable they may be.

I've come up with a preliminary list, welcome to suggestions. These are all books that I've never read, or want a second look at for a different perspective.

1. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close-Jonathan Safran Coer
2. Women in Love-D.H. Lawrence
3. A Good Man in Hard to Find-Flannery O'Connor
4. Selected Poems 1965-1975-Seamus Heaney
   
5. Middlemarch-George Eliot
6. Brooklyn-Colm Toibin
7. On the Road-Jack Kerouac
8. Atonement-Ian McEwan
9. Madame Bovary-Gustave Flaubert
10. Age of Anxiety-W.H. Auden
11. The Age of Innocence-Edith Wharton
12. The Golden Notebook-Doris Lessing
13. Brideshead Revisited-Evelyn Waugh
14. The Adventures of Augie March-Saul Bellow
15. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay-Michel Chabon
16. Mrs. Dalloway-Virginia Woolf (a reread)
17. The Hours-Michael Cunningham
18. Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror-John Ashbery
19. Shade of Grey-Jasper Fforde
20. The House of the Spirits-Isabel Allende
21. Don Quixote-Miguel de Cervantes
22. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland-Lewis Carroll
23. The Way We Live Now-Anthony Trollope
24. A Movable Feast-Ernest Hemingway

GOALS. any suggestions/substitutions?

birken gainsbourg family

Jane Birken, Serge Gainsbourg and their progeny, Charlotte, are beautiful and have of hold on my interest. A few other people do this as being so supremely interesting; Katharine Hepburn, Angelica Huston, Buddy Holly. and I could very well write this post about the Rossellini-Bergman family.

my first exposure to birken-gainsbourg world was the birken bag reference on sex and the city.

which is funny because jane birken supposedly commented on how when her daugther would come to america people would ask her if she was the daughter of the bag.

later, in november of 2007, lisa robinson wrote this fascinating article about the home/world of Serge Gainsbourg for Vanity Fair. now as much as I regret it, I am not a regular Vanity Fair reader. whenever I read it I feel terribly bourgeois. And the text is really tiny. but this picture captured me:

Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg on the set of the movie Slogan, June 1968. By Gilles Caron/Contact Press Images.

They look so supremely happy.

Of course, Serge was a raging alcoholic...but this is right when they were about to get married/just married.

I imagine Jane as sort of backwards Eleanor of Aquitaine. Eleanor was French best known for marrying an Englishman, but a formidable woman in her own right, and Jane was just this flipped. An Englishwoman so intertwined with French culture with a completely French daughter.

Charlotte! my favorite part of I'm Not There, a movie I found pretentious and annoying except for a few select parts. Well those select parts when the little boy obsessed with woody guthrie, heath ledger, cate blachett, and CHARLOTTE.

but seriously. check out that vanity fair article.

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