I’m a 90’s whore…

I was watching “Foxfire” and then it hit me like a sledgehammer in the stomach; I’m a 90’s whore. I so miss those days! I want to wear a filthy tee (but back then it was known as a t-shirt), flannel shirt and Dr Martin boots and watch “My so called life” (remember Jordan Catalano, he was yummy) and listen to all the sad music and a suffering soul who no one gets and have a Robert Smith hairdo! I’m getting a flannel, nostalgia overdoes… Where the H is my copy of “The Crow”?

(I love the sunglasses!)

(I always liked Angelas hair, I'm having a redhead phase)

Sølve Sundsbø

I know it’s just a naked woman on a stool but I really like the picture. I wonder if I can get bangs like that… Anyways, the picture is by Norwegian photographer Sølve Sundsbø and the model is Daisy Lowe. She also took the other two pictures. Can’t refuse a redhead and the other picture was sort of cool and creepy at the same time so…

Daisy Lowe Lily Cole
Susie Bick

Last seen movie…

Tristan + Isolde, what a waste of time… Yawn, the only thing I liked in the movie was perhaps Isoldes hair, and the names Tristan and Isolde, got a certain ring to it.

Research

Doing a little research for Aimées (and my…) story. It’s a romantic one so this picture by Annie Leibovits is just want I need. Going to the library tomorrow and picking up something romantic… any recommendations? Other than Romeo and Juliet I mean? More pictures here.

I’m officially scared of bunnies…

And a little something for Shalyn, poor bunny...

Some goodies from Swedish real estate

Pictures I found at swedish real estate sites.

Not much but closeup below on the kitchen floor, love it! Old wine crates or something.

Bonus pictures from Australia, Melbourne I think. Both picture from the same house. Was for sale maybe two years ago... I hope someone renovated it properly.

Lovely!

Found this lovely site called The Land Between Solar Systems… Not sure how (like always) and there’s just tones of pretty pictures! She’s an artist with her own Etsy shop. Some nude stuff that I could live without, but whatever floats your boat. Some nice pictures I found there.

I really like this tattoo, very art nouveu.

Alice trailer

I like that the tree looks like the on the Sleepy Hollow... Still not sure about this one... All I can do is hope. (Johnny looks like Madonna/Elijah Wood, very very creepy)

The Fall

“What a mystery this world. One day you love them and the next day you want to kill them, a thousand times over…”

I just saw a still from this movie and felt that I had to see it. Distracting myself from reality at the time, have been saving this movie for the right time and today was the day. And what a distraction it was… I have a crush on Roy/The Bandit. Such colors and lovely costumes and sets. Wonderful, but I would have liked a little more satisfying ending but you can’t have it all. Defiantly worth watching if you get the chance, The Fall.

Lillian Gish

I don’t know what it is but there’s something… maybe it’s the tiny little mouth? She reminds me a little of my mom…

More pictures

Not as nice as the other pictures if you ask me... Still doubtfull about this movie. Found pictures here and here.

Living the life

Of a writer which means write so, get up and write even if I’m not “inspired”. Trying to write, trying to stick with this one story until it’s done and not jump around among all the stories I have. One at the time, one at the time…

What’s your eye color?

(My eye!)

It says blue in my passport but I think they look more grey than blue. I have a feeling they change and might be more blue at times but…

I wish I had really blue eyes, or bright green eyes… (I’m never satisfied)

Haven’t been looking forward to this but…

The pictures look pretty darn nice. Well, Johnny looks intense and creepy, a little like Elijah Wood. He might give me nightmares.

Anna looks divine, makes me want to go blond which has never happened before. I would probably look freaky as a platinum blond…

Helena looks great, love the eyebrows and heart-shaped mouth. And the hair is killer, maybe I should go red?

The gardens look amazing; I think there’s a little crazy gardener in Tim somewhere. He can fix my garden if he wants to.

Not only Louise Brooks

American actress Colleen Moore also have “the bob”, adorable!

It’s not on the list?

How the H can it be that “Rebel without a cause” is not on IMDB top 250!? It’s better than Se7en, it’s better than Fight Club, The Matrix, The Usual Suspects and I can go on… What the H?! Anyway, I really like it, they don’t make movies like these anymore. If you haven’t seen it, do it now!


Movies left to see on IMDB top 250: 141

I won’t stop talking about this do until I make the horrible mistake in getting it

I really like the look but like a lot of things I like it’s not for me. How the H would my hair react to that? My hair is wavy and frizzy. How on earth do you keep it nice? It’s easy to take a picture with good hair when you have a team of professionals with you but in real life? Picture from Hairfinder.

Mothers Day cake

Yesterday was Mother’s Day here in Sweden and I wanted to make my mom a fourteen layer cake (I was inspired by this cake, maybe some other time...) but I realized it would be too high and it wouldn’t fit in the fridge and/or fall over so instead I made an eight layer cake.

(I suck at taking pictures... especially of food.)

101 movies in 1001 days

Didn’t need the 1001 days and I think I’ve seen more than 101 movies but I never remember. I’ll continue to write them down just to see how many movies I have seen when the 1001 days are over.

Hm…

When I read “Twilight” I couldn’t help thinking it was very similar to a story I wrote when I was… 15-ish perhaps. Well, it was like we both made a potato soup, different but the same dish. I tossed it aside thinking people will say, “It’s like Buffy come up with something else.”

Yesterday I read, ”Hex Education” and it was also very similar to a story I wrote about that time… I didn’t finish it because I felt it was silly and no one wants to read crap like that. But maybe my stories aren’t crap after all? Very similar ones have been published so…

(Found picture here)

Dreams

I don’t know when but it was a few days ago I dreamt that… I don’t really know why but I was being chased, and yesterday I did again. Not me running down a dark alley with a scary monster behind me kind of chase but more like in “The Fugitive”, constantly being on the run and hiding, getting spotted and forced to run again. I was hiding, wearing wigs and there was no one I could trust.

Not sure it’s important but the first dream I was in Brazil (?) and being chased by some gang of drug people and the second dream I was in some eastern European country and being chased by a group of people. So, in both dreams I’m abroad and more than one person after me.

So many books, so little time

I still haven’t finished the books I got from the library or “The Dubliners” (yes Sarah, it does take surprisingly long time to read such a short book) and today I got my package from Adlibris!! I want to start read all of them at once! Which one should I read? Tricky...

“The Gun Seller” by Hugh Laurie. Apparently he wrote it back in 1996 (feels like yesterday to me…) On the back of the book: When Thomas Lang, a hired gun with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim – a good deed that doesn’t go unpunished. Within hours Lang is butting heads with a Buddha statue, matching wits with evil billionaires, and putting his life (among other things) in the hands of a bevy of femme fatales, whilst trying to save a beautify lady… and prevent an international bloodbath to boot.

“The Duchess” by Amanda Foreman. Wanted to read the book before I saw the movie. Back of the book: Beautiful, glamorous and charismatic, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, was an icon of her age; she was also a compulsive gambler, an influential political operator, a drug addict, a doting mother and adulteress.
In a world of decadence and excess, of great houses. Extravagant parties and sexual intrigue, Georgiana, like her descendant, Diana, Princess of Wales, was publically adored but personally troubled. From her complex ménage à trios with her husband and best friend to her vast gambling debts; from her adoration of her children to her passionate but doomed love for Earl Grey. She was a fascinating, contradictory woman whose story still resonates today. I’m guessing they don’t mean tea when they are talking about Earl Grey.

“American Eve” by Paula Uruburu (which is a very funny name). I read that Lucy Maud Montgomery, author of the books about Anne of Green Gables used Evelyn Nesbit to base her character Anne on. Anyway, I read some about this Evelyn and I wanted to read more so I got the book. Back of the book: By the time of her sixteenth birthday in 190, Evelyn Nesbit was already know to millions as the most photographed woman of her era, an iconic figure who set the standard for female beauty, and whose innocent sexuality was used to sell everything from chocolate to perfume. Women wanted to be her. Men just wanted her. But when Evelyn’s life of fantasy became all too real and her insanely jealous millionaire husband, Harry K. Thaw, murdered her lover, New York City architect Sanford White, the most famous woman in the world became infamous as she found herself at the center of the “crime of the century” and a scandal that signaled the beginning of a national obsession with youth, beauty, celebrity and sex.

“Gypsy, a memoir” by Gypsy Rose Lee. I have been wanting to read this book for some time now but I never got around to buy it, then the other day (week) I saw the movie and loved it so I had to get the book. Back of the book: The memoir, which Gypsy began as a series of pieces of ‘The New Yorker’, contains photographs and newspaper clippings from her personal scrapbooks and an afterword by her son, Erik Lee Preminger. At turns touching and hilarious, Gypsy describes her childhood trouping across 1920’s America through her rise to stardom as The Queen of Burlesque in 1930’s New York – where gin came in bathtubs, gangsters were celebrities, and Walter Winchell was king.
Gypsy’s story features outrageous characters – among them Broadway’s funny girl, Fanny Brice, who schooled Gypsy in how to be a star; gangster Waxy Gordon, who fixed her teeth; and her indomitable mother, Rose, who lived by her own Golden Rules: “Do unto others… before they do you.” I have no clue who Walter Winchell is… or Waxy Gordon.