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)
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Monday, July 27, 2009
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.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
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…
Monday, July 20, 2009
More pictures
Sunday, July 5, 2009
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…
Thursday, June 25, 2009
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)
I wish I had really blue eyes, or bright green eyes… (I’m never satisfied)
Monday, June 22, 2009
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.
The gardens look amazing; I think there’s a little crazy gardener in Tim somewhere. He can fix my garden if he wants to.
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.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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
Movies left to see on IMDB top 250: 141
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
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.
Monday, June 1, 2009
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.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
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…
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…
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.
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.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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.
“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.
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Aw…
Finished “Pride and Prejudice” last night and it was so… dreamy! I want a white muslin gown and take a walk in the garden with a perfect gentleman and later have tea in front of a fire and discuss the day with my beloved sister (too bad I don't have one). Analyzing people’s character &c, while embroidering a cushion.
My favorite character was probably Mr Bennet, seems like such a sweetheart and I love his humor. But Mr Bingley was adorable too, such a puppy.
I’ll read more Austen real soon and I’ll read them in chronological order so next in line is Mansfield Park. And I’ll finish with “Sense and Sensibility” since that was the first book I read but in Swedish and hated every minute of it so I hope it will be better this time.
My favorite character was probably Mr Bennet, seems like such a sweetheart and I love his humor. But Mr Bingley was adorable too, such a puppy.
I’ll read more Austen real soon and I’ll read them in chronological order so next in line is Mansfield Park. And I’ll finish with “Sense and Sensibility” since that was the first book I read but in Swedish and hated every minute of it so I hope it will be better this time.
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Summer reading
“Do you prefer reading to cards? That is rather singular.'' Mr Hurst to Elizabeth, Pride and Prejudice
Summer Reading List
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Atonement by Ian McEwan (if I can snatch it from the library)
And the rest to be decided
Four easy steps to the perfect summer reading:
1. If the weather allows it read outside, either at your favorite spot in the shade or on the beach while sun bathing. If the weather is “Swedish” sit by the window or under a big umbrella and listen to the rain.
2. Make sure you’re comfortable, sun block, mosquito net, pillows, blanket, sunglasses etcetera
3. Something cold to drink or a cup of tea and/or some strawberries or a salad to nibble on.
4. A stalk of good books
Summer Reading List
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Atonement by Ian McEwan (if I can snatch it from the library)
And the rest to be decided
Four easy steps to the perfect summer reading:
1. If the weather allows it read outside, either at your favorite spot in the shade or on the beach while sun bathing. If the weather is “Swedish” sit by the window or under a big umbrella and listen to the rain.
2. Make sure you’re comfortable, sun block, mosquito net, pillows, blanket, sunglasses etcetera
3. Something cold to drink or a cup of tea and/or some strawberries or a salad to nibble on.
4. A stalk of good books
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Be your own best friend
Okay, look yourself in the mirror and take a look at your new best friend. Don’t be your own enemy; there are plenty of people out there willing to be that person but your best friend? Who’s better to be your best friend than you?
Me 1: Yeah right, I'll give it a week...
Me 2: Oh shut up, you'll do great!
Me 1: Yeah right, I'll give it a week...
Me 2: Oh shut up, you'll do great!
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Cutie
I might have a little crush on Howlin’ Pelle… He was singing live the other day and it’s pretty horrible but I like it. Around 1:43 he messes up, so cute.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Movies
Twelve Monkeys: Terry is a weird man… (On Top 250)
Bladerunner: Um… what’s so brilliant about this movie? But Daryl Hannah was kind of hot. (On Top 250)
Heathers: What a weird-ass movie… but Christian Slater was actually kind of cute, and I like vintage Winona too. It’s pretty far from the info at IMDB “A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics”
Cheaper by the dozen II: Sucks! There was nothing good about this movie (well, I love Bonnie Hunt, she’s so cute).
Singin' in the Rain: I like it, it was cute! And I feel like dancing. (On Top 250)
Ziegfeld Follies: (Recommended by Dita Von Teese) I have a crush on the pink ballerina, think it's Cyd Charisse.
Bladerunner: Um… what’s so brilliant about this movie? But Daryl Hannah was kind of hot. (On Top 250)
Heathers: What a weird-ass movie… but Christian Slater was actually kind of cute, and I like vintage Winona too. It’s pretty far from the info at IMDB “A girl who half-heartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics”
Cheaper by the dozen II: Sucks! There was nothing good about this movie (well, I love Bonnie Hunt, she’s so cute).
Singin' in the Rain: I like it, it was cute! And I feel like dancing. (On Top 250)
Ziegfeld Follies: (Recommended by Dita Von Teese) I have a crush on the pink ballerina, think it's Cyd Charisse.
I always forget to write down what movies I see, I know I forgotten a few. Um, a Russian movie (my first) Night Watch, which I kind of liked, there’s was a mood and atmosphere that I really enjoyed, maybe the story wasn’t that good but… I just know I’ve seen more movies… Oh, Pan’s Labyrinth (On Top 250), which I had high hopes for but I clearly expected too much. Atonement, um… okay I guess but I was mainly checking out the garden and the house.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Weird dream…
I have weird dreams sometimes. Yesterday I dreamt that I discovered a sixth finger on my left hand, between my pinky and ring finger, a small weak sick looking finger, sharp and boney. As the dream progressed the finger got bigger and I could retract it like a cat do with its claws, and then I got another finger between the thumb and the index finger on the left hand, it was under the skin and more like a cat claw feel to it, curbed you know. Ideas? What the hell was this one about?
I like it…
I wish she had nipples though, looks weird without them. I like it, I would have it on my wall as art.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Right now…
Obsessing about photography, I spent way too much time looking at pictures on the net. I like Ellen Von Unwerth and it was funny because I’ve always thought that some pictures of Dita that made me think of the Hole album “Live through this” and guess what, Ellen took those pictures…
And she also took my favorite picture of Vanessa Paradis are also by Ellen.
This picture is pretty damn nice too, I love the hair!! (I think it's a wig though)
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Love!
Don’t know how I ended up on this site, no clue but I love it and want to spend a lot of money on kitchen supplies, sprinkles and whatnot. Oh, and eat cupcakes everyday!! Yummy! I love decorating cakes but I’m not very good. All pictures by Her Royal Highness Bakerella, click the picture for more about the cake.
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