If you get the chance, you must dance, dance, dance

Summer has only JUST started, but I'm already thinking of what I want to stock my Fall wardrobe with: I'm intrigued by the idea of sheer maxi skirts paired with leggings, and I need new leggings, and new boots... But I'm resisting the urge to shop for said things, (even though they're already available! crazy, right?!), because I have zero chance of wearing them in this 100degree, HUMID climate I'm so very blessed to live in... (<< sarcasm). I denied myself the pleasure of purchasing an adorable pink leopard print cardigan at Macy's the other day, for the very reason that I don't want it sitting in my closet -untouched and unloved- until October, if even then! It would be unfair to me, my closet, and the cardigan. Have I ever talked about how much I love cardigans? I own three very cute ones that I wore all last Fall.  I'm dying to wear them again! But just as I sit here moping about how much I despise this season every year, I figure the only thing I can do to keep me somewhat cheerful until the glorious Autumn is to experiment with my Summer clothes.  I hate being outside any more than I absolutely have to, but I've been religiously wearing my denim short shorts paired with my five inch wedges for every necessary outing, and it makes me feel pretty damn fabulous.

But every girl needs a bit of variety...

While channel-surfing earlier in the morning today, I stumbled upon the (2004) movie Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, (a movie I hadn't seen since I was sixteen!), and decided to watch. Yes, I know it's a total cheesy chick-flick/prequel/remake/whatever, but it's actually a fun one. And the one thing I kept thinking in my head throughout the whole thing was that, "DAMN. This Katey (Romola Garai) girl has the PERFECT SUMMER WARDROBE".  Lookee:

The setting is the late 1950's, which instantly makes it a huge plus, because everything she wore had a perfect vintage kind of feel to it: full circle skirts and cute tops. But it takes place in Cuba, an island country in the Caribbean Sea known for it's warm/tropical weather-year round, so there was definitely a lot more skin being shown in halter dresses and spaghetti straps. I loved it all!!

It makes me want to hit up thrift stores in search of cute, printed summer dresses and skirts..

..maybe even a a dress fit for ballroom dancing. HA.


All I know is that re-watching this movie certainly made Summer seem not so bad anymore.  We'll see how long that lasts.

<3

a season of poison will bring the darkness soon

 I'm always late in watching movies that everyone else has already watched ages ago.. and I'm also late in blogging about them.  I watched this movie, Pan's Labyrinth, (or El Laberinto del Fauno, for my fellow Spanish speaking peeps) LAST weekend. (Not to be confused with Bowie's Labyrinth).


This is a Spanish fantasy movie that I thought was more or less meant for little kids, but it was more suited for grownups as it was uber dark and sad.  It's a heart wrenching story about a little girl caught in that horrible place in time when she'd like to remain "little" and "innocent" as long as she can, but everyone else around her is forcing her to "grow up" and see her ugly world for what it really is.

this dood was actually pretty creepy.

So what's a young kid to do?  Immerse herself in her story books, that's what.  When everything else around her seems to be crumbling to jagged pieces, she manages to escape to immensely IMAGINATIVE other worlds with the help of my favourite character that I like to refer to as the Freaky Faun:

The Freaky Faun!!!!!!!

I won't say much else about what happens, but basically, it's one of those films whose message stays with you for a looooong time after.

At least, it was for me.

<3

FINALLY got around to watching The Prestige last night...

It stars Hugh Jackman, Scarlett Johansson, Christian Bale...

...and none other than DAVID BOWIE plays Nikola Tesla... doesn't get much better than that!!!!!!!!!

If you're into old timey magic and steampunk, I highly recommend you check it out.

Makeup won't help me much...

Dearest Friends and Readers,





My soul has been taken by The Other Mother.
Do not fear for me...

It's actually a pretty awesome "Other World" over here!!!!!!!!!! The Other Mother calls me her "little doll", and she lets me switch out my button eyes as often as I like.

She also makes me all the cupcakes that I can eat.







:)


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