December 2011
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Will You Please Spend New Years Eve With Me - Allo...
Anonymous asked: i know you spoke about hons & rebels and the mitfords on your other blog so I wondered if you'd read "Mitfords: Letters between six sisters"? If you haven't I highly recommend it, it's a compilation of pretty much all of the letters that they ever sent to each other with all their nicknames etc. and it's a brilliant read if your interested in the mitfords....
Woah Mia Farrow and Woody Allen’s son is not only a total babe, but he entered university aged eleven and he’s now a human rights activist working for the Obama administration as ‘Special Adviser to the Secretary of State for Global Youth Issues’.
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Last New Year’s Eve someone was flirting with me but because I am dumb, I didn’t even realise until like five hours afterwards when his eight year old cousin pointed it out to me.
That is the highlight of my romantic life.
The ridiculous ‘NEW YEAR NEW ME’ declarations have already begun. You might as well accept that you’re going to be the same idiot in 2012 as you were in 2011.
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Someone come round with vodka tomorrow night and we can watch Twin Peaks and spin around to the Clash until we pass out into hazy David Lynch inspired dreams.
This has been a very lousy year so although it is quite lame to admit this but partially, the reason as to why I didn’t just kill myself in May was because I wanted to live long enough to find out if Chuck and Blair were going to get back together.
It’s reasons like this which make pop culture so crucial because even if something is rather frivolous or lacks substantial depth or...
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If I was in a relationship, the other person would have to accept dates almost exclusively in McDonalds, regularly scheduled marathons of Twin Peaks, and the compulsory Halloween costume of Margot and Richie Tenenbaum.
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My sister: ‘You are aware that I can hear you crying in your room to the Twin Peaks soundtrack along with the sound of your head banging against the wall, right?’
Anonymous asked: You remind me of Cassandra from 'I Capture the Castle'
I have just become this very dark and twisty, misanthropic, angsty, Plath-obsessed bitchy teenage girl and I don’t know how to stop it.
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“I seem to grow more acutely conscious of the swift passage of time as I grow...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Anonymous asked: You should become an actress or something, you have an amazing face.
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Diane, 11:30 a.m., February Twenty-fourth. Entering the town of Twin Peaks, five miles south of the Canadian border, twelve miles west of the state line. I’ve never seen so many trees in my life.
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The gloriously golden Twin Peaks boxset arrived in the post this morning and instead of studying, I’ve been rewatching the first season, with comments on Agent Cooper’s hair from my mother who originally watched it twenty years ago.
It’s not just the clothes lust that draws me to the show (although that is a factor and I have decided the dress as wonderfully as Audrey and Donna...
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“There is a moment — Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something...”
– This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don’t have a lot of pictures of my outfits but anyway:
(There’s a few other things like my silk nightgown and my Wednesday Addams dress and my Jarvis Cocker t-shirt and my sheer white shirt but I don’t really have pictures of them.)
1950s housewife dress from Pop! in Covent Garden
floral shirt from Portobello market
1960s style dress (I cannot remember where...
Anonymous asked: where do you buy clothes from/can you post some pictures of your favourite dresses? you have a really nice style
New Year’s Eve plans currently consist of twirling around my room in my Wednesday Addams dress and spending the evening as a worship of Wes Anderson films.
I have a feeling though that it’s going to end in a Bridget Jones manner where I will drunkenly cry in my pyjamas to the song ‘All By Myself’.
I feel very stifled by school at the moment, where I often feel as though my lungs are achingly tight and I’m on the verge of tears for no apparent reason. I’m aware that I have extreme high expectations for myself, but I’m almost passively self-destructing by letting it all slip out of my grasp.
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Queen Bitch - David Bowie
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WatchMARGOT - I think we’re just gonna to have to be secretly in love with each other and leave it at that, Richie
(featuring the Mutato Muzika Orchestra, the Weepies, the Velvet Underground, Belle and Sebastian, the Beatles, Elliott Smith, the Kinks, Ramones, Beat Happening, and David Bowie)
Instead of starting coursework or revision, I’ve crafted this playlist about everyone’s...
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I think there are so many stunning places in the world, but I doubt I could live comfortably anywhere apart from London (I’m quite certain that the spirit of the city runs through my blood just as a double-decker whizzes across the city). I love the view of the bustling Portobello Market on a Saturday morning from the top of a roof garden cafe and I love the dusty second-hand records shops...
Anonymous asked: I'm not talking about other people getting you gifts I'm talking about close family, so your sister and mother bought the series, that's like £20 between them, are your family not well off?
Anonymous asked: are you serious? is that all you got? the second series of downtown abbey?
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TRIBUTE TO JESSICA MITFORD (I have written a very long appreciation post for my favourite Mitford sister, Jessica, and why she’s so inspiring and wonderful!)
I forgot to sleep because of television and sadness oops.
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“These days, sexism is a bit like Meryl Streep, in a new film: sometimes you...”
– How to be a Woman by Caitlin Moran
My sister and I hate our father mainly because he’s a horrible human being, but also, it’s partially because thanks to his lousy genes, we both have noses slightly too large for our faces.
I am wearing my old PE kit in bed while crying to the most perfect album I’ve ever heard (I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning) because I think my life is falling apart slowly and I think the future is going to be horrible - but there are also so many nice things that I don’t appreciate quite enough like my friends and my sister and my mother, and they give me hope that everything...
Anonymous asked: What are your new year's resolutions?
I loathed my PE kit when I was forced to run five laps in a park deep in the winter or to participate in some appalling team game like rounders where I could neither catch nor throw the ball - but for sad, wallowing days, my school joggers (still slightly too long for me) and oversized year eleven jumper are very lovely to just live in.
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I bought myself the pretty and shiny gold boxset of Twin Peaks because I was sad.
I am going to fail my A-Levels because I am going to spend all my time lusting after Audrey Horne’s wardrobe and falling in love with Agent Cooper over and over.
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I think we should all just give up on parliament and make Stephen Fry our supreme leader instead.
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On one occasion before a history lesson, there was a discussion about whether or not we want children in the future and after a variety of opinions on the topic were said by different girls, I remarked that I probably don’t ever want to have children - to which this girl, who’s extremely conservative in her beliefs, said very confidently in a smug manner ‘oh that’ll...
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“I must stop identifying with the seasons, because this English winter will be...”
– Sylvia Plath
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I want to spend my Christmas with the Doctor in an anciently beautiful dream house in the countryside where there’s a lemonade tap and chairs that can whizz about and hammocks hanging from the walls and dolls with comic faces and the Magna Carta.
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Caitlin Moran on bras
The relief of taking off a bad bra is immeasurable. It is also the measure of your friendships. If you would feel comfortable going round to someone’s house at the end of a long day, and saying, “I’m just going to take my bra off,” you know you are intimate friends.
Of course, on occasion bad bra removal has to happen in a more urgent location. I have seen women taking bras...
HAPPY DOCTOR WHO AND DOWNTON ABBEY DAY!
This Christmas has been wonderful, although it’s not very traditional and instead, it’s something that we’ve nicknamed a ‘diner Christmas’ spent in a secluded booth in the empty city (the only other people in the diner were Swedish tourists). Christmas is far nicer without being spent in an awful relative’s home deep in suburbia where everyone comments on my...
When my sister was 7, she sparked a minor controversy when during the ascension service, she said very loudly: ‘But that’s stupid, how can someone be raised from the dead? And why are we so sure that he’s the son of God, and that there is a God?’ (According to the headteacher, she caused the entire reception class to have a crisis of faith and to doubt their belief in God.)