Friday, December 14, 2007
So, it's been ages since I posted, and now I'm breaking my silence only to share random and largely frivolous thoughts.
First off: go read The Golden Compass now (and the rest of the sequels -- and for that matter, anything else by Pullman). The movie's out, the reviews are bad, and everything I've read seems to confirm what I've thought all along: Hollywood cannot, and will not, make a movie that does justice to Pullman's deeply subversive, thought-provoking, anti-religious books. If that sounds like something you might enjoy, then please, go forth and read them before your vision of Lyra's world is forever tainted by the film. (It does look pretty, though, and I'll probably be going to see it -- after I've reread the book, which I just bought.)
I always say that if you find a great dress that looks fantastic on you, you should buy it and the occasions to wear it will come. I broke my own rule a couple of months ago, and now find myself thinking wistfully about a Tadashi iridescent gunmetal dress I tried on (looked like liquid metal pleated all over and twisted in front, sleeveless, with a high front slit). It looked over-the-top on the rack, but when I tried it on... oh my. Very va-va-voom. It actually made me glad that I've aged a bit, because I could never have pulled off something like that as a teenager! Sadly, I did not purchase it (having no occasion to wear it) and now it seems to be gone. It was close to this one, but without the sleeves, and with a little less criss-crossing in the front; this one is sleeveless, but again, too criss-crossy, and too short. Ooh, I think it might have been this one... (Yes, this is what I do in my spare time -- stalk clothes. And shoes.)
First off: go read The Golden Compass now (and the rest of the sequels -- and for that matter, anything else by Pullman). The movie's out, the reviews are bad, and everything I've read seems to confirm what I've thought all along: Hollywood cannot, and will not, make a movie that does justice to Pullman's deeply subversive, thought-provoking, anti-religious books. If that sounds like something you might enjoy, then please, go forth and read them before your vision of Lyra's world is forever tainted by the film. (It does look pretty, though, and I'll probably be going to see it -- after I've reread the book, which I just bought.)
I always say that if you find a great dress that looks fantastic on you, you should buy it and the occasions to wear it will come. I broke my own rule a couple of months ago, and now find myself thinking wistfully about a Tadashi iridescent gunmetal dress I tried on (looked like liquid metal pleated all over and twisted in front, sleeveless, with a high front slit). It looked over-the-top on the rack, but when I tried it on... oh my. Very va-va-voom. It actually made me glad that I've aged a bit, because I could never have pulled off something like that as a teenager! Sadly, I did not purchase it (having no occasion to wear it) and now it seems to be gone. It was close to this one, but without the sleeves, and with a little less criss-crossing in the front; this one is sleeveless, but again, too criss-crossy, and too short. Ooh, I think it might have been this one... (Yes, this is what I do in my spare time -- stalk clothes. And shoes.)
