Hello Boys

I finally found my SD card that holds my small memory card from my phone so I can upload all my images on to my computer I am thrilled .. so that shows how amaing today was.
HOW fabulous is that cake [above] it was in Selfridges yesterday and it was so amazing I had to take a photo of it :D

I've nearly finished the roll of 120 film on James' Holga Camers thank god! but still need to plan some sort of shoot / theme for a shoot / an idea but I'm drawing a blank, this isn't good. 6 weeks 3 days until University. 6 weeks 3 days to find a job. just under 6 weeks 3 days to move in to my house. Scary Stuff.

I actually went out last night and ditched my hermit ways well for one night to go to a gig in nuneaton with Jossy and Jay-Jay

I thought I'd use this as an inspiration post and post up a couple of photographs from my inspiration golder on my PC

Can I be the girl that you met in the coin laundry

I have become somewhat of an obsessive blog poster this will wear off once I finally get a job / start uni ... so we have at least 8 weeks worth to go as Tom just informed me we have a short life time until university starts. The best part being we seem to have been black listed as people in our classes have already started adding each other but not us, this does make me laugh to be honest.

I watched The Virgin Suicides and Amelie earlier for the ... well I've lost count of how many times actually. I don't particularily like the virgin suicides but I like the scenes and how its shot the lighting looks so serene and beautiful and obviously Amelie is just one amazing film my favourite part being when she is crying in the kitchen.

The Virgin Suicides

Amelie

which makes me want to post my favourite scene from Closer, for some reason I adore the sad scenes it's like you don't want to watch them because it's upsetting but at the same time you can't help it. I love these scenes even more after I watched a movie a few hundred times because I then know when it's coming and what my favourite parts are.

The scene in closer I adore is the part where Natalie Portman has just been left in the hotel room by Jude Law and he runs back to say he loves her and when he gets back and says it she's tells him she doesn't love him anymore, goodbye. It's the best part of the whole movie.

Natalie Portman has always been a favourite actress of mine from when I saw her in 'where the heart is' such a bad cheesy movie but when I was on holiday in florida a trailer came on the Tv for it and I made my dad take me to see it. The year after he bought the VHS for my birthday :) it's such a happy, cheesy film but I love it. So it goes without saying that I'm also fascinated with Garden State too, which is a wonderful film with an amazing soundrtack to match.

Labyrinth is always a movie I forget how much I love to watch until I come across it in my box of VHS's or its on Tv on like five afternoon movies, which are always rubbish to watch because theres too many breaks which leads me to flick channels and miss the movie I was actually watching.

I always used to have to watch the labyrinth as a child and then the dark crystal straight after they always had to be watched together, I'm not sure why, I was an odd child and I'm guessing dropped on my head a lot but it was just how I liked to watch them.

"When single shines the triple sun,
What was sundered and undone
Shall be whole, the two made one,
By Gelfling hand, or else by none."

My definate guilty pleasure movie is Now & Then based in 60s america about four girls growing up over one summer. The outfits are superb, the music is amazing all 60's swing, jive & rock&roll and the cast are a great line up old and young.

The other being Pleasantville I can't get enough of that movie, it gives off that magic feeling like the movie Big Fish

The Book Exchange

Books I've read that I own [The Perks of Being a Wallflower is missing as I lent into someone and haven't yet got it back but thats probably my favourite book]

+ In your dreams by Tom Holt
+ The Real Bettie Page by Richard Foster
+ The catcher in the rye by J.D. Sallenger
+ The honey trap by Thea Wolff
+ Intimacy by Hanif Kursisni
+ Junk by Melvin Burgess
+ Rape a love story by Joyce Carol Oates
+ Little black dress by Various Writters
+ Little people by Tom Holt
+ High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
+ Northanger Abbery by Jane Austen
+ Brick Lane by Monica Ali
+ Female chauvanist pigs - women and the rise of raunch culture by Ariel Levy
+ The heart is decietful above all things by J.T Leroy
+ Doing it by Melvin Burgess
+ The contortionist's handbook by Craig Clevenger
+ Christie Malriy's own double entry by B.S Johnson
+ Me and Mr.Darcy by Alexandra Potter
+ A room of one's own by Virginia Woolf
+ To kill a mocking bird by Harper Lee
+ Mr.Perfect by Catherine Robinson
+ Tin Grin by Catherine Robinson
+ The virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenices
+ The Polaroid Book by Taschen

a couple of amazing books I don't own but really love to read are: A time for dancing, Lovely bones, The five people you meet in heaven, World War Z, The zombie survival guide & The trial of true love

Books I own that I have yet to read yet

+ Love and other near death expiriences by Mil Millington
+ Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
+ Yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it by Geoff Dyer
+ Falling sideways by Tom Holt
+ Only human by Tom Holt
+ Snow white and the seven samurai by Tom Holt
+ Valhalla by Tom Holt
+ One pill makes you smaller by Lisa Dierbeck
+ Quite ugly one morning by Christopher Brookmyre
+ A million little pieces by James Frey
+ Swung by Ewan Morrison
+ Love and other impossible pursuits by Ayelet Waldman

I also enjoy reading other peoples favourite books :)

The girl can't help it

These are a few pictures of some of my Dita related stuff mainly clippings because yes I am totally obsessed with Miss. Teese which I think will be shown below and I don't feel she has been given enough recognition and attention within my blog so hopefully this will resolve that

Signed 'Burlesque & The Art of the Teese / Fetish & The Art of the Teese' Book from when I went to the book signing in the Waterstones in Birmingham - 26th November 2007

Two of the magazines I have with Dita on the cover one she signed at the same book signing mentioned above

Some of my cut outs / clippings & pull outs friends gave me of Dita

One of my old college sketchbooks
I think this shows just how obsessive I am :)

Heres some other things:

Three burlesque show programmes from 'The Candy Box Burlesque' - The Real Bettie Page by Richard Foster which was an amazing book - Edie, a book on Edie Sedgwick which I got in NY in some little bookshop - SWUNG, I haven't read yet. The Rocky Horror Picture Show programme from when I went to see it at the Alex in 2007. Little yellow heart from the Vintage Store in Digbeth which I use as a book mark :)