I should have shared this right before Halloween but my memory is on temporary leave, so I forgot. Still, I need to show y'all this so I will, whatever.

It's a vlog from my housemate Jonathan, who... basically got lost at night in the CREEPIEST MUSEUM EXHIBIT IN THE WORLD, where he was all alone.

Seriously, you will want to see this. It involves innovative and creepy taxidermy artefacts and actual for real brain music. As in music made by a human brain. Which is no longer attached to a human. And all of this was caught on film.



Also the talky bits were recorded in my room! So you get to feast your eyes on my wall, which I am sure is extremely enticing.

GO WATCH IT.

So I hope everyone who celebrates Halloween had a good one! And please admire my beautiful Halloween icon for a little because I will have to delete it after today. Tragedy!

It's not really celebrated over here, but I did have a good day. I went to a free screening of The Fall at the train station (yes really haha) with a_suitcase - that wasn't very Halloweeny obviously, but when I got home I FINALLY got around to seeing American Psycho, which was a little more like it!

All in all I've seen a lot of films this week - I went to see My Winnipeg in Amsterdam with my dad on Tuesday, which was preceded by a surprise showing of the short film The Heart Of The World WHICH I LOVED SO MUCH, OMFG. It is up on youtube so I can share its amazingness with you:




AMAZING, RIGHT? RIGHT.

Then on Wednesday I saw This Is It with my mum (I loved it and I'll be going again soon, not gonna lie), and on Thursday I saw Julie & Julia AND Bright Star. My wallet does not particularly like me just now, but it was fun!

I loved Julie & Julia mostly for the gorgeousness of the scenes set in 1950s Paris and a variety of beautiful French houses and kitchens, and Bright Star was just gorgeous all around - there are some screencaps here which frankly don't even do it justice, but I'm just trying to get you guys to see it haha so anything helps I suppose. They left out this cap which I LOVE:



Soooo yes, go see it!

When dad and I were in Amsterdam on Monday, we also went to the Van Gogh Museum, to see the exhibition about his letters. He was a prolific letter-writer, and a lot of the letters he sent and received have been preserved. A lot of them contained little sketches of paintings he was working on as well, and were shown next to the same, finished paintings. It was a great exhibition but it made me a bit sad because I'm a sap, I guess. It just makes me sad to read his letters where he talks about what he wants to achieve with his art, and how one must always try to keep seeing the beauty in things, but to know that he ended up feeling like such an all around failure and so plagued by his psychiatric problems that he took his own life a few years later, after all. idk, boo, it sucks. He deserved better.

Aside from my sad life story-related emo, it was really exciting and interesting to read van Gogh's letters. He quoted a lot of poetry and literature, and even aside from that they were very interesting to read. A complete annotated collection of them has actually just been published, but it costs €400, ffffuuuuuuuuck the world. I want it bad, but yeah, never gonna happen.

And lastly for now... Nanowrimo has started?! And I still don't know whether or not I want to try and participate this year, haha. I don't have a plot so it would end up being a hot mess anyway, but last year was so much fun that I kind of want to. idk idk idk. Anyone got any plot ideas lying around? haha.

DAMN, LONG POST. I'm done.

It bugs me that I haven't allowed myself to be creative since I was a kid. It's this insecurity thing, I think - I don't want to make anything that might not be good, so I don't make anything at all. I don't know. It's stupid, because now I get these periods where I feel enormously inspired by pretty much everything and I'm aching to just do something with all the beauty I see, make something out of it, but I don't know how and I don't know where to start so again, I don't.

This happens every few months or so and it's happening again now, so because I don't know how to do anything, don't know what else to do, I just start looking for pretty things aimlessly. Photographs, art, books, music, clothes, posters... whatever. Preferably things I can buy, because then at least I'll have something to show for this stupid mania. I don't know, it's weird. Kind of embarrassing to be so out of touch with things I love that the only way for me to feel okay is to buy them. Eh, I don't know. It's a good thing I'm broke, I guess, that way at least I can't buy too many things I have no use for.

I did buy this:



New winter coat! Totally permitted, because I have been wearing the same one for six years now and I was so sick of it, it was driving me nuts. The fake fur collar comes off and has a regular white collar underneath. I spent a month mooning over this coat, saving up until I had the money to get it. Now it's mine!



Bobby poster! I love this image and I love him and it was cheap. Yes!

I was happy with the way my room looked for a while but now I'm not anymore - it's too empty. I'm probably going to be buying more prints and posters over the next few months to fill out my remaining wall space a little more. I still need a bookcase, but I think that will have to wait until I get some birthday money in December.

In more real life news: tomorrow I'm seeing North By Northwest in the theatre with my dad! It's always exciting when old films are shown in the cinema so I'm looking forward to it.

Then Tuesday I'm going to my nan's to hang out and watch more Bollywood films, including Paheli which I can honestly recommend to everyone, even though Shah Rukh Khan sports a terrifying moustache all throughout it. I love this film and Shah Rukh's part in it so much that even despite the olde timey stache and the turbans the size of baby elephants, I would STILL HIT IT. And that's saying something because men I love suddenly sporting unflattering moustaches usually make me despair. And all that is not to mention Rani, who is pretty as ever and who seems to have a thing for films about ladies doing what they want even when it's not generally considered the traditional thing to do. I love her for that. Anyway, yes, Paheli is great and one day I might picspam it, I dunno.

For starters though have the end credits, which involve an awesome song and dance sequence in which all the main characters are string puppets! I love this particularly because the film is a fairy tale from ~olden times~, so the puppet idea feels extra appropriate, besides being hella cute.



And while I'm at it have my jam for the day, because... anything to make this post less uninteresting, lol.



Okay, end of disjointed entry!

So guess who just signed up for a film history course to mitigate the awfulness of a completely Law-filled semester, even though the classes are way earlier in the morning than she can technically handle and she's already pretty busy and oh hey it starts tomorrow?

Damn right. Oops, I guess?

It was necessary, though, since I don't know whether I'll be let back into English, plus my law classes this semester all look to be spectacularly boring. Blargh.

Also tomorrow I have to go see a psychiatrist (it sounds so srs D:) to get my ADD ~diagnosis, so, um. I don't think 'yay' is a fitting way to end that sentence, but idk what else to say, because frankly a diagnosis would be a good thing to have at this point in time.

I... feel like I should say more but frankly I have NO IDEA WHAT. This would be a great moment for me to post some outfit photos from the past few weeks to distract you, but I haven't taken any because I've been either too lazy or in too much of a hurry. Lol this is exactly why I'm not updating, I am apparently using up my whole supply of non-awkward moments irl or something.

ANYWAY HAVE A VIDEO OF VINCENT PRICE BEING HILARIOUS ON "WHAT'S MY LINE" AND ONE OF JOAN BLONDELL KICKING ASS (LITERALLY), because I have to make up for this trainwreck of an entry somehow.






I found out like last week that Joan Blondell was married to DICK POWELL?! Oh my god, say it ain't so. She is one of my biggest '30s ladycrushes, but all Dick Powell does for me... honestly I can't even figure out a way to finish this sentence. THERE IS NOTHING POSITIVE ABOUT DICK POWELL. I guess he sang in key? That's about it. She divorced him later though so 's all good!

lol omg, I love Donovan.

DRIVIN' IN M'CAR CAR, DRIVIN IN MUH CAR
ENGINE GOES BBRRRMM BRRRRM
ENGINE GOES BRRRRM BRRRRM

lol Donovan, you are so lame and yet so amazing.

I'm visiting home right now (which is also why Donovan is playing and not MJ, but I love Donovan so it's all good) and having a really great time! The weather is really amazing, which is doubly convenient at the moment because my parents' house HAS A GARDEN. I love our house in Leiden, but it is sorely lacking in the garden department.







PARADISE.

I took a walk with my dad in the morning (predictably we spent half of the time we were out in a bookstore, lmao) and had a really great lunch in the garden, and I've just been chillin' out here since. IT IS SO GREAT, I'm finally getting into the proper summer spirit now that my exam is over and I don't have to worry about studying anymore.



MY LUNCH INCLUDED A FRUIT TART, DID YOURS? (I hope it did!)

lol I love how my dad spoils me when I come home. ♥ When he knows that I'm coming to visit there's usually a slice of cake or something waiting for me when I arrive, and he'll buy all kinds of amazing stuff like fancy cheese and sliced mortadella and raisin and nut bread from the organic store nearby, and then be like "oh they're yours, don't forget to take them back with you!" And he's always so happy to see me again, it makes me want to visit every other day, lol. Basically I love visiting home! It's a shame my mum isn't here now, but she is chillin with her buddhists so at least she's having a good time too.

I'll be visiting my aunt's later and having dinner with her so all in all today is an A+ summery family day. I APPROVE OF TODAY SO HARD.

Also also random topic change, my dad just showed me this video:



and not only do I LOVE IT FOREVER, I also love how there's a chorus of screaming girls in the background! If it had been the Beatles or whatever there would have been a million close-ups of the screaming crazy girls in the video, but apparently when girls screamed for a girl band the camera people were all "... let's just pretend this never happened. Zoom in on the tame fans, ZOOM IN ON THE TAME FANS!" lmao.

Okay I think that will be all from me for today, lol. I just wanted to be all YAY on the internet for a minute because I've been kind of peeved over having to stay home all summer and now I am no longer peeved! I thought that was worth documenting, haha.

OH MY GOD

YOU GUYS

CHECK THIS SHIT OUT



SOMEONE MADE A SMOOTH CRIMINAL VIDEO USING CLIPS FROM FRED ASTAIRE FILMS. THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING THINGS I HAVE EVER SEEN. OMG I AM DYING.

I AM SERIOUS, EVERYONE NEEDS TO WATCH THIS. YES YOU TOO BITCH.



Okay caps time over!

In less hysterical news, I think I'm finally ~*ready*~ to start taking regular outfit photos, like I've been meaning to do for uh... pretty much ever. I've done two recently just because I liked new stuff that I got, but if I do them more regularly I feel like I should ask y'all for input: should I post them here at all or will it annoy you guys? Should I put them behind a cut for people who don't give a shit? idk what to do! I don't want to annoy anyone with my face and my unhealthy attachment to my dresses, haha.

Also I got a card from glorious Italy from stoppingpolaris! Awesome. In it she claims that Italy is a 20 minute walk from my house. I am curious as to why she has not yet tested her theory! PERHAPS SHE DOES NOT WISH TO COME VISIT ME. Nonetheless it is an A+ card and I love getting mail, so I am inclined to forgive her.

Okay I really need to get my ass off the computer now (lol not happening). I have an exam in a couple of days that has me freaking out and procrastinating like crazy, so please someone tell me to gtfo the internet and start studying! D:

So after about five years of going "gosh I really should..." I finally read Coraline! I know I know, not like it's even long or anything but idk I just never got around to it ok! Having done so now though I feel that I should mention how it is BRILLIANT. ~*Special thanks*~ to my housemate Jonathan for letting me borrow his copy, because otherwise it would probably have taken another 5 years. Soo yes if any of you are even slower than me (doubtful!) and have not read Coraline yet, do it! Neil Gaiman is awesome and this book is proof.

I only just realised that I accidentally planned basically my entire week to consist of movie marathons with a bunch of different people, oops? I'm watching Bollywood films with my nan tomorrow, as-yet-undecided films with a friend on Wednesday, and having a Harry Potter marathon with friends on Thursday because they will be in Denmark when the next one comes out so they need to be ~prepared~. I was going to go to Denmark with them but then I was short on cash, plus the timing was bad. Sadface! Anyway I'm pretty okay with the film marathon week because even though the weather has been really really good lately, apparently a NEVERENDING THUNDERSTORM is about to start tomorrow, so I guess I'll be safely inside during that mess. This is good!

Also, I am still hung up on MJ. This is less good because it means I unleash my MJ-related emo on the world all the time because I am apparently incapable of shutting up, and I am probably boring people slowly to death with it. But WTF IT SUCKS SO BAD. This is seriously longer than I have ever been upset about anyone dying, including relatives of mine. That really kind of disturbs me idk but I can't stop being sad about it? fnas'dkg I don't know, have a damn video of him with a llama being cute because that is all I am good for right now


OKAY THE END. Cry.

Holy shit, you guys, I have actually not posted for an ENTIRE MONTH. That's pretty shocking! I'm still working on putting together my lady art picspam post and having it be less than five kabillion pictures, but someday it will be posted, I promise. Also coming hopefully soon: pictures of my new room! I kind of like it a lot, but every time I try to take pictures, all of the clouds in the world gather above the house as if on cue so I can't take a single decent photo. Fie! It'll happen though, hopefully also soon.

In the meantime, have a music video I like! It is by a Swedish band called MOVITS! who play swing music and rap over it, in Swedish. I promise you that even if you already think this sounds awesome, it is actually way more awesome than you think. Also the video is A+! Essentially... I want to marry this song and live in this video.



Aaaand secondly I hope you are all familiar with the cutest blog in world history, entitled My Milk Toof, but just in case you are not... well, there's the link. It is a photo blog about the adventures of two little milk teeth called Ickle and Lardee, who take care of plants and are afraid to take baths and oh my god it is so adorable I cannot even explain it to you. Have some pictures from it instead:











FOR REAL HOW ADORABLE IS THIS SDLKGDSJSDGH
And that's not even including the stories I took these pictures from. I am DYING of cuteness.

Aaaand finally, jahrhundert just sent me an (awesome) essay she wrote, in which she actually acknowledged me for all the useless fangirl squeeing I have been doing about Asta Nielsen! Who knew my online nerdiness would one day lead to my being acknowledged in an essay (if only because jahrhundert is sweet enough to acknowledge me for saying useless things ♥)! Soooo yes, this just made my day! \o/

Hokay back to studying I go! Blarg exams D:

I am really sucking at posting about Bob Dylan (or at all) aren't I! Tragically I've been feeling sort of half-sick-but-not-really-sick-but-still-kind-of-physically-pathetic for the past week or so, so I keep telling myself that I will watch comfort movies and sleep a lot instead, and so I do! It is fun, but I miss updating my LJ so this will be my official Bob Dylan post, and what it will also be is probably disjointed and weird, since I am still suffering from my pathetic not-quite-illness.

So, yes, Bob Dylan! I was HELLA NERVOUS before the concert started, which resulted in my pretending that I wasn't broke and stress-buying the tour program, which is awesome but sports an unfortunately creepy picture of His Bobness on the cover (including cowboy hat and a spectacular creepstache. I feel they could have chosen a more suitable one, such as sexy young Bob, but sadly I do not have a say in these matters). I also bought the poster, which is exactly like this one:



except with the appropriate dates and location (evidently I was not in Minneapolis) and without the American flag, and also it is red and gold, not green and yellow. The poster, too, has kind of an unfortunate Bob mugshot, but since I liked the combination of the red with the gold letters and since I am THE WORST at abstaining from buying merchandise I bought it anyway. The only reason I didn't buy one of the shirts, which I wanted incredibly badly even though I would probably never wear it, was that I was strapped for cash.

Anyway, I was all nervous and shit and then THE SHOW STARTED and BOB DYLAN WAS IN THE ROOM and he was two things, namely:
1) wearing a hat, and
2) BRILLIANT

Oh actually no he was three things, because he was also
3) IN A GOOD MOOD?!

I am still baffled at this. It's not like I could tell from all his cheerful banter to the audience since there was none of that (I am given to understand that this is his ~thing~), but he looked to be grooving out and sounded very cheerful when he introduced the band at the end of the show. And also did I mention that he was BRILLIANT because he was! I was thankfully prepared for the fact that he likes to essentially write a bunch of new songs and slap his old lyrics onto them and call them the same songs, so it was fun to try and make out what he was singing (he is hard to understand sometimes, bet you didn't know that), but yeah, it was a brilliant show. The band was amazing and the music was amazing and Bob Dylan was nasal and mumbly and amazing and CHEERFUL WTF and also I wish to marry him still even though he is old and mumbly and still wearing silly hats.

I only managed to take one picture that didn't suck an unearthly amount and it is this one:



But since Bob Dylan is old and wrinkly now anyway it is not really about the pictures is it! I also managed to record I think about 90% of the music on my crappy million-year old digital camera, so I have an audio memento of the show as well! \o/ If anyone wants me to upload the audio files, that too can be arranged.

I also have a couple of enormously tragically crappy videos, of which two are presentable-ish, and this is them:





My camera is a loser and so were the people in front of me, so their stupid heads would get in the way and make my camera confused about where to focus >:O Still, I got video and audio and useless merchandising AND I WAS IN THE SAME ROOM AS BOB DYLAN AND THE AMAZING CONCERT THAT HE GAVE so in the end I am very pleased indeed!

Conclusion: YAY BOB DYLAN.

That is all!

Oh man so many people read our ADIML that my photobucket account is now out of bandwidth?! Crazy! Well okay so it's either that or hotlinking, but obviously I prefer option one there. It's certainly making my LJ layout look interesting though. Anyway, photobucket tells me that all the pictures will be back up tomorrow so it is only temporarily tragic.

I was going to do a whole OMG BOB DYLAN, LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT BOB DYLAN, INTERNET LISTEN TO MY STORIES OF BOB DYLAN post today, but I feel kind of sick and crappy, so it will have to wait until I am not so insanely busy sitting on the couch and drinking tea and being nauseous and feeling sorry for myself. Blaarg.

Sooo until I can get my act together enough to do a proper Bob Dylan post, have an entirely unrelated but extremely awesome youtube video? Well I'm not sure it entirely counts as a video since it's just a static picture with a song playing, but it is about the song anyway so you'll just have to deal.



It is the Puppini Sisters covering Beyonce's Crazy in Love, and it is on my personal shortlist for best thing ever. WATCH IT YOU GUYS, I'M SERIOUS.

Okay I am going to drape myself over the sofa and look consumptive some more, bye guise

So in the spirit of 'better late than never': happy holidays you guys! Whatever you celebrate, I hope you had/have a great one and eat lots of good food and all that.

And in the spirit of 'what I celebrate at home is Christmas', have some of my favourite youth sentimenty old Christmas cartoons! \o/


Holy crap you guys I wanted to build an ice fort like the one in this video SO BAD.


This one made me want to live in a Christmas tree. LOOK AT IT, HOW AWESOME WOULD THAT BE

Aaand that's pretty much all from me for now! I'm full of food and rly tired so, uh, enjoy the cartoons? And happy holidays bbs!

Oh my god, some Russian twat hacked the Shoebox community and deleted all the entries.

What the HELL, NOT ON



... Er. In other news: I am procrastinating on my Nano novel! Surely this is a bad sign. I've decided that clearly mid-November is the perfect time to fall in love all over again with both Buster Keaton and Vincent Price, so am now downloading millions of films and not doing much writing.


ILU VINCENT PRICE ♥


I have also developed an enormous need to reread all my Wodehouse novels, because... um, basically there can never be enough reading of Wodehouse novels. I wanted one of my MCs to buy a newt and name it Fink-Nottle, but it would be tragically anachronistic. Sadface!

Right. Last time I am posting this, promise! It now has a youtube video!

I am pretty sure LJ hates me! Every time I want to post an entry something goes wrong >:( I wrote this on Thursday, but then the video I tried to embed not only didn't appear but also somehow made half of the entry text vanish. Hooray for post previews I guess? I saved the entry and figured I'd just post it later, because obviously the embed would miraculously work in a few days. It was not so! It is now a youtube video instead of a photobucket one, and finally embedding properly. Thus my entry was saved!

Original entry:

Omg, you guys, my computer virus has been vanquished. My faith in antivirus systems has been restored. All is right with the world again! \o/

Er, except for the part where I fell asleep in class three times today and then twice more on public transport on my way home. I didn't think my sleeping problems could escalate even further but apparently now they have! I also had a monster cold but that disappeared fairly quickly, so at least my lack of sleep hasn't had its vile way with my immune system yet.

Anyway, have a short film that made me lol and also a song, so I can conveniently distract you from the fact that I shouldn't ever be allowed near a keyboard when deprived of sleep because the resulting post will be an affront to everyone who knows what coherence is. And probably also everyone who doesn't.



And:
# Marlene Dietrich - Jonny
I am currently addicted to this song. I got it from one of the 4 CDs included with a huge book on cabaret in Berlin pre-WWII, so that should about illustrate the level of awesome we are dealing with here. Basically, what this song is about is that Marlene Dietrich wants to have sex with Jonny all day every day, but for some reason sex is only possible on his birthday. Don't even ask me why, since I have always been fairly convinced that Marlene Dietrich was above such trifling human things as rules and could pretty much have had sex with the pope if she'd wanted to. Probably this Jonny is just insane. Anyway, even though her singing is not... entirely up to scratch in this, you should 1) not care, because it's still Marlene Dietrich and 2) download this, because it's an A+ song!

Erm, I don't really know why this mutated into a giant incoherent monster entry, really I only wanted to announce that I am once again happily surfing the internets without some bastard virus cramping my style. Having done so I think I will go to sleep and hopefully also actually reach my bed before doing so. STUPID BODY.

You guys, I had an awesome day in which for once I was not stressed. This calls for a celebratory post of fun! Which er, is not actually about my day, but rather about a lady who kicked arse in the 1910s and '20s and who I've been meaning to post about for months.



Asta Nielsen!

She is awesome for real, and I will show you why. Through the medium of a terribly written representation of her life, and also film clips! \o/

ASTA NIELSEN: I have decided to become an actress!
WORLD: Dude, you're all skinny. This is the 1900s, we don't like that shit! Anyway you're poor, shouldn't you be like a shopgirl or something?
ASTA NIELSEN: Whatever, guys. I am going to be an awesome actress. And I'm having a baby!
WORLD: WHAT, YOU ARE NOT MARRIED
ASTA NIELSEN: I know, right. Awesome!
WORLD: >:O
ASTA NIELSEN: Actually, the stage is fun and all but I think I will star in a film. With sexy dancing!
WORLD: Asta Nielsen, we cannot believe you.
ASTA NIELSEN: Sexy dancing in a slinky dress. Fuck those corsets, man.
WORLD: THIS IS NOT ON
ASTA NIELSEN: Box office says otherwise, sorry guys. So did you like the part where I tied that guy up?
WORLD: Oh god Asta Nielsen we just saw that film and actually you are really hot D:
ASTA NIELSEN: Tell me something I don't know. Also I can actually, you know, act. By the way, my next projects will feature suffragettes and cross-dressers and prostitutes, and also this teenage girl with a huge afro who goes to the pub in a fairy outfit to play cards and drink and smoke.
WORLD: ASTA NIELSEN WE DON'T CARE, WE LOVE YOU.
ASTA NIELSEN: That's cool. So how about I star in my own production of Hamlet and make him the biggest gay ever?
WORLD: TEN-FOUR, ANYTHING YOU SAY, WE LOVE YOU
ASTA NIELSEN: Man, I'm tired of film business. I quit! Let me just smuggle food to concentration camp prisoners before I dedicate the rest of my life to writing about art and literature. I think there may be no end to how awesome I actually am.
ME: FUCKING CONCUR


So this is basically why I love Asta Nielsen. She's been enormously forgotten in Europe and never really made it big in the US, because most of her films upset US censors so much that by the time they were done cutting the offensive scenes, there was basically nothing left to show. THIS IS INJUSTICE. So, uh, I am fighting this by uselessly squeeing about her in my LJ, I don't know.

Also have some clips which I sneakily recorded at the Berlin film museum! In most of the clips in the first video, she's playing a seventeen-year old who is all FUCK THIS SHIT I WANT TO GO DRINKING, but has to pretend to be a twelve-year old so her parents can pretend that she wasn't born out of wedlock, in order to get a big fat inheritance from her rich prude uncle who is visiting. So, uh, that explains the childish outfits.



Er, ignore where it says Henny Porten at the end, that was the start of the Henny Porten clip bonanza. Henny Porten was kind of boring though, she was all LAKE OF TEARS! HEAVING BOSOMS! FLAIL! GRIMACE! I FAINT YET AGAIN!!! but in a very homely and melodramatic way, not a 'heaving bosoms BECAUSE THIS IS A SEXY FILM' way.

More Asta:


There were a bunch of other amazing clips as well but I was all OH DAMN SECURITY WILL CATCH ME so I didn't get very much else D:

More Asta Nielsen fun facts:
# Greta Garbo is on record as saying that Asta Nielsen taught her everything she knew.
# Asta Nielsen is one of like five million women rumoured to have invented the bob haircut. I totally wouldn't be surprised if it were her though, because she really did kick a lot of arse.
# She was so famous that everyone called her by just her first name, since people would know who was being referred to anyway. Artists wrote poems and books about her and painted her and wrote music for her, and also a former cinema (now lame club) in my town is named Asta after her! \o/
# Basically, Asta Nielsen is awesome and you should clearly check her out.


Also for the sake of ~honesty~ I will say that I wrote this last night when I was some alarming combination of wildly cheerful and tipsy and DEAD TIRED, so I figured I would leave it until morning to see if it actually made any sense. I am too lazy to check now though, so I hope it was not dreadful?

I went to see I'm Not There with electricwitch on Wednesday. It was pretty awesome and amazing to look at and also, I want to be Cate Blanchett when I grow up because she is so awesome I can't even explain the ways in which she is awesome. And I want Bob Dylan hair, too, but sadly that would never work because I would look insane and be institutionalised, as my boyfriend kindly pointed out.

Also I already spammed electricwitch's LJ with this video, but I feel it is too beautiful not to be shared:



He is such a big nerd, in the way that if someone showed me this video and told me that this dude went to my nerdy nerdy school and played Magic during lunch break and guffawed way too loudly at his own constant quoting of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, I would have believed it. I LOVE YOU BOB DYLAN YOU IDIOT. Now hand over those trousers.

In other news, I just bought the awesomest necklaces in the world:

All from Paraphernalia.
The goldfish is technically a birthday present from my brother, since he gave me a €20 find-something-fun-on-the-internet-and-I'll-buy-it-for-you voucher when I turned 20. Awesome! Brb, fretting about the many perils of the postal system until they arrive.

In actual RL news that does not involve me frittering my life away at the movies and spending all my money, I spent this evening washing the dishes at my society (it's a first year thing, they make us do the dishes and the cleaning up so they don't have to hire people to do it) and I still feel dirty. Eugh eugh eugh doing the dishes there always annihilates any desire I might've had to have dinner there. WHY IS EVERYTHING IN THAT KITCHEN SO GROSS D: On top of that, one of my fellow washer-uppers seemed to be entirely unfamiliar with.. the entire concept of doing dishes. He just sort of hovered and asked us questions about everything and didn't do shit. Argh. How difficult can it be? It's DISHES.