Clearly Obsessed: pretty things in black and white

I usually make "Things that I love" lists on Sundays... but it's been a long time. I need to start doing that more regularly. But for now, here, today, here is my visual version, in black and white.

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Who can resist a Fitzgerald? VIA

Stanley Kubrick’s take on beautiful women (1940's). VIA

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 “Free Dive”, photos by Kanoa Zimmerman VIA

 Figures in the Castle (1920) Photo by Manuel Álvarez Bravo VIA

My love for the movie Amelie has no bounds. What a lovely creature she is. VIA

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Angelica Houston = incredible always

- in Miss Dior, 1971, by Bob Richardson. VIA

 Another one worth falling for... ee cummings VIA

Tell me this isn't Britney Spears? If so, I knew I secretly/not-so-secretly loved her for a reason. VIA

AND... Summer is just around the corner. 

Untitled, photo by Julian Bialowas VIA

Clearly Obsessed: Clothes

I wish I could dress cool every day, and not like some kind vagabond. It's a well known fact that dancers FOR THE MOST PART dress like the homeless. Sweats on top of sweats on top of 4 other layers of ripped up and sweat-stained articles of clothing, all picked out of the lost and found (in class, you always run the risk of standing next to the original owner of your leotard). If I didn't hobo it up every day of my life this would be my week:

MONDAY

Marcelina Sowa for Singles Korea December 2011 by Hong Jang Hyun

TUESDAY

Teenage Kicks VIA

WEDNESDAY

Axes Femme VIA

THURSDAY

Charlotte Gainsbourg photographed by Craig McDean

FRIDAY

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SATURDAY

the gorgeous the fabulous Gala Darling 

SUNDAY

Rosie Tupper - Katie Ermilio Fall 2012

Du Lait. La Lune.

I'm in love with Double Merrick's prints.
Simplicity and quirk. I wish I could be both.

Check it.

Potterhead

Friends, Romans, Countrymen,
What a terribly blasé way of opening this blog, particularly because I've been opening ALL of my mass messages this way for much much too long... what can I say? Old habits die hard.
But enough about me, what about you? What do you think of me. I'M JOKING. I never want to know that.

I just got back from a very thrilling, thought-provoking, and action-packed (I'm loving the hyphenated describing words... now "thrilling" bores me. Maybe if it were 'thrill-ling'. Too simple a fix? Let's try dyno-thrill, now with EVEN THREE TIMES THE THRILL. Something) trip to New York City, which I could tell you about, but I'm not going to. INSTEAD, I'm going to tell the short story of how my wonderful fiancee bought me 'Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix', just because he missed me. Fin. Oh, and he knows that I am wildly obsessed with Harry Potter (the books... the movies were like ok-meh-yeah-that's fun- fan fiction).

Yea verily, indeedy indeedy I am, what has been pop-culturally labeled as, a 'Potterhead'. Ah yes, the veiled drug reference, but in reality, the addiction levels are probably just as similar. Case in point:

• I continually brag about being the first in my middle school to read "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". Continually. Constantly. Continent-ally (because all signs point to yes that I've talked about this in every country I've ever been in. Sorry travel friends/family). This probably isn't the BEST thing to brag about though... the truth is I only read myself through the school library, made bff's with the librarian, and got first dibs on new coming books because I had zero friends in middle school. Zero. You know why? Because (and I don't regularly swear on my blog, as I'm pretty sure my mom reads it) middle school girls are BITCHES.
• I once named two different casts for a piece I choreographed last year "Team Potter" and "Team Narnia" and definitely favored "Team Potter". Sorry, C.S. Lewis.
• Engage in really annoying discourses and lectures to and with my tween-teenage ballet students , entitled "Vampires Will Never Sparkle because Cedric Diggory is Dead" and "Hermione Granger: my literary feminist heroine".
• I currently have the Deathly Hallows drawn on my arm, a remnant from watching "HP and the Deathly Hallows: Part One" last evening (Kari Jo and Megan half the penned-tattoo too, so I'm still holding onto some dignity).
• I'm probably going to visit Harry Potter World whilst on my Honeymoon. True story.

and so on...
I heart Ron's nostrils. I want to copperplate them and put them on a shelf for safe-keeping.

Also, I have a deep fondness for the character of Luna Lovegood, in both book and movie form. Lovegood is my sister Bonnie's celebrity doppelganger, if fictional characters portrayed in movies could, in fact, pull off 'celebritaire'.