The earthquake diaster in Haiti is the worst thing to happen to our planet since the tsunami over 5 years ago. Watching the news is so incredibly upsetting. School kids are still trapped in their schools, hospitals have no power and people are having to search for their presumed deceased loved ones within the piles of bodies lining the streets. Everybody HAS to do something about this. It’s ridiculously easy to donate here, so PLEASE PLEASE do it.
Really puts those inconvinient 3 inches of UK snow into perspective.
I have always considered Jimmy Choo’s to be the choice ‘designer’ of those with a lot of money, and not a lot of style. They are uninspired, unimaginative and massively predictable designs, season after season. They are made for young women who watch Sex And The City and would happily pay £600 for the chance to utter the phrase “Oh they’re Jimmy Choo’s” to their equally unimagive, vanilla friends.
So I think you get the point, I think they’re terrible.
I also hate Uggs. They look terrible on everybody, they’re clumpy, totally styless and are basically made for WAGS in velour tracksuits. (My biggest pet peeve is when people who wear Uggs, or even worse, fake Uggs, trample down the backs of them so they are walking like they have 2 false feet on slants. Argh sooo bad!)
Anyway, you can only imagine my horror when I read about the nightmare collaboration that is the above mentioned style sinners. I have no idea what abortion this will spawn, but we can only hope that in doing such a terrible, terrible thing both brands will create such a disgraceful collection that they will do the decent thing and hide away in shame for years to come.
In honour of the MASSIVELY anticipated March release of Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland, the lovely Stella McCartney has created an Alice inspired necklace and braclet. I can’t think of many things better than this. If anybody has £255 going spare, please do think of me.
We just heard the terrible news about Brittany Murphy’s sudden death. I am absolutely gutted. She was a totally amazing actress and she’s been in some of my favourite ever films, Clueless, Riding In Cars with Boys, Girl Interuppted, Sin City, Drop Dead Gorgeous, she’s amazing! So upsetting to think we’re not going to see her again. Very sad day. RIP Brittany.
So yes, apparently all I talk about nowadays is Where The Wild Things Are, but I just have one more thing to share…..
When I originally heard that one of my favourite authors, Dave Eggers (A Heartbreaking work of staggering Genius) was collaborating with Spike Jonze to write the screen play for the movie, I was so so happy. Obviously the original book by Maurice Sendak is a 10 page children’s book and so in order to create a whole 2 hours worth of film this needed some padding out. Anyway from the screen play, Eggers has also created ‘The wild Things’, which is essentially a novelisation of the movie, with slight differences here and there as with any book to movie/movie to book piece of work.
Anyway, go and read it. It won’t take long and look how beautiful teh cover artwork is…
Just got in from seeing the massively anticipated Where The Wild Things Are and I have to say, if you’ve been looking forward to this film as much as I have…….there’s no way you’ll be dissapointed. It really is a beautiful piece of work. Obviously at no point did I doubt Spike Jonze’s ability to deliver, but there is always the fear. When you finally take your seat about to watch a film that you’ve been ranting at people about for the past year, that hang on, maybe it won’t be as good as I’ve imagined it will be?? I must admit I did get the fear tonight when I sat down in the (empty) Wood green cineworld….(we weren’t really expecting the residents of Wood Green to flock to such a highly acclaimed indie epic to be fair) that maybe it wouldn’t be as spectacular as we all hoped. The fear soon went as it became pretty obviously early on that this was going to be amazing.
So anyway, to clarify it’s wonderful. Prepare for some tears too, it’s a sad ‘un. Karen O’s soundtrack creates the perfect backdrop and Max Records (so happy that his real name is Max too) is a total star. I think we’ll be seeing a lot more him.
My good friend Jim (James Delay) has recently had his amazing remix of Archangel’s Loud and Clear all mastered, wrapped up and sent back to him. It’s absolutely incredible, you should definitely listen to it here.
