Virginia Woolf, from Jacob’s Room.
…Which sadly, I didn’t like. But this quote was nice!
“Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?”
Me.
She is frighteningly dull.
Japan has a ‘Ancient Mariner’ moment after Albatross strikes one-metre-wide hole in the nose of a coastguard patrol aeroplane…
See full story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2089319/Pictured-The-metre-hole-smashed-aeroplanes-nose-ALBATROSS.html
A still from Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books (1991).
Based on Shakespeare’s The Tempest, this is easily one of the weirdest, most nonsensical films I’ve seen in my life, but it’s so visually fascinating that it’s definitely worth a watch.
Ideally, though, one should read The Tempest before watching it. It’s very confusing even when you’ve read the play, but utterly baffling if you haven’t. Nonetheless, it proved a very interesting topic of study for our ‘Shakespeare on Film’ seminar this morning. Next fortnight: Othello!
This is the gorgeous “Lock and Key Hand Mirror” from Anthropologie (£24). It really reminds me of the magic mirror from Beauty and The Beast. Available online from 5th February.
I’ve just been on the Anthropologie website looking for photo frames, and found some amazing beds! They range from £1,598 to £3,698 so I’ll never be getting one, but aren’t they lovely? The one above is called the “Dawning Lark Bed” (£1798) while below is the “Hushed Hours Bed” (£1598), featuring a round headboard decorated like a vintage clock. Finally, at the bottom is the beautiful “Forest Canopy Bed” (£3698). I sort of want one.
This made me laff :)
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This reminds me of Caggie Dunlop from Made in Chelsea. Lovely!
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Anonymous asked: Jack Wills markets itself as university clothing to proper universities like Oxford, Cambridge, Durham, Bristol, St Andrews etc. Maybe if you'd worked hard at school and gone to a proper uni you would understand the attraction. Never mind, there's always MacDonalds for you, you can get some stars. Yay for you.
Actually, I got ten A*’s at GCSE, two A’s and an A* at A-Level and am currently in my second year at Durham University.
Yes, yay for me indeed.
I don’t think I’ve ever enjoyed answering a rude anon quite so much. Clearly, though Daddy’s money might kit you out in Jack Wills clothing, it can’t buy you class.
The Tempest:
I have a seminar on this play of Shakespeare’s next week, and am currently reading it in preparation.
Explanations aside, I found a lovely set of lines which I thought I’d share with you. To give you some background if you haven’t seen or read the play - Ferdinand, after being shipwrecked upon a desert island with only three inhabitants, has recently been threatened with imprisonment by a bloke called Prospero. Conveniently, though, Prospero’s daughter, Miranda, is just as attractive and innocent as Ferdinand is, and Ferdinand decides that he wouldn’t mind being prison if he could just stare at this lovely lady once a day. This is where the pretty lines come in:
FERDINAND:
Might I but through my prison once a day
Behold this maid: All corners else o’ the earth
Let liberty make use of; space enough
Have I in such a prison.
C’est jolie, non?
Painting by Paul Falconer Poole, inscribed “Scene from ‘The Tempest’”
I bought this for my sister for Christmas :) It’s named after Gonzo, the…whatever…from the Muppets.
