the post by people who are too bored to do anything else

disturbingly short playlist for May:

She's Thunderstorms (Arctic Monkeys)

Angel (Aerosmith)

(ah, the 80's...)

Charles Dickens' Prize For Exceptional Irony: Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock

need i say more?

i will anyway.

while his movies are full of tense, romantic, funny, touching, terrifying, etc. scenes, his own personality remains wonderfully deadpan.

he is one of my favorite directors ever. his movies for me are sort of like comfort food. they were made before 1980 (and his earlier ones , 1930's, mostly, are my favorite), they are slightly to very scary, and they have great female characters who technically don't do much besides scream dramatically and have illicit affairs, but still have great hats.

from The 39 Steps (1935). picture from thisdistractedglobe.com.

Alfred Hitchcock quotes:

"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible."

"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."

"When an actor comes to me and wants to discuss his character, I say, 'It's in the script'.  If he says, 'But what's my motivation?', I say, 'Your salary'."



find more quotes at: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000033/bio#quotes

The Matrix (libby)

if you haven't seen the movies, see them. they are so bad they're good. like, really, really good. like, the kings of 90's sci-fi movies. and everyone in the movies is simply to cool for jujitsu school so they wear really great things like...

 this

...and this

...and these people have guns that explode in very unrealistic fire every time they shoot

and these people can stop bullets using powers suspiciously like Jedi Mind Tricks...

they basically do everything with dramatic facial expressions and sunglasses that are completely unnecessary.

How To Become a Mermaid (libby)

Soo...there i was with brown hair. i was bored. conveniently, Kat and Aubrey know my bored face. so they did the only reasonable thing to do when it happened to be my birthday that week. they bought me hair dye. Manic Panic Atomic Turquoise, to be precise. After a whirlwind of magical substances known as bleach attacking my hair, i became a mermaid.

STEP ONE: looking kind of like a valley girl. AKA the bleaching.

It was quite something. not really in a good way, but still...I've never had blond hair. everyone should try it sometime.

STEP TWO: the dyeing...

i mean, who doesn't love having green goop smeared into their scalp?

STEP THREE: the wait.

you think i'm standing there going going, "i'm so cool. my hair is about to turn blue."
but really, i'm thinking "shower cap, shower cap, shower cap..."

and many hours later...this happened:

i'm a freaking mermaid.

we have, and yet we want

 Both photos promo shots for Charlotte Olympia and miu miu  respectively. Both also very practical for walking.

libby's people profile: Ril

 

Meet one of my best friends, Ril. She is a self declared pessimist who self declaredly does not have a fashion sense. i completely disagree. also, she self-declares things a lot.
her (very distinguished) fashion sense is a mix of God-I-Hate-Clothes-What's-Wrong-With-Jeans-And-A-Tshirt, I-Don't-Care-What-Anyone-Else-Thinks-So-I'm-Gonna-Wear-A-Vest-I-Made-And-Skater-Shoes, and I-Have-About-600-Hundred-Shirts-With-Manga-Jokes-On-Them, Respect.
all in all, she's a pretty cool person.
she has probably the most magnificent hair ever. it is shinier than a new Porsche, and recently cut short in a beautiful swept-to-the-side thing of wonder.

Ril also sings. as i hope you can tell if you watched the video above. please comment and send to all your friends. i still don't know who to send this video to so she can get "discovered".
PS. she self-taught herself piano. and plays both violin and viola, very well. she is rather musically inclined.

not only musically, but artistically as well. she just informed me that she has posts her art on a site called deviantart.com. http://kiryulover97.deviantart.com/gallery/

April Showers Bring...

 

(...May flowers)

hope is the thing with feathers...or a nice hat (Libby)

People talk about springtime as symbolizing hope. i just say it means a) my birthday, and b) warmer weather. Spring shouldn't get all cocky and think it has more hope then the other seasons.

That being said, right around this time, the sun decides to stop playing hide and seek and stay out for a whole day! Shocker. It's good because i have a great sunhat that has sadly been on hibernation all winter.

Speaking of headpieces, today i bought a beauteous little yellow hat in honor of the sunny season. (Not really though, to be honest i just saw the thing earlier in a nearby thrift store and bought it because the stupid people only priced it a dollar. not that I'm complaining, but they don't appreciate it's wonderfulness.)

an unnamed source said it looked like a banana peel. i told them that was not very nice.

Also, the only song i could think of related to spring is from what i think is Mel Brooks' best movie, The Producers (1968, with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder - two of my favorite people ever.)

This song is called Springtime for Hitler. Yes, it is as offensive as it sounds. if you saw the movie you would not be as appalled. Keep in mind, I'm German and have the utmost love and respect for my family's country, but this song is just too hysterical.

libby's people profile: Sky

after weedling and threatening and blackmailing i finally got my sister Sky to pose for a photo shoot modeling some of her favorite outfits. there were tantrums, there were tears (not really) and there were vicious battles over whose camera is better, but here she is...the one and only...
MEET MY SISTER!
she and I notoriously disagree on clothing. while i prefer vintage and odd things that are feathery or neon, she prefers more classy, sleek outfits. i asked her a few questions...
Libby: What is your favorite article of clothing right now?
Sky: my red shorts.
L: how do you chose outfits?
S: put on a pair of pants and a cami, and build from there.
L: what article of clothing do you tend to wear most?
S: Jeans, i admit it.
L: what kind of clothes do you absolutely loathe?
S: fake sequins, fishtail dresses...
L: sniff, like my graduation dress?
S: um.
{i punched her}
S: JEEZ! I HAVE A BRUISE THERE!
L: sucks. what else?
S: pencil skirts. i hate pencil skirts. i loathe pencil skirts. i detest pencil skirts. message recieved?
L: psh.

tut, tut. who uses the word loathe, anyway.

Sky selecting three outfits that (in my words) "best sum up her style, yet are still very distinct." she scoffed at me for cheesiness. i plead guilty.

#1:

Sky accesorized with some beads in her hair and red earings to add brighter color.

She inherited the thick Italian curls. They are sort of a thing of wonder to me.

#2:

showing off the fave red shorts...

#3:

this purple dress is probably my favorite thing that Sky owns. except for the red shorts which i will be stealing given the opportunity. that oppurtunity is probably never going to present itself given that she is reading this over my shouldar...

NOTE FROM THE MODEL:
i apoligize for any cheesy coments that Libby may have written. i assure you that i am sane by most standards and i am keeping my sister under close watch.                                                            
-Sky

tackling trends

Libby: Updated vintage

  

Kat: high-waisted skirt and crop-top

crinoline (libby)

once upon a time, crinoline was shunned from all society. although it was necessary to the contemporary fashion, people hid it from the world under their skirts. it was a difficult life for crinoline. then one day a fashion genius named Libby discovered it could be worn by itself. she became a star, crinoline was revered and cherished by the people and they all lived happily ever after.
the end.
ha ha. fooled you. i didn't actually want to look up the real history behind crinoline so i made my own up.
i have 3 crinoline skirts. 2 of them are the kind meant to be worn under other skirts or dresses to make them poofy like Elvis Presley's pompadour. more or less. the 3rd skirt i have is a ballet tutu, meant to be worn without anything over it. it has a more polished look to it, like it was really finished. those lazy dress makers.

UNO: chillin in my room. you'll notice all the calendars behind me are on the March page. that's because it is March. i collect calendars.



MF t-shirt, crinoline worn over a Donnelly's pleated skirt

DOS: this second one is the first crinoline i ever had. when i first got it it was like five times the size of me. it doesn't look as big on camera, but here are some shots of me frolicking about in this insanely warm weather (78 degrees? what???).

"Tra la laaa," i said. little did i know my foot was about to descend on the pointiest rock ever known to man.

and the crowd goes wild as she dips into an awe-inspiring - i give up. i don't even know what it's called.

the camera catches her right before she falls flat on her face!



TRES: a Cadillac Original skirt once belonging to my grandmother and a DKNY leotard. call me the Black Swan. who needs you, Natalie Portman...

actually, i do... i'm pitching forward....help me...

SUNNY/SNOWY/HURRICANE (Kat)

Spring unexpectedly showed up the other day while we were basket weaving during the final period of school. We frolicked about, and had our first ice cream. Needless to say, we were very exited. Two days later, we had a snow storm. And after that, a bit of rain. This is New England, we have weather.

The most fashionable option for surviving the elements is obviously the outfit pictured below. The XXL sized rain jacket creates a full, loose silhouette, and the pointy detachable hood adds a touch of garden gnome to any rainy day. The rain pants (not pictured) are baggy enough to rival any teenage boy's, and looks especially nice paired with Gucci stilettos. And nothing quite sets off anyone's complexion like this stunning shade of rubber-ducky yellow.

An Alaskan fisherman's costume for a play my dad was in

You just wait, this will be all over the runways next spring.