il pleut.

Sometimes i take the long way home after school and walk down my favourite street in the whole world, jersey road. Some of my most favourite houses are on that street, and i love walking past them, humming alone to my jazz tunes and imagining what it would be like to live in them.;

I feel very andy (pretty in pink), as in 'the saddest thing is that i bet the people that live there don't think they're half as beautiful as i do.' I'm fairly sure its true though, i think they're gorgeous, amazing, beautiful, exquisite things, all creeping ivy, lavender rimmed balconies, beautiful sandstone walls towering into attics, one even has a tower that extends above the house... I bet that the people that live there don't appreciate the houses as much as i do, every fortnight as i walk past them on my (long way home).

I can't wait till im older and will be in a proper house my myself and i'm going to make it so me. i'm going to wallpaper one of the walls in old magazine cutouts, another in photos, i'm going to have crazy art that mixes charles blackman and impressionists, i'm going to have creeping wisteria and lace curtains and pots of tea always brewing and soft squishy armchairs that swallow you when you sit down.

I can't wait for the future!

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and now its raining! could this day get any better!

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let them eat cake.

i must write about one of my favourite movies. ever. it got caned by the critics, didn't do very well in the box office, the french loved it, the americans hated it... It's the movie that me and lola can quote word for word and will watch a hundred times over without getting bored. Marie Antoinette.

I am a huge history buff. that is known throughout my family and friends. And i am living proof that a movie doesn't have to be a hundred percent historically accurate for it to therefore be enjoyable and to be enjoyed by people who love history. i know that the story isn't correct, i've read the antonia fraser biography (and one by caroline weber).. i know what's going on. But i still enjoyed this story, sympathetically told from the point of the view of the doomed queen.

The costumes! Oh the costumes! They deserved an Oscar, they should have won 20. There were apparently over 80 costume changes for Kirsten Dunst (marie antoinette) and it makes for some frippery frothy finery goodness. There's satin, silk, taffeta, egyptian cotton, shiny shimmery chiffon and deep velvet, lining of ermine, embellishments of ribbons, feathers, little birds, beads, diamonds galore and the shoes.

They were, quite simply, another character in the film. THere was colour and vibrancy and everything that you expected from the 'queen of fashion' as caroline weber called her. the costumes made this movie.

It made me want to find some costume jewellery (paste of course) and swan around in swathes of satin, or in a long white gown like she did in the petits trianon. i actually have a long white dress in the regency style that one day i would like to dress up with my fake diamonds and feathers in my hair.

I also thought the music was excellenet as well, a mish mash mixture of period vivaldi and harpsichord with new order, siouxie and the banshees, adam and the ants etc etc that showed that these people were, after all, just teenagers having fun for most of their lives. Reports told that marie antoinette was not a bright girl, though she tried very hard. what would you do, with incredible riches on your hands? I would throw a party, or two. shows that me and marie are more similar that i thought, right?

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