"_WHITE CHRISTMAS>(

And we're having a white Christmas! According to a friend of mine the first since 1981! :DD It's official
Merry X-Mas to all

Been watching Une Femme Est Une Femme this morning, couldn't sleep

Une femme est une femme from Marienbad on Vimeo.

Anna Karina of the 60s I adore you, please marry me

Mais noooooon, il pleut :(((
There goes the snow...

^$HEADBANDS AND GOSSIP+_

I just basically need to stop reading texts and start writing these extra parts for my thesis which my supervisor wants me to write. Have been reading all day. Maybe I'm going to do some drawing in some minutes. Is what I did last night after reading, was very calming and relaxing. And fun of course too. Just imagining myself wearing all these crazy clothes and then drawing it. Perhaps I should become a designer?? I was reading about this kid, a young designer last night who planned to be an actor first but then switched realizing he was more interested in the costumes than in the performing. This kid is JW Anderson, he's Irish and coincidentally today Men's Rag posted the collection I was looking at last night. Lately I've been having a thing for headbands. So far I haven't found a shop where you can buy them, so I better make my own. I actually already did. Anyway, Mr. Anderson likes them too. These pictures are great by the way. It's like they're all covered with smoke. Makes them look so mysterious and ancient. Like they're from a different era.




For more visit his offical website which looks really good.

Also this really REALLY cool shoot from Dazed & Confused magazine with an almost unrecognizable Kendra Spears on the cover. Even more headbands!





Photographs: Mariano Vivanco
Styling: the great Nicola Formichetti
Via Models.com and Request Model Blog

And Gossip. I never checked them out. For a while I even started to think Beth Ditto was British, although I knew the band were from the US. But I have a feeling they're far more popular in the UK than anywhere else. Their new song Heavy Cross is really cool. Love Ditto's voice. So powerful. The video is very nice as well. Very golden.

Gossip - Heavy Cross from Michael Knudsen on Vimeo.

Anna Karinaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

If I find the time I might go and attend the Arnhem Fashion Biennale which is taking place at the moment. Maybe even as a volunteer and get free clothing to wear! Would be cool :D

&%PAPAYA, MANGO AND ME()

I'm gonna need another dose of Anna Karina Godard. As you can see in the video below I'm very tired. Just look at those eyes. I feel like I've been eating all day, which is actually what I did. I picked up my parents from the airport with my brother. They returned from their three week vacation in Suriname and brought a lot of fruit especially for me! And I love fruit. Papaya, mango and some sorts you won't find here. Had not done any of those waving on the webcam videos in a long time. So I thought let's just do one. Just for me :) Throw myself out there. Probably going to watch Le Petit Soldat in a couple of minutes. Tomorrow I'll focus on my thesis again. It has been such an exhausting week. My videos come without sound. No microphone. Seems I should turn on the light, it's getting dark. Can you believe I'm already here for 22 years? Sometimes I still can't.



Bitte orca, orca bitte, bitte orca, orca bitteeeeeeee

I thought let's put it on Vimeo to get a better quality, but for some reason it's in fast-forward...

Me being tired and waving to the camera from IanCurtisMinusTheSmoking on Vimeo.

%+OUF!.\

Mr. Godard keeps amazing me. I just finished watching Une Femme Est Une Femme. I want to live in this movie. I'm in love with Anna Karina. Jean-Paul Belmondo looks so young and different from other roles he played. Some bits are hilarious. I laughed so loud. It's so witty. So charming. If I had to choose between this one and Breakfast At Tifanny's, which I saw on Tuesday, it would definitely be this one. Godard's genius is so well expressed in this film. His cleverness makes for so much originality. To have lived in that age. Who would not have wanted to be part of it?

^#BANDE À PART+|

I finally watched Bande À Part the other night. No idea why I waited this long to see it. It wasn't in my recently bought Godard box though, unfortunately. But this film is all kinds of amazing. Anna Karina has this unusual kind of beauty, she's not extremely pretty, but just enough that it doesn't become intimidating. She has such great eyes. She definitely was made to end up on film. Of course the scene where they run through the Louvre for me is one of the highlights as it has been remade in my favourite film The Dreamers. So just for that it was about time I saw the original in full. But already the opening sequence where you see close-ups of the faces of the three main characters edited together left me with my mouth wide open. And then there's the minute of silence, the über cool dance scene and the part where Anna Karina can be heard singing. And as always I love Godard's use of voice-over.
Here's a clip of that infamous dance scene that inspired other dance sequences such as the one from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.