Fantastic Fest 1

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Here are the films I saw here yesterday:
Muay Thai Chaiya
A story of good versus evil in the Bangkok Muay Thai (Thai kickboxing) scene, very bloodthirsty. Looking at the subtitles while avoiding looking at the gross bits was a challenge. About young men being exploited by organised crime in underground fighting dens, with a central dilemma [...]

Happy July 4th

Friday, July 4th, 2008

I celebrated the day by getting a bunch of ball gowns from Neiman Marcus Last Call (original value about two and a half grand: $50 in the supersale) (although they are not all what you would call exactly at their best). No idea when I’ll be wearing them. Probably not to the farmer’s market. There’s [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

(more like this one here)
Make it what you want- if you don’t have a co-Valentinee, being good to yourself is always a great idea. Some things are better to get for yourself anyway. There was a fortysomething male spending hundreds in Sephora yesterday, which, what’s the point in that? Either he was just acting as [...]

crazy things I’ve done because of having kids

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

1. Today, I made a birthday cake in the form of a Playstation 2. You would think that would be easy. It’s a black box, with writing on. Yeah. First of all, black food colouring is only available at Halloween. I mixed together all the dark colours of food colouring in my store cupboard, and [...]

happy new year

Tuesday, January 1st, 2008

Best New Year’s eve ever last night: dressed up in ballgowns (girls only), toasted in on UK time at 6pm, made leftover holiday buffet snack dinner while singing along to Stevie Wonder hits (brilliant), movie- Desperado, Robert Rodriguez’s all-shooting Mexican masterwork, followed by a fire outside listening to all the illegal fireworks in the neighbourhood. [...]







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