brain dump

[anotheranon]

I came home today around one and promptly fell asleep. I needed that, badly! Emotionally feeling much better, though interestingly my fever is now even higher.

Thought it would be a good idea to get these thoughts out of my overheated mind:

• Reading a recent thread on one of my costuming lists regarding: at what age do you get too old to do "media costumes"? After all, most movie characters are played by the young and beautiful, and after A Certain Age it's just not a persuasive disguise anymore. My solution: if you're a woman (and it seems that an inordinate number of costumers are female), dress as male characters. A ~40 yr old woman seems remarkably able to pass for a 20 some year old man, so why not? I also admit to being unduly influenced by "Tipping the Velvet" on this score, as I love a well tailored suit and the descriptions in this book are just yummy!
  
• Speaking of "TTV" - this book is so beautiful, both in subject matter and in writing style. The emotional descriptions make me so envious, you really end up feeling for the character, and the plot is consistently surprising, it really draws you in. Thanks all of y'all who recommended it!
  
• Back on the media and actors thing - while I was looking through the Dragon Con pix (earlier post), I was kind of amused by all the pictures of actors and actresses. It's interesting to meet the people you know from The Tee Vee occasionally, to see how they measure up in real life, but what I really don't get are those who follow celebritiy minutiae obsessively - like the whole "Bennifer" thing (note I include no links - I figure we've all seen it before and are quite sick of it). While I admit to taking the occasional look at People magazine and similar (celebrities DO have the means to dress better than the rest of us Mere Mortals, and are chosen by the entertainment industry for their exceptional aesthetic beauty, after all), I just can't get that emotionally interested in the lives of people I don't even know. Real people live, love, work, suffer, die, etc. too - why is it so much more interesting when the Rich and Famous do the same thing?
  

Comments

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

Glad you enjoyed TTV. :-))) I'm planning on visiting Fair's Fair this weekend (it's on the way home from the hairdresser ... like I need an excuse ***grin***), to scour the shelves for this and for Sarah Waters' other books. This is an author meant to be owned and reread. :-)

P.S. Last time I was in the store, I noticed that they had a like-new copy of Scott Thompson's Buddy Babylon in stock ... want me to grab it for you if it's still there?

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Sure, if it's cheap (like under $10)! Thank you for thinking of me!

[jlsjlsjls.livejournal.com]

No problem ... I know obscure Canadian books aren't the easiest thing to find down there. I got my copy at Fair's Fair ... peeked inside and their penciled-in price is $9.00 Canadian (WELL under $10.00 U.S. ***grin***)