i can't keep one train of thought so i'll just do bullet points.

[cimorene]

• There is no flash player on this computer. It's getting really annoying.


• Last summer was just full of good movies, wasn't it? And this summer is full of nothing that I want to see except maybe Iron Man. I was looking forward to St Trinian's regardless of anticipated quality (schoolgirl uniforms!) but it won't be coming out here at all.


• [Star Trek: DS9] Garak: Poirot in Space! (WITH Bonus Badass Ex-Secret Service Action!) Discuss.


• Most exciting discovery, for me, in six months: a heretofore-unnoticed but really wonderful, nearly flawless Sherlock Holmes slash writer: Holmes/Watson fan fiction by Katie Forsythe


• I have an Ideal Dress, the one dress that has captured my imagination since I was a child and which I would unhestatingly order, if i could have Any! Dress! in! the! World! It's the green sequined dress Cyd Charisse shimmers around in seducing Gene Kelly in the "Broadway Melody" sequence of Singin' in the Rain and you can see a whole whopping great gallery of screencaps of it here.
  
  I always just assumed that everyone had an Ideal Dress and was unaccountably surprised that wax_jism didn't (I shouldn't have been because she doesn't really care about clothes, let alone dresses, except as she is occasionally inspired to want to imitate the dress of Mikey Way or whoever else she's desperately idolising/obsessing over).
  
  I think my mom's ideal dress was a crimson Renaissance-inspired partially-gauze scarf-skirted number she fell for at the age of about 22, and would have saved up for and worn to her wedding except that my fussy and dictatorial paternal grandmother said she "couldn't" come to the wedding if they waited long enough for Mom to afford it, so she canned the idea and made her own, a rose-printed silky white polyester shirt dress which as a child I always found horribly disappointing because it was so simple, but which I now admire for its classy understatedness. How about it - do [Poll #1183481]
  


• Remember the brown brocade vest? Well, Wax has lost sufficient weight that her huge boobs finally fit into it and the dashed thing still hasn't got the decency to fit right. It would need just as much tailoring as it would on me to fit her, several inches off the top slopes of the boobage and more than that below, and it would end up looking like a corset. With all the lining and stuff it's not worth the trouble, so we shall have to give it up, but it's very sad with the gorgeous Chinese medallions and the silky brocade. The only silver lining I can find is that it is not, in fact, made of ACTUAL silk, only a very convincing synthetic. Were the silk genuine I'm sure I couldn't bear to part with it ever, from the value of the fabric alone.


• I feel quite wistful and given to nostalgia lately. Missing people who have passed out of my life. A trifle lonely. I wonder if heartache is a silly metaphor which, when read about a lot, eventually causes you to imagine a physical sensation in the region of the heart, or whether on the contrary the chest really does get tight and sensitive-feeling, momentarily, in the grip of sadness, and 'heartache' was coined to describe the symptoms.


• Taking after one's parents so much is either a very good (at least it's predictable?) or a very bad thing (over-exposure in early years makes the symptoms particularly depressing when they appear).

Comments

ideal dress (link)

[devon.livejournal.com]

I posted some pics in my pretty dress gallery (http://pics.livejournal.com/devon/gallery/00017ha3?page=1) for you and others to peruse. These are only a handful of digital images that I've saved over the last 5 years. I have a much bigger folder of dresses, etc. that I've saved from paper magazines. It's a thing, I guess. I really love full skirts, ruffles, and flowers, as you will see.

My top 3 ideal dresses are:
1) Bjork's swan gown
2) the pink Dior gown with flowers, also shown in black which is way less interesting
3) Any beautiful sari

Re: ideal dress (link)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see! Interesting! You seem to have, like, a frothy tutu influence as in the swan dress, the peacock dress, and the Far Too Frothy, and then a statuesque draped, Grecian-type gown like the pink Dior and the flowered Gaultier. Both very nice! I've always liked tulle, too. I think the Gaultier flower gown is my favourite - all that ruching and sparkles and bright, bright colours.