No, you didn´t, Christopher!

I was pushing some chapters of New Moon, Bella is even worse than I remembered, it´s freaking annoying. So I watched the Gentleman Prefer Blondes I´d bought (you know how you gotta check if they are properly working and all...). Marilyn was better than I remembered. In the book I read about her, they say she started the "serious" acting classes a couple of movies after GPB, but I think she was already very good. She plays the "silly" blonde with perfection. Why did they bug her so much about it? Or better yet, why don´t  they bug people like Nina Dobrev (though now that she´s playing the Bad Girl she showed fairly good acting skills)? She looks almost as dead as Bella. Either way, it looks like all the nice, cute set of shots they do today have come from some old movie - had never noticed those shots at the store fronts in Paris before.
But then mum and I started that marathon and watched some Gilmore Girls. We got to the 2.14 (It should have been Lorelai? Something like that) and stopped and I´m so bloody mad. Christopher (aka Rory´s dad) went to Rory´s debate thing and brought Cherie, his girlfriend (loved the name), with him. And she´s all neat and tidy and babbling about wanting to meet the perfect Rory and wanting to take her out to get to know her better, meanwhile telling Lorelai that there´s no reason for them to become friends, or get to know each other at all. It´s not like she´s Rory´s mother. Or the owner of the house she lives in. Bitch. And then Lorelai has a slight meltdown on the last scene of the episode and tells Christopher that she thinks she had been sort of subconsciously waiting for him to get himself together so that one day they´d get together and play house and blablabla, but that now that he was serious about another woman she could finally get closure or whatever. And Christopher snaps at her! And yells that he´s not responsible for her unhappiness for the last 15 years and did she have anything else to burden him with. Hello? Mother of your perfect child, until this season ignored? Jackass. And then he goes outside and does the big family hug thing with Rory and Cherie while looking through the window at Lorelai. Not a big fan of cursing, but a few of them (and perhaps a smile and a certain finger) would be pardonable at this occasion.
I get mad at tv shows. I get mad at movies. I get mad at books. I yell at them, I make harsh notes on them, I give them the stink eye (the friend who read my commented Twilight books is still shocked). Oh well.
But wouldn´t you agree that if you´re watching a fiction anything, you´d expect the characters in it to do what you´d like to do but was too nervous, polite or just clueless to do? Which is why I get hugely frustrated when the men with guns don´t shoot the Evil Guy´s head while he´s abusing/threatening/brushing a knife across the throat of some scared pretty girl (have you seen that movie yet?). I´m sidetracking, habit, sorry.
So, Christopher is an idiot, and if he doesn´t apologize in some episode to come, he´s a jerk and I will root against him.
(I was looking for a certain picture of Marilyn and Jane in GPB that had an "awesome resolution", and I found this website, filled with them. Gotta love it. Remember that Woody Allen/Scarlett Johansson shoot? Didn´t she look an awful lot like this? And then I did some more digging and found Beauty Bombshells, and I´m following them, this Diana Dor picture bellow is putting Victoria´s to shame, see this post.)

Diana Dors - mental note to watch one of hers too.

(Hey, I am on the Femme Fatale Challenge)

Can´t see her moping around because of a stupid vampire.

xoxo

Blair Waldorf

I was reading this and clicking on the links for the Blair Waldorf look sites when it hit me (actually, it frequently hits me, but I´m always surprised), even if the guys from the show miraculously sent me a Blair look, I´d so not look like Blair. I think we all like her, even with all the scheming and bitchness, because Leighton Meester is just that good. She´s poised. She´s witty. She knows how to behave, how to walk, how to talk and all the goods - she´s a lady, but not a dumb, conformed one. We all want to be like that. So we might as well try being more lady-like and less jeans-wearing, even without all her money to help.

Meanwhile, Blair Fashion is always around, and they all look bloody fantastic.

Gossip Girl is my guilty pleasure, eventhough this last season I´ve been hearing about rather than watching it. Whenever my mom sees it, she asks why on Earth am I watching a show in which people are mean to one another and drink too much too often, to which I always reply - the clothes, mum, the clothes. Well, that and Chuck.

The Paris Shock

Oh my God, have I mentioned how much I hate Vista? All of its tiny cute details take an eternity to load and they make my HP look like one of those ancient, slow motion computers. But then I can´t take all the cute details away because they are cute and by now I am used to them. Not fair.

Now that we´ve got tthat covered, have I mentioned I´m a Gilmore Girls fan? Ever since those happy, absolutely guilt-free days when I came back from school and watched endless marathons of Everwood, E.R., Friends and, my favourite, Gilmore Girls, I have loved loved loooved Gilmore Girls. They talked fast and they always found a way to make it up to whoever it is they had disappointed. Plus, Rory and Lorelai are nice names to pronounce.

This holiday season, mum and I went a bit wacky (and I had money from Christmas) and bought the Gilmore Girls Box. The entire collection. Every episode. And since I´ve bugged her for this for a long, long time and we have agreed on only watching it together (it was a 50-50 purchase), we´ve been spending a couple of afternoons devoted to the sole purpose of watching GG and eating junk food with gallons of water. So far, we´ve gotten through the first season and today managed to get to the end of DVD 2 (out of 6), season 2 (out of 7)! It´s been about a week. When it ends, we´ll have to rewatch it, ´cause we´ll have forgotten the beginning and it will probably become a vicious cycle. And I still want to write down comments on my favourite episodes (my favourite is the last one from the first season, “Because I love you, you idiot” is so cute! But I can´t remember which one has the Town´s Troubadour complaining about the competition on the town´s meeting thing – see? Notes are important).

This whole thing started because of Sookie, really. We´d watched a couple of Mike & Molly episodes (if you don´t know, Sookie is Molly) and it is so upsetting. I don´t know if the script is just bad (no offense, new comedy sitcoms, but you are all pretty sucky at the moment), but she´s so GOOD at the fun and perky thing and it is so not showing at M&M. Am I too choosy or nostalgic? TV used to be fun and perky, now it all looks a bit more plastic than I´d like – have you seen Better With You? All the lines are supposed to be funny and all the actors do the cute comedy faces and it´s all fast paced and I-want-to-look-like-Friends, I watched the first episode and was bothered by the whole Too Familiar setting they had, suddenly I was disliking the guy who was supposed to be Likable Guy, eventhough I kind of liked all the actors. I miss coming home to Friends. To Everwood. So now, Gilmore Girls it is. And my sleeping and/or staring into the ceiling activities have taken up more time too.

[Paris Shock begins]

But do you know what´s really freaky about all this GG watching? Aside from being slightly jealous of Stars Hollow and all the freedom it provided, I´ve seen more of Paris than I remembered and I´m starting to notice too many things that we have in common. Seriously, I am a lot like the girl who got the “Recreating the Bitch” chapter in that feminist GG analysis book! There is an episode in season one where Rory is all messy because of that kiss with Tristin and they are together in a project to create a country and its government, and Paris is energeticaly talking about which form of government they should choose and which historical figures they should aim for and blablabla and meanwhile all I could think was “Gee, that´d be so cool, why didn´t I ever have to write a paper on that? The closest I got to was that assignment for the utopic school project, that was so much fun! But think about a whole country. I´d have to pick a name and a flag, the type of government, the elective posts, maybe the local sayings and some sketches of the streets and the public places...” and all of a sudden I was cursing the fact that now school was over and I couldn´t suggest it to my teacher, not that he´d take it anyway, and wondering if I could make it another independant project for this holiday (which is getting shorter and shorter every minute). Maybe I could find some books on alternative governmental options. See? “Intense.” That´s me. That´s us. People get freaked out by it. Have you noticed that my posts come in blocks at the same day and/or in huge length? Not on purpose. Besides, bossy. We´re both freaking bossy. And I don´t even have a boss position in the school paper (which didn´t exist) or whatever. I´m just bossy on my own. I really tried to quit it, but it is bigger than me, so I might as well embrace it.

Actually, I might as well embrace it all, I´m the “Recreating the Bitch” girl. (Only I´m not actually mean. Suffer with some people-pleasing needs I´ve been trying to dissolve ever since I found out most people prefer people who treat them like they´re nothing at all special. Very poor social skills at hand, but the shame part is mostly finished and all that Lorelai talk must be getting into my head.)

Must go back to all those unfinished books.

xoxo

Non-mean Paris with much less money and much shorter hair.

(January 29th)