I’ve just finished watching the film I’d sneaked on Netflix, and got a good dose of the fabulous Cate Blanchett as the title character in 2001s Charlotte Gray. The film is an adaptation of a book by the same name by Sebastian Faulks, part of a trilogy of books by the author, and is rumored to have been at least… (more…)
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Updates: Testing Out Posterous
Because for some reason I can’t use the lovely post-via-email thing-it on WordPress, I’ve decided to try another way of doing things. If Posterious works out, I’ll be using it to blog from the road and make a few film review posts! Speaking of film reviews, hopefully my next review will be for Charlotte Gray, which I’m currently halfway through… (more…)
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"These are not the memoirs of an empress, nor of a queen...these are memoirs of another kind." ~ Sayuri, Memoirs of a Geisha
Welcome, Chickadee's, to Victory Girl: The Life and Times of a Modern Patriotute. I'm your Ghost Host, a 30 year old vintage lady who walks the line between jazz baby and khaki wacky.
I'm new to this whole vintage thing, but I'm a big fan of homework and that's all I've been doing for the past three years - homework. Everything from silent films to vintage books, old and new interviews, tutorials on the web and plain old common sense. Once I know anything at all I'll be posting my own tips, tricks and tutorials, but for now this is just my mad, mad life in 1941.
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