Love is Blue

Happy Wednesday everyone! I'm mad at myself for not posting since Friday, but truth is, I was struggling to come up with something worth posting about, which made me feel worse so I just said I would write and see what happens. When I first started this process, all of a couple of weeks ago, I decided that I didn't mind how many people read what I wrote. What was important was just that I wrote for me.

So that's going to be my basis for everything here. To write about things I would enjoy reading about. I also find it very therapeutic. I've kept a diary since June 2002 when I was 15. I have all of these diaries (there are quite a few) locked away in a box. I don't think I've even looked at them in a few years but I like having them there. At first it was a way of remembering, I wanted to document what was happening in my life each day and I still do that, but now it's more a way of expressing how I feel about certain things and it's sort of my go to thing when I'm angry or upset about something. I've always found it hard to express how I feel to other people verbally which is why I like to write things down first when I want to say something important. The point of that long winded story is that I feel like doing this is in a way a continuation of what I started 8 years ago, only in a different medium.

My brother Jack and I

This is a photograph from around the time I started writing a diary of me in my school uniform with my baby brother who is now 13! How time flies! I will eventually sit down some day and read all of my diaries up to the present day. I am curious to see how different am I now compared to then. I just wanted to share that little bit of information about myself.

The title of my post refers to the song of the same title and it's "easy listening" recording by Paul Mauriat. It was recently in a episode of Millenium in which a certain character returns and uses the song as a form of torture, but I sort of love it!






I'm hoping to do a more creative post at the weekend, I wanted to do an outfit post on Sunday, but unfotunately I got caught in a downpour on the way home from church so I watched Role Models with my sister and her BF instead! "I've heard of popcorn in the face but this is ridiculous!"





I'm all about Paul Rudd lately it would seem! If you like Jane Lynch or McLovin' or Tracey Junior from 30 Rock or Seann William Scott (who I think is a very underrated comedic actor) or Elizabeth Banks or The State or Wet Hot American Summer or if you just like to laugh, then I would recommend this film. Oh, also I saw Noah Baumbach's new film Greenberg at the weekend, I'll tell you what I thought another time because I really should go to bed!


Night all, hope you have nice dreams and a lovely day tomorrow.

xxx Em

Film Friday- Clueless

TGIF!!!

Oh man I'm so happy it's Friday! I've been a bit under the weather since Monday evening. I took Tuesday off work to try and recuperate and I thought I was okay when I was back in work on Wednesday, but then yesterday I got a bit worse. Having said all that, I'm feeling a lot better today, still got my Tiny Tim cough, but that's okay! Also it means I don't feel guilty catching up on my stories. I watched the season finale of Glee yesterday. It definitely got better again towards the end, but I'm still not convinced. I did cry at the very end though when Mr. Schu played that version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow because that's the song that was playing when Mark Greene died in ER (I don't think I'm ruining anything there). I also watched the first season finale of Modern Family. I wasn't too pushed on this at first, but with every episode I watched I liked it more and more. The two little boys are so funny and I love Ty Burrell, he's brilliant.

So, an explanation for the post title. I am juggling with the idea of doing a weekly film Friday where I will tell you about one of my favourite films and what it means to me. I'm not sure how it's going to go, so it's only a trial really.

Photo Credit: Here

I chose Amy Heckerling's Clueless this week, as I watched it earlier. I don't know exactly when I first saw Clueless, I'd imagine I was young enough anyway. I would have only been 9 when it was released so I probably saw it a few years after that and I would say I' have seen it more than 25 times since then. I think any girl who grew up in the 90s will have seen Clueless, whether they loved or hated it is another thing. I would say Clueless is to the 90s what Fast Times at Ridgemont High is to the 80s (One of Heckerling's first films), the quintessential "High School" film. The thing that always appealed to me about it was that it is so far removed from my school experience. Well for one I went to an all girls school where our uniform skirts were down to our ankles in a hideous navy/bottle green check. I dreamed of having a virtual closet and a polaroid camera to take pictures of my outfits before getting dressed. It also introduced me to the gorgeous and hilarious Paul Rudd. "I like Josh"- Yeah Cher, me too! Ever since first seeing him as the adorable, Radiohead listening Josh (Fake Plastic Trees is my favourite Radiohead song), I think I fell in love. There was also great performances from the Princess Bride's Wallace Shawn, The Usual Suspect's Dan Hedaya, Donald Faison and in my opinion, the late Brittany Murphy's best performance. I have to admit, I also watched the spin off TV series religiously!

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I'll leave you with a video to a song from the end of the film that I was always sad wasn't on the soundtrack. What's your favourite School related/ 90s film?

General Public- Tenderness


I hope everyone has a lovely weekend, hopefully we'll get some nice weather. Until next time!


Lovies Em xxx

PS. IT Crowd fans, the new series starts back on June 25th! I can't wait!!!