... new shirt

I haven´t bought new clothes for such a long time! Since I´ve only worn second hand - old clothes which I do like, but which are rarely actually exactly what I want -, it feels extraordinary to have a piece of new clothing, a piece I´ve bought just because I love it so much. The shirt costed only 10 euros - and because it´s H&M, a thousand other people will have it, too-, but I don´t really care, because it´s so perfect. I just love the print! And it also suits the landskape ;)

Shirt: H&M

fur jacket, earrings: second hand

The pictures above are a little bit older than the pictures below, so the scene looks a bit different. Isn´t it wonderful, how the snow changes - and the colder it gets, the paler the sunlight turns?

Haha, it seems I´m standing in front of a stretching mirrow

velvet circle skirt: mom´s old
grey sweater: flea market

I´ve been looking for a plain grey or black cardigan at flea markets for two months now, and I´m so thrilled now that I´ve finally found one! It was surprisingly troublesome - the candidates were always either too expensive or filled with cable patterns. Yesterday however, when I wasn´t even looking for it, it popped up while I was selling clothes with my friend at Vallila flea market. It was perfect! And it costed only 50 cents.

... darkness

Love the moments when nobody else is awake.

... fashion inspiration

http://kimiperi.tumblr.com/post/16353117984

http://favim.com/image/208380/

http://towonderlanddeardriver.tumblr.com/post/12858572850

http://vk.com/yes_yes_yes_yees?z=photo-10957280_271935202%2Falbum-10957280_146851397%2Frev

http://getalittlepsycho.tumblr.com/post/12639601585

http://www.flickriver.com/photos/undream/2762608254

http://maisiecousins.blogspot.com/2011/11/dream-bags.html

http://mermaids-smoke-seaweed.tumblr.com/post/13316291644

http://delight.tumblr.com/post/14682170179

http://2-hot-2-be-forgotten.tumblr.com/post/5694671736

http://dreamlovebe.tumblr.com/post/15876930024

http://2-hot-2-be-forgotten.tumblr.com/post/15876223282

https://www.tumblr.com

http://abadhorse.tumblr.com/

http://beautyyandbones.tumblr.com/post/10402531946

So, there are random pictures I found at www.weheart.com. Too bad I have again discovered what I have to have. Creepers! I got to have creepers... They look so freaking perfect. Got to got to got to...

... ballads for January

Yep, I know it´s far too late, the month and the year has changed ages ago. I´m just not the easily forward-moving type. It seems I always unconsciously want to stick to the previous times, no matter how horrid they were. Maybe I´m a recollection masochist (is that even a word?).
Anyway, you may guess that I´m not going to proceed on the cheerful levels of music either. Though I´ve been lately watching brainless musicals like Hairspray (loony) or Grease (loonier), I prefer the soundtracks of little more serious cinema. Let´s start with Romeo + Juliet by Baz Luhrmann (the director of sparkling Moulin Rouge!).

The film is by the way definitely worth of watching. I don´t find the ultimate mother of all love stories entertaining written - I mean, the writer himself meant it to be brought to life from cold words, to be played. And Luhrmann has cultivated it to be intriguing and exotic - campy even - without blunting the passion. Perfect eye candy it is, too. I don´t know about other people, but I can´t say no to a film with a pink-haired gangsta and Hawaiian shirts with the Sacred Heart print. Kitsch has never been this beautiful.

Then, I go on with music...

I don´t know why I chose the last one - it´s not actually a ballad, and not very wintery either - it´s about reminiscing the bygone summer days and trying to stick to the carefree feeling of the time. But it´s been frequently played on the radio, and I´ve grown to love the lyrics.
Täysin uus
outo avaruus
hetkessä aukeaa...
It´s a beautiful, almost perfect sentence.

... Cry Baby

I just watched the movie I´ve longed to see for quite a while - Cry Baby. I was told it´s really good and I´m glad to say I was told right. So sparkling! I am not a 50s aficionado - let alone a fan of it´s darkest level rockabilly - but I just have to like Cry Baby because it relishes all possible advantages of going 50s retro and manages to skip the disadvantages. There was not a single red circle skirt with white polkadots (hideous) or pin up tattoos for women (horrendous) to be spotted in this film, just cute leather jackets and scarlet lips. And hectic rock´n roll could never sound good anywhere else than in this film.

I admit I don´t usually like parodies. I hate it when a director can´t make a cinema and ends up with flavouring a crappy copy of some contemporary film with indecent splatter. But Cry Baby isn´t just a parody of Grease and other swanky movies inspired by the 50s. It´s an independent and sensitive piece of work, beautifully absurd and self-ironic. And Johnny Depp is obviously smashing as the protagonist Wade "Cry Baby" Walker.
I know - dislikers may claim that the whole film leans on his charisma. It isn´t entirely untrue. But that is how it is with the Pirates of the Caribbean, too - and pretty much every film he is starring, good and poor. Does it make this film worse? No, I think not. It just makes him better.

http://screamyell.com.br/blog/2011/06/

http://rockabillybabee.tumblr.com/

http://www.thestylerookie.com/

http://www.tracilords.com/gallery.html#

http://foxxycleopatra.tumblr.com/

http://www.toutlecine.com/images/film/0004/00049989-cry-baby.html

http://allthemagic.tumblr.com/page/3

http://indie-lauper.livejournal.com/84070.html

http://booyuhwhore.tumblr.com/

http://www.tumblr.com/dashboard/82/1364622971

In addition, I must say I really admire Kim McGuire who plays Mona "Hatchetface" Malnorowski in the film. Her performance as a saucy drape girl with an almost malformed face is intense and captivatingly unusual. It really made me believe that felicity shouldn´t depend on looks.