literally show me a better person than shelley winters
when shelley is like "what is with all the youth worship" and mel is like "well juliet was 13 and romeo was 14" and then shelley yells "EVERYBODY DIED AT 30 IN THOSE DAYS"
i simply love her
that she showed up to late night with a broken foot because she'd spent the day in the ER because she tripped over a cord finding a dress to wear...
the fact that she keeps saying "i don't know how the book is 500 pages, i'm only 30!" (she was 61)
when she says an old boyfriend would give her a "jewel from bulgari" every time he would cheat and it was wonderful because "now i have two boxes full in the bank and i go visit them"
if pressed i have to say she is maybe my favorite person to have ever been famous, at least top 5...she simultaneously does NOT care and yet she remained at the hot center of it all for like 6 decades
we are contemplating a dog sometime in the not so distant future and i admitted to friends tonight the truth in my heart which is that i think i could be a person who knows and cares greatly for a poodle
now haunting standard poodle rescue sites, pls tell me if you see a good one who needs a home
trying to resist the siren call but like maria callas i cannot
i tend to not believe it when people say "i am always thinking about" a thing but i truly am always thinking about this one video where florence welch gives a tour of her closet...it plays under my thoughts like a low hum
speaking of woolf i just started a reread of one of my favorite books of all time, to the river by olivia laing -- a walk along the length of the ouse river that is part heartbreak memoir, part biography (of virginia and leonard), part naturalist reverie, part travelogue
it's a strange unclassifiable book, like all the best ones are, and I read it every few years around spring because it has the most evocative descriptions of being outside, and because it is a book that guides you out of winter places and into the sun
olivia has a new book out on may 4, which i am excited to read (link below)! but this one is her first, and i have recommended it to more people than i can count amazon.com/dp/B08L5NJNPY/…