I’m way too close to the screen.
Will I ever be a real journalist and get to sit in the good seats behind me?
Marie looked at me. Awesome.
Molly Shannon?
Molly Shannon.
My mother will love this.
Is this even scripted?
I’d like some champagne and cake.
There’s going to be an upswing in sales of flowering teas.
I’d like an assortment of pastries.
How is she not getting fat?
My god her boobs are big! – oh wait – it’s just her knees pulled to her chest.
Sheep, chickens, fresh milk and eggs, a “cottage� – Martha Stewart has found her favorite part of the movie.
Are any pastry shops still open?

What I adore is Ms. Coppola’s fondness for embracing what other filmmakers would reshoot or cut. Sofia lets a hat flip off during an embrace, an elephant overzealously explore a costume, birds flap in the cloisters over a wedding ceremony. Whether intentional or not, here it says even royalty isn’t immune to forces of nature. Perhaps it’s the abundance of these awkward moments that lead a critic to describe her film as “Marie Antoinette’s home movies,� a description I can’t disagree with.

And like home movies, Marie Antoinette isn’t big on plot. Is that a bad thing? No. Not when the footage is eighteenth-century teenagers running around Versailles. It’s like Mtv’s Laguna Beach but with political significance. I actually can’t wait to see it again, although next time I’m smuggling in a tiny bottle of Sofia’s own sparkling wine and a box of airmailed macaroons from Laduree, the same patisserie that supplied them for the film.

A note on the previews:
Ignore the most recent one; it shows way too much and the tone is all wrong. The first preview, the one with the New Order music, is perfect. And no, it’s not all 80’s music. It’s like half period, half 80’s, and it totally works.

Also, the film was based on the book, Marie Antoinette: The Journey, by Antonia Fraser.

‘Claw’ porcelain candle holder, set of 4 ‘memento mori’ porcelain skull plates, and silver skull paperweight can be found at Unica Home. See all of Mr. Little’s world at D. L. & Co..

Previously: Skeleton Dinnerware For Every Budget

Attaboy’s Study for Squid Invasion and Christian Montenegro’s Up North Mix.

This new lace fabric from Timorous Beasties would be perfect for my guest bedroom.

When Bitney Spears is refered to as one-dimensional, I wince. They mean to say two-dimensional, that is, she lacks depth. Likewise I cringe when a 3-D film that incorporates in-theater effects is promoted as “4-D.” The fouth dimension is time, not smell or water squirting on your face or seats that move.

For a flash film explanation of all 10 possible dimensions visit the site for the book, “Imagining the Tenth Dimension” and poke “Imagining the Ten Dimensions.” Your brain may explode before the narrator gets to number seven.

The same author is also working on, “The Anthropic Viewpoint” and other songs about the ten dimensions – yay!

Visit the foundation.

Amazing wildlife illustrator, Charley Harper has a second set of skateboard decks out for Habitat and has liscensed his art for use on accesories and fabrics for the Todd Oldham Collection at La-Z-boy. (In NY? There’s a party for him next week.)

Todd is totally crazy about Charley and is finishing a massive book of him and his art for Regan Books that’ll be out this winter. Oh and FTD is making Todd Oldham branded flower arangements. I like these two:

This memoir of new motherhood woudn’t be something I’d ever expect to pick up, but I did. Why? Because the author read early versions of it in my writing group, and her work frequntly left us in tears – usually from laughing. Not that it has many sad moments, but as any new mom knows, the whole deal arrives swaddled in emotion. All around it’s a charming read.
From my Amazon review: “How does one resolve a decision your heart knows is right, but which threatens the rest of your being? Here, Brett knows having a husband, child, and family was the right choice, but she’d like a second opinion. What follows is a story of a woman searching for the answer she knows it out there. The answer that is, “yes. Yes. Yes!”

Hear her read the beginging here.

Group Object Orange paints abandoned Detroit buildings bright orange in hopes someone will take notice and fix or desroy the structures. Four buildings were imediately razed after being painted. The color of choice? “Tiggerific,” from the Pooh collection, new from Behr’s Disney line of paints. More info from GOOD.

Nevermind the blatant rip off of the Chris Cunningham/Bjork robot design, or the painful desperation of these ads, this time notice the special retardedness developed just for gay publications:

Other things gay men prefer over sex with women: ironing, sleeping, reading, watching Scrubs, weeding the garden, washing the car, etc., etc. Your vodka ain’t all that special, it’s one of the millions of things gay men, by definition, would prefer instead of pussy. Pouting won’t change that.

It’s under his the table his model train runs on. See more here.

He’s a South American illustrator who’s new book, The Creation: Pictures from the Book of Genesis, gets an “OMG” response from this blogger.