Oscars fashion review- only 5 days late!

Day 2 home with a spinning head and nausea- Jack and I are thinking it might be a 72 Hour Existential Crisis.   What a nefarious virus.  I am so bored but I can't start anything without my head pounding and a feeling of worthlessness and despair.  A sure fire cure for taking life too seriously, illness or not, is the E network.  In this case, the prescription is the Fashion Police review of the 2010 Oscars.  Which reminds me, I have something to say about the best and worst of the night.  This was the first year I got to watch with my girls and we all three dished about the clothes, although Ava was mostly appalled at my cattiness. 

Best shoes: Zoe Saldana

I don't care what you have to say about the dress itself, those aubergine velvet shoes are tres yum yum. Of course, this pic is not of Zoe herself, because it was the only picture I could find that really showed the shoes.  Plus I love how this runway wraith makes the perfect Zoe look short and chubby.  And in defense of the dress, it looked really pretty bouncing around her ankles as she came out on stage.












Best hair: tie, Cameron Diaz and Sandra Bullock

It is a tribute to the hairstyle that I am even mentioning these All-American sweethearts on my personal blog page, because generally make me ill.  But this Veronica Lake, healthy, shiny hair cannot be ignored.  This is why people become movie stars.  Regular people do not have hair like that- it simply can't be done in a crowded little bathroom with a Vidal Sassoon hairdryer and some Aussie products.  Damn, and the Fashion Police just gave Sandra Bullock best dressed!  Ava will be so pleased.
The flesh or ivory gowns are a little White Wedding for me, and the way Ms Bullock's just happens to match her Oscar so perfectly is, frankly, annoying as hell.  Oh well.  I haven't seen her movie (full disclosure) but it can't be as horrid as the preview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hn5-pxWM6k)
...can it?  Shall I not mention that the truly out-of-the-Hollywood-mold performance by a woman, Gabrielle Sibide's fat, disenfranchised, miserable, triumphant and utterly unique Precious, was overshadowed by yet another kind white folk help the hopeless black man trope- perfectly executed by a blonde, sassy Southern Bullock belle...well, it's bullocks, frankly.

Best jewels:  Kate Winslet

From the Raw Story blog:

Kate Winslet, presenting this year, chose a structured strapless column dress in silvery tones by Yves St Laurent and the most exquisite jewelry of the night: a pendant style necklace of emerald cut white and yellow diamonds by Tiffany with matching earrings and cuff believed to be worth more than 2.5 million dollars.

Mmm, mmm, mmm.  Again, this is why one becomes a movie star.  And check it out- another impossible Veronica Lake do.

Best detail and best all over look:  Carey Mulligan

 Do you see all the little bits dangling from Carey Mulligan's darling dress?  I am terribly sorry, all you haters, but this is the bravest, cutest, most awesome look of the night.  She is so sweet with her Mia Farrow hair and chandeliers, but the dress really is a marvel.  The cut is formal but that cut out hem so we can see her gorgeous strappy shoes makes it unique and cheeky- I just love it!  Bravo, Miss Mulligan! This bricolage artist salutes you.

And, finally, the dress I would have worn: Diane Kruger

And they would have laughed at me, and called me Little Bo Peep, and lamented my boring black and white choices, and even my svelte self would have looked rounded like a fat hen, but I would care not.  In this black and cream Chanel phenomena, I would have said to them, damn it, I am a movie star, I can wear what I want!
I am always a sucker for black and white, no big shock there.  I think that and the temptation of wearing black boa feathers would have proved too much for me.
So sue me.  I know why she picked this dress.

That about did me in.  Back to the couch.

Mighty Girl

Isn't it weird when you add someone to the ole Twitter feed, and then forget who they are or why you added them, then you stumble across their blog and feel like, hey!  I know that girl!  Good for her, she has an awesome blog!  Maybe its just me.
I feel that way about Mighty Girl, a magazine editor living in San Francisco.  Maybe its just her cute little face that made me want to follow her, but her blog is also quite entertaining.  She is currently doing this Mighty Life List thing, like a bucket list, only sweeter and more girly, in a very very good way.  I wish there was a better term for that.  How about...Mighty Girl!  Sorry.

ANYHOO I want to make a list, too, because I am a joiner and I love lists of all kinds.  Don't even know if I can come up with 100...
In no particular order, even though they are numbered so I can keep track of them.  The idea is to accomplish 3 a month, so they all can't be TOO outrageous.

things to do before I move on...

1. drink absinthe in Paris
2. camp in the snow
3. go on a girls weekend with my best friends
4. get married again- in a fancy dress
5. dye my hair blonde
6. get a tattoo of the Little Prince
7. create a large scale (3'x5'?) collage
8. spend time at a monastery/convent
9. go to St Petersburg
10. find my cousins from my mom's side
11. be in Oaxaca for the Day of the Dead
12. learn some burlesque
13. learn to sing some big band standards
14. write to a couple people I wronged long ago
15. spend time with the Schaefers and my godson
16. make a quilt
17. go rowboating on a spring day 
18. have another Westie 
19. go to natural hot springs somewhere
20. have unlimited time to spend in the British Museum
21. go horseback riding on the beach
22. get some Fluevogs
23. have one month off work to do art
24. take a class at Pratt
25. learn leaded and stained glass
26. take a pilgrimage to Iona
27. try some crazy expensive cheese
28. take all my kids to Disneyland for days and days
29. have a summer place
30. stay in Eureka, CA for some extended period of time
31. meet Jack's nieces and nephews and grandma
32. make turkish delight
33. ride an ATV on sand dunes
34. ride an elephant
35. eat a juicy peach in a meadow in the summer
36. see fireflies
37. vacation in New Orleans and spend lots of money there
38. be a teacher
39. write a book about history
40. go to the big museums in New York
41. have pygmy goats
42. have a clothesline
43. grow herbs on my deck
44. own robin's egg blue velvet curtains
45. get or make huge ceramic angel wings to hang on the wall
46. learn to use photoshop
47. read Carl Jung and understand
48. monogram linens for my girls' weddings
49. make and wear a Victorian dress
50. drive 90 miles an hour- just for a few minutes- not with kids in the car...