A post for my darling daughter miss is - happy birthday sweetie pie.

I hope you get to see this film.

It is playing in Central Square in April.

love m xoxo

I cannot wait to see this documentary. Miss Is and I are fans of "On the Street" and this film is all about Bill Cunningham as he is "on the street". If you do not know Bill, he is an 80 year old style photographer for the New York Times and rides around Manhattan on a bicycle to capture the street styles and fashions. I have never actually seen him in action, but if I spent more time around 5th and 57th my chances of a sighting would be greatly improved.

I want to be riding my bicycle at age 80!

The Sunday Styles is one of my favorite sections of the Sunday Times; yes, I do read the other news, and I love the book review, but I devour the style section. Delicious, as Diana Vreeland would say.

Click here to find out more about Bill Cunningham and the documentary

The weather has finally turned,

the wind is from the southwest.

Daffodils - a welcome sight after the long, cold winter.

And Susan Boyle's stardom continues to grow

Talk about Spring and Rebirth

Hooray for Susan Boyle

She will be singing on Oprah soon

and talking with Larry King

and she has a fan site: Susan-Boyle.com

Read the lyrics:

I dreamed a dream in time gone by

When hope was high,

and life worth living.

I dreamed that love would never die

I dreamed that God would be forgiving.

Then I was young and unafraid

When dreams were made and used,

And wasted

There was no ransom to be paid

No song unsung,

No wine untasted.

But the tigers come at night

With their voices soft as thunder

As they tear your hopes apart

As they turn your dreams to shame.

And still I dream he'll come to me

And we will live our lives together

But there are dreams that cannot be

And there are storms

We cannot weather...

I had a dream my life would be

So different from this hell I'm living

So different now from what it seems

Now life has killed the dream

The dream I dreamed.

Success 

is peace of

mind which is a

direct result of self

satisfaction in knowing 

you made the effort to do the

best of which you are capable.

John Wooden

A STAR IS BORN

YOU MUST WATCH THIS VIDEO

click link here

I tried to embed this video clip but the embedding feature was disabled.

Trust me,

this you-tube clip is worth watching.

Susan Boyle performed on April 11, 2009 

on Britain's Got Talent Show

and 3 days later this you-tube video clip had 3.7 million hits

(and growing rapidly)

I also listened to John Wooden on Swissmiss

click on link above

good stuff

Mad Men

cover of NYT's Magazine in May, 2008

I loved this show last summer;

it starts again on July 27th. 

The show is a great period piece from the early 60's -

before the explosion 

of new mores, new music, and women's liberation

to get into the mood read 

The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit 

written in 1955 by Sloan Wilson

According to Wikipedia this book is

"a novel about the American search for purpose 

in world dominated by business"

(fun fact: author worked at Time, Inc)

and get the 1956 movie on netflix

with Gregory Peck and Jennifer Jones

modern version of fedora by Asli Filinta as featured on Daily Candy NYC July 9, 2008

NYT's review last summer July 19, 2007

Another piece in NYT's July 13, 2008

lots of pop for this one.