babbley brain dump

[salixbabylon]

* I could not live without tea in the morning.

* If it's going to rain, I wish it would bloody well get on with it. We're supposed to have a big storm, but it's just been pissing for the last two days.

* I HATE when I procrastinate, then forget, then have to scramble to get things done. It's an ongoing fault of mine. *sigh*

* Watched "Where the Heart Is" last night. Dear God, what an awful movie. Very very visually pretty, especially the costumes and the trompe l'oeil paintings, but the acting was so horrid and the characters had no motivation for anything they did, ever.

OTOH, the section with David Hewlett in the teensy grumpy cupid outfit was satisfyingly long. So pretty. Yum!



* I need costume ideas for a plus-size woman (me) for a 1969-view-of-the-future costume party. Think Star Trek:TOS aliens or the Jetsons or whatever. I'm having a difficult time finding anything that isn't skimpy and would be unflattering. Ideas? This is all I've got so far:










I need a beehive wig and some velour or lame'... ;)

Comments

[lisagems.livejournal.com]

Check out Space 1999, and the Vulcan clothes from Star Trek (TOS). Pretty much everything from the, so-called, serious scifi of the time was a streamlined version of clothing that was popular then, like the stewardess uniforms in 2001 (OMG the headpiece, to die laughing) or the uniforms in the lounge scene. Then, of course, there's the post distopia, like Planet of the Apes (1968, not the more recent).

[salixbabylon.livejournal.com]

Oooh, great ideas. I'll check them out, then hit the costume rental stores to see what I can find. I don't want to sew unless I have to...