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Showing posts with label list. Show all posts

Sunday, April 18, 2010

life update: april


on friday, my friend anne-marie and i headed to la musée des beaux-arts to check out an exhibit i've been excited about for months now. "Haute couture. Paris, Londres, 1947-1957. L’âge d’or." enough said, right? i decided to get dressed to the nines (i wore this dress, my new pair of heels my mother bought me, backseam stockings, my favourite new pair of gloves and of course my fur trimmed coat) and check it out for myself. but this post isn't about the exhibit! i'm still working on that.

this week is going to be a productive one; i've decided it so. my boss at the used bookstore cut my hours, my student who i normally teach twice a week is out of town, so i decided to figure out a good way to use all that free time in productive ways. this means: wrapping up all the post- vagina monologues business, writing for this blog, working on articles for calls for submissions for zines/blogs/etc, editing photos, responding to all your (amazing!) comments, scanning found photos and other things, as well as, last, but not least, updating my etsy store. phew! it's going to be a good week.



to top it off, this coming saturday my friend anne-marie is giving me and a few of her friends a lift to montreal to go check out our very first real-life roller derby: BEASTS OF THE EAST. we are really excited and there are even rumours of starting a flat-track roller derby here in québec city. we'll see what happens!

here are some projects ideas i am working on that i hope to share with you guys in the near future, just for a little tease.
  • fashion as objet d'art: the place of fashion in museums
  • class, race, gender reflections on the haute couture exhibit
  • in like a lamb, out like a lion: outfits from winter 09-10 (it snowed yesterday)
  • reflections on my tumultuous relationship with my digital camera
  • the story of my hair

Monday, December 21, 2009

top ten films of the decade you (probably) haven't seen

okay, so i know this is my feminist fashion blog, but since i put a lot of time and thought into this i thought i'd share it here as well. you can read a bit about each one of them by clicking on the title, and feel free to comment here or on tumblr. this list should not be confused with a "best of!" they are just my personal favourites that i think are criminally underrated. when i started writing my favourites of the decade, i realized they were all already films people knew and loved as well (the royal tenenbaums, amélie, cliché, cliché, cliché) so this one was a bit more fun and creative to make.

julia's top ten films of the decade you (probably) haven't seen

10. battle in heaven (carlos reygadas, 200)
9. the visitor (thomas mccarthy, 2007)
8. polytechnique (denis villeneuve, 2009)
7. house of sand (andrucha waddington, 2005)
6. atarnajuat: the fast runner (zachariah kunik, 2001)
5. the edge of heaven (fatih akin, 2007)
4. wet hot american summer (david wain, 2001)
3. palindromes (todd solondz, 2004)
2. red road (andrea arnold, 2006)
1. xxy (lucia puenzo, 2007)