Opens at Midnight, Closes at Dawn
“The new music biz can learn a lot from the circus. How it managed to stay afloat during the Depression, despite the enormous costs of transporting all those people, animals and equipment from city to city. How it managed to get people to cough up the cash, to spread the word, even got some to follow the show from town to town.”
That applies to burlesque, too!
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Via alwaysmarilynmonroe.tumblr.com- On the right is modern Plus Size beauty queen Chloe Marshall, who is an actual size 16 (UK) and on the left is Marilyn in a costume test for Something’s Got To Give in 1962, four months before she died. As you can clearly see Marilyn was never a size 16 and at her highest weight was 140 pounds (10 stone) compared to Chloe who weighs 175 pounds (12.5 stone) Before I get many hate messages telling me what is wrong with using Marilyn to make a person feel better, I will say once more that I am focusing on the facts that for the majority of her life Marilyn weighed 115-121 pounds and died at 117 pounds (8.2 stone) her small weight gain was due to her two miscarriages and ectopic pregnancy. Therefore the picture so often used to criticise modern day celebrities is inaccurate as she was pregnant. The irony being that Marilyn was at the low end of her BMI and her measurements (35-22-35 are smaller or the same size then many celebrities today (Dianna Agron;36-25-35 Lea Michele; 34-25-35 Holly Madison; 36-23-36 and Kourtney Kardashian; 34-24-35) I have no problem with any size, (before people start saying that) I am simply stating that I have a problem with people claiming Marilyn was bigger than she was and using her against anti-skinny propaganda when it is inaccurate and creates more myths. It is a fact that if Marilyn was alive today she would wear size 6-8 (UK) clothing, with her waist being too small. I think many people assume that because Marilyn’s waist was so small that she must of been a bigger size, when this is false. Compared to Nicki Minaj and Kim Kardashian who have average size waists (26) but have larger hips (45 and 40) which makes them look more curvy. There is nothing wrong with being a size 16 or any size for that matter, I am just focusing on the facts about Marilyn. If people want to believe Marilyn was a bigger woman then that is fine, but I am simply trying to put the true facts out there. :) (Taken with instagram)
See… Marilyn was NOT a modern 16. She was (exactly) my size. So there.
Voilà!
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“This photo by Robert C. Wiles was published as a full-page image in the 12 May 1947 issue of Life Magazine. It ran with the caption: “At the bottom of the Empire State Building the body of Evelyn McHale reposes calmly in grotesque bier, her falling body punched into the top of a car.”
Evelyn, still clutching a pearl necklace, looks disarmingly placid and composed – as if simply asleep. Around her, however, the broken glass and crumpled sheet metal of a car roof show the brutally destructive evidence of her 1050 ft jump. Some 60 years later the photo remains as haunting and affecting as when it was first published.”
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I just g’fawwed when I read this!
THIS. MADE. MY. DAY.
FUCK YES.
YES.
This is the best thing ever
I laughed way too hard at this.
(Source : tazpy)
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I just made my Facebook fan page!
It’s real small and modest for now, but I hope in the future it will grow into a beautiful place where I will get to meet lots of nice people!
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The Attention Whore: How to do it right!
It’s perfectly ok to be an attention whore. I myself live from other people’s attention, and part of my life is dedicated to devising new ways to get all eyes on me, whether it is consciously or not. Some people crave attention, some people don’t, and in either case, you are perfectly normal.
There are some people, though, in their quest for attention, who tend to forget that a person’s interest is best given freely and willingly, than brutally taken from him/her. For this kind of people, I wrote a small guide to becoming a good attention whore, the kind that everyone forgive his/her attention mongering.
1. Speak at a normal volume. It is amazing how some people tend to forget that even though loud music can be agreeable in certain cases, the sound of a human voice can be really annoying.
2. Don’t jump into a picture unless you are invited. Each picture tells a story, and unless you are part of that story, it’s better to stay away from it. The person who you are unwittingly photobombing will probably never tell you so, but he/she will probably delete the picture when he/she will browse through them afterwards.
3. Listen to other people. Is there anything else to say? When you listen to another person, even if it’s a only a 2 minutes-long funny story that happened to her/him last week, he/she will feel closer to you, and he/she will be more open to your own little funny story.
4. Be positive. There is a fine line between saying what you think, and being a bitch (male or female). People who never have anything good to say aren’t interesting (see 6).
5. Know your real friends. It may sound simple, but just sit a second and think: who can I call when I just need to talk? When you need to rant and bitch about your life, instead of relying on a random acquaintance, or worse, a social media, call your real friends, those who love you and care for that bitch who stole your swag.
6. Be genuinely interesting. There is no real trick to be the most interesting person to everyone you meet, but there are certain characteristics shared by people that are commonly qualified as “interesting”. Be honest (when you don’t know about something, admit it), relevant (speaking of the steak you prepared last night to a vegan is not relevant) and try to relate to the other person. Would you really want to listen to someone speaking about her boyfriend for two hours? Thought so.
So that is all for now. If you have comments, suggestions, or constructive criticism, please tell me! (Please note that my first language is French, so my English tends to get weird really fast!)
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I love Dita, but sometimes I think you CAN have too many rhinestones… *hides behind computer*
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