Recent content by Spiffy

I was working at my university's open house, representing my (Critical Film Study) department. I was wearing a pretty normal outfit- a green-and-navy patterned shift dress, a navy blazer and some flat sandals. A group of prospective students walk up to the table, start asking questions, blah...

Two of my favorites... Last year, at the height of my vintage-ness And back when I was a blonde....

You could just set up a cheap digital projector to screen on an empty wall, then cover the projector itself with a vintage breadbox or tea-tin. :) Is that putting too much thought into it?

Caffeine. In soda, in coffee, in tea, in gum, in energy drinks and pill form. When I camped out for a music festival this summer, the vintage disappeared, cleanliness fell by the wayside, and healthy (or even nutritious) food was abandoned for sleeping in the rain, grubby festival-wear, and...

Arrested Development season two and Torchwood:Children of Earth

My new favorite is MAC's longwear lipgloss in Lasting Lust. It goes on creamy like a lipstick, dries like a stain (but not one of those cheap stains with too much alcohol) and then lasts for-ev-er! I purchased mine yesterday at noon and it's still almost perfectly applied, lasting through: -2...

Pssh. I'm 5' 3'' on a good day.....the trick is to get your guy to lean over, like you are about to whisper a seductive secret in his ear, then get his cheek and flee in the opposite direction.lol

I spent four days at a music festival dressing like a body-painted, feather-headressed hippie in long patterned dresses and with mud-covered feet. Since arriving home, it's been a slow, slow process getting back into vintage dressing. Several people have told me that I seem "friendlier" and...

Ick, ick ick! I'm pretty sure my paranoia stems from a Calvin&Hobbes comic where Calvin claims to have a "frog in his throat" to convince his mom to let him skip school. Then a frog literally climbs up his esophagus and fights it's way out of Calvin's mouth. Truly traumatic stuff for a...

Gah!! I'm dying to find a copy of this with English subtitles! Any clue as to when it might be released stateside?

Fabulous. I loved the gritty realism, the sense of peril, the raised stakes.This is one of the few films I've seen this year where I was ACTUALLY worried that the main characters wouldn't make it through.

I can't even remember how this conversation started. All you need to know, my friend, is that the war between Whedonites and Twilighters is fierce in this thread.

I have a rather large collection of letters, notes, sketches and portraits (yes, a painted portrait too!) from my First Great Beau, who was a prolific artist. I'm at the point in my life now where I am trying to figure out what to do with them. I don't want to drag them around behind me for the...

Escalators, frogs, heights, deep deep ocean water, stairways without railings. I've also been afraid of an old building in a nearby county for most of my life. When I was quite young my parents took us all on one of those historical reinactment tours, and one of the sites was an old...

Now, what you need is True Blood. Lots of messy vampire-biting and drug use and sex and all the lovely things that HBO gifts us with. Plus the vampires *explode* when you stake them. Like a shrinking waterballoon filled with blood bursting all over innocent bystanders. I too, was...