Celeste and Jesse 4 Eva

Can't wait to download Celeste and Jesse Forever on itunes... in time for Valentine's Day solo watching :(
Huffington Post review

Sitting here with good friend T from childhood days talking about Blogger... decided to get back into it...

Moonrise Preparation # 1

I finally saw Bottle Rocket, Wes Anderson's first film. It delivered. Raw and full of Wes-Anderson-gorgeousness. Owen and Luke Wilson look so young! After delving into the history behind this movie I found out that Bottle Rocket was originally a black and white short film shown at the Sundance Festival. 

I am now on the hunt for the sound track featuring Chet Baker, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane and the Vincent Guaraldi Trio's "Happiness Is". (source for music and image from: www.wired.com). 

Needless to say the countdown is on for Moonrise Kingdom...

Time for a Winter Workout

Along with the Pinot being poured this winter I am selecting some books to wile away the weekends.
I just picked up a second hand copy of Jane Fonda's Workout Book.

I'll admit that I gravitated to the orange cover with gold embossed spine. It also satisfied my eighties dance wear fascination...time to get the leg warmers out!

I particularly love the section on what music Jane recommends for the work out: "When I travel and can't carry records or there's no stereo, I just bring my tape and a small tape recorder and I'm all set".

Ohhhh I am starting to reminisce about tape decks and winding the tape back through the holes with a ball point pen when it would get stuck.

At the beginning of each chapter Jane has a song list for each section and the music is classic early 80s fodder: Donna Summer, Irene Cara (Fame!), Box Scaggs... even the London Symphony Orchestra's "Theme from Star Wars"... 

The nice thing though is discovering music I have never heard of - songs by Kara Bonoff and Judy Collins. I have a particular soft spot for this album cover of Kara Bonoff's from lyricspond.com.

It's all very Kate Bush meets Sarah Moon - particularly feeling the hair comb too.