Hey there delilah almost wasn't.
'Caroline talks to you softly sometimes, she says 'I love you' and 'Too much' . She doesn't have anything you want to steal well nothing you can touch' - The Psychedelic Furs, Pretty in Pink
I have tickets to see the Plain White T's live at the Melkweg tonight. I thought it was tomorrow night ... Imagine the disappointment I would have felt if I had turned up tomorrow night?
'Sorry mevrouw, it was yesterday.' D'oh!
The Plain White T's are like listening to the Breakfast Club and all those other John Hughes' movies.
Which movie was your favourite, of the John Hughes' movies? I think mine are Ferris Bueller's Day Off, followed by Pretty in Pink and Sixteen Candles. Oh, and another one .. Some Kind of Wonderful!
I had such a crush on Mary Stuart Masterson and one on Ally Sheedy too.. she was so vulnerable and odd. Watched her recently in High Art and it's odd to see how she's become a grownup. Huge crush on Judd Nelson too.. ooooh. Mostly I just wanted to be one of those people. Kind of weird to look back now.
I can remember watching these movies on bootlegged videos from the video store in the dustbowl of a town I grew up in, lying flat on my back on the tweed covered couch in my parent's lounge during school holidays. In between I'd look in the mirror , examine my flaws (which didn't really exist back then, what was I thinking?) and wonder if I could be like Molly or Ally or Mary. We kept the videos for a week. The farm was remote and trips to town were few. So I'd watch and watch and rewatch, and mirror my own teenage heartbreak in the characters on the screen.
But the one I loved the most? The 80's movie that makes me go all teenagery still?
St Elmo's Fire, and listen to the love theme here....
Sometimes I am not 34 at all, I'm really just an adolescent!
Which is why I like this alternative Pretty in Pink trailer someone made, with a really cool subtext. Go watch.
So back to the Plain White T's - they're so young and enthusiastic and sing all about broken hearts. What's not to like?
Especially if you get there on the right day.
Hey Ash.
I would love to see the Plain White Ts, I enjoy their music.
I have to say I am finding your blog less readable and relatable recently... hence less commenting. It's not disapproval or offence (as you alluded to in your interview)but rather that you seem less real to me now. It like you have gone from mundane and domestic (stitching and cooking only)and very centred, to completely cerebral. But to me it doesn't feel like you are really being YOU. But are rather trying to be or portray something else.
I could be wrong, but that's just my take... and hey it's your blog you can do what you want with it.
Just my 2c.
Well done on the running though, you are progressing in leaps and bounds. I am sure I would have to eat your dust now!
I agree with Jane's comments. I find it difficult to relate to your blog. It seems contrived and affected, and I don't feel like you're presenting the authentic you.
Please bring back the old Ash... I so miss Stitched in Amsterdam.
Jane, thanks for the comments. I'll reply to you in a post as soon as I get out of the gym long enough to write one...
Pakora: alas, the old Ash is really gone for now, will reply to you in a post later that will make everything clear :) Thanks for taking the time to tell me how you feel.
I haven't seen St. Elmo's Fire since I first saw it in the 80s, but I loved it then, along with Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
V-grrl: and Tom Cruise in Risky Business with those underpants? Who would have thought he'd be jumping on the couch on Oprah 20 years later!?