… because it involves spending money.
I went to Borders today to get “Lifeboat”. I came home with “Lifeboat.”
I also came home with “Murder, My Sweet”, “Sunrise”, “How Green Was My Valley”, “Gentlemen’s Agreement”, and “All About Eve”. The last four were boxed together and were really a good deal.
I know it was still bad of me to spend money. *grovels at Cricket’s feet*
maria lanyi feels: 
naughty
Two things:
My mom was a tad weirded out by the pictures I took the other night. She said I didn’t look like myself. How true.
I forgot what the second thing was. Oh, now I remember. Davis High School is putting on “Macbeth”. I really want to go see it, and I’m hoping it’s the actual play, and not some stupid musical version. That would be like treacle on steak.
My dearest love, Duncan comes here tonight.
And when goes hence?
Tomorrow, as he purposes.
O, never shall sun that morrow see!
Your face, my thane, is like a book where men may read strange matters. To beguile the time, look like the time…
*sighs* I need to brush up on my Lady M. It’s been a while.
There is no musical version of Macbeth, is there? Please tell me there’s not.
arthur maxwell:
I grew up on his bedtime stories and since then his Bible Story series has become a daily staple of our lives, and his “Your Bible and You” really helped me understand a lot of things. He’s been a blessing to me and I can’t wait to tell him in heaven how glad I am to see him.
children’s literature:
When I was a child, I read as a child, but when I was a woman, I did not put away childish things… at least as far as literature is concerned. Many of the books I read as a child have actually had three times as much impact on me as an adult upon rereading them, because now I can find things in them that applied and still apply to my life that I didn’t really logically discern as a girl. Like Louis the Swan’s inability to speak.
daphne du maurier:
Because a good dose of the brilliantly bizarre does me good once in a while. And “Rebecca” is simply a masterpiece. “The King’s General” struck a very personal chord.
ginger ale:
My favourite soft drink. No caffeine, and it settles the stomach.
james cagney:
My darling, feisty little Irish sweetheart. What more can I say? I love and adore him.
marx brothers:
Insanity to soothe the mind.
old churches:
I love the deep, palpable hush of old churches, envisioning a ghostly parade of all those who worshipped there before I did, feeling the closeness of the Spirit of God. Not that I don’t feel that elsewhere, too, but there’s something specially so about old churches.
prisoner of zenda:
My first time ever seeing an old movie on the big screen was seeing this one (the 1937 one). It was an experience I shall never forget, and the movie is now one of my veddy favourites.
sewing:
Errr… don’t speak to me of sewing.
the philadelphia story:
Hmm… it’s brilliant? What more can I say? “Oh, C K DEXTER-HAAAAAAAVEN!!!”
Well, well, well.
That’s a deep subject.
***
So many things I have wanted to post about since Sunday but I have been too tired. I shall attempt now.
-1. Maytime. We watched this Sunday. JAEL LOVES MAYTIME. End of conversation. My mother fell asleep during the Czartisa scene. How can you fall asleep during that of all scenes? I ask you. It makes me tingle inside. The music builds like breakers on the shore: quiet, intense, quiet, more intense, until I almost can’t breathe. It’s an amazing experience. And I still have it even though I’ve watched this film a ridiculous amount of times. It’s as if something warm and alive is bearing me high up “out of the commonplace into the rare”.
0. Piano recital of various people, three of whom we know, late Sunday afternoon. A six year old girl played a little duet with the teacher at the opening. Nothing could have been more elementary. But it made tears come to my eyes. Why?
1. I Married an Angel. We watched this Sunday too, after the recital. I have to confess something strange… and that is that I found myself almost enjoying it. I tell you something weird has happened to my mind. I wonder if it’s the new job making me psycho. Anyway, Nelson looked good enough to eat. I have to confess, he looked almost his most handsome in this movie. The suit he wears to his birthday party is about my favourite outfit he ever wore. And I still want that portrait of Count Palaffi in my bedroom, so I can go up to it every morning and say, “Good morning, Papa Palaffi,” and leave my little country posies on his desk. I forgot how many little things I DO like about this movie (and did even before). Mrs Gabby, for instance. Some of it still pained me to watch though.
Ashley, if we ever get together, can we do “Twinkle in Your Eye”?
2. Sweethearts. We watched this after IMAA. Already elaborated on that, but I will add that today I was listening to Pretty as a Picture and found myself making Jeanette gestures and faces right along with it. It was scary or funny, but not both. I think it’s a little scary when one knows a movie so well that one can recreate the scene later. Though, maybe that sort of memory would impress some people. Whatever. I can do a fairly good imitation of Jeanette’s IMAA cafe scene… at least I used to. I’m rusty on it now.
3. Today…
I worked more on the A lyrics and they’re almost all done. There were only 2 E songs so I did them too.
I took my photos to Photo Haus and ordered prints.
I bought some new scanties because for some reason I can’t find more than three pairs in my closet and it’s very strange and it makes me run out far too quickly between loads of laundry. *sighs* TMI… I know. Just pretend you didn’t read that.
I took captures from the DVD Audrey made me of Maytime until it stopped playing… guess when? YES. Just as Nelson was finally about to be in the movie. *sighs* I wish that DVD just played properly. Oh well. I can try again later, maybe. I have 210 captures from the first half hour of the movie.
4. This evening… Girl of the Golden West. Yes. Boo all you people who say this is a bad movie.
Boo.
That is all.
maria lanyi feels: 
crazy
1. When you hear the May Day music playing in your head quite accurately and completely, right down to the clip-clop of dancing wooden shoes.
***
I was exhausted last night but I couldn’t go to sleep. My mind was racing around in circles. Most strange and bothersome. I had two cosy pussies at my feet this morning when I woke though.
maria lanyi feels: 
blank
Well, I watched Maytime, IMAA, and Sweethearts. I am a happy camper.
1. Sweethearts is divinely beautiful. In this movie more than any other I thrill to the beauty of Nelson and Jeanette together. They sparkle. They tango. They shake fingers and sit on the floor. The music is wonderful, the colour is wonderful. But best of all, it’s Nelson Eddy looking comfortable, handsome, and sweet, wearing some Eddy-ly loud ties and an assortment of deliciously tailored grey suits… AND WHITE TIE AND TAILS – YEEEEEEEEAH!!!
There are so many times in this film that I want so badly to sit on his lap and play with his hair or hold him that I can almost feel his strong, protective arms around me, shutting the world and all its stress out for a few sublimely happy, secure moments. *contentedly closes eyes and lets imagination play out*
Dear Papa Nelson,
I belong to you. Somehow, I really do. I know you can’t hear a word I’m saying to you now, but maybe someday I can tell you in person and you’ll smile at me and take my hand – or maybe I won’t have to tell you. Maybe you’ll just know.
I thank God every day for bringing you into my life. Even though you died long before I was ever born, you’ve had such a miraculous effect on me. You brought me to a closer understanding of God. Because of knowing you I’ve met some of the dearest friends I have in the world. Somehow becasue of you God has widened my horizons and filled something that was horribly empty in my life – the place in my heart that only a human father’s love could complete. How could this happen to me when I never met you? It must be I have a vivid imagination. If that is the reason, I also thank God for that.
With all the love in the world,
Jael
Dear God,
My sentiments for Papa Nelson having been expressed, I want to turn to you now and thank you for YOU and the fact that You are here NOW. You aren’t dead and I can talk to You anytime I want to and know that my love isn’t being just rambled to someone quietly sleeping and therefore unresponsive. For the fact that You are God You are a thousand times better than any man, even the best of earthly fathers, could ever be, because You know everything about me and provide for my every need. I believe in You implicitly. I can’t not believe. And I’m sorry I’m not always as good and kind as I should be in return for Your unfailing love and kindness to me. Help me to do better. Thank you for condescending to live in me. I wouldn’t want to be without You, ever. And when Heaven comes, Nelson notwithstanding, You are what I want to be in Heaven for – my Father God.
Your loving little girl
2. Due to the immense response to my Cousin Itt picture in my last post, here is one I took today:
Compare the length and colour change. I’ve never coloured my hair at all. Six years have gone by and done a real job, nyet? *grins*
3. I had more to say but I’m too exhausted now. Good night.
maria lanyi feels: 
touched
Thread started by The Last Emperor
Date: October 16th, 2005 10:12 pm
Jael, what is it about the hair color thing…. if you didn’t color your hair you didn’t do it, seems like you are trying to defend yourself or something… I might have joked with you and if it bothered you, I apologize… I believe you ;)
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 17th, 2005 05:56 am
No, I just mention this in relation to the vast difference in my hair colour from the picture in the last post that was taken six years ago.
From: the36thchamber
Date: October 17th, 2005 02:41 pm
I used to have a friend in high school whose hair was blond then one day it just turned brown, I mean, started growing out brown and she never colored her hair, wierd.
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 17th, 2005 03:22 pm
Fascinating…
I like my hair better now anyway.
Thread started by Paula Ridgeway
Date: October 16th, 2005 12:09 pm
Wow… that’s definitely a long wig. ROFL
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:06 pm
That, my friend, is my own hair. Six years ago.
From: paularidgeway
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:07 pm
Are you serious??
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:12 pm
“I don’t cheat, Girl, and I never lie.”
From: paularidgeway
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:14 pm
Ohmigarland. How long did you have your hair that long and that dark?
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:17 pm
That’s just how my hair was… I hadn’t cut it at that time since I was seven at least. It is really dark though. It shocked me when I went to find the picture and look at it how dark it was. Of course, being combed inside out over my face brought the darkest of my hair forward, but still. And I probably hadn’t washed it in a week or so. My hair gets dark when it’s dirty.
From: paularidgeway
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:21 pm
Weeeeeird–well, it had a shine to it, that’s why I thought it may be a wig. LOL :)
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:22 pm
That would probably be the natural grease. Would you like to know why I let my hair get greasy?
From: paularidgeway
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:23 pm
Well, we’ve come this far…
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:26 pm
LOL… I had to put it up Sundays to go to church, right? I had issues with my hair right after I washed it. It was too clean and slippery and I couldn’t get it to do anything. So I’d wash my hair on Monday, and by Sunday it would be slimy enough to stay put.
From: paularidgeway
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:30 pm
Wow. I remember in 5th grade, one of my friends didn’t wash her hair for a week and everyone started to notice how shiny her hair was and she proclaimed proudly: “It hasn’t been washed for a week. Isn’t it cool?” It was fascinating.
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:33 pm
ROFL… Well, no-one could tell the difference when my hair was up. Now, I can’t stand to have it dirty… and I have psoriasis and have to wash it at least twice a week anyway just to keep that from coming back. So, that lucky man who gets to stroke my hair will have both a healthy head and clean dead cells to run his fingers through.
From: paularidgeway
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:35 pm
Lucky fellow…
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:37 pm
Yup!
I’m afraid my current post I’m writing is going to frighten people who don’t know me very well.
From: paularidgeway
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:38 pm
Well, if they haven’t been scared up until now…..
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:41 pm
How does one not scare people when one is writing a letter to a dead person? That is, people who don’t understand the love of dead people. More specifically the idea of adopting a dead person as a father and claiming that person and you are somehow really… never mind. LOL.
From: paularidgeway
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:43 pm
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:44 pm
Whoooooooooooa… Okay, that’s disturbing… LOL.
*raspberries*
From: paularidgeway
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:45 pm
*CACKLES*
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:48 pm
*gathers eggs*
Thread started by Twilight & Mist
Date: October 16th, 2005 12:19 pm
Holy S***! It’s the chick from The Ring!
From: themurcurytree
Date: October 16th, 2005 12:19 pm
Ha ha just playin! That is long!
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:08 pm
Yup. Six years ago, that was. I was pretending to be Cousin Itt.
From: thedamewore_red
Date: October 16th, 2005 05:52 pm
thats what i thought too haha
Thread started by missgingergray
Date: October 16th, 2005 07:38 pm
THE RING!!!
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 09:09 pm
Okay, someone tell me now what is The Ring and why does this picture make everyone say this?
From: missgingergray
Date: October 17th, 2005 05:45 am
It’s a movie. And a very bad one at that.
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0298130/Ss/0298130/CN-38-23.jpg?path=gallery&path_key=0298130
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 17th, 2005 05:58 am
Thanks… I was beginning to get a little unnerved.
From: the36thchamber
Date: October 16th, 2005 10:48 pm
I totally thought it was the girl from the ring, it looks just like her.
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 17th, 2005 05:56 am
It’s only me.
I told my mother I really needed a Nelson marathon. I told her I would even watch IMAA. She was duly impressed – as she should be. *grin* For whatever weird reason, she adores that one. Ashley and my mommie. LOL.
I need to see:
Girl of the Golden West
Let Freedom Ring
Sweethearts
Maytime
IMAA
I probably won’t plan on any more. I’ll see how I feel and how much time I have.
Sooooo… I’m going to go take a long hot bath and prepare myself for this day that promises to be lovely.
maria lanyi feels: 
hopeful
My mission in life:
To relieve my conscience of all disturbances that come nigh it.
It’s 2.09 AM. Is it time for Countesses to be in bed? Yes.
The more I think on it the more yummy a Nelson marathon sounds tomorrow. Mustn’t get hopes up. They might be dashed.
maria lanyi feels: 
happy
1. I am having way too much fun with Windows Movie Maker. I am limited to still photographs because I don’t have whatever equipment is necessary to use moving video. But it’s still fun. My first thing was a test, using Naughty Marietta captures and Fantasia captures to a random song. I titled that one BikerMarietta.
I just now completed one that is a sort of “collage” of Nelson pictures, sepia-ed and aged film-ed, that plays to “Only My Song” (the one I posted lyrics to last night). It’s delovely if I do say so myself. I already have an idea for another one using my Marietta captures but I must think on it for a day or two. I’m happy to share the “Only My Song” one with anyone who would like to see it. : ) Just let me know. It’s a large file – 4.75MB. The BikerMarietta one isn’t that great but if you want to see it just ask.
2. Work was insaner today than it was yesterday. My brain was so fried long before it was time to go home. Steve and Laura came in but I don’t know whether they bought a pizza. I was so preoccupied and frazzled. One thing about this job that I don’t like is that there’s no opportunity to really chat with the customers, where at JoAnn’s things were a little more leisurely as you cut fabric. Oh well. “You buttered your bread, now lie in it!” – Jiminy Cricket.
3. I want to have a Nelson marathon tomorrow… today, that is. I really do. I feel the need to watch at least 3 Nelson movies. We shall see. I wonder if I can talk my mommie into that if I agree to include IMAA. I actually wouldn’t mind seeing that. It’s been a while.
maria lanyi feels: 
ditzy
Updates in the life of the Countess:
1. There is a slimy, shiny mutant earwig in my room.
2. I managed to trap him under a plastic container. My mother can kill him tomorrow.
3. I took the following pictures of myself.
4. Ginny asks “why were we being psychotic?” To which I reply, “Maybe because we are?” Ginny says I will die if I post the picture of herself she sent in reply to mine. *sighs* I’m not going to go out of my way to die…
maria lanyi feels: 
mischievous
Thread started by Paula Ridgeway
Date: October 14th, 2005 10:55 pm
Can you blame me? Seriously…
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 15th, 2005 07:43 am
LOL… But coming after those weird ones of me? The effect is so funny. I laughed and laughed.
Thread started by The Last Emperor
Date: October 15th, 2005 06:42 am
Very artsy yet sexy pix, I love em… :)
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 15th, 2005 07:45 am
LOL. I’m on the upstairs computer and they look awful! LOL… Because Cagney’s screen is so much lighter… Oh well, glad you liked them.
Thread started by Mrs. Miniver
Date: October 15th, 2005 10:17 am
Picture #1 looks a LOT like Grace Kelly in The Country Girl to me.
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 15th, 2005 12:22 pm
Wow. That’s funny… LOL.
Thread started by jiving us that we were voodoo
Date: October 15th, 2005 05:39 pm
Sexy and cute! And a skilled earwig catcher. What a woman!
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 16th, 2005 12:48 am
LOL. Yup… I HATE bugs. Spiders are the worst. But they all scare me.
I will soon have me shrimp. Yay.
It was extremely busy at work tonight. Brad said it was the busiest he’d ever seen it. I was on phones, which was nice, I guess.
At least I was kept busy right up until 8. I got my check too. It was pretty good. I’ll have $27 spending money. What should I buy? *hears Cricket saying loudly, “NOTHING!”*
Had me shrimp.
***
1. Dick and Gloria rule my world.
2. Gloria’s hair looks so soft and free there and I want my hair to be that pretty. If I wasn’t so happy with my own hair colour I’d want my hair to be dark like Gloria’s – that is, if I also didn’t happen to adore a bevy of blonde dames. Sorry, Gloria, the blondes outnumber you five to one. I love you anyway.
Once back in the days when I used ounces of hairspray every day, my mother would say to me, “No man is ever going to want to run his fingers through stiff hair.” And I was like, “Errr… like men are going to be running their fingers through my hair on a regular basis?”
I don’t use hairspray now though. My hair is hair any man would like to stroke, if they noticed me to begin with and not like I’d let them do it anyway. It’s boring though because it’s straight and limp. Gloria has full, wavy hair. Me likee… So anyway, I am sure Dick would be glad to run his fingers through Gloria’s hair. If I was Gloria, I’d be wanting to run my fingers through HIS hair. Whoa… time… cut. Dead cells. I find I have somehow gotten onto the subject of dead cells. Again. I’m scared.
3. I love how Gloria is kissing him back. I purposely picked a kiss still that was visibly mutual. I didn’t want anyone to be able to say “he’s kissing her.” I want it to be that “they’re kissing”. And straitlaced, withdrawn Gloria is definitely participating… and liking it. *happy sigh*
4. I’m having a serious coughing fit.
***
SONG OF THE EVENING:
I have brought a song to sing to you -
That is all I bring to you, only my song.
But within my heart it grew,
Built around my love for you:
Woven with my hopes and fears,
Fashioned from your smiles and tears.
Take it with my heart, this unworthy offering -
Just a poor and humble thing
[indecipherable]
I have brought a song to sing to you -
Melody I bring to you, only my song.
I have brought a song to sing to you -
That is all I bring to you, only my song.
Ev’ry flower I’d gather for you
Just to show that I adore you,
But you would not know my love.
Flowers can never show my love.
Earth has not enough to make you realise
There is nothing that is fair enough,
There is nothing that is rare enough.
All I’ve brought is just a thought
That has been wrought from lover’s sighs.
I have brought a song to sing to you
Melody I bring to you, only my song
I have brought a song to sing to you:
That is all I bring to you, only my song!
- Franz Léhar
maria lanyi feels: 
weird
maria lanyi is listening to: Only My Song – With Love, Papa
Thread started by Melissa
Date: October 15th, 2005 06:49 am
AHH I look forward to the day my husband can run his fingers through my hair ;) I have straight hair too :P
From: roses_for_ann
Date: October 15th, 2005 07:47 am
Yeah… : ) That’s a liberty I’m saving for my husband too.
Name your top 25 favorite films of all time.
In order.
1. Vertigo (James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes)
2. Sleeping Beauty (Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, et al)
3. Let Freedom Ring (Nelson Eddy, Virginia Bruce, Lionel Barrymore)
4. It’s a Wonderful Life (James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore)
5. Random Harvest (Greer Garson, Ronald Colman, Philip Dorn)
6. Lost Horizon (Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt)
7. The Roaring Twenties (James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart)
8. The Prisoner of Zenda (Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll)
9. Bringing Up Baby (Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant)
10. The Country Girl (Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, William Holden)
11. White Christmas (Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney)
12. Casablanca (Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains)
13. The Sound of Music (Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker)
14. The Chocolate Soldier (Nelson Eddy, Rise Stevens)
15. Footlight Parade (James Cagney, Dick Powell, Joan Blondell)
16. Rose-Marie (Nelson Eddy, Jeanette MacDonald)
17. Now, Voyager (Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains)
18. Adam’s Rib (Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, David Wayne)
19. Mr Skeffington (Bette Davis, Claude Rains)
20. A Tale of Two Cities (Ronald Colman)
21. Goodbye, Mr Chips (Robert Donat, Greer Garson)
22. The Swan (Grace Kelly, Alec Guinness, Louis Jourdan)
23. Four Daughters (The Lane Sisters, Claude Rains, Jeffrey Lynn)
24. State Fair (Jeanne Crain, Dana Andrews)
25. Born Yesterday (Judy Holliday, Bill Holden, Broderick Crawford)
Most difficult, that.
EDIT: (like hours upon hours later):
It was pointed out to me that “It’s a Wonderful Life” was on the list twice. This was due to the fact that I put it at a different place from kathyselden and forgot to take the second one off. So I have put “State Fair” on the list in its place.
maria lanyi feels: 
indescribable
1. Why are there 27 pages of pictures of baseball gloves on corbis.com? Why?
2. Me looking at 3rd page of baseball glove pictures:
3. I have actually accomplished some drawing today. Studying baseball gloves is part of this.
4. Having a pencil in the mouth is rather uncomfortable.
5. Jekyll knows that he is not wanted while I am drawing; therefore he comes up and curls up half on my sketchbook and half on my arm and therefore limits what I am capable of doing. Beast.
6. To cast a little girl in the role of a little boy is just plain warped.
7. Robin Rylette is having issues.
maria lanyi feels: 
curious
maria lanyi is listening to: Robin Rylette making mistakes on NPR and Classical Music
