I've been wearing practically the same outfit throughout the whole weekend and have taken some pictures of it with my sister's camera that's at least five years old, hence the quality. I absolutely love the combination of black and white and have hardly worn any colours for the last seven years, though I intend to add some more colourful pieces to my garderobe.
This will be one of last weekends that allows me to dress in a way like this, because the cold weather will arrive soon. I honestly hate both Autumn and Winter; whereas other people associate these seasons with coloured trees and fairytale-like snowy scenes, I think of rain, exploded hair and falling off your bike and breaking your leg because of the frozen roads. I also like Summer fashion much better than Winter fashion and have this tendency to wear my Summer outfits during Winter too, by adding more layers. But Winter hasn't arrived yet, so let's stay optimistic just for now!
Saturday outfit:
Vintage 1950s blouse
Vintage 1970s platform heels
Vintage 1980s purse
H&M skirt
Accessories from Ebay
Sunday outfit:
Vintage 1950s blouse
H&M skirt
Saddle shoes from Ebay
Both the earrings and the hairbow were gifts
Back in 1971, 14 years before the legendary Live Aid concert took place, George Harrison and his friend Ravi Shankar organized the first big benefent concert ever. The Concert For Bangladesh took place on August 1st in Madison Square Garden and had 40,000 visitors.
In 1971, the situation of the people that lived in Bangladesh was dreadful: many of them were refugees, because the country was becoming independant at the time (after having been a part of Pakistan). A lot of people were killed by Pakistan's army, during the "Bangladesh atrocities", especially intellectuals and women: it could be seen as a genocide. The exact number of people that were killed cannot be given, but figures vary greatly from 200,000 to 3,000,000 for Bangladesh as a whole.
Victims of the Bangladesh atrocities in 1971
In 1970, a year before the Bangladesh atrocities, there had been a cyclone that brought a lot of rain which led to enourmous floods. As a result, people had to leave their homes and hardly had any food.
Refugees of both the atrocities and cyclone led to a major refugee problem in their neighbouring country India.
Ravi Shankar decided it was time to do something about it and therefore organized this huge benefit concert together with Harrison. The line up included themselves, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan and several others.
The concert was an absolute success and US$243,418.51 was raised for UNICEF to help the people of Bangladesh.
George Harrison and Bob Dylan during the concert
Tomorrow, it will be exactly 40 years since this concert took place. Because of this jubilee, the whole concert can today and tomorrow be watched for free on the official website.
On this site, you can also donate money to UNICEF for the people in the Horn of Africa.
Breakfast On Pluto is a movie, set in the 1970s, that tells the story of Patrick: a young travestite living in a small village in Ireland. As a baby, he was abandoned by his mother, who moved to London to start a new life over there. Father Liam, the village's pastor, places the baby at a foster mother, but Patrick is not happy in his new family. When he grows up, he starts to dress more and more like a woman and he doesn't want to be called "Patrick" any longer, but "Kitten" or "Paddy" in stead.
In his late teens, Kitten gives up his life in Ireland and decides to go to London to find his mother. His two best friends, of which one, Irwin, has recently become a member of the IRA and his girlfriend, Chris, stay in Ireland.
Trailer
Kitten decides to hitchhike to London and ends up with an Indian Band on tour. The singer, Billy Hatchet and Kitten seem to fall in love with eachother, but neither the other band members, nor the audience approve this. Eventually, Kitten is installed in a trailer that belongs to Billy's mother and thinks it's wonderful, until he finds weapons that belong to the IRA in there.
Afterwards, Kitten returns to London in the hope he'll find his mother and a lot happens during his trip. He becomes the muse of a magician, a prostitute and gets accused of being a part of the IRA.
Cillian Murphy as Kitten
This movie is a real comedy drama. Kitten's life is not exactly a great and happy one, but you can't keep yourself from smiling and laughing when you see all his adventures. The film is very synoptic and is divided into chapters; just like a book.
I watched it during the night (it was broadcast on TV from 0.10AM to 2.17AM), but it didn't bore me at all and I had no hard time staying awake while watching.
The groovy 1970s vibe is wonderful and, even though the movie gets somewhat surreal at times, it seems very realistic.
I loved it and even though this movie isn't very well-known to a large audience, I certainly recommend it to everyone, especially those who like the 70s.
I'd like to introduce you to my friend Panter:
I bought Panter approximately one year and half ago. It was love at first sight. I saw him in a store in a German theme park and couldn't keep my eyes off him. When I saw that he wasn't even expensive, I bought him. Yes, I'm such a cheapskate. Anyway, I carried him around in a plastic sack the whole day, but I made sure he could see everything that happened by keeping his head outside of the sack. He is rather tall, so if he stood up in the sack, there was no problem for him at all. I named him "Panter", which is the Dutch word for "Panther". I admit I'm great when it comes to thinking of names.
As a child I loved the Pink Panther and after having bought Panther, this obsession returned immediately. Ever since, I've been collecting all kind of Panther parafernalia. I even have a Panther yoga set.
Panter practising his yoga together with the small bendable pink panther that came along with the yoga set.
My sister absolutely dislikes the Pink Panther cartoons, which I cannot understand. I believe they are all time classic, just like Donald Duck or Tom and Jerry.
The Pink Panther is younger than Donald or Tom and Jerry, though. He first appeared in 1963, in the opening and closing credit sequences of Blake Edwards' Pink Panther movies, the ones about the clumsy Inspector Clouseau. The actual Pink Panther was in fact a diamond, but the cartoon gained popularity.
I didn't even know these movies existed, until a few years ago and used to believe the Pink Panther was just the cartoon. But ever since I have seen a couple of Pink Panther movies, I love those too. My alltime favourite comedy actor, Peter Sellers is incredibly funny as inspector Clouseau and I can't keep myself from laughing when I watch one of these films.
I already have the cartoon DVD box, but I still want the movie box too. (Feel free to buy me this box.)
Back in the 1960s, pink panthers were still allowed to smoke cigarettes.
It was in 1964, the Pink Panther became a star on his own, in the cartoon The Pink Phink. He appeared to be a talented actor and his first movie was an instant hit. It even won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in the same year.
This film shows how the Little Man is trying to paint the walls of his house blue, but our pink friend thinks it would be a better idea to have them painted pink. The Little Man is alwas grumpy and that makes this cartoon film only funnier.
Feel free to watch:
The Pink Panther was a rising star and his cartoons appeared until the 1980s. Unfortunately, they're not often broadcast anymore, but I'm glad they were still shown on television when I was little.
Throughout these years, this famous panther always stayed dexterous and his fellow cartoon characters that appeared in his series too, were practically always annoyed by his behaviour, which we, as his fans enjoyed. Malicious pleasure is one of the best pleasures around, after all.
Yes, the Pink Panther certainly is a legend. - No matter what my sister says.
