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Only Anne
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Pseudo-analytical ramblings on literature, image, music, fashion, and the moving image. I write about what I find interesting and what I enjoy.
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Turn To The Left: Spring

As much as I enjoy winter months the cold can get old very quickly, so I am beyond excited that Spring is here and I can begin to dress accordingly! Here is some of what I will and want to be wearing...

11 apr 10

Musique: Roxy Music

I love Roxy Music, immensely, passionately and intensely. They are a unique band adept at moving with the times to create ground breaking music. A Prog Rock classic, Roxy began in the 70s with songs ...

25 mar 10

Thoughts On: ‘The Reader’

Picking up The Reader I didn’t have a massive idea of what it was about, I knew it was set around a romance but I didn’t really know much more than that. I certainly didn’t expect w...

14 mar 10

Top Tunes …. February 2010

Another eclectic month, I never realise how I flit from tune to tune until I come to write these blogs. I began a Glee-aholic, found a few tunes in between and am now obsessing over Yeasayer’s ...

27 feb 10

Thoughts On: ‘One Day’

I don’t enjoy romance, the soppy kind, the ‘I’ll love you forever and ever, my life is yours’ kind. Perhaps I just lack the proper emotions, but those romance novels just don&...

20 feb 10

An Interlude

Because sometimes it is better to laugh than to cry: “Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” –Mark Twain While what I do daily can in no way be ...

15 feb 10

Thoughts On: ‘Labyrinth’

I purchased Labyrinth by Kate Mosse a few years ago due to the protagonist’s name being Alice, and promptly forgot I owned it. Pulling it off the shelf a few weeks back I thought I would give i...

14 feb 10

Filmisch: Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (1922)

Before Twilight, I Am Legend, Vampire Chronicles, True Blood, Buffy, Angel, The Vampire Diaries, The Historian, etc. there was Dracula. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the pinnacle of vampire fiction,...

11 feb 10

Thoughts On: ‘Invictus’

Poetry isn’t my forte, I am not a poetry master or lover however, occasionally I do find a poem I can appreciate. I discovered Invictus by William Ernest Henley while I was watching the film of...

08 feb 10

Pictoral: The 20s

I began this post with the idea for another fashion-based blog, but the more I thought about it the more that felt like a bad idea. While I adore Twenties fashion, I love the Twenties so much more be...

06 feb 10

Things That Make Me Smile

The lovely Crissy recently tagged me with a ‘Things That Make Me Smile’ blog award and now it is my task to pass it on. This blog shall contain seven random titbits about myself, a smiley...

03 feb 10

Musique: Caribou

I love Free Music Monday over at Mashable, it is a recent discovery and a lovely one at that! Thanks to them I have discovered the psychedelic electronic tones of Caribou, and I am in love. Caribou, ...

30 jan 10

Thoughts On: ‘New Moon’

Image from WeHeartIt. I first read Twilight almost a year ago, I found it interesting, and by interesting, I mean crap. Needless to say I wasn’t in a huge hurry to move on to the sequels, howev...

27 jan 10

Icons: Grace Coddington

I first became aware of Grace Coddington, Creative Director of American Vogue, rather recently when I watched ‘The September Issue’(TSI). TSI is a documentary on the creation of the 2007 ...

23 jan 10

Pictorial: the Savannah

I found these amazing photographs by Nick Brandt a few months ago, and promptly forgot all about them until a earlier this month when I decided to rediscover stumbleupon and look at my old stumbles. ...

20 jan 10

Top Tunes …. January 2010

January has been quite an eclectic month for music loving. I began listening to some of my favourite 80s anthems, but once I got hit by the snow I opted for some more Spring like tunes to lighten my ...

15 jan 10

Top Seven Reads of 2009

Image from WeHearIt These are the Top Seven novels out of Twenty-Four I read last year. It wasn’t as hard a decision as I first thought it would be, I read a fair few duds last year. To Kill a ...

13 jan 10

Thoughts On: ‘The Hours’

- Image from WeHeartIt ‘The Hours’ by Michael Cunningham is a beautiful novel, and I am glad I finally got round to devouring it. Unfortunately, reading it left me with a somewhat anticli...

09 jan 10

Turn to the Left: Brown Satchel

I Want Need A Brown Satchel! I have been searching for a brown satchel for ages, I cannot accurately describe my desperation for one. Alas it seems that I am not the only participating in the hunt fo...

06 jan 10

Musique: Vanessa-Mae

Vanessa-Mae is exceptional classically trained violist with a self-described “violin techno-acoustic fusion” style. I first became aware of Vanessa-Mae when I watched a documentary called...

04 jan 10

Thoughts On: ‘Veronika Decides to Die’

Happy New Year! I’ve been pondering over the last few days about what sort of blog I should write to be 2010s first, I considered a Happy New Year blog but really what would be a more fitting w...

01 jan 10

Best of … 2009

“Oh look at the strange boy He finds it hard existing To cut a long story short I lost my mind.” - ‘To Cut a Long Story Short’ – Spandau Ballet A collection of my bests ...

27 dec 09

Top Tunes ….. December 2009

While I am still enjoying the power ballads this month now it is December my musical habits are consumed by Christmas tunes. I am all over the Christmas pop song currently but as it gets nearer to th...

18 dec 09

Five Delights; Volume Two

I haven’t done one of these in months, time for a resurgence! Five Delights; volume two. Persuasion by Jane Austin My favourite of the Jane Austin collection, in fact the only one I’ve re...

10 dec 09

Thoughts On: ‘The End of Mr Y’

For the most part the books I’ve blogged under ‘Thoughts On’ I have enjoyed or appreciated, The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas however, I have not. Never have I read a book that has...

05 dec 09

Top Tunes … November 2009 (Formerly Known As … ‘Sunday Top Ten’)

Regular readers of my blog may have realised I haven’t posted a Sunday Top Ten since September, this is mostly due to my music habits changing but also because the whole thing got really boring...

30 nov 09

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