3-1-2026 MY FAVES: portrait of a lady

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 what i'm watching...

sib and i found our series faves, very fitting for our personalities. i've been enjoying the kennedy kult with american love story and sib is with the band - she also read daisy jones and the six so we're catching up where we started a year ago. sleek minimalism of the 90s meets 70s grunge.
guess what our middle ground consensus is - bridgerton season 4, part 2 and jane eyre starring michael fassbender and mia wasikowska. it's normal to pace and scream into a pillow while watching bridgerton, right? if not, the brontë classic felt chillingly good, especially after the wuthering heights debacle. 
okay, we also return to the modern times to wrap up the bridget jones saga - and we watched bridget jones' baby and mad about the boy. the bridget jones soundtracks are super fun, i love each one. movie #3 felt a bit messy but we'll forgive it since emma thompson and patrick dempsey are in it.
the final film - mad about the boy - was such a refreshingly nice sequel, one with no mention of covid or peloton deaths (yes, i'm still mad at the "and just like that" mess). it's not trying hard to be relatable like some of these reboots. it felt authentic and pleasant. i haven't read the books other than the first one, but it might feel like a genuinely good adaptation? i'll admit, i feel like the few classically cringe bridget moments were scarcer in this film, and it was more serious. no further spoilers.

what i'm reading...

on that vogue shit this week.
read vogue: the shoes, featuring editorials from the 50s all the ways until 2014. the shoes were categorized into 5 categories: cinderella, cult classics, summer delights, fetish and fantasia, and town and country. 
from the foreword:
shoes literally carry us. they cradle our weight, add to our height, alter our posture and affect our bearing. they are transforming in a way that few other items of clothing are, and in either their delicacy or practical sturdiness they are essential to the way they appear.

i'm finishing up vogue: adria from november, which focuses on film. old yugoslavian "black wave" films with experimenting with documentary elements are my faves. every so often i force sib to watch something super obscure with me. can't wait to check out these suggestions.


what i'm listening to...

my february playlist was overwhelmingly full of bridgerton orchestra covers of pop songs. season 4 part 2 dropped the soundtrack, which includes some fantastic bops:
360 - peter gregson 
birds of a feather - gemini strings
the night we met - joni fuller
just what i needed - altum quartet, berlin session strings

and if you're sick on my bridgerton rambling, here's some other february top 10s on the playlist:
die for me - zayn
sedam dana - karma
chanel 5 - feminnem
someone great - lcd soundsystem
drive safe - myles smith, niall horan
tití me preguntó - bad bunny
vatroslav lisinski - overture
ti si more - luky, klapa iskon
samo jubav ostaje - tonči huljić
metak - vlatka pokos



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