The pretty introduction:
It's a bit sad; sad and pretty. Why do those two so often walk together? Anyway, I found the above through various links to links to links, but she's from the Dresdon Dolls, who are weird and wonderful, and created a solo album which features this song, a duet with Annie Clark from St. Vincent. This is not the official video, but it is the one I prefer, though it's missing Annie. Which is too bad, because I tend to like her most in her collaborations (The National, Justin Vernon of Bon Iver).
You know who else I like? Emma. Emma of Jane Austen fame, as displayed for me over the course of the 4 hour BBC miniseries I watched last night. Pretty:
I kept thinking, I want to look like this. Not just, like Emma. But like this picture, the whole scene with it's muted tones and slight sadness and pinks. And golds:
And greens:
And bright complexions:
That's Michelle Williams in Jason Wu at the Venice Film Festival. It's like a little modern day Austen, no? The dressy sweetness of it. Only I suppose Michelle's got a sad and a happy story. Jane pretty much errs on the side of the happy (the happy ending at least, to which she freely admits - wanting a happiness for her characters she could never actually have in real life). Emma perhaps most of it:
Or at least she does when we (the reader, the watcher) leave her. It's all about where the storyteller ends the story. Which is something I'm tossing around in my own work - the happy ending, the happy narrative, the happy man. (That first song, the Amanda Palmer, is the years later version, after the happy-ending ending. So it's the sad ending, after which we'll likely get another happy one.)
As a kind of saddish segue (although pretty) to the end of this post, The National have a new song, You Are A Kindness, that came out some days ago. It's a wonderful treat after High Violet, though perhaps not fully realized:
You know who else I like? Emma. Emma of Jane Austen fame, as displayed for me over the course of the 4 hour BBC miniseries I watched last night. Pretty:
I kept thinking, I want to look like this. Not just, like Emma. But like this picture, the whole scene with it's muted tones and slight sadness and pinks. And golds:
And greens:
And bright complexions:
That's Michelle Williams in Jason Wu at the Venice Film Festival. It's like a little modern day Austen, no? The dressy sweetness of it. Only I suppose Michelle's got a sad and a happy story. Jane pretty much errs on the side of the happy (the happy ending at least, to which she freely admits - wanting a happiness for her characters she could never actually have in real life). Emma perhaps most of it:
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| Look at that complexion. This is the end, after she's married to her best friend. |
As a kind of saddish segue (although pretty) to the end of this post, The National have a new song, You Are A Kindness, that came out some days ago. It's a wonderful treat after High Violet, though perhaps not fully realized:
And because I am the author here and this is the Make Me Happy blogspot, we'll end on perky note:
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| Elle Fanning in Marc Jacobs at the Somewhere premier in Venice. The trailer's great. |
J. Benny
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