The Weekly Spill #5
a Pop-Up, a Pop Pantheon, a Pop Legend's Manicure, and a Pup on PBS
Can you smell it in the air? It’s fashion week! That smell is everyone sweating in their best FW looks running all over town in the 90 degree heat. We will just have to wait and see what the week brings, but I’m sure that there will be much to discuss. This week I’ve been working on some longer, more specific posts that should be coming soon. In the meantime, I am here to spill this week’s beans:
Barbra Streisand’s Nails in The Way We Were: This week I read this book about the making of the movie and the real-life romance that inspired it. After reading, I am shocked that the film even got made and turned out so great given all of the behind-the-scenes drama.
Apparently, multiple people (men) working on the movie wanted Barbra to cut her nails because they found them to be distracting, and they didn’t think that a communist waitress would have long red nails. She is a glamorous communist thank you!
I need to give the movie a rewatch now that I know all of the insane backstage tea. Also, Barbra kept the film of the cut scenes in a vault in her house and has been trying to release an extended cut of the movie with 2 extra scenes for years. She claims that those scenes being cut completely changed the story, and she has been mad about it ever since. Never underestimate a Taurus with a grudge because it was recently announced that the extended edition will be released for the 50th anniversary in October.
The dog that taught me about literature: I can’t believe that I had completely forgotten about my bestie Wishbone.
Sometimes when I think about Sherlock Holmes, I have to take a second to remember that the main character isn’t a terrier. Where did Wishbone go? Do the school libraries have these as a resource? How are kids learning about the themes in Romeo and Juliet without him?
If we brought him back we could have Wishbone doing modern classics and all of the other major works of literature that he didn’t get to in the 90s. Imagine Wishbone doing Didion…. He’s in that knit dress in front of a car smoking a cigarette. Iconic. Wishbone does The Bell Jar? I’d like to see it. Wishbone sees Goody Proctor with the devil? Someone get PBS on the phone right now.
like this but Wishbone…think about it The costumes! The sets! This show had production value baby. PragerU literally could never. Bring Wishbone back!
British Lava Lamps: We’ve got to start with some niche lava lamp history, which I accidentally stumbled into and am now an expert on.
So, basically the the lava lamp was invented in the 60s by this British guy named Edward Craven Walker. He sold the right to produce and sell lava lamps in the US to Larry Haggerty who formed Haggerty Enterprises. The agreement stated that Walker’s company, Mathmos, could not sell any lamps in the US. The problem is that the British ones are so much cooler.
I found out that there are all of these lamp dealers who help Americans get these. The issue is that they are wired for British plugs, so you have to fix that once you get one and it’s a whole thing. However, they have ones that are powered by candles that are very chic. So potentially that could be a slay for us Americans.
candle powered lamps If you want something more fun than the average lava lamp from amazon but don’t want to get a lava lamp dealer, I am not mad at the giant lava lamps that Urban Outfitters is selling right now. They are pretty cool, but the price seems absolutely insane to me.
Pop Pantheon Podcast: I’ve been catching up on old episodes of this podcast this week and really enjoying it. The guests are all so smart and I feel like I always learn so much after listening. If you have any interest in pop music, I would check it out.
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla archive: I pre-ordered Sofia Coppola’s new book a few months ago and I got my copy last week. The book is essentially a scrapbook of all of her ephemera from every movie that she has made. I didn’t expect it to have Priscilla stuff in it since the movie isn’t out yet, but it gets a pretty large section. The pictures are stunning, I am so excited for this movie to come out. She is the perfect person to tell Priscilla’s story. It just makes sense.
The Djerf Avenue pop-up: I didn’t go to the pop-up, but everywhere I turn I am inundated with it. I have a few pieces from Djerf Avenue that I love, but I guess I didn’t realize just how popular the brand is. The lines to get inside to shop looked insane, I read that people were waiting upwards of 5 hours to get in. That’s a no from me, but I guess the other Djerf Avenue fans are more dedicated than I am.
I know it is already a trend, but suiting is about to really be everywhere as we move into fall, and now every girly in the city has the exact same suit as me. The gatekeeper in me weeps.
let the record show that i was suited back in feb 2022 Side note: Matilda looks amazing in her Vogue Scandinavia cover shoot.
The girlies discourse: Speaking of the girlies…. I think that piece in The Cut is whiny and annoying. It’s such a bland take and as women, we frankly have much more to worry about. Let’s tackle bodily autonomy before we start the linguistic war on “the girlies.”
This meme: because yeah, yeah….. exactly. Say it louder!
Hope all of you girlies divas have a fabulous fashion (or not) week. Hopefully, you can use some of my knowledge to strike up a conversation with all of the fashion icons that you encounter. You can say “do you happen to know about British lava lamps?” or “wow that manicure is so Barbra!” You might meet your new best friend and to that, I say: you’re welcome. Then, tell your new besties to subscribe so that they get the beans spilled directly into their inbox too. Gotta love friendship!