playing with shadows

After watching Dark Shadows for the first time in months yesterday it just hit me how much I love it. As well as being a generally good film to immerse yourself in it is astonishing to actually look at - like, the visual appeal of it is just otherworldly. So this is just an appreciation post for it with lotsa screencaps and clipz.

Ok first thing is the fashun. I'm not going to pretend I know all about fashion and start whittling on about collections of next month's vogue etc etc because I completely don't have a clue about that stuff, but honestly I often find myself rolling about on the floor crying because I don't own the clothes that Victoria Winters owns. I mean look.

(with added nights in white satin)

Her clothes are the bomb dot com.

Ok and the rooms:

CAROLYN'S CAN WE JUST TAKE A MINUTE TO PROCESS HER BEDROOM PLEASE

the lounge:

I realise I'm probably coming across as some weird obsessed loser but I promise I don't mean to... .. . .... ....

dining room. Also Johnny Depp is fabulous of course.

and CoLoUrS as I said in my last post I am obsessive over them. The pales all merging in with each other and the bright colours becoming velvety and deep makes me think of winter (the rain outside right now makes me think of winter as well)

'''hippies'''

more carolyn

ghost

slightly psychedelic record shop

sexy times (note Eva Green's extra hand)

LAVA LAMP I WANT

asdfhadfghajkdf it just has everything.

Fangirling over

that is all

Jemima xxxxxx

obviously i don't own any of these etc

waltz growing old

I found some old photos of the house before we decorated a few years ago. They're kind of weird and magical and the wallpaper is nice. When we moved in it was like going back in time with all the odd decor, and empty houses always give me a weird feeling.

photograph appreciation post generally

I really need to get some new film for my ae camera wow. I can't be taking every single picture on my phone anymore. They're so boring............... and they look ten times nicer as well. I have some film from my grandad's old camera that we've only just managed to get out of the body after 30+ years of it being stuck, so I'm really excited to get it developed and *hopefully* see its last ever photographs. And hopefully they won't be too crummy because of the film being expired etc

I found these pictures of ""Brigitte Bardot at 18"" in a newspaper the other day and I love these because of colours and whimsical and fairy like and just everything pretty zomg.

Yes I have developed another obsession with COLOURS and now everything I do from schoolwork to writing bad poetry is coloured and illustrated.

my paints and bob the builder keyring which I didn't actually realise was there until after I took the photo (can you see the transition from poo colour to light colour in the paint)

cool artwork at school with eyes everywhere.

I also put these on instagram recently:

outfit, typing song lyrics on old magazine pages, baby photo and creepy medieval graveyard across the road.

I'm not in a great mindset at the moment because everything is coming at once, i.e. school exams and pressure from my piano teacher for me to do well in my exam on monday (also I am seriously thinking about giving piano up because I just can't keep on top of everything, which is sad because it's been 10 years since I started), not even having a tent ready for duke of edinburgh this saturday and of course my inability to sit down and work doesn't make things any better either. But blah, these pictures are making me feel a little less melancholy and the promise of the summer holidays helps too. I really want to go down to London again and make some new friends and there is also a fandom meetup on the 17th so I might cosplay Irene Adler from Sherlock or something.

Here's one I found of me while rooting through the memories box. I was 3 and at nursery. #2000 #nofilter

((I am like "o no u didn't" cos this person is taking a surprise pic while I'm clearly occupied with tumblr))

Sorry for my absence as well, there might be some more of that now because of the exams mentioned and other things I need to try and get off my mind/chest/whatever makes me feel good again. In the meantime I will be trying to escape from everything and floating awaaaaaaay

Jemima xxxxxxx

le temps de l'amour

Well HELLO THERE. It's been a while.

Last week was surprisingly okay (apart from early mornings) and I guess it feels kinda great and homey to be at school again with my friends and trying to be good-at-socialising and not awkward etc. I know I'm definitely getting back into the swing because I fell asleep in music today. Yep, it's good to be back.

I've spent most of my lessons so far daydreaming about Johnlock and getting Japanese songs stuck in my head (youtube Kyary Pamyu Pamyu she's so cute) along with the usual violent and bloody doodles of metaphor-y poems in english classes a.k.a. an even more demented and bloodthirsty Miss Havisham. I won't post it but it's a bit very Sweeney Toddy.

They've just given us our exam timetables ew yes exam season is soon and I really can't be bothered as usual - I wouldn't normally revise but of course this time they just have to be scary things that count like 70% of your gcse so I suppose I'm going to have to try and learn all the stuff somehow. Procrastination is my greatest enemy and I honestly have no idea how I will be able to overcome it at all. I'm hopeless.

In other news, it's non uniform yet again on friday for a charity I can't remember so while I have the rest of my outfit //sort of// mapped out I am still yet to decide whether to wear these fishnets or the star tights (or both as odd stockings maybe???) but anyway. I customised my new saddle shoes a tiny bit with stickers and other tingz here:

I'm too lazy to edit these though ahahaha. (It's half two in the morning though so understandable ok understandable) There are some sparkly bits chillin on there and I just finished sewing the last of what little lace I ever possess onto some white socks so I'll wear those too. And the position of my ridiculously big clown feet reminds me of the beginning of dancing in the street.

Here are two random pictures I took in my room for an art homework one time, I can't really remember when.

 bowiebowiebowiebowiebowie

Also last friday my friend Vanathy had a party at Fancie which is a BEAUTIFUL AND DELICIOUS AND DREAMY chain of cupcake shops which are a bit famous in my city. I hope they branch out and SHARE THE LOVE AcRoSs the galaxy and that. They're really cool because they cater for anything like they have gluten free and vegan and non chocolate brownies called blondies and gahjbdhsnl it's all just so cool.

Yes so anyway, she had a cupcake decorating party and aside from going mad and eating all the frosting/nutella/jam/rainbow sprinkles and drinking all the pink milk straight away we all managed to get four home each in one piece. The pink milk was beautiful (I felt like I was in a Charlie and Lola story) and here's my ~*before and after oooooo*~

my cup of marshmallows kept mysteriously disappearing... . ... .. ..... .

The table was in a right state after we were finished, the cleaners probably enjoyed that.......

THE SUMMER VIBES ARE ALL A SPRINGIN and the weather is changing finally! It's about time. (snow  in april omg.) here's a beach boys tune to express my joy and some pictures.

And the lovely Kate Bush because I am in a fish people mood right now. Contrastingly sad.

And zat will be all for now my friendz

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p.s. I also have a piano exam next month ***CRIES***

being ethereal

I saw Kate Nash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I met Kate Nash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

on monday.

She did like three stage dives and pulled loads of people on the stage at the end and it was like a massive party and wow she's just great and cool and grool. And she's such a nice person too like zomg I can't even.

And we're practically besties now (I wish)

I tried to upload a video but it hasn't worked ;-;

I've just been in a state of a dreamy sort of wonder for the last few days and I keep having flashbacks to the concert like "wait what did that really happen?????"  I was going to make her something that day but Alice and I were in town all day doing some Kate Nash related sightseeing. (turns out she and the Tuts (amazing support band) were doing a radio show at the university though.) I regret not doing that. The Tuts are fantastic, please google them!!! They're a feminist punk girl band of three and the songs they played from their new EP were just... I have no words. They were selling patches they'd made themselves, so naturally, I had to buy some.

Here's a Tuts tune as well.

I've spent the last couple of nights catching up on old pindippy videos, and now I am inspired to make my own (or maybe just one). Luckily I have the pals to participate in the whole video making tingz but unfortunately I don't know what to do sketches about yet. I shall have to ask them for help once term starts again. I just wanted to share that with you. Plus I get all my ideas while I'm at school and supposed to be doing work, so the holidays are mostly wasted.

I am really sad I can't go to Bookworm this year though. I'd asked my mum last saturday and she said yes but now it seems as though we have something on so I won't be able to see the actual real Jessie and Bebe in actual real life noooOOooo

(I wish I lived closer to London man. Two hours on the train is apparently too much for my family.)

(and sherlock is being filmed there, the setlock feels are killing me.)

Another good thing about the holidays is that I have more time for art-ing. I don't have time/enjoy it in term and it's been nice to just be able to get everything out and go mad experimenting with colours without pressure of deadlines etc. I've done some more inky things and here is the not quite finished Helena because I need to add more hair and nose and other bitz n bobz. I also did Benedict Cumberbuhabsglovrk but his mouth went weird (whY IS IT ALWAYS MOUTHS) and I used this picture and she is just so perfect.

Picture quality is worse than usual, sorry. I feel like I've made her look like a skeleton though omg I think the cheekbones are too dark.

ooo I will soon have a new penpal too she's called Leoni and she loves Kate Bush like me and we share memories of dancing badly to Wuthering Heights and falling over. She too has just started a blog and we are both trying to be John Watson in this sense.

School starts again on monday ew so I might post again next week maybe.

As you can see I have changed my blog name to ethereal popopopop but don't worry I won't change it again❤

And I really want to watch Grease bye

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the world can show nothing to me

Hi guys yo guys hey it's me again

(4 new records I got from st. luke's for 80p.)

I was watching iCarly for the first time in a while with my sister today and something hit me suddenly. There have been continuous adverts for an 'iGoodbye' or something (can't really remember) but apparently the last ever episode of the show is going to be aired in two days time and it just made me feel weird, put simply. I've spent a good part of my life watching that show and I think that seeing as it started when they were all thirteen-ish, it seems, as with all child actors I guess, that they are or should be somehow immortalised in those thirteen-year-old bodies forever. It feels strange to see them as fully grown adults, it's almost scary woah. How did Miranda Cosgrove turn twenty so quickly? The little eleven year old from Drake and Josh? My new Beach Boys album comes into this post kinda well actually because of course:

"Wouldn't it be nice if we were older

Then we wouldn't have to wait so long."

One of the things a kid wants to do the most would probably be to 'grow up' and be treated like an adult. But we don't realise then that with growing up comes so much more - general responsibility for one, and yet more freedom, yet still more chores and more work - right now I'm internally screaming "let me stay fifteen forever!"

I know of course that you are as young as you feel, and most of the time I do feel I am about nine in my head, but sometimes I get a bit worried that I won't feel that inner nine year old reaching out to me, and that eventually it will turn into a ten year old, then an eleven year old and so on. I think I just need to remember that whenever I feel I need an immaturity boost, I can just watch the spongebob movie (which I know off by heart). In school I'm the only one who still laughs at the mention of the word 'poo' and even though the laughing spreads around through my friends everyone else just looks at me funny. But you know what? I don't care about that anymore. Let me giggle at poo and boobies!!!!!!!!!

Saying this now has just made me think of a post by Hollie from a while back and thus I give you drum roll please something cool she drew here (which I totally don't stalkerishly have saved on my phone) (if you're reading this Hollie I hope you don't mind)

It's things like that what make you realise that we really are growing up incredibly fast, and now I feel like I need to make the most of ze old youth because well it's true what they say, isn't it? - life really is short. Some days I won't leave the house of my own accord, maybe because I'm too lazy or tired or just not bothered, but either way it will end in me overthinking the theory that I AM WASTING MY LIFE and I MUST DO STUFF OR DIE and it depresses me. I'm not very creative, and I wish so much that I was, but I don't have a very good mind to think of my own things to draw and make and so before I know it more than half the day has been spent in bed. I was looking forward to this three week break from schoolwork so that I could really focus on trying to extract any amount of imagination from myself but so far all I've done is thought of two new ways to not feel sick after eating too much chocolate. (1. stop eating more stuff on top of it  2. have water and watch some f.r.i.e.n.d.s)

There are so many people on the internet that admittedly I envy a tiny bit, purely on the basis that they have super rad interesting thoughts and ways of going about things, when sometimes I just feel like a bit of a useless lump sittin' around hoping that one day I can be something like them. So I've decided to do more things with myself and step out of my comfort zones and venture into the wilderness more to try and stimulate my currently non-existent mind-of-my-own. If that makes any sense.

Moving onwards and upwards as they say, here are some pictures I took today. (omg that rhymed I'm a poet and I didn't know it) Sorry about the quality!

Trying to be Helena Bonham Carter in this photo

New supa disco shirt

Sort of finished a painting zomgazomg (for art, from this. I'm doing the french revolution.) (her face went super wrong)

I'll end with the second part of the first verse of that beach boys tune:

"And wouldn't it be nice to live together 

In the kind of world where we belong"

And this is my all time favourite song of theirs. These might be the beginnings of a serious infatuation with them, so beware.

Jemima ❤xxxxxxxxxx❤

boundin'

The other day I learnt how to colour stuff on photoshop, so naturally I've spent the weekend trying to draw cartoons. It didn't go quite as planned, but here are the results omg:

this one makes me think of a mix between Dorothy and the wicked witch of the west

and Sherlock and John here

I also did another Johnlock comic thing but I don't really like it so I won't post it.

I'm going to be spending the rest of the holidays collecting and making things for a couple of package/letter swap things (I love doing those so let me know if you fancy doing anything like that!) and trying to write a johnlock fanfic which some people have sent me cool prompts for but as I say I'm terrible at finishing things so I don't know how far I'll get with it. BUT I am going to put my heart and soul into it because SHERLOCK AND JOHN WERE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER FOREVER OK.

yep

Also I watched the woman in black with 10 year old sis Tilly and for the last few days I've been too scared to venture anywhere in the house alone.

So, um, sorry it isn't very interesting today, I will try and fail to write something deep and philosophical next time for I feel as if I am posting happy clouds of sunshine and boring randomness which my head isn't actually completely full of. I don't know what I'm saying. Ignore me.

(I'm looking for a new camera as well, it's about time I found something useful. Probably a film camera because they take nice pictures and because I'm broke but if anyone has any recommendations I'd love to check some out yes please thank you very much so)

I think I just saw the woman so I'm going to go now.

Jemima ❤xxxxxxxxxx❤

interview with sue denim

It's the holidays now, so I thought this would be something nice for you !!

You might already have heard of Sue Denim, a singer/songwriter from London who was in the band Robots in Disguise (obsession of 2010/11) with her friend Dee Plume, but now she's gone on to a solo career - her debut album being 'And The Unicorn'. She's super rad, has the most fantastic style and such a nice person... and she's taken the time to answer a few questions for me! (This was ready last summer and I was originally going to put it in a zine before I lost my creativity/inspiration/whatever you want to call it, so sorry about that!)

Did you always want to be a musician, and when did you start getting into music?

No, in fact I wanted to be a vet! But my grades started a-slippin’, and my interest in music surpassed that in animals, plus a guitarist mate (Dee) who I’d introduced to another singer pal of mine to form a band (without thinking I’d join em!) asked me to play bass with them. Even though I couldn’t actually play. Punk!

What makes you happy about the music industry?

Music! It’s the industry bit that’s tricky!

Is there anything that makes you angry about it?

Yeah. All sorts. It’s one of the most unprofessional businesses that exist! So much to complain about! Mainly though, that a good song is not enough, that it’s basically all down to finance. There’s a myth that surrounds it that is hard to dispel in many people’s eyes. Only years of immersion dispels the myth!

What are your 5 most played songs at the moment?

It changes all the time. I’ll just say my 5 most played at the moment:

Andalusia – John Cale

Pablo Picasso – Jonathan Richman

Spanish Caravan – The Doors

Jackie – Scott Walker

Free Pussy Riot! - Peaches

I  love your video for Bicycle! It’s sort of collage-y, do you make stuff like that for inspiration and such? Maybe for a new song idea or something?

I’ve only made one or two collages EVER! I should do more, it’s fun. Thanks for reminding me!

Do you think the internet has made it easier to be a feminist?

It’s easy to get information and connect to like-minded people quickly, which is cool. I HOPE it’s easier. I have a dream... EVERYONE becomes a feminist! (Yeah right!) The internet is a tricky issue for me... such a time-gobbler but BRILLIANT too! That dastardly internet makes everything both easier and more difficult, it’s the ultimate paradox!

Have you watched any films/TV shows recently that have inspired you?

I rarely watch TV. The last film I saw was The Artist which I loved!

What are you looking forward to in the next year or so?

Touring East... making another album, earning a bit of cash money, good health and good cheer!

Just super cool everything.

her website is here

(and Ialso found a really good website for more pictures of Sue and Dee here)

hope you all have a great easter if you celebrate it and eat a lot of chocolate,

jemima xx