a healthy summer

I haven't been here in a while, and I am very sorry for that. I have been RIDICULOUSLY busy because well its the end of my senior year, so I have prom to plan, graduation presents to make, college stuff to do, etc. But never fear. When everything chills out a bit, I have many plans for fashion, top tens, and one very awesome rant that I'm sure everyone will agree with me about. Except the writers of teen soap operas...But that's all I'll say for now.

So this one is a quick-y. I was just thinking today about how summer is usually a time for trying new things, new experiences, dieting, etc. Mostly I'm focusing on dieting. Well no, I'm not on a diet. Anyone who knows me would probably yell at me if I went on a diet. However, I am determined to start eating healthier.

You see, my problem is that I'm an unnaturally picky eater. I don't really like meat, except for poultry. I mean I'll eat it if I must, but I don't really like it. So naturally, everyone then says to me, "Well then why don't you become a vegetarian?" Well, that's my other problem. I don't like vegetables either. My eating habits are kind of like a five-year-old's, to be quite honest. I love starch. Starch, starch, starch. And cheese. And together, starch and cheese equal GAINING WEIGHT. And like the average teenage American girl, I don't want to gain any weight! But it's not even just about gaining weight as much as it's, well, a starch and cheese and nothing diet isn't exactly healthy. You watch me eat at dinner and you'd think I was anorexic the way I pick at my food...until dessert arrives. Then I'm a complete pig.

So what it all comes down to, is this summer, I've decided that it's going to be all about yogurt and fruit. No, that's not all I will be eating. But, that's what I'll be snacking on, and lunching on. And when dinner comes, I'll try my best to eat all the steak because I need my iron, and I'll try my best to eat all the broccoli, because apparently it can help prevent cancer! And if I'm still hungry after dinner, instead of eating 10,000 pretzels, I'll grab an apple or a yogurt.

This will also be extremely helpful because I would like to cut down on belly fat, and both fruit and yogurt apparently can help you do that. But if you want to cut down on any fat at all, exercise is also key. So also this summer I pledge to exercise more! I'm going to have to figure out how though. I definitely want to try the seventeen magazine workout from the June/July issue. I know, it's not even June or July and they already gave me the June/July issue. But anyway, I say all the time that I'm going to start their workouts, and I never do. So this year, I WILL DO IT.

That's all for now. I'll try to come back soon! I PROMISE! <3

picture perfect paris

Figured I should post some of the better pictures I took in France. Keep in mind I'm not a photographer or anything, I don't have a fancy camera or anything, but I did my best.

Versailles

Eiffel Tower at Night :)

Sacre Coeur

Champs Elysees Street Sign :P (sorry for no accents)

Tuileries

Musee Rodin (again sorry for lack of accents)

Eiffel Tower in the Daytime (obviously)

Musee du Louvre

Just a random bridge crossing the Seine

my favorite moments in paris

One of the things I love the most about travelling to places you love is those moments. These moments that you can remember so vividly as if it was happening to you right now, those moments that represent your time at the place, and that aren't necessarily special to you, but that can and will happen to anyone who goes to that certain place. So I decided I could incorporate this into my top tens by making this my top ten favorite moments in Paris. As usual, no particular order.

1. Hanging out in the Tuileries on a bright and sunny day, watching people pass by, children running around, musicians playing even though they aren't supposed to. You could just sit here forever on the bench and let the world pass you by, maybe having ice cream or a crepe from one of the vendors, just letting the sun warm your skin and breathing in the fresh air.

2. Sitting outside in that Parisian cafe, eating that Croque Monsieur, and knowing you couldn't possibly feel more Parisian than you do right now.

3. Entering the hustle and bustle of the Champs Elysees where people dart in and out of stores with music playing and the general excitement that shopping brings, whether you're at Louis Vuitton or Nike there is just this exhilaration of being there.

4. Walking through the little cobblestoned streets of Montmartre, past the cafes and the accordion player, looking up to see Sacre Coeur, and then over at the rest of Paris and feeling as if you are at the top of the world.

5. Arriving in Paris and seeing the Eiffel Tower for the first time, and realizing that you really are there, that it's not just a dream.

6. Relaxing in the Champs de Mars as the sun goes down, watching as the Eiffel Tower lights up, and then eventually begins to glitter.

7. Walking down the Eiffel Tower steps at night, after seeing all of Paris from the top, you can continue to see its magic as you go down the stairs, watching the lights from the buildings get closer and closer, feeling as if you are in the center of it all, because you are.

8. Riding a boat on the Seine, whether its at night when everything is lit up, or during the day when its bright and sunny and you can see couples along the side and people tanning, and life just happening around you.

9. Going around the base of the Eiffel Tower at night with the guys flying those little helicopters they're trying to sell, and as you try to make sure none of them fall on your head, you can look straight up and see the immensity above you.

10. Just walking alongside the Seine, passing the book sellers and bridges, having the ability to cross one of these bridges to enter the Right or Left Banks, and knowing it’s like being in two different worlds that although different are also the same.

Fashion Report: Paris

Today I arrived back in New York from Paris. I'm very sad but hopefully I'll be back. Just as promised, I kept my eye out to see if I noticed any particular trends, and I did! Of course, as I don't know everything in the universe about fashion, I don't even know if they're technically "in" but this is what I saw.

1. Blazers - which I love and I felt so proud of myself because I actually brought one and felt at least mildly Parisian. Worn with skinny leg jeans and converse type shoes (see below).

2. Harem pants - to be completely honest, this is one trend I will never understand.

3. Wedge sandals - not exactly like these, but I think you get the point. LOVE this style and can't believe I don't already have something like them.

4. Converse style shoes - I know this isn't exactly high fashion, but these were the only sneakers I saw the entire time I was there. Not necessarily the brand converse, but this type of shoe. Generally they were in darker colors. Whenever I wore sneakers on the trip I had my own pair of Ralph Laurens in this style but they were pink so I didn't have it exactly right.

Those are just four different styles that I thought were especially prominent. I also noticed when I went up to Normandy that a lot of the French girls were wearing the baggy-ish tank and layering...something I talked about in my very first post, actually. But that's not technically Parisian fashion! I only wish I had paid more attention to bags!! I could make some guesses but I wouldn't be completely right so I'd rather not.

Other related stuff: I did shop on the Champs Elysees (sorry I'm neglecting the accents, I'm much too lazy) and of course it was amazing. Better than Fifth Avenue as I told my friend who lives in France (she stayed with my family as a French exchange student two years ago), but alas she disagreed. Two stores that I really liked that seemed to be quite popular are Mango and Promod. Though I know Mango isn't technically French, I still felt like I could buy French fashion there, which I did. Unfortunately I bought nothing from Promod, which actually IS French, because I didn't have time to wait on the long line (the Champs Elysees can get extremely crowded!). But they're both great, and I'd certainly recommend them, Mango being located right next to the Galeries Lafayette by the Opera Garnier, and Promod somewhere along the Champs Elysees, I don't even remember where.

I will continue talking about France in my next few posts, though it won't be about fashion, I don't think. There is just so much to talk about it, and I miss it already! But now I'm feeling tired and jet lagged (it's 3 AM Paris time right now) so au revoir. :)

To France I Go!

So in about five hours I'm going to France! I'm super super excited! I figured I should let everyone know so they don't think I'm ignoring my blog again, because I'm not. When I get back I'll blog about it, of course, and I will probably also blog about the books I'm going to be reading on the plane! Yay!

Also when I get back I'm planning on starting a new segment that goes along with top ten...It'll be the top ten must-sees in certain places. I'll probably start with Paris since that's where I will have just come from.

I really can't wait to see Paris fashion and buy my summer wardrobe there!!! Once it starts getting really nice I'll probably talk about fashion more since I love spring and summer fashion. Anyway, I'd better go and continue packing. Au revoir! :)

The New And Improved

So I was looking in my archives of blog posts (because you KNOW I have so many -- note my sarcasm) and I saw my old top ten best looking guys. And then I realized that I don't feel that way anymore. Since then I have been introduced (not literally introduced) to a bunch of new guys, and those old guys have NOTHING on the new guys, so uh here we go with my new and improved top ten best looking guys!

1. Yuri Pleskun (Model; he's now number 10 on models.com...I blogged about him about a month ago...Don't you love his blue eyes?!)

2. Francisco Lachowski (another model...I also blogged about him haha)

3. River Viiperi (yet another model who I blogged about a few weeks ago)

4. Ian Somerhalder (actor from the Vampire Diaries, former model. He was in the old top ten guys)

5. Alex Pettyfer (British actor in Beastly and I Am Number Four, I made mention to him in my movie post about Beastly)

6. Enrique Iglesias (Spanish singer; I love his song Tonight so much! And I made a post just for him last year!)

7. Zac Efron (actor no longer to be associated with just High School Musical, if you ask me. Also in my old top ten)

8. Joseph Gordon Levitt (actor in Inception, which is where I fell in love with him as Arthur...he was in two of my top tens...the old top ten guys and the top ten couples...he was in couple number 10, Arthur and Ariadne from Inception)

9. Zane Holtz (former model, actor in Make It Or Break It, which has started to be really bad so I might just watch the show for him now haha)

10. (young) Leonardo DiCaprio (actor obviously but I super fell in love with him in Titanic...I mean, who wasn't in love with Jack by the end of that movie?)

So that's my new and improved list. And I think its much much much improved!!

By the way, today is my birthday, in case you're wondering. I'm 18~

Wither

Sorry I've been gone for like 10 years I've been super super busy! I'm going to take a longer break from the male models I think because I'm reading so many awesome books and they all absolutely must be reviewed! Plus I might start this new thing about places I know and love...might be a top ten, maybe not though. I'll see what happens.

1. I was introduced to Wither by my friend Rebecca who was sitting next to me in the school library one day reading it and all of a sudden starts laughing and says, "This girl just said she's going to set the sitting room on fire! So random!" So, I knew I had to read it.

2. Wither by Lauren DeStefano is set in the futuristic United States of America where all boys live to the age of 25 and all girls live to the age of 20 because of this virus that was the result of genetic testing gone wrong. Wither tells the story of Rhine, a sixteen year old girl who has been kidnapped and given to a man named Linden to be one of his three wives, because as scientists are trying to find a cure for the terrible virus, people are trying to keep the population going so the human race doesn't die out. Rhine doesn't want to be the wife of a stranger, but she has to keep the trust of her evil father in law and her new husband so she can figure out a way to get free and find her brother.

3. I liked being in Rhine's head. She's really strong, especially considering the fact that she's going to die in four years. I don't know any teenager that could be that cool about dying in four years. She is also incredibly smart, and a pretty good actress. There's just something about her, this inner strength that tells you she's NOT going to let anyone push her around, but at the same time, that she isn't going to be impulsive or stupid.

4. I thought the whole sister-wife thing was awesome. No, I'm not pro-polygamy. But I liked the real sisterhood between Rhine and her sister-wives, Jenna and Cecily. Yeah, Cecily was annoying, and Jenna used to be a hooker, but still. They were all in it together, even if they all had different goals. I also kind of loved Linden. Which I really shouldn't. Good job Lauren DeStefano making this technically despicable character so freaking LOVABLE.

It's a trilogy, so I can't WAIT until the next one comes out.

hush

1. I just randomly picked up Hush because I thought it looked interesting...And when I skimmed the inside cover, for some reason I thought it'd be something like Delirium. But it wasn't. Not even close.

2. Hush is the story of Gittel, an Orthodox Jewish girl who lives in a modern day Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York. When Gittel was 9, her friend Devory died under less than pleasant circumstances. Actually, the circumstances were downright TERRIBLE but I won't give it away. Gittel has to learn to cope with Devory's death, even so many years later (she's 17), especially since she isn't supposed to talk about it.

3. I really liked Gittel. She was very strong under the circumstances and SO SO SOOOOOOOOO cute as a nine year old. I did find it very hard to relate to her, however. I honestly had no idea how different it is to leave in an Orthodox Jewish community. I mean, I knew it was different, but this was really intense. Obviously I found it a little hard to relate to a girl who lives in a community that think I'm going to hell because I'm not one of them. With that said though, she was pretty cool and much more open minded than some of the characters in the book.

4. I loveddddd Devory. She was just as cute as Gittel, if not more. But my heart did break for her. It really did. I would rant about that whole thing, but again, I don't want to give anything away. I also loved Yankel, after a while. At first he was EH but he got much better. He did some really CUTE things, though Gittel freaked out because she didn't know better. But I won't say anything more on THAT subject. The book was EXTREMELY well written and really fascinating too, which also made it great.

So I just thought I should say now that I was really amazed at how life is for the Orthodox Jewish people. Especially that it's THIS COUNTRY in PRESENT DAY. It was just so confining. I mean, they have arranged marriage! And I won't even get into details about married life! It was just really mind blowing. That's all I have to say. But definitely read this book, because it was awesome.

whats up with my writing

If you know me, or have read a previous post or something, you would know that I am trying to get my book published. I've queried six agents so far...Two by mail (those I sent out in January) and four by email (those I sent out like last week).

Initially I was just going to send my queries by mail because I had read somewhere that some agents won't respond to email queries if they don't like it. However, those three email ones that rejected me thus far did respond. One of the agents was really nice about it and encouraging, which made me feel kind of nice and loved even though she was rejecting me.

One thing I did that may or may not be a good thing is change my title. I had such issues picking out a title. It was just so hard finding something that was perfect. But I really wanted to send everything out, so in the end I just chose one even though I was meh about it, and just went with it. That is the title I used when I sent out my first two queries...but suddenly for some reason last week or maybe the week before that I had this urge to change my title. It wasn't that I had something else in mind, it was just that I looked at my title and though: "Is that anything you would pick up off the shelf" and when my answer was a NO I knew I had to change it. I mean I had always known it had sucked, but then I guess it just really hit me that if I didn't like it, an agent wouldn't either, so they wouldn't want to take me on. So I changed it to something much more typically YA and not a dumb attempt to be mysterious like with title number one. I mean, the title technically FIT, but it was just dumb.

The only reason it might have been a bad thing for me to change my title is because I still haven't gotten a response from one of the first two agents, and if she got my submission at all, it has the crappy title. I wish I could send like a follow up saying HEY LOOK I CHANGED MY TITLE IGNORE THE OTHER ONE. But that would look pretty bad on my part.

I'm also trying to build my resume in other ways, because I also figured that it would look better if I don't look like a COMPLETE high-school-kid-who-has-no-idea-what-she's-doing. Ah well. I'll just be determined and maybe hopefully in the near future some agent will look at my query or my submission or my whatever and be like I MUST HAVE THAT NOW. One can only hope.

Arthur Daniyarov

Arthur Daniyarov was born in 1989 in St. Petersburg, Russia, making him 21 or 22 years old. He became a model at the age of 19, signing with DNA Models in New York. Arthur has been in SO MUCH it's hard to know even where to begin. His debut was 2009 at the fall Prada show in Milan, and since then he also walked Alexander McQueen, Hugo Boss, Lanvin, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Jil Sander, to name a few. And speaking of Jil Sander, he also became the face of them in 2009, which you can see in that first picture I have. Honestly he has done so much I can't even begin to talk about it all. He does a lot of runway, I can tell you that. Recently, he was in Re-rare's Spring 2011 lookbook, if you're familiar with them at all. Sadly he is not on models.com's top models list, but that could easily change.

the most epic moments in harry potter history

These epic moments are from the books only. And they aren't even like the typical epic moments you would expect. They're more like the moments that I don't know I can't even explain them other than they're just EPIC. No particular order.

1. Fred and George Weasley saving Harry from the Dursley's in their father's flying Ford Anglia. I mean, come on! You hate the Dursley's so much and then all of a sudden BOOM there they are, outside Harry's window, ready to save him in the most EPIC way possible.

2. Mrs. Weasley dueling Bellatrix Lestrange in the Battle of Hogwarts. Her famous line will forever stay in my head: "NOT MY DAUGHTER YOU BITCH." Hell YES Mrs. Weasley. I hadn't seen it in you. But I am SO glad you got rid of Bellatrix. And your word choice...spot on. I never thought I could consider Mrs. Weasley to be badass. But well what other word could be used to describe her in this scene?

3. Ron: No, I mean we should tell (the house elves) to get out. We don't want anymore Dobby's, do we? we can't order them to die for us- Hermione: *Throws herself at him* They are just the cutest couple ever omigod don't get me started.

4. Book 1, Hagrid storming in that little house in the middle of the freaking ocean to tell Harry the truth...I just liked how the Dursleys were utterly POWERLESS. They didn't know what to do. Hagrid just CAME ON IN to save Harry and make everything better! And of course even more epic: the whole pig tail on Dudley thing. Good choice Hagrid, good choice.

5. So George loses an ear. And what's he have to say about it? George: Saint like. You see...I'm holy. Holey, Fred, geddit? Fred: Pathetic. Pathetic! With the whole wide world of ear related humor before you, you go for holey? ...How do you NOT love Fred and George? Seriously.

6. Harry was stupid and the Marauder's Map ends up in the hands of SNAPE. Snape taps the map with his wand, demanding for it to "yield the information it conceals" and instead of that, it shows the very interesting opinions Mssrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot, and Prongs have about Snape. My favorite is probably Mr. Padfoot's "astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor." Priceless.

7. Malfoy the Bouncing Ferret. Need I say more?

8. Harry tricking Lucius Malfoy into freeing Dobby. "Master has given Dobby a sock! Dobby is free!" YES DOBBY YES YOU ARE FREE. And now you can kick your dumb master's butt! Well it doesn't exactly happen that way but HAHA LUCIUS MALFOY YOU STUPID JERK!

9. Fred and George getting back at Umbridge and flying off into the sunset on their brooms. As if I didn't love these two enough...My greatest wish is that I could have been there to see them taking off on their brooms, with their completely EPIC farewell to their school and oh there is just too much about this scene that I love you should just go back and read it and re-live the awesome. If I HAD been ranking these epic moments, this would be number one. For sure.

10. Gryffindor winning the Quidditch House Cup in 6th year...Harry just walking into the celebrations and Ginny just THROWING HERSELF AT HIM LIKE BOY WE JUST WON AND LET'S JUST SNOG ALL NIGHT LONG BECAUSE WE WON THE FREAKING QUIDDITCH CUP. I would've been such a great Hogwarts kid with my school spirit and super love for Quidditch.

Yeah so those are my ten most epic moments. Could you tell that I love Fred and George?

Mateus Lages

Mateus Lages is the next model I'm talking about...but what's so special about him is that he is extremely new! He's still in the New Faces category in his modeling agency, which is Re:quest (just like Yuri Pleskun!). Mateus is 19 years old, and was born in Miami, Florida, which is also where he started modelling, with Next in Miami. He likes skateboarding, soccer, and photography. I love his profile, which might be obvious since i have three pictures of it up there. You probably won't see him in that much now (unless you read Vogue Hommes Japan), but he's definitely up and coming, and hey, who knows what will happen in the next six months!

Organization of This Blog

This post is basically a descriptor of what you can find on my blog. If you happen to run across it and really aren't sure what I do, this post will tell you! So anyway~

Basically here is what you can find: book reviews, fashion, movie reviews, guys, girls, top tens, writing/publishing advice, random thoughts, etc. If you want more specifics, keep reading. If not, you might as well stop here. :)

These are the types of posts that show up on this blog. There are my book review posts, which is self explanatory, but I only review books that I really love or that I think other people might love. They're pretty well organized posts, with a picture of the book, how I came across it, a general plot description, a description of the main character, and what makes it so great. The titles of these posts are the book titles. These are under the tag BOOK REVIEW. Obviously.

Then there are my movie review posts. These posts are much more relaxed than the book review posts. I basically just write whatever thoughts come to mind. No particular format. Sometimes I include a movie poster, sometimes I don't. Sometimes the title is the movie title, sometimes it isn't. These are tagged MOVIES.

A while ago I loved doing top ten posts, tagged as TOP TEN. These are completely my opinions on various things. So I have top ten best looking guys, top ten best looking girls, etc.

I also added a travel section, tagged as TRAVEL, which has to do with top ten because I've included the top ten best moments in a particular place, as well as top ten must sees in this place, tagged MOMENTS and MUST SEES, as well as TOP TEN. These above things I've done for France/Paris, tagged both FRANCE and PARIS.

I have a few posts about clothes/fashion, tagged FASHION, though I haven't since the when I first started the blog. If I'm talking about a particular trend, I'll post pictures of some examples. Recently the only posts tagged fashion are for my male model posting sequence. Those are tagged MODELS, FASHION, and GUYS. These include pictures of the guy (I try to get a wide variety including runway, editorial, etc.)

There are also some posts dedicated to writing and publishing, since I am a writer (I wrote a book and am now trying to get it published) tagged WRITING, PUBLISHING, or both.

Everything else is just my random thoughts (and sometimes rants, which, appropriately, are tagged RANT). Whenever I start a new sequence, I'll add information about it here.

Now the whole tagging thing doesn't matter as much since I got rid of my tag cloud and replaced it with the side labels to direct anyone to whatever may interest them. Right now I just have, books, movies, fashion, top tens, guys, and writing. I just added travel, and who knows, I might add more. If I see more people reading my rants, for example, I'll probably include that too. But I'll see.

Last updated: April 30, 2011

Francisco Lachowski

After that short three entry detour about books and movies we return to the male models with Francisco Lachowski! Francisco, nicknamed Chico, is about 19 years old. He is number 25 on models.com's top male models list and is represented by Ford Models. Francisco is Brazilian, and became a model in 2008 after winning Supermodel Brazil. I love him because well, how can you not love that face (or body) and his accent is just so cute! Facts about Francisco, and more reasons why I just love him: he's studying to be a graphic designer, plays tennis (like me!) and loves the beach (also like me!). Look out for him in Armani Exchange's Spring 2011 campaign. :)

please ignore vera dietz

1. I got Please Ignore Vera Dietz from my school librarian who told me she was reading it on the subway and crying hysterically. So of course I knew I had to read it.

2. Please Ignore Vera Dietz is about a girl named Vera who works as a pizza delivery girl and lives with her ex-alcoholic and "parsimonious" father. Vera's best friend Charlie, also the boy she has been in love with since she was a child, has just died, and she is trying to deal with this, as well as how much she hated him because of the terrible things he did to her the year before he died. The book goes back and forth from her past memories of Charlie to what is happening in the present, and also goes between the point of views of Vera, her father, dead Charlie, and the Pagoda, which is a building in the town that I still cannot seem to understand the significance of. Yes, the inanimate object has a point of view.

3. I really really love Vera and respect her. Charlie is right: she's classy. And I give her a lot of credit, considering her father was an alcoholic, and her mother was a stripper who had her at the age of seventeen, and then ran off with a podiatrist when Vera was twelve. So considering all of this, Vera is pretty cool. Plus her love for Charlie melts my heart. The only thing I don't like is all of the alcohol she consumes throughout the book. Not that I have a problem with alcohol, its just that it makes me super nervous when she drinks as she delivers her pizzas...especially since her father and grandfather were alcoholics! But even with that, Vera is still pretty great!

4. I loved Vera, and I loved Charlie. And I loved them together. Honestly, by the end of the book I was so in love with Charlie, despite everything he did. Charlie was NOT a bad person, no matter what he did. And it KILLED ME because the whole book I was getting that VERA AND CHARLIE MUST BE TOGETHER feeling but then I would remember that Charlie is dead. So sometimes I would get the VERA AND JAMES MUST BE TOGETHER feeling instead. But anyway I loved the intensity, especially around part five. And dead Charlie was pretty cool. And oh so sweet. Dead Charlie narration plus Vera narration equaled a really awesome book.

believe the legend beware the wolf

Yay for the super huge movie poster! So as I mentioned in my last post I saw the movie Red Riding Hood over the weekend. And contrary to other reviews, IT WAS A GOOD MOVIE.

Personally, I think that the only reason this movie is getting hated on is because its director, Catherine Hardwicke, was also the director of the first twilight movie, and well YOU KNOW how people cannot stand anything related to twilight. But I'm sorry, I thought she did a good job. So it's not the MOVIE OF THE CENTURY or anything, but it was still a decent movie.

This apparently was the weekend for spinoff movies, because Red Riding Hood is also very obviously a spinoff and I don't have to tell you on what. The main character, or Red Riding Hood, played by Amanda Seyfried is Valerie, who lives in this little mountain town that occasionally gets attacked by a werewolf. Because of this, the village people live in constant fear, especially on wolf nights, aka, the nights in which there is a full moon. Valerie is in love with Peter, a childhood friend, but is arranged to marry Henry, who is a blacksmith, and therefore will make much more money than Peter, the lowly woodcutter. Personally, I thought Henry was cuter than Peter, but oh well.

The reason I thought this movie was good was really because of the suspense and the mystery. You know the wolf has to be one of the villagers, but you really DON'T KNOW WHO. It's like every other scene makes you suspect a different person, and then when you finally find out who it is, well, I can't say anything about that. It was scary in a very non-horror movie way, which I also liked because I really can't take super scary movies. And the scenery was gorgeous. I would love to know where they filmed it.

I don't know. I just keep reading these reviews where people say how bad it is. Maybe its just me. (And my friend, because she liked it too). Okay, the ending I wasn't really a fan of...they could have done a much better job. But overall it really wasn't half as bad as anyone is saying. I swear. Go see for yourself if you don't believe me!

i just saw the most beastly movie...

So I saw TWO MOVIES THIS WEEKEND. YAYYYYYYY. Movie number 1 which I saw on Friday was BEASTLY. And that title kind of makes me want to use Beastly as an adjective. Though I'm not sure if it will be a positive or negative adjective. Anywayyyy then the second movie which I saw on Saturday was Red Riding Hood.

And here was the Beastly poster! (I am still thinking of it as an adjective!!!)

And now I just made this SPLIT SECOND decision to make this into TWO POSTS instead of one because this may be longer than I thought. Only because I thought it would be unfair to put a post about Beastly and not include a picture of Alex Pettyfer and his abs.

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You can thank me later.

Anyway, Beastly is a modern day spinoff on Beauty and the Beast. Apparently it was based on a book? But anyway I don't think I need to tell anyone the Beauty and the Beast story. If you didn't see Disney's animated version than I am quite sorry that you were such a deprived child. So the beginning of the movie was okay...actually that's a lie. In the beginning of the movie, all I could think was WOW THIS SUCKS. It's only redeeming quality was Alex Pettyfer, but then he had to get all ugly so it ruined it. Boy do I sound shallow. But seriously, the beginning was MEHHHHHHHH. Then that blind guy appeared and suddenly it got a whole lot better. That blind guy was FUNNY!!!! And then some cute romance happened, you know, some AWWW moments that made me smile, and when I was walking out, I probably still had that goofy smile on my face that is the result of said AWWW moments. I think they could have done better with this movie. Especially if it was based on a book, though I'm not sure if that's true quite yet...*Googles* Okay I just looked at the wikipedia article on the book and that was wildly different. Geez. Okay maybe if they went along with the book? I don't know, but it could have been better. Not that it was terrible or anything. I mean it was decent. But nothing I would go home and blog about, ya know? Oh wait...

river viiperi

So the next male model I'm going to talk about is River Viiperi. Nineteen year old half Spanish half Finnish River was born in Ibiza, Spain. He started modelling in 2009 and is currently with Soul Artist Management. You might have seen him on American Eagle's website for the fall/winter 2010 looks, and more recently, in Calvin Klein's CK One campaign with a bunch of other big models, including the models.com's number one female model, Lara Stone and Yuri Pleskun, something he mentions on his blog, Never Back Down. It's pretty interesting and entertaining, and has good insight on the life of a model. If you're curious the link is riverdelfin.blogspot.com. Oh that's also awesome about him. He uses blogspot like me! :)

(Random update: I don't know if it was like this when I wrote this entry or if it just changed, but I was just looking at models.com's rankings and apparently he's number 35...not sure if I missed that before or what. -April 1st, 2011)

yuri pleskun

I always used to think that the whole male modelling thing was pretty stupid, until very recently when I discovered just how awesome they really are. And that they're not all gay. So I decided that for a couple of posts I'd just go over a few of my favorite male models, and maybe even some female models, just for the fun of it. Number one is Yuri Pleskun, who as of now, is my absolute favorite.

Yuri Pleskun is a 20 year old model with Request Management with a bad boy vibe and a totally different look from the stereotypical pretty boy model. He is of Ukranian origin, but grew up in the Bronx, which is where he was discovered in 2008. Since then he has risen to one of the world's highest ranked male models. A couple of quick facts: he loves fried chicken, hates the fact that he's sometimes treated like an object (in France they call the models mannequins), and is good friends with fellow Request model Cole Mohr. He's definitely my favorite because he's funny with a good personality, and well, who can't resist that wink he gave the cameras during the Nylon Model Citizen interview? Plus he comes from New York City, which is where I'm from so that makes him doubly awesome! Look out for him on Calvin Klein's new CK One campaign.