More Days To Celebrate
[ 25 June 2007 ]
A while ago, I wrote Living A More Celebratory Life, with ideas of things to do to make your life more exciting. Here are some more days to celebrate!
May 14th: Sofia Coppola‘s birthday
Why? A visionary director, Sofia’s movies (The Virgin Suicides, Lost In Translation & Marie Antoinette) are slow, beautiful & evocative.
How? Watch her first movie, Lick The Star (parts one & two). Eat cakes & drink champagne in the long grass. Visit a temple. Stick up pictures of Japan. Wear a pink wig & do karaoke. Tease your hair into an enormous bouffant.
August 28th: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe‘s birthday
Why? Because he was a polymath: a fabulous poet, novelist, dramatist, theorist, painter & scientist. He was one of the most enlightened thinkers of all time. He also said amazing things.
How? Read Faust. Go horse-riding. Hold a puppet show with a friend. Write poems in bed. Look closely at colours. Learn some German phrases. Sehr gut!
September 10th: Karl Lagerfeld‘s birthday
Why? Because he is the best kind of eccentric genius. He works like a demon, is mindblowingly creative in all aspects of his life, & painfully stylish. If you need more proof: 1 & 2.
How? Wear a starched white shirt & rings on every finger. Go shopping for the perfect pair of fingerless gloves. Photograph models & bark at them in a German accent. Listen to your iPod constantly, or Cat Power, or his mix CD, Karl Lagerfeld: Les Musiques Que J’Aime. Eat at Taco Bell.
“People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.” — Karl Lagerfeld
October 10th: Carrie Bradshaw‘s birthday (according to Wikipedia!)
Why? Because she’s the most fantastic character on television ever. (You think I am exaggerating. I am not. This is how deep my love runs. She is like the best friend I never had.)
How? Watch every episode of Sex & The City ever made (though this is a regular event in the iCiNG Bowl). Go shoe shopping. Go to a movie alone. Write a bad column — include the line, “I couldn’t help but wonder…”! Max out your credit card. Drink cosmopolitans with your three best friends. Allow your outfits to evolve throughout the day. Decide to become a well-known “party girl”. Dance to Henry Mancini’s “Moon River“ with an incredibly sexy older man.
November 27th: Manolo Blahnik‘s birthday
Why? Oh, come on! Why?!
How? Prance around your bedroom in your favourite shoes. Go online shoe-shopping. Give yourself a pedicure. Get a foot massage. Polish your shoes. You get the idea.
November 19th: Isabella Blow‘s birthday
Why? Isabella’s death was a very sad thing. She was SUCH an original, so very iconic. Isabella was the fashion director of Tatler & milliner Phillip Treacy’s muse. She is credited with having discovered models Sophie Dahl & Stella Tennant, as well as Alexander McQueen.
How? Wear a fabulous hat all day. Befriend & help anyone you think is a fresh talent. Have an affair with a gondolier. Remember to wear lipstick!
“If you don’t wear lipstick, I can’t talk to you. You need to have lips – they are important for getting men.” — Isabella Blow
Super-love & cupcakes,
Gala
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another reason to celebrate goethe’s birthday, it is also mine! ha! finally someone cool to share my birthday with. in the past i’ve only ever had jason priestly off 90210…blurgh!
my sister’s b-day is the same as karl l.‘s…
which also is the same as
sanjaya from american idol and bill o’reilly?
lol
i’ve met a lot of september 10ths and they have all been adventurous and fun.
SIIIIGHHH
why don’t i live in melbourne? I want carrie to be my best friend? we could be each other’s carrie!!
okay. being totally cheesy.
plotting your package!! there are several things you don’t know about in there that i think you will love! eeeee. i look forward to hearing about you opening it.
Alright, I really hate to be nitpicky, but it really bothers me that Karl Lagerfeld is helping to perpetuate the stick-thin model look in the first article by saying that a so-called “ideally proportioned” model should lose weight. Obviously she was very thin if she was fitting into the clothes he made in the first place. There’s nothing wrong with being thin – but there is something wrong with losing weight off an “ideal” physique because someone else suggests it.
Rant aside, Karl is one of my very favourite
people and he is truly a genius.
I’m very, very in love with your idea of having a celebratory life. What a lovely, glorious existence. I recommend sparkling firecrackers and lots of sprinkles. :)
hiii
I’ve been reading this for awhile, and I think it’s wonderful ^^ I also love the fact that someone who lives in Melbourne is writing such a fabulous stuff…[I live in Melbourne too – or close enough]
I was just wondering if I could put up a link to your site on my LJ?
love
Speaking of German Romantics, as much as this essay on Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling is killing me to write, he really has enchanted me. I think I’m a Schellingian now! His birthday is January 27th; celebrate by recognising the world as an organic unity, a Godhead, which manifests itself in all life! That is, if you’re not still too tired from celebrating Lord George Gordon Byron’s birthday on the 22nd.
!!!
I watched Lick the Star a couple of years ago on IFC one morning before school, and it was one of the very few short films on IFC that I’d seen that has stuck with me through the years. I had thought about looking it up, because I tried to describe it to someone… I had no idea it was Sofia Coppola’s!
It’s Frida Kahlo’s birthday on July 6th and I am planning a backyard celebration for what would have been her 100th birthday. I’m really excited! She’s an amazing Mexican painter and she lived a very interesting life: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
Awwww! I’m all excited that I have the same supposed birthday as a fiction character! Ever proving that October 10th is thee best/snazziest/most stylish birthday in the world. Yay for me and Carrie Bradshaw!
Here are two of my favorites:
July 18: Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist (this would be a fun day to celebrate—take a [drug-addled?] road trip and write about it along the way, go see a horse race and read “The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved,” wear aviator sunglasses and carry a cigarette holder)
January 23: Chita Rivera, dancer/actress in musical theatre (watch The Dancer’s Life and listen to the original West Side Story soundtrack, wear a swingy black dress and heels)
rachel — One of my closest friends’ birthday’s is on September the 10th (three days before mine), & she is pretty fun to be around too :>
Mary Bee — I am SO excited, you really have no idea!
Andrea — To put it in perspective, Karl Lagerfeld lost 40kg (90lbs) in 13 months, & wrote a book detailing his ‘diet’. His ideas on weight/size/body aesthetics are just as unconventional as the rest of what he does. No one is perfect! He is fantastic though, I’m glad you can appreciate him for who he is without having to agree with everything he says!
eunhYe — Oh, thank you! Yes, please feel free to link to me on your LJ!
amanda lee — I wrote about Hunter in the original article ;> But he’s worth another mention! He is SO AWESOME, what a hero. It makes me really, really sad thinking about his death. I can only imagine the amount of pain & shame he must have felt, yecch.
I don’t know, Miss Gala. He is thought to be the reason H&M discontinued their plus-sized line in America. Especially because he is quoted as saying, “What I created was fashion for slim, slender people,” after H&M released his clothes in larger sizes. Lagerfeld also called the proposed ban on underweight models-underweight, not exceptionally skinny- “PC fascism”.
I agree Mr. Lagerfeld is a fabulous character and a talented individual, but his suggestions seem less than healthy“If you don’t wear lipstick, I can’t talk to you. You need to have lips – they are important for getting men.” — Isabella Blow
What?! She won’t talk to anyone who is not wearing lipstick? Good luck getting a man like that ;)