. Last night Stacy and I watched the 1976 version of A Star is Born with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson. She started it and was texting me screenshots of Bab’s apartment because it was total 70’s style and she knows that is my jam. I got so excited I had to find it and it was not playing anywhere on my streaming so I rented it from Prime. She started it over and we watched together.
. A few observations: Kris never does his shirt up. There is something forever hot about long scruffy hair, a beard, and a guitar. See all the men I have slept with for reference. ahem. Her apartment is everything. Pottery and plants and velvet and sheer curtains and green tile. Their desert house is everything and a stained glass ceiling is now on my covet list. The dress she got married in onscreen was her ACTUAL wedding dress AND ALL OF HER OTHER CLOTHES CAME FROM HER CLOSET. I DIE. I BOW. I SALUTE. Esther forever.
. I might need the poster lol. kinda. maybe. don’t know if I have room.
. Esther is an amazing name and we are now secretly calling Stacy’s kids “the Esthers”.
. The story is both beautiful and tragic. He is a hot mess of success and she is brilliant but unknown. He gives her a chance to shine, they fall madly in love, he sobers up and they are happy. Then he starts to hate that she shines and doesn’t have the time for him -EVIL MANAGER STEPS IN (we hate him in all versions) and he becomes a hot mess again and knows he is ruining her life so he ends his. I know this intimately. And i said to Stacy “it’s so much easier for him to die than change and be happy.” Because really that’s all he needed to do. Change to be happy with her for the rest of his life. I know that sounds flippant and it’s not. Like I said I have intimate knowledge of this. (it is also not a commentary on the choice of suicide so don’t.)
. another observation - she catches him in bed with a reporter. and he doesn’t even give her a MINUTE to be mad as fuck, or process or anything before he is trying to HUG AND KISS her with I’m sorry’s coming out of his mouth. THE SAME mouth that was in bed seconds earlier with someone else. there.is.no.way. I might get over it if I loved him but I have FAR TOO MUCH rage to kiss any man who just had his mouth on another woman.
. the Bradley Gaga one is going down this weekend. I did not cry when I first saw nor did I cry last night but we know I am dead inside so there is that.
Now for news unrelated to a star is born.
. Bewitched. Soft launch announcement coming this weekend but seriously we have created our very own Kellerman’s.
. I like to respond to peoples rants with one word. Balls. I feel it sums up everything and my friends totally get it.
. Jeanette informed me you can change your country on Tinder so excuse me while I scroll Icelandic tinder looking for a Viking.
. Sin is on my mind this long Easter weekend and who better to sin with than my Golden Girl Effy.
(day 2 - Effy Wild blog along.)