caddyman: (baffled)
[personal profile] caddyman
I have never read the King in Yellow although [livejournal.com profile] romney has lent me a copy and [livejournal.com profile] pax_draconis has explained the mind set behind it to me.

Now this morning, whilst in the Thinking Room, I had occasion to note how all the reading material has slowly transformed from a fair mix of my stuff and the Polish Brigade's tm to almost entirely women's fashion magazines, about two thirds of which are in Polish. Seeing the words sex and orgasmje printed on a page otherwise liberally strewn with the higher scoring scrabble letters is very frustrating, believe me.

Anyway, top of the heap currently is the July edition of Tatler, and since it is running an article on Keira Knightly, I thought I'd have a read (and it's in English). Now something occurred to me whilst browsing.

In almost every still photograph of Ms Knightly there is a slightly 'not-quite-right' quality which is somehow indefinable, and which is not apparent when you see her actually acting. (watch Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean and then compare with any still portrait of her). But somehow it looks as though her face, whilst undeniably pretty (she's 19 and that's pretty; it takes another ten years for a woman to become beautiful, no matter how much slap1 is applied) there's something just a little bit .... odd.

In the Tatler pictures particularly, it looks as though her face is set marginally forward from the rest of her. Not enough to be freakish or wrong, just a little odd. So here are samples of what I mean:

Tatler01

Tatler 02
Tatler 03


Now that's Carcosian. Or is it just me?2
.........
1 Slap - by which I mean make up. I'm not advocating walloping 19 year old (or any other age) women. Most of my readers will know this already, but I'm not sure if the usage is the same across The Pond.

2 It occurs to me too, that if she licked her lips and kissed a pane of glass, you'd be hard pressed to peel the glass back off. This is known as the Angelina Jolie Effect.

Profile

caddyman: (Default)
caddyman

April 2023

S M T W T F S
      1
2345678
9101112131415
1617 1819202122
23242526272829
30      

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags