Today, I would like to discuss something of vast importance!

That's right! Movies! Movies starring Cate Blanchett! One of my favorite movies! The first time I watched it was my freshman year at the UI for a theater course. We had a choice between like four movies and no one seemed interested in this one, so I picked it.

WHAT AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE IT WAS. I even watched it again just to relive the awesomeness! Also: I like Cate Blanchett.

The combination of acting, actors and music was phenomenal! I have a thing for classical so it was a win-win situation! On a trip to Chicago a couple years ago, I bought this movie and watched it again. One of the best scenes in this film come at the end, when she has her Ladies in Waiting cut off all her hair and cover her skin in white paste. And she puts on this amazing sixteenth century dress and walks into this ballroom with all the subjects kneeling and says in this big, deep voice: "Observe. I am married to England."

The first time I saw this it was like, "HOLY CRAP THAT IS AWESOME." Then I watched it again.

Anyway, there is a point to this, so I'll get to it. The last time I watched it, I was still spazzing from the final scene and watching the end credits. And I was watching and minding my own business when bam, I see the name "Lily Allen."

What?

At first I thought maybe it was just someone else with the same name. But then I went scrolling back through the movie and I found her.


Did you know that? I bet you didn't.

She looks really young, maybe fourteen or fifteen. Her hair is chin length and in most scenes she looks as if she has no idea what she's doing wearing that annoying sixteenth century dress. One moment she isn't there, and the next she is, so it's a little...odd, I guess you could say. I suspect the scene simply wasn't age appropriate for Lily Allen for to be in it -- it's the one where the manwhore of England gets all up in the Ladies in Waitings's grills. In any case, I went on wikipedia (weeks ago) and found out her mother produced Elizabeth, so that's probably how she ended up as a Lady in Waiting.


I like Lily Allen. She's been called boring and contrived by many, but she's just so likable and when she first came out it was hard to resist that whole tennis shoes with the pretty dresses thing, and I couldn't help liking "LDN", mainly because I really like imitating her accent.

Speaking of music and accents, she did this collaboration with Mark Ronson. The best thing about the video for "Oh My God" would be Mark Ronson, but it actually turned out to be the fact that Lily Allen was animated, Fafi style, which I thought was awesome (and slightly random) because I love Fafi art.

Fafi is basically supersexy graffiti -- the image above is a general example of what the art looks like. The artist, Fafi, was born in Toulouse, France, and started drawing her girls in 1994. From the site: "Back then, as she was painting and hustling, her sexy, funny, and sometimes aggressive girl characters made the whole world look and help kick-start a whole new graphic language; by exploring feminity through stereotypes, and using it to her advantage, she drew enormous attention and thus started to travel the world with thousands of Fafinettes in her brushes and paint cans."

She tends to draw on walls and sidewalks all over the world. Go check it out, it's hawt.

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