If you are for some reason reading this blog, you might have some sort of longing for the past, right?
If you don't, then, good for you.
If you do, then, you're like me. I am always thinking about the past. Whether it be the Mary Pickford movie I saw the other day, or the strange tingling sensation I get when I hear anything about the 1890s-1940s, or maybe the 1950s. I know that a lot of people say that they feel like they should have been born in the past. Truthfully, I think that those people can be a little annoying and a bit stupid. (Sorry for the harsh words). But, I am also one of those people. I'm sure that to other people I am annoying and stupid. Of course, i've never really expressed my longing for the past and how much I really wish I could go back in time.
Why do I think those people are annoying and dumb? I don't think everyone who ever said that they wish they lived in the past is stupid. I think that people who say that they wish they lived in the past for a bad reason are a bit annoying. For example, many people my own age say that they would love to live the 1920s. (I can't stand when people say the "Roaring 20s". It really gets on my nerves. Why? I don't really know.) Why do you think they want to go back in time to the 1920s? So that they can be flappers and go out partying all the time. What's the point of going through all the trouble to get back in time just so they can do the same thing that people do today? Dress in tight, short skirts and dresses and go out drinking and partying bars all night. Or another example, when people say they wish they lived in the 1950s because they like the fashion. Liking the fashion is a fine reason. I don't think that should be your only reason, but it isn't really a bad one. The other which I don't like very much is when they say that they want to live in the 1950s because of the whole housewife thing. They act as if housewives weren't a "thing" until the year 1950. Housewives have been around since the first day of the human race, I think. They were around in the 1950s, the 1940s, the 1930s, the 1920s, the 1910s, the 1900s, the 1800s, etc. So, I don't think that that is a very good reason to want to go back in time. Heck, there are still housewives today.
Just to share a little bit of my knowledge, housewives became a really commercialized(Correct my if i'm wrong, which I probably am) thing. The second world war was just ending, and much of the population was dead. It was put in the hands of the married people to repopulate the country, which included a stay at home mother or I guess a housewife. (I read this somewhere on the internet).
I used to feel like I belonged in the 1930s, because I loved all the fashion and style and etiquette and everything. I still do. I love it very very much. But, I later realized that the 1930s was really just the 1920s with lots of poverty. Kind of, right? There were a lot of inappropriate themes and all that that were being spread all over he place. Don't ask me for an example, because I really can't tell you any. I might be totally wrong, but that is just how I feel. Now, I have begun to feel pulled towards the very beginning of the 1900s. So, the year 1900 to around 1920. I have begun to wish that I was born in the year 1900 or maybe somewhere around it, or around the year 1910. Just so I could live through the 1900s, the 1910s, the 1920s, the 1930s, etc., unless I died early. I switched to an early time because I felt like people were much more proper and restrained or whatever in the 1910s and all.
I get either very excited and happy when I think about being transported back in time to the 1910s (or around there) or very sad and lonesome for it, because part of me knows that I will never be able to experience that kind of excitement and happiness. But, i'm sure i'm just crazy.
Do you have any feelings for the past? Do you feel like you had some sort of past life in the earlier years of time? Do you just want more then anything to go back in time? Tell me about it in the comments and I can write a new post about it and we could have a conversation or something.
Thank you.
-Tess Loucka
Sunday, January 11, 2015
If I Had a Million Dollars
Today I came across a new song which I can't stop listening to. If you ever find a song that you want to listen to constantly, go to the website www.listenonrepeat.com. It's pretty much youtube, but you can watch things over and over again without clicking anything. I've used this website a lot.
Anyways, the song I found is called "If I had a Million Dollars" sung by the Boswell Sisters. If you know it, write a comment saying what you think. Or, maybe just go to youtube and listen to it again. I really like this song. I usually think that a group of people harmonizing, for example a trio, or quartet, etc. is a little cheesy. I usually think that because they were very famous in older days, and when people try to harmonize now, they think they are being so old fashioned, which I can't stand. If you know what I mean, I hope you can relate. If you don't know what I mean, I wan't you to know that i'm not crazy and I try not to be mean or anything. It's just what I feel.
But, the Boswell Sisters are from the past aren't they? So I can't dislike them for trying to be old fashioned. They are old fashioned. At least these days they are. But, the song is so nice and sweet and their voices go together so well. I've listened to it for about an hour, over and over. You should too.
While I was listening to it I had this vision of me putting my adopted daughter to bed and playing this song on a record player as she falls asleep. I don't know why, but it made me kind of sad. I wish I could have that vision come true in a few years.
Pretty crazy huh?
Anyways, the song I found is called "If I had a Million Dollars" sung by the Boswell Sisters. If you know it, write a comment saying what you think. Or, maybe just go to youtube and listen to it again. I really like this song. I usually think that a group of people harmonizing, for example a trio, or quartet, etc. is a little cheesy. I usually think that because they were very famous in older days, and when people try to harmonize now, they think they are being so old fashioned, which I can't stand. If you know what I mean, I hope you can relate. If you don't know what I mean, I wan't you to know that i'm not crazy and I try not to be mean or anything. It's just what I feel.
But, the Boswell Sisters are from the past aren't they? So I can't dislike them for trying to be old fashioned. They are old fashioned. At least these days they are. But, the song is so nice and sweet and their voices go together so well. I've listened to it for about an hour, over and over. You should too.
While I was listening to it I had this vision of me putting my adopted daughter to bed and playing this song on a record player as she falls asleep. I don't know why, but it made me kind of sad. I wish I could have that vision come true in a few years.
Pretty crazy huh?
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Dear Readers,
Today, i've decided to start this blog, hoping that maybe I can introduce things that I am interested in to other people. Now, at the moment, i'm only 14 years old, so I don't know very much about very much. Everyone has interests, and everyone wants to talk to them about somebody. My interests aren't very interesting to some people, (i've very often been reminded this by my mother and my friends). Well, sometimes I just feel like talking about them with somebody, so what better way to do that than write some of it down in a blog? And maybe people will read it and leave comments which I can read and respond to.
So, I guess whoever is reading this might be wondering, "Well, what are this persons interests?"Well, i'll tell you. Two years ago, when I was at sleep away camp, my camp put on a musical of The beauty and the Beast. I guess I thought it was really good, because the day after I got home from camp I found the Disney Beauty and the Beast online. I actually don't really like Beauty and the Beast, but it made me interested in other disney princess movies. I know a lot of people don't like disney princesses, but I do. After I watched Beauty and the Beast, I started watching all the other disney princess movies starting at the very beginning. I started with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, then Cinderella, then Sleeping Beauty, and The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, etc, etc, etc. I found that the more recent the movie was, the less I liked it. So, according to that, my favorite Princess movie is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, A.K.A Snow White.
Have you ever seen those commercials for the Shirley Temple Little Darling movie collection? The first time I saw that commercial, I didn't think much of it. My mother would sometimes tell me that she used to watch Shirley Temple movies when she was younger. A few days after I re-watched snow white, I was sitting at the computer and remembered that Shirley Temple commercial that I once saw a few years ago. So, I googled her name and red about her. I went to youtube and searched her name, and I watched the first full movie of hers that showed up. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was my very first Shirley Temple movie. It led me into a spiral of nonstop Shirley Temple movies. I watched every free movie of hers that I could find on the internet.
After watching most, if not all of the movies of her as a child(aged 6-10), I started watching some of the movies of her as a 11and older movies. (Her teenage years). Every movie of hers was entertaining. Most of them were pretty funny and made me laugh. Some made me cry, but one of them that I loved the most was the movie I'll be Seeing You, which was really a Ginger Rogers movie, co-staring Shirley Temple. That was the first time I had ever seen Ginger Rogers.
After that movie, I began watching every Ginger Rogers movie I could find online for free, which was enough to make me a real fan of hers. I loved her dancing, her acting, her costumes, and singing and everything.
I can't really remember how I ever got interested in Mary Pickford, but once I found out about Mary Pickford, I couldn't stop watching her movies either! And now i'm reading her autobiography.
If you don't know who any of these people are, i'll tell you.
Shirley Temple is an actress (mostly a child actress) from the 1930s and a little bit in the 1940s.
Ginger Rogers is also an actress from the same time period.
Mary Pickford is a silent movie actress from the 19 teens. (1910-1920) and also the 1920s.
So, if any of you are interested in old movies like I am, or if you like old music, for example, Ginger Rogers songs, Annette Hanshaw songs, Marion Harris songs, or Jo Stafford songs, or Martha Tilton songs, or Helen Kane, or anything. Tell me what your interests are in the comments, and maybe we can talk about them together. Maybe you like old fashioned clothes. Post pictures of yourself in old fashioned clothes if you want. Send me links to your own blogs or youtube channels or cool websites that you think go well with my blog.
If you read all of that, I thank you for your patience and hopefully you were interested in what I have to say and maybe you can stick with me while I try and post interesting things on my blog.
Thank you and goodbye.
-Tess Loucka
Today, i've decided to start this blog, hoping that maybe I can introduce things that I am interested in to other people. Now, at the moment, i'm only 14 years old, so I don't know very much about very much. Everyone has interests, and everyone wants to talk to them about somebody. My interests aren't very interesting to some people, (i've very often been reminded this by my mother and my friends). Well, sometimes I just feel like talking about them with somebody, so what better way to do that than write some of it down in a blog? And maybe people will read it and leave comments which I can read and respond to.
So, I guess whoever is reading this might be wondering, "Well, what are this persons interests?"Well, i'll tell you. Two years ago, when I was at sleep away camp, my camp put on a musical of The beauty and the Beast. I guess I thought it was really good, because the day after I got home from camp I found the Disney Beauty and the Beast online. I actually don't really like Beauty and the Beast, but it made me interested in other disney princess movies. I know a lot of people don't like disney princesses, but I do. After I watched Beauty and the Beast, I started watching all the other disney princess movies starting at the very beginning. I started with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, then Cinderella, then Sleeping Beauty, and The Little Mermaid, Pocahontas, etc, etc, etc. I found that the more recent the movie was, the less I liked it. So, according to that, my favorite Princess movie is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, A.K.A Snow White.
Have you ever seen those commercials for the Shirley Temple Little Darling movie collection? The first time I saw that commercial, I didn't think much of it. My mother would sometimes tell me that she used to watch Shirley Temple movies when she was younger. A few days after I re-watched snow white, I was sitting at the computer and remembered that Shirley Temple commercial that I once saw a few years ago. So, I googled her name and red about her. I went to youtube and searched her name, and I watched the first full movie of hers that showed up. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm was my very first Shirley Temple movie. It led me into a spiral of nonstop Shirley Temple movies. I watched every free movie of hers that I could find on the internet.
After watching most, if not all of the movies of her as a child(aged 6-10), I started watching some of the movies of her as a 11and older movies. (Her teenage years). Every movie of hers was entertaining. Most of them were pretty funny and made me laugh. Some made me cry, but one of them that I loved the most was the movie I'll be Seeing You, which was really a Ginger Rogers movie, co-staring Shirley Temple. That was the first time I had ever seen Ginger Rogers.
After that movie, I began watching every Ginger Rogers movie I could find online for free, which was enough to make me a real fan of hers. I loved her dancing, her acting, her costumes, and singing and everything.
I can't really remember how I ever got interested in Mary Pickford, but once I found out about Mary Pickford, I couldn't stop watching her movies either! And now i'm reading her autobiography.
If you don't know who any of these people are, i'll tell you.
Shirley Temple is an actress (mostly a child actress) from the 1930s and a little bit in the 1940s.
Ginger Rogers is also an actress from the same time period.
Mary Pickford is a silent movie actress from the 19 teens. (1910-1920) and also the 1920s.
So, if any of you are interested in old movies like I am, or if you like old music, for example, Ginger Rogers songs, Annette Hanshaw songs, Marion Harris songs, or Jo Stafford songs, or Martha Tilton songs, or Helen Kane, or anything. Tell me what your interests are in the comments, and maybe we can talk about them together. Maybe you like old fashioned clothes. Post pictures of yourself in old fashioned clothes if you want. Send me links to your own blogs or youtube channels or cool websites that you think go well with my blog.
If you read all of that, I thank you for your patience and hopefully you were interested in what I have to say and maybe you can stick with me while I try and post interesting things on my blog.
Thank you and goodbye.
-Tess Loucka
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