Do you think they were passing the champagne bottle on the Royal Shuttle Bus?

[jlh]

I have done fuckall today and it has been brilliant. Okay, not exactly fuckall:

6ish: Woke up, having gone to bed around 11. Had idea for a little smutlet. Listened to BBC Radio where they interviewed Kristen Scott Thomas, who has apparently made a French film about jewelry thieves.

7am: Got a bagel for breakfast

7:30am: Watched Life Laundry on BBCAmerica, which I hadn't seen in forever.

8am: Listened to Saturday Edition; heard Heidi.

9:20am: Fell asleep on couch reading EW.

10:20am: Futzed around online, talking to Carrie, Julie and Rach. Read about the end of MGM, which is a sad thing and one of the many reasons Kerkorian is going to hell.

1pm: Made pasta sauce.

3:30pm: Watched MacMillan and Wife. Read minirecap of latest episode of Veronica Mars (which has been renewed for season 2). Talked Veronica Mars with Rach.

6pm: Watched Chuck get himself hitched and such. Highlights included the Royal Shuttle Bus, Zara Philips's get up, whatever that thing Trudie Styler was wearing as a hat, Stephen Fry running about all top-hatted, and the really irritating commentator calling Camilla "stunning". She was not stunning. She was well turned out. However, Rach and I decided that we should get American women to wear hats to weddings.

7pm: Vaguely watched a Chuck & Cami bio while cleaning up the kitchen and wandering all about royal.gov.uk trying to remember who Princess Alexandra is.

8pm: Wedding rebroadcast!

By the way, what is this Il Divo crap? Unbreak My Heart in Italian? Simon Cowell spends all that time being snarky and brings us a classical-lite boyband?

Comments

[adjudicated.livejournal.com]

I have to admit when I first heard the II Divo commercial, I wasn't facing the TV and I thought it was To Devo, and when I heard the singing, I was like . . . wow, are we no longer men? WTF? Or, what kind of men are we, rather? Then I turned around and looked, and . . . no. Just no.

[arakne.livejournal.com]

Thanks for reminding me--I just went out to NPR's website to listen to Heidi, because I missed her this morning while I was frantically setting up iRecord music...to catch all my NPR shows. Hee.

[pinkfinity.livejournal.com]

So do you know how I can download it to my computer and save it for posterity? I haven't been on the radio in about 12+ years, so this is a bit of a Thing for me. :)

[weatherby.livejournal.com]

I'm thinking I'd go for something wide-brimmed and perhaps atrociously red. You?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I like that bucket style, actually, with not much of a brim, but I'm not sure what hats really suit me. Something that matches my wedding suit. Not one of those "hats" that's really just some feather-wire sculpture clipped into your hair.

Or perhaps a cloche.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

I once tried to jump-start the hats at weddings thing, back when I was wearing hats and scarves all the time and didn't feel horribly self-conscious doing so. It didn't translate particularly well, and I felt like I was upstaging the bride the entire time.

And cut Camilla a little slack, man. Every woman deserves to be "stunning" the day she marries a prince, doesn't she?

[jlh.livejournal.com]

That's a good point. No one wants to do that.

You know, it was the commentator more than Camilla. Camilla looked great; her clothes were beautiful and appropriate to the occasion and all of that. But the BBC chick was just really overusing the word "stunning" and kept saying that she was "stunning" and she wasn't stunning. I have a problem with everyone wanting her to be a glamour plate like Diana. She isn't. Then again, she's really stable and Diana was always crazy and attention seeking and a lot of other things. I mean, the Princess Royal isn't stunning, either, but she dresses well and does good works and who cares? And the Countess of Wessex is usually more of a cutie pie than anything else but the Wessex-es are a cutie pie couple I think. I though Camilla looked confident, and stylish, and well put together, and happy certainly, and most importantly someone who knows who she is and feels good about that. I think that is really more important than being stunning, anyway. Why couldn't the commentator have said, she looks regal, or confident, or something like that—something that is true AND matters?

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

She did look really fantastic after the prayer service, though - I would say more "radiant" than "stunning", though. Well, I certainly didn't feel stunned, anyway. :))

And can we talk millinery for a moment? What were those bizarre bramble-and-wheat concoctions atop Laura Parker Bowles and Camilla's heads? I actually really liked the shape of the wheat-thing Camilla was wearing out of the prayer service but that bizarre bit of tumbleweed on her daughter's head is just...huh. (I missed all of the TV coverage and have only just clicked over to see pics at the Beeb website - are there better pics elsewhere?)

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Radiant is an excellent word, and so often used for a bride, and so perfect in this instance.

Hello magazine has some good pix of those two hats. I really like Zara Phillips's whole deal, with her black buckety hat and her boots and her weirdo dress. I don't really like the whole hat-as-feather and wire-thingum, but it's a big thing over there. I liked Cherie Blair's hat a lot, though, and Camilla's wedding hat. But Trudie Styler's hat was horseshoe shaped which I felt was just odd.

[wordplay.livejournal.com]

Am with you in so not feeling the feather headdress vibe. By a lot. I'm thinking it defeats the whole original purpose of covering the head for modesty. Also, ugly. Although this (http://www.hellomagazine.com/fashion/2005/04/09/weddingfashions/imgs/guests-dop10a.jpg) doesn't leave me homicidal, perhaps because I really like how the shapes of the headpiece echo the detailing of her suit. Also, the shapes are busy but the cut and color are very simple and so it works. It doesn't hurt that she's just a beautiful girl.

[weatherby.livejournal.com]

Well, see, that's why you have to get several people who are attending the wedding to wear hats. That way it's not just you in one pew with a hat, but rather, hats are popping up randomly.