image from Leanne Marshall’s Etsy StoreI spent the day cleaning yesterday – such a waste of a lovely day… but the house is starting to look a little less like it’s been burgled and a little more like my home again. I find that interspersing each FIFTEEN minute burst of cleaning with a bit of youtube works best for me. I think cleaning is sucky and I need frequent rewards. You can also thrown in some cold crisp white wine if it’s after about 3.30pm. Those are the rules. Don’t buck the system, I say.
Here’s what I’ve been watching on YouTube. You can judge if you like – but even the smartest most creative people are allowed to watch fun, fashiony, shallow tv. You know it’s true.
PROJECT RUNWAY Season Five – the whole series is online in bite sized pieces – the series will finish in the US this week – so if you want to catch up and watch the finale online next weekend – start cleaning. This girl let me know that you can watch PR online – thanks Miss – my house is way cleaner thanks to you. Things to watch for on this season’s eps : awesome etsy seller and Portland chick Leanne Marshall, Nina Garcia’s withering glances, tugboat captain’s daughter and fifties aficionado Kenley Colllins, boys with extremely bad taste Blaine and Suede, Heidi Klum’s very short and very sheer ensembles – I don’t like ’em.
The Rachel Zoe Project – skinny stylist to the likes of Nicole Richie and Debra Messing (wow!?) – this show follows Rachel and ‘Team Zoe’ on their arduous journey to make B Grade celebrities look red carpet ready. ‘Team Zoe’ consists of the pretending-to-be-mean Taylor, super-adorable-trying-not-to-steal-the-show Brad and Roger, Rachel’s husband, who has the most annoying hairdo since John Bon Jovi cut his locks. This show is SO funny. Rachel tries to coin a few ‘signature’ phrases which she repeats over and over ‘SHUT IT DOWN’ and ‘I DIE’ amongst them. Her only indication of good taste seems to be the label on the garments – especially when she chooses vintage garments. She’s a brand queen, which is not very imaginative now, is it? She wears fur. She spends stupid amounts of money. And she seems to do no work at all whilst wearing a bathrobe and sporting perfect hair and make-up… and whinging about her workload and sucking on a huge Starbucks concoction. Hilarious stuff. So far there are Four Episodes Online.
The Real Housewives of NYC – another stupidly funny show featuring the skanky Ramona who is a very bad dancer, the chic up-herself LuAnn who’s a Countess you know and should be treated as such, the fabulous Jill who is so funny and style-steals from Cher, the uber-jawed Bethenny who was previously featured on Martha Stewart’s The Apprentice – she’s a celebrity chef and a gun with the one-liner. Also featured on RHONYC are the joined-at-the-hip-but-not-very-hip-at-all Alex and Simon and their very annoying children. The whole premise of this show is social climbing – and positioning oneself above one’s friends on the social ladder. Nice. Yet strangely funny. Heaps of little clips online. Watch for Ramona’s dancing, Francois being tested for smartness and LuAnn teaching Bethenny manners in the back of a limo – amongst COUNTLESS other cringeworthy moments.
There are a couple of other shows that look ace too – Stylista from Tyra Banks which is yet to air in the US and the Interior Design version of Project Runway Top Design
Now get cleaning.
xx Mikes