I think this might be my second fave Giles scene ever, only second to the drunk everything-falls-apart scene in “The Yoko Factor.”
we’re making waves in japan with a pop up beach café… see snapshots of our seaside digs on the blog: http://bit.ly/KXI8vY
Reblogging because the girl is just so freaking cute. Wish I could hug her!!
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Gaga: Ohh guuuuuurl, I’m busy~ I can’t talk right now, I’m at the Lady Gaga show…TEXT YOU LATERrRRrR~ STAP TEXTING ME!! I HAVE TO DANCE! SHE’S SINGING TELEPHONE!
Remember when Gaga’s soundboard went out and she still sang like a fucking pro?
I’m still in love with this video several years later…
I kinda prefer this version cause she’s just so freaking fierce in it. Her ambition, it kills me.
476 years ago today Anne Boleyn was executed.
What amazes me most is this is the day we choose to remember her.
It has bothered me that we don’t know her birth date. In fact, we don’t know most women’s birthdays from the sixteenth century because they didn’t matter. Having a daughter was a failed attempt at continuing the family name at those times and so they were rarely recorded. We’re not even 100% the year she was born. But we know her death date. So we choose to remember it?
There are other important days in her life, days that are recorded. January 25, 1533 was the day that she and Henry were married. June 1, 1533 was the day of her coronation, when she was crowned Queen Consort. September 1, 1533 she gave birth to Elizabeth, who would grow up to be one of England’s most celebrated monarchs. I think it’s odd that we choose to remember her today, and not June 1, 1533, especially since she had the last coronation of Henry’s wives. That was a monumental day in her life.
So why do we remember today? Is it because of the injustice of it all? Is it because today is the day that makes her interesting to so many people? Is it because that’s her part of the story that people are most familiar with? Is it because we mourn the ending of her story? Or is it because it’s the end of such a short but impacting life? Or maybe it reflects what they say about human beings as a race… we enjoy the fall of a person more than her rise…
It never ceases to amaze me that I care so much for a woman who died 476 years ago today. Why is she still relevant today? Why do we care? As I read and learn more about her, I’ve been trying to look inside me and understand what exactly draws me to her story. Why is she a role model to me? What exactly am I attracted to and look up to in her? I don’t have the answers to this question yet. And we all certainly have different answers to these questions.
But this is what is clear to me and what remains the same for all of us: her life obviously matters. I guess her death goes with that as well. Maybe we admire her bravery in her last days, speaking with such strength to the people who were watching her last moments. Maybe it’s because we simply can’t imagine how someone can be that strong knowing they’ll face that fate because in our countries, we don’t know of anyone that has to face that. But 476 years later, and we still care. We still read about her story and we still share it with others, whether in film, or television, or novels, we still are drawn to her story and share it, every day. So many of us want to give her justice. Want to write her in a way that people understand the impact she’s made.
As a woman, she may not have seemed like much back then. But I think that the fact that her story still stands and gathers such a following shows that even though the world and technology has changed so much since then people haven’t changed. History’s tales of real people feeling and accomplishing real things still resonate today, even though we live in different times.
And that’s kinda mind-blowing to me. And somehow powerful as well, especially as a teacher…
P.S. I’m not sure I have a point here. These are just my thoughts today as I think about Anne and her impact on my life so far.
I just wanted to say
IT’S NOT FAIR that all of my MOST FAVORITE Tumblr blogs I’ve discovered and come to enjoy SO MUCH in the last several months are shutting down BECAUSE OF THE GOSSIP GIRL WRITERS.
When blogs that have made so many people happy begin to disappear, you should know you’ve done something wrong.
Yes, I’m still talking to you Gossip Girl Writers.
