Showing posts with label Liebster Award. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Liebster Award. Show all posts

Saturday, June 8, 2013

The Liebster Award (with a twist): Comment Required


Gwen, the amazing author of Movies, Silently has generously awarded me a Liebster Award!
Joe, go in and buy some film for the camera and
take a picture of me and my award!
Here are the rules for the Liebster Award:
1. List 11 facts about yourself
2. Answer 11 questions posed by the blog who awarded you the Liebster
3. Create 11 questions for the blogs you will pass the Liebster on to
4. Nominate 11 more blogs for the Liebster award.
11 Facts About Me

1. I am left-handed.

2. If you love me, you will buy me a bottle of Cristal champagne.
3. My current favorite perfume is Living Colorfully by Kate Spade.
4. There can never be too many baguette diamonds.
5. My favorite female singer is Ella Fitzgerald.

6. I hate getting up in the morning (why does the bed always feel so good when you have to get up?).
7. The Keurig coffee maker has dramatically improved my quality of life.
8. I don't Tweet. I won't Tweet.
9. I always like the bad boys.

10. I am nuts for BBC America series Black Orphan, Copper & Ripper Street.
11. I rarely follow the rules exactly as written.



Gwen's  11 questions:
1. What is one of your favorite “show, don’t tell” movie moments? You know, moments that really symbolize the characters, mood or setting without dialogue or narration.
The final scene of “Cinema Paradiso” : no words are necessary.

2. Name five of your favorite film scores.
Lawrence of Arabia: Maurice Jarre
Love me Tonight : Rodgers & Hart
Gigi: Lerner & Lowe

3. What was your favorite childhood game?
Childhood covers such a long period of time, but I'll go with Monopoly: I always wanted to be the one with Boardwalk & Park Place (plus I loved the diamond ring in between).

4. What really weird food did you like as a kid?
My favorite sandwich was peanut butter and butter. There can never be too much butter (or cholesterol)!

5. What decade of the 20th century exemplifies coolness to you?
The 1960s beyond all doubt.

6. Name three underrated movies/books/albums that you think everyone should see/read/listen to. (Choose three of the same or mix and match!)
Book: 
The White Hotel by D.M. Thomas
Movies:
Avalon (2001)
Make Way for Tomorrow (1937)

7. What music would you like to have played every time you enter a room?
Toss up between Elvis Presley singing "Hard Headed Woman" or Jerry Lee Lewis singing "Whole Lotta Shakin Goin' On."


8. What is your favorite thing to cook?
The books. My oven is storage space.

9. The store you lose yourself in is ________.
Anthropologie - truly irresistible.

10. How do you eat Oreos? (Or the #1 goodie in your country if you are not in the U.S.)
Split, lick and devour.

11. How did you decide on the name of your blog?
I adore Norma Desmond and how she was devoted to all of us wonderful people out there in the dark. I thank my lucky (silver screen) stars every day!




Now, as you already know, I never quite follow all directions as written, so here's the twist:

Instead of composing 11 questions for 11 bloggers, I am going to ask you to tell me something about yourself that you are just dying to disclose and I am just longing to know (movie-related or otherwise).


And, instead of nominating 11 bloggers, I am going to ask you all to swing over to the Classic Movie Blog Association website and check out the best movie blogs on the web. They are all award winning! Just click HERE and get blissfully lost in the topics you love best.

Monday, August 8, 2011

A Special Liebster Blog Award From a Very Special Blogger

As The Old Man in "A Christmas Story" says, "A Major Award!"
Classic Becky of Classic Becky's Brain Food, a woman of rare taste and refinement, has chosen my site as one of five for a special award (okay, it's not quite a shapely leg lamp, but it's still major!). "Liebster" in German and Spanish means "beloved." I believe this award began in Germany and look how far it has traveled! What a lovely name for an award I am honored to receive from Becky (told you she had good taste).

Rules of the Award

You can copy this introduction or make up your own. Link back here to my blog. Then pick five other blogs to be given the award. This is hard because there are so many good writers out there they put me to shame (and I'm pretty shameless).

My five "liebchens" are:

Lily Lemontree 
@http://lilylemontree.blogspot.com: Lily gives me my almost daily dose of style, fashion and movie style and fashion. I owe my modish deportment all to her!

Put the Blame on Mame 
http://blamemameblog.blogspot.com. A fresh new-to-me blog with great insightful posts. I'm lovin' it!

Silver Screen Modiste 
http://www.silverscreenmodiste.com. Christian is indeed amazing in both his knowledge and taste regarding film and costumes and fashion. If you need to know more, and be royally entertained, this is your "go to" destination!

The Girl With the White Parasol 
http://thegirlwiththewhiteparasol.blogspot.com. Aside from the fact that this is one of my favorite named blogs (so stunning), Rachel is an awesome writer.

Movie Montage 
http://voteforgracie.blogspot.com. Another new favorite, well written, fun and full of the kind of posts on the kind of movie I like - so what's not to like?

Please check these great blogs out and let the authors know how much you like them. After all, we do it for the love of movies and certainly not the paycheck!