No Nonsense #75- Ashley Williams x Starface, Lost Lambs and Amélie
Hi Dolls!
We’re back with a fresh batch of recs - check them out below <3
Gina Tonic - Senior Editor
I’m obsessed with this collab between two of the best girlypop brands. I do ❤️ Me!
Show: Kath and Kim
I rewatched one of the Kath and Kim movies last night and remembered it’s one of the best shows on earth. It’s so early 00s silly without causing offence like shows back then used to. Every single line spoken is a joke. It really deserves a watch if you haven’t seen it yet!!
Hatti Rex - Contributing Editor
this novel dropped in the UK this week and it’s genuinely one of the funniest books I’ve ever read! The Flynn family are a bunch of oddballs who uncover a town secret and nearly completely unravel in the process and that’s about all I can say without spoiling it. The Times (lol) likened it to an episode of The Simpsons.
I was recently gifted one of these mega pillowy sleep masks that cover both your eyes and ears, after years of using the flimsier ones with an elastic headband and I have been honking the comfiest snoos ever since. Trying to trick myself into falling asleep is the world’s most impossible mission, so really appreciate that these exist.
I’ve become really consumed by word games after playing a singular game of Scrabble. I even enjoy playing against the computer but shoutout Gina Tonic for beating my ass nearly every time and also the word “qi” for saving us from the letter Q.
Jenn Lehwald - Social Editor
‘When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.’
I’m home in Toronto for the week and caught a screening of this and it was the first time I’ve laughed my ass off at the movies in a really long time. I seriously have no idea how they made this, I’m obsessed. I’m not sure if this is getting an international release but if it’s screening anywhere near you go go go go.
Misha MN - Contributing Editor
Album: L’essentielle - Juliette Greco
As a lover of French chansons and singular mid century women, it’s kind of crazy that I haven’t recommended Juliette Greco before now. Not sure what started it off, but I’ve been on a Greco kick for the last couple of weeks and I’ve never been happier. An actress, chanteuse, muse and star, she used to hang around existentialist cafes in Paris in the 50s droning out her emotionally intense renditions of songs by Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. 60 years later, she was still going, still dressed in black batwing dresses with a curtain of Morticia Addams hair, still in white face powder, still moving the masses with her melancholic voice. L’essentielle is an 11 disc album, 276 songs, 14 hours, realised in 2020 after her death at age 93, and I can confidently say covers the basics of her long career. Standouts are her versions of Sous Le Ciel De Paris, Les Feuilles Mortes and the always sensational Ne Me Quitte Pas.
Clearly I’m going through a French moment, because I watched this on a hangover at the weekend and cried my eyes out. Amelie is incredible, first saw it as a teen discovering cinema that wasn’t American and didn’t have explosions in it, and I have to say, it’s even more magical now that I’ve grown up and come back to it. A perfect blend of nostalgia, romance, fantasy and stylised visuals combine with an Audrey-Hepburn-esque star-is-born performance from Audrey Tatou to give us an unforgettable film. It’s also a safe space for the best French character actors of the modern era, from Dominique Pinon to Jamel Debbouze, Clair Murier to Yolande Moreau, but the romantic male lead stood out to me the most on this rewatch. Nino is played by the ever charming Matthieu Kassovitz, who at this point in his career had already won multiple Cesar awards for the socio-political thriller film La Haine, which he wrote and directed. The more you know. Five Stars.
This week for Non Threatening Boys I wrote about Goon Pop and the Australian band 2charm, and I’ve got to say, I’m obsessed with them. With their first album Star Scum City coming out at the end of the month, all I’m left with are their music videos on YouTube and their shorts (of which I have watched nearly all of them). From their hot internet boy aesthetics to their will-they/won’t-they sexual dynamic, 2charm pumps out party beats and soft boy lyrics for the Goon Generation. Best boys of the year so far.
Camille Mariet - LA Editor
Oscar Zeta Acosta was an absolute madman and a complicated one at that so take this rec w a grain of salt lmao. Perhaps most famous for being Hunter S. Thompson’s lawyer (fictionalization as Dr. Gonzo in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas), he was a bulldog Chicano rights activist who won precedent-setting court cases in LA in the late 60s. The book’s a semi-autobiography that takes you on his drug-addled road trip of self-discovery after he freaks out and abandons his job at an antipoverty agency in Oakland. I can’t wait to read it’s loose sequel, Revolt of the Cockroach People, which dives into East LA’s Chicano movement.
Ok it actually pisses me off that I love these as much as I do bc they’re so EXPENSIVE and I truly can’t afford this habit…but ever since my roommate brought a bunch home from work one day, I have been addicted to these.
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See you next time!
XOXO,
The Polyester Team
