Winter's End and Old Flames

My sister went to their play, I'd love to go and see it one day, in the future. She took Nathan with her, to see all the embarrassing ones in there, with all the show girls, in the Moulin Rouge. It was founded in 1889

With Anna Maria Dell'oso

Anna: The cab driver this morning was in such a good mood; he said it was the end of winter's weather. Then I saw your card, Winter's End, which stands for "regeneration, rebirth and positive outcome." Emma: What does that mean?

Anna: I guess it means new beginnings - Emma: Of love?

Anna: Well, yes, it means you can start a new season -

Emma: A new season of relationships?

Anna: Yes, exactly. Well, even though we don't have severe winters in Sydney -

Emma: How about the days of the week? -

Anna: Ok, well, the days of the week are getting warmer and you and I are wearing short sleeves today. Do you realise that this is the first week that we've worn our summer clothes?

Emma: Really? Sometimes I'm not interested of girlie clothes ...

Anna: Don't you love clothes? You dress like you love clothes! You are looking so pretty in pink today, Emma.

Emma: I'm a blonde. We look good in pink. Like in Legally Blonde, like Elle Woods, played by Reece Witherspoon., wearing pink in Beverley Hills. It's a place, is it, Beverley Hills?

Anna: Yes, it's an expensive suburb of Los Angeles.

Emma: They've got wonderful clothes there as well. And it's the place for dating.

Anna: Yes, that's so true. But the real Beverley Hills is no big deal - we have so many beautiful things right here for dating - we have romantic walks and moonlit beaches and we've got lots and lots of coast line. It's just that Americans don't know how beautiful our country is. And in a way I hope they never really do, I hope it never gets too popular because we don't want too many people knowing -

Emma: - and especially rude people talking about naked women and their boobs all the time. They're called womanisers in that kind of country.

Anna: Hahaha, Emma, very true.

Emma: My friend Natalie loves fashion. Can you tell me about films with old clothes?

Anna: You mean vintage clothes?

Emma: Yes. Can you tell me about classics clothes?

Anna: What kind of classic clothes do you like?

Emma: Lingerie, Moulin Rouge dance costumes, sexy showgirls outfits ... My sister saw the nude ones in that thing, the Moulin Rouge In Paris. The girlie ones of the huge feathers costumes, I wouldn't wear them ...

Anna: No, most girls probably wouldn't suit those, you would have to be a really athletic dancer to wear those costumes because they show a lot of skin ...

Emma: Is that a good thing or a bad thing? ...

Anna: Well it depends on your point of view and what you like. The Moulin Rouge showgirls look great in those costumes and it's for a special kind of show that was during the Belle Époque. During the 1890s in Paris and it was all about sexual liberation -

Emma: What does that mean, that word?

Anna: It means that they were trying not to be ashamed of sexuality anymore ...

Emma: Yes, it's part of nature and being a goddess ...

Anna: Yes, but it takes a long time for people to really change -

Emma: For women and girls to show cleavage?

Anna: Er, not exactly - it's just about -

Emma: Frames? Like the frames of the cards?

Anna: So you're saying let's get back to the cards?

Emma: Yes! Touché ...

Summer flame tree, smoky old-fashioned Jealousy,

End of Winter and old flames,

With your green ice heart, your Valentines.

Those women of vintage films in their bad-girl lingerie -

British women, American women, French women -

All the Eves of the world -

Those gold-diggers of romance,

Their weapons of love and bad love affairs -

In a beautiful way, old flames can be the start of something new.

Some women can smoke cigarettes and be villains;

They break the rules of being nice: that's the pulp fiction of romance,

They're trying to be evil just for fun.

It's not that good, all their betraying but they look very sexy.

Old flames: they like to wear bad lingerie and sexy furs -

We like them because they are powerful.

We don't know what they're going to do next,

Unpredictable, old flames, but they're valuable because they're exciting.

In their hearts, even the jealous ones don't just want to be ordinary.

They want to be cool, they want to be more fabulous of fashion,

They want to be famous, they want to be powerful, glamorous -

Where do they get that attitude from?

Maybe from 'ambition' and 'strength', - even though I don't know

What those big words are, I know that angels can have dark passion.

Yes even angels can be a bit bad and talk about love.

In films they try hard to get couples separated,

They push them across the Great Divide and that's got to be bad -

A bad feeling for the lovers,

For having their engagement rings taken off their fingers -

The dark angels of old flames take revenge through love,

They take your heart away for passion and betrayal,

They make us so curious about them,

Which is why

They have dark green spells in their witchy magic