Classy.

In Mr. Baudelaire's discussion on modernity, this is the first person who came to mind.  Audrey Hepburn, in all her glory, is the classiest woman I've ever seen.  She really is timeless, from "Breakfast at Tiffany's" to "Roman Holiday,"  I feel like Hepburn is still prevalent.  While fashions may change, there is nothing classier than, for example, Hepburn's little black Givenchy dress.  That sheath dress can still be seen today, amidst the jeggings and other quick to fade fashions. I'm glad Baudelaire gave some academic backup on how I feel about fashions.  Classic clothes seem to always stick,  because they are simple.
Baudelaire's discussion of the dandy and it's classyness also sticks with me.  If Hepburn had been a man,  shem would have been a man dandy. The reserve and the grace that she held herself, even if she was playing a character in a movie was beautiful. In regards to men,  the picture in my mind has always been the "Mad Men" type man, who wears a suit to work everyday and his khakis and short sleeved button ups on the weekends.  While that particular kind of stoic, seemingly emotion free man isn't exactly my type, that clothing style really is.The put together man is someone I really yearn for. The facade is beautiful to me, maybe because I've known people who are like the dandies. I admire the image they project, but of course, underneath they are a freaky, disturbing mess because they have no idea how to express their emotions.
Speaking of a freaky, disturbing mess, Googling the word "dandy" really shows up some odd pictures. After I clicked one of them, I found it was from a movie called "Dandy Dust." Let's just say this is not what I had in mind when I thought of dandy. It's kind of ironic, because what pictures I found were the opposite of dandy.
The following image is not a real dandy, but from the movie. Yikes:

Macbeth, yo.

This has to be one of the most terrifying renditions of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," and in honor of this reading and the upcoming production coming to UNA, I thought I'd share.  I highly recommend seeing anything done by the Aquilla company, they put a great twist on your typical Shakespeare play!
I actually enjoyed reading what Samuel Johnson had to say about Shakespeare, he pointed out things that I necessarily wouldn't have noticed before.  I gotta say though, what Johnson may consider "faults" by Shakespeare, I view it as artistic license! I enjoy Shakespeare (not necessarily ready, but seen on stage) because it doesn't exactly follow the rules. Sure, he isn't exactly linear in all of his timelines, but I feel like it doesn't detract from the play that I'm viewing. Johnson tries to tell his audience that Shakespeare wrote for uncultured people, and I have to say, "So what?" Is it still timeless, even after a couple hundred years? Even though this video is actually terrifying, I feel like it shows that even now, artistic license is used with Shakespeare. 

Oh, Horace.

The above video is exactly what Horace was trying to prevent! With Horace, appropriateness is his game. After Dr. Vince's comment about the 'Seinfeld noise' being applied to a scene that's not funny, I found this. This above scene is from the movie "Mask," with an inappropriate laugh track thrown in.  Horace's discussion of decorum really hit home with me, because there's really a time and a place for everything. You don't expect happy music during a murder scene, or laughter during a serious scene. The same goes for Horace's discussion of poetry. Know the situation you're in, and act accordingly!