finally some reading time

hehe.

"if any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, i do think it is memory. there seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. the memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient - at others, so bewildered and so weak - and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! - we are to be sure a miracle every way - but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting, do seem peculiarly past finding out."

fanny - mansfield park

less is more.

i promise one day i'll have some original thoughts again. but today is not that day.

i've gotten obsessed with minimalist movie and television prints. the more minimal the aesthetic the better. my favorite is this set by an artist on flickr named bee combs. they're stephen king films. i don't know if i love the carrie, pet semetary or it one the best. they're all so cool.

as is this set of four alfred hitchcock posters. these are a little more embellished but i LOVE the interpretation of the birds.

then there's these which is just another representation of the aesthetic from various artists. the jurassic park one is so sweet. and i love the retro feel of the dark knight one.

one day i will master photoshop and become a minimalist buffy poster making machine.

the knots in the laces

also, my oscar picks:
best picture - the hurt locker
best director - katheryn biglow, "the hurt locker"
best actor - jeff bridges, "crazy heart"
best actress - carey mulligan, "an education"
best supporting actor - christoph waltz, "inglourious basterds"
best supporting actress - mo'nique, "precious: based on the novel push by sapphire"
animated feature film - UP
art direction - avatar
cinematography - avatar
costume design - NINE
documentary (feature) - food, inc.
documentary (short subject) - china's unnatural disaster: the tears of sichaun province
film editing - avatar
foreign language film - the white ribbon
makeup - star trek
music (original score) - michael glacchino, "UP"
music (original song) - ryan bingham and t bone burnett - "the weary kind","crazy heart"
short film (animated) - a matter of loaf and death
short film (live action) - the new tenants
sound editing - avatar
sound mixing - avatar
visual effects - avatar
writing (adapted screenplay) - nick hornby, "an education"
writing (original screenplay) - quentin tarantino, "inglourious basterds"

a few of those are random guesses. and i pretty much envision "avatar" sweeping any category that pertains to technological proficiency.

is it better to have loved and lost?

hang in there anna.

{ also, i love your sheets! }

the most girl part of you

i was on one of my friend's facebook pages and

found a link to a film that a usc graduate student

was working on entitled the most girl part of you.

turns out that the film

is to be based on a short story by amy hempel.

there is a full pdf version of the story here.

i love the conclusion.

the final paragraph is really poignant.

probably should've been a journal entry

i looked through the pictures i took

when we went to new york last year

and found this one.

it's of a grocery store.

suffice to say i shall never be contented by another grocery store ever again.

and it's not like they didn't have oreos. because they did. but there was also compelling architecture and large scale orchid topiaries.

my sweet fiancée spent the entire evening looking

at places we could go in paris for our honeymoon.

now i have another thing to proffer when people

snidely ask me "how'd you know you wanted to marry him?"

in this voice like maybe i hadn't thought about it

before they so sagely brought it to my attention.

i've always been obsessed with parisian culture

something which was amplified infinity-fold when i

started reading liz's blog.

i wonder what their grocery stores are like?

{coming attraction: i made a zine called "love letter to buffy summers"

AND i'm making chris's walentinez present. i got inspired by rylee's craftiness!}

ninestories

"i was six when i saw that

everything was God.

my sister was only a tiny child then,

and she was drinking her milk,

and all of the sudden

i saw that she was God, and the milk

was God. i mean, all she was doing

was pouring God into God

if you know what i mean."

- teddy, ninestories

rest in peace jerome david.