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Things I watched:
Princess Bride (for the first time evaaaa)
What We Do In The Shadows
Annie Hall
Golden Eighties (35mm)
Weekend
Enter the Void
Blow
The Painted Veil
Claire’s Knee
The Valley of the Dolls
Paris, Texas
Coming to America
400 blows
The Addams Family
Batman
Midnight Special
What I read:
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf
Nice is Just a Place in France (research)
New Music I listened to:
*check out my Spotify Playlist J’ai 2.9. to listen to this playlist.
Gardens and Villas
Wild Child
Yelle
Sunny Levine
Sun Rai
Parallel Dance Ensemble
Arthur Russell
Rainy Milo
Giraffage
PRPL
Rodrigo Amarante
Mr Twin Sister
Nosaj Thing
TOPS
Sales
The Clientele
Viktor Vaughn
The Cool Kids
Big Black Delta
Songs of the month:
Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk
Parallel Dance Ensemble - Shopping Cart
Sports- You are the right one
Things I learned:
To meditate
That I feel forever 25
To decree - because you just might get it (re: palms springs)
To trust your instinct, always
DO THE RIGHT THING, ALWAYS
That standing for your principles will always make you win
That you don’t have power, until you have ALL the power
That 2 + 2 is not always 4
March. 14. 16.
I am a fish. You are the moon.
You cannot touch me, but your light
Fills the ocean where I live.
- Rumi
MARCH 2016
Things I watched:
Outlander
House of Cards
Dope
Seeking a Friend at the End of the World
The Skinny (refinery 29)
High Maintenance (Vimeo)
Love (Netflix original)
Spaceballs
Ratcatcher
Snowtown Murders
Pigs d. Marc Lawrence (1972) (film print)
Desperately Seeking Susan (35mm print)
Broad City
Stranger than Paradise (35mm print)
Weekend of a Champion
Let the Right One In
Happy Go-Lucky
New Music:
GOLDROOM
DEERHUNTER
JOYWAVE
ALVVAYS
ANDERSON PAAK
BB DIAMOND
MXXWLL (4U)
LETHERETTE
Things I learned / discovered:
That I dig mainstream music more than I want to admit
That my sister and I make an exquisite producing team
That no matter how much sunscreen I wear, I will tan hard
That brown sugar is a great exfoliant
I only like to eat oranges that are cold
That you don't always have to multitask to feel accomplished
That I am still really good at jump roping
Essentialism
Kinfolk Magazine
To trust my path
My roommate's recipe for his exquisite Bibimbap
2. 23. 15 // 10:36AM.
No one saw it coming. It came to all as a shock. Yes, these are things that we think about. But you have to accept the curve balls that life throws at you and confront those round things. Come to terms with yourself and your feelings. Accept the events and not over analyze a situation.
Why, you may say? It's easier said than done, we all say. Well. Yes, you're right. But- Life is hard as it is, don't make it harder on you.
You my think, well, maybe an escape to the ocean will be the answer. Well, let me tell you, that the blue of the ocean now penetrates in my mind the color of his soul. That the soft breeze makes me think of his sweet kisses. That when I look up at the spectacle up there, I can't help but wonder why it all had to happen this way.
Attempts to vanish, to escape, to let go. Attempts, are all they are.
As one cannot escape a feeling or circumstances. After all we are humans.
It is that horrible feeling that goes from your stomach to the top of your throat that as a result creates human rain. But don't suppress that rain- let it stream down, as it's a necessary evil.
Walking the crowded streets invaded by twosomes, hard it is, but you must open your heart, look up be thankful, thankful for what it was, what you learned, what you gained, and believe that things come and go for a real purpose, for a good reason, like the cold waves approaching my feet, which then return home.
Things I watched:
Room
Revenant
Spotlight
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Great Beauty
Joy
The End of the Tour
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Beasts of No Nation
Nightcrawler (again)
The Little Death
Phoenix
Like Water for Chocolate
Kill Bill
The Intern
Hail, Caesar!
Zoolander 2
Dope
Grandma
Mistress America
Entourage
Black Mass
Sundance Shorts
New Things I Listened To:
Alabama Shakes
Tei Shi
Gabriel Garzon Montano
Doja Cat
Cults
Wale
Carla Morrison
Myron & E
Dumbo Gets Mad
J Dilla
Denitia and Sene
Things I read:
Sputnik Love (Haruki Murakami)
The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
Golemchik (William Exley)
Things I learned:
I laugh, all the time.
Always trust your instincts, always- you're prob right.
Apply the advice you give to others. In order to be a good leader, you must abide by your own standards.
Let go.
Don't let people in your life so easily, get to know them first.
I dig skateboarding and I'm not that bad at it.
"This is how it always ends.
With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It is all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise.
Silence and sentiment.
Emotion and fear.
The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty.
And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity.
All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world … blah, blah, blah.
It’s just a trick. It’s just a trick."
- from Paolo Sorrentino’s THE GREAT BEAUTY.
Disregard the date. This was in fact written mid September, 2015.
Luxembourg jardin, Paris, France
Jazz playing. Kids laughing. Sirens ringing.i hear the water from the fountain.
The sun shining so bright. Perfect white and grey clouds hovering over on the crayola blue sky.
Greens and bright reds.
Toy sailing boats color the laguna blue water of the fountain.
And here I am.
Listening to myself. My thoughts. It's peace at its fullest. The most blissful feeling. And I can hear happiness, in my heart. Tears stroll down my cheeks. Like the light rain from a few nights ago. Cleansing me and bringing life to where there was none.
I think I'm in a french film. In color. Dazzling- glaring- my heart shining, and I am smiling.