Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cinema, film, graduation, roman polanski, school, the tenant
Just watched Polanski’s “THE TENANT.” it was fucking awesome and ridiculous. It… could… be my favourite Polanski film. But anything by the man RP is attractive to me right now because I’m on a serious kick.
The plot is what’s best about the movie, but some of the imagery is fabulous too.
Oh I graduated yesterday. I was strangely unemotional about the whole thing.The only emotion I felt was ELATION. The lock-in thing was fun and I won a microwave and got the most obnoxious fake tattoo I’ve ever seen. I got home at 6 AM and slept until 3 PM.
I felt so awkward in those fucking hats. Who designs those things!?
Awkward tat [note dark circles under eyes from unwashed makeup]
that’s right my friends, that is something like a Dark Mark.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: brussels, cinema, film, leonard cohen, london, music, paris, penelope cruz, photography, roman polanski, self, self portrait, tom waits, vicky cristina barcelona
I’ve been busy obsessing over the most disjointed random things/people in the world. That’s what I’ve been busy doing instead of blogging on this shit.
1. Leonard Cohen. It’s because every time that doc Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man is on Sundance I watch it. It changes my life every time. I always love Leonard Cohen because he gets you at all points in your life. And as I’m going through a whirlwind of dullness and mood swings and everything, he is making the most sense. He tends to make sense a lot more than most people do. Something about Cohen’s voice and words and presence is just comforting. I almost wish he was my father.
2. Penelope Cruz. I would do the little accent mark but I have no idea how to. I finally saw Vicky Cristina Barcelona and she blew my mind. She’s just so sickeningly beautiful and amazing. I think I might add her to my extremely short list of people I’d go gay for. (and btw, the movie was really good too, but I’m biased since I love anything by Mr Woody)
3. Self portraits. I’ve been taking too many of them.
(me and Edith, I tried very hard to get her into the photo)
4. This fucking Canon 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 USM Image Stabilizer lens. I NEED IT IN ORDER TO SUSTAIN MY LIFE.
I was playing around with it when Madelaine and I bought her new camera yesterday. It has the best focus of any lens I’ve ever had my hands on. I’m going to try and find a cheaper one somewhere (ebay? reliable y/n?) before I leave in 15 days.
5. Obsessing over the fact that in 15 days (give or take, too lazy to calculate exactly) I’ll be in London, Paris, and Brussels. Yeah. WHAT!? Thank GOD. I don’t even know what to do with myself. We basically have no plans for anything. I can find my own way around London by now so Madelaine just plans on following me around to places that are for sure hits, and then just hanging out. and then eventually celebrating her birthday by doing something dangerous and stupid most likely. Maybe I’ll try and see the family. Who knows. The only plans for Paris is the Louvre, so I can cry and recreate the race in Band of Outsiders while trying to not get kicked out (oh and look at epic art pieces, of course). I might try and visit the Cinematheque Francais so I can weep. No plans for Brussels at all except to get Belgian chocolate.
6. Tom Waits. I am going through a serious musical rut where he is basically all I listen to. I would marry Tom Waits.
7. and last: ROMAN POLANSKI. I finally got around to watching that documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired. I love him so much I refuse to believe he’s a pervert, but it’s obvious he got his groove on with that 13 year old girl, what Humbert Humbert would call a nymphet (that reference was necessary). She wanted it though, I guarantee it. Who wouldn’t want to get it on with a young RP?… Like, come on girl, just admit it, stop tormenting this little man’s soul. He’s a genius, a god of his art form, let’s allow him to frequent our country again and continue making spectacular films…. give it up girl!
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cinema, daniel day-lewis, fashion, film, nine, OMFG, trailer
FREAKS. THE. FUCK. OUT. this movie will be too good. I don’t even think I can handle it.
omg. a film about film concerning Fellini and starring Daniel Day-Lewis who sings and dances and looks hot all the time. as a serious fangirl, movie industry: I SALUTE YOU.
In other news, you don’t know what I would do to have this sequined blazer. and I hate sequins.
(photo cred: Garance Dore, obviously)
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: allen ginsberg, beat generation, cinema, film, gary oldman, literature, poetry, pulp fiction, quentin tarantino, reservoir dogs, tim roth
I’ve been reading all about the Beat generation recently because one of my school projects for the end of the year is about Allen Ginsberg. Allen Ginsberg is my favourite poet, hands down. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything like Ginsberg’s poetry. It’s painfully real but he he describes things that you feel are so surreal and unfamiliar at the same time. The Beat generation is my favourite literary movement. It’s so inspiring to me that it seems to have come out of nothing except perseverance and the love of doing it.
Our project is his famous poem “America.” I made a video cued to the audio clip of AG reading it. I will upload it somewhere once we’ve given our presentation 
Hmm what else. I’ve been listening to a lot of random as hell music recently. A lot of chill out music. Sigur Ros, Joseph Arthur, Alexi Murdoch, Donovan, Dylan, stuff like that. It’s nice to just listen to everything once in a while.
In other news I had a Tarantino marathon yesterday with my dad. Pulp Fiction is the best movie. I mean, it’s almost the best movie hands down. Then we watched Reservoir Dogs which is also almost the best movie. I literally scream whenever I see a French New Wave reference. I noticed right away “Karina’s” diamond shop or whatever in Dogs. Obviously it was named after the Anna. My dad is always like “… how the hell do you know these things!?” p.s. Quentin has a sickeningly good ear for music. I mean, “Stuck in the Middle With You” during the torture scene? ALL the music in Pulp Fiction? Man… I mean, he’s a genius of another kind. p.s.s. or whatever, IS ANYONE ELSE SO EXCITED FOR INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS!?
All that Quentin got me in a serious Tim Roth rut.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. I just added Made in Britain to my blockbuster queue for this man. anyone seen it?
I am simultaneously going through a huge Gary Oldman thing. I could probably watch Leon 100 times in a row.
How’re you doing? I hope you’re doing fine.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: anna karina, cinema, film, music, oasis, sigur ros
I finally have ventured into the bold, magical, atmospheric world of Sigur Ros, and I’m too lazy to find out how to insert the accent mark.
Here’s a song my friend sent me by the band. It’s so beautiful, I don’t even know how to describe it. I guess it’s a cold, blue, sparkling type of musical euphoria. It’s called “Olsen Olsen“. Do you ever feel that there is so much good music in the world, even things to be discovered from decades ago, and you will never have enough time to listen to it? I hope I can find all the time in the world to listen to amazing music.
I’m Anna Karina obsessing (then again I am always Anna Karina obsessing). She is beautiful, sad, and joyful looking all at the same time. Why is it that all actresses nowadays seem to be everything but? I think most of my favourite Godard films star Anna. Band of Outsiders is undoubtedly my favourite, and Une Femme Est Une Femme is a second.
I was involved in a conversation today about foreign films. a bunch of my friends are watching Amelie in film study right now and they ”can’t be bothered to read subtitles.” I give up on the world.
Anyway, this blog post is all over the place so I apologize. I’ve been in an unusually FANTASTIC mood recently, I’m not sure why. stuff about life seemed to click with me this week. I think I’m going to live my life…. unapologetically. I guess that would be the world. Selfishly. Just for myself. I never want to be stuck in a situation at work or with kids or something that is going to make me feel like I wasted my time. Life is so fragile and fast, it’s useless to me to worry about things like that. I just want to have fun and experience everything. I had an insane moment when my friend and out I went out to eat the other day, and we sat afterwards in the restaurant talking about this subject for an hour. We walked outside and on the speakers was “Live Forever.” Right from the beginning of the song. I think my heart exploded into a trillion pieces. I’ve never had a sign be that obvious in my entire life. Not only have I never heard that song on the radio, but how poignant that song was to that moment and that epiphany… was insane. I wanted to cry. I plan to live forever, and just in case I don’t I should probably just do what I deem necessary. No one else. To me, life would be useless to live it by someone else’s rules.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: andrew bird, bob dylan, cinema, crime drama, don't look back, film, i love television, jack kerouac, manhattan, music, photography, tom palumbo, woody allen
Since I’ve been sick I’ve been laying around watching TV for what seems like a decade. I’ve accumulated much !!!inspiration!!! (yes, from the TV and the internet) recently. Here are some of the things that make me want to make myself get off this couch and do something.
1. Tom Palumbo.
This is one of the most inspiring streams I’ve come across on flickr in my life. Tom Palumbo is a photographer who has uploaded much of his work from the 1950s and 60s. His photos are so breathtaking, I almost cried looking at this stream. To me, Tom Palumbo’s photography sums up what the art of taking photos should be about. You can tell how much he loved his wife Anne just by looking at 5 or so photos of his. His photos make you want to know the people inside of them. And they are also timeless. They are perfect (I don’t know when else I’ve used the word ‘perfect’ for a photographer besides Avedon).
Jack Kerouac by Tom Palumbo
Palumbo in action
Anne by Tom Palumbo
2. Don’t Look Back, the famous Dylan doc, has been on TV at least like 8 different times the last couple days. I watch it every time. Bob Dylan is so…. for lack of a better word… cool. Dylan is the coolest man on earth. and why does no one look like him anymore?
3. This is totally irrelevant. But a couple weeks ago I got around to watching Woody Allen’s Manhattan. It was incredible and might take the cake for my favourite Allen movie of all time. I understand there are a lot of Woody Allen haters around. I don’t get that contempt at all. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant.
4. Crime dramas. Besides all the Dylan obsessing that’s been occurring, I’ve been watching any type of crime drama that’s been on TV. I don’t really know what “crime drama” even means, it just seems appropriate, so forgive me. Obviously, these bitches are my favourites:
I think I’ve seen every episode of Law and Order: SVU, and most of them more than once. I can NEVER GET ENOUGH.
Then I watched like, 9 hours of NCIS which is actually great. for some reason I never ‘got it’ until yesterday. Maybe it’s because it was the only thing that was on all day Saturday. NCIS was pretty legit, and my dad informed me that our old next door neighbour is related to Mark Harmon and we met him a couple times or something. wtf? (p.s. Mark Harmon is hot).
Then I ventured into the world of CSI. I never watched CSI and I don’t really know why. I watched the craziest episode that featured the sad acting of Criss Angel. It was about a magician who took out his anger on his crew by killing them in typical magician-esque fashion (i.e. sawing a girl in half, literally). Seriously, who THINKS of this stuff!? Anyway… Gary Sinise is a badass.
5. Andrew Bird. most of my indie shithead friends have known of him since like, before they were born or something. I finally listened to him and I am in awe. I love him. take a listen for yourself.
and he’s adorable.
final thought: anyone that becomes a fan of “summer,” “laughing,” “sleeping,” or “hot showers” on facebook should probably be shot.
I was randomly looking at photos of David Lynch and some were so amazing I gasped.
(Lynch and Isabella Rosellini by Helmut Newton)
and found some amazing photos of him and his amazing hair on flickr.
and this one was uploaded directly from one of my contacts. I just about died.
oh my god. don’t those photos make you want need to know the man?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: bob bonis, cinema, film, keith richards, me, oasis, photography, self, the fall
- I worked at Madelaine’s dad’s place last night. It reminded me so much of my last job. I have no idea what to do for a summer job this year. Working with food isn’t that bad, just… not my thing?
- Speaking of food. I brought home 2 brownies from Mr’s place last night. I had half of one last night while I was editing the video Madelaine and I made as Liam and Noel (you probably can’t see it, and definitely if you’re not my facebook friend. Thank your lucky stars), and I brought them back into the kitchen this morning. Someone ate them in the span of the 2 hours I watched a movie downstairs. Someone in this house is not owning up to it, and it is not fucking okay with me at all.
- The movie I watched was The Fall, a rec from Abby. It was really really really weird but really really good. The imagery is incedible. It’s like a moving Salvador Dali painting.
Who knows why movies like this don’t get any attention anymore. Miss March is all the rage or whatever right?
- Don’t you hate when people won’t admit to stealing your fucking brownies? jchrist.
- Radiohead just dropped off my last fm top artists. I feel like I just lost at least 2 stone of pretentiousness.
- This.
Photo by Bob Bonis who has a collection showing in NY of the Beatles and Stones’s first US tour.
- Do you think that photographers/journalists/everyday citizens know that a band is going to be huge? Do you think that as soon as people heard the Beatles or the Stones or the Who that they would become legends? I always wondered that. I think they say 25 years later that they knew, that they could “feel it,” but I really don’t know.
- 2 random photo booth pictures that should be seen:
dressing up as Liam for that fucking said video. 7$ XXL parka on the sales rack at Target that inspired it. Fuck yeah. personally I think it’s a great video but no one knows what we’re on about.
me and the rabbit/fox dog who is rarely seen these days.
- And last but not least, who the hell is Lady GaGa?
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: books, chris mccandless, cinema, film, into the wild, jack kerouac, on the road
I finally got around to watching Into the Wild. I fucking wept throughout that movie. I dunno, it’s weird because it’s an experience that almost no one has had, but it’s strangely relatable. I cried so hard when they showed a photo before the end credits of the real Chris McCandless. There are surprisingly a few good photos of him floating around.
It’s a very beautiful film and I recommend it (could I love Sean Penn more?!).
It reminded me a lot of On the Road by Jack Kerouac. Which I am going to start rereading again tonight. The last time I started to reread it I had to stop because I was assigned Catch 2-fucking-2. On the Road is just one of those books…… you know, I don’t need to explain it. It’s just one of those books.
”…because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn…”
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 500 days of summer, cinema, film, joseph gordon-levitt, zooey deschanel
This movie looks so ridiculously good. I think it had me at “I love the Smiths.”
actually… click on the video and watch it in HD at youtube’s site. you can view it a lot bigger. and bigger is always better.
