So I suck at writing on this thing over summer apparently…oh well, I’ve been insanely busy with work and my volunteer stuff. Heres what’s good…
1. Forever Young
2. Lighthouse, soon to be tattoo #2
3. Cape Cod for two days with mama!
4. MGMT- Kids
5. Nosferatu dances to Lady Gaga
6. Back to my loves in SF August 29th
7. Applying for Semester at Sea (and crossing fingers about getting in!)
8. 500 Days of Summer, such a good movie!
9. Ptown!
10. KISSES XOXO
As summer begins here on the east coast, I think its high time to take another look at the things that I adore at this point in time, the last update on this being the end of March!
Sometime this summer while I am on this coast I will be going down the cape, hopefully to Provincetown, one of my favorite places ever!
Sailboats! Since I am soon to be getting a tattoo of this one!
True Blood, an HBO show about vampires set in Louisiana, a little tacky and such but so addicting, the second season just started!
One of the best things about being back east for a little while is my glorious reunion with my best friend of many years, she goes to school in Chicago now and so we don’t get to see each other unless we are both back home.
I FINALLY saw “Vicky Christina Barcelona” and fell in love, I want to go to Barcelona now! Its an awesome movie that I highly recommend.
“It’s like in the great stories - the ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something … that there’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”
-Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers
Here are the things I dug in this weeks (er sort of…I’m a little behind) news.
1. The new Harry Potter Trailer!!!
3. All sorts of ridiculousness at SFAI recently…
4. Scans from “The Brand Gap” posted by Nubby Twiglet.
5. Tokyo Meet Market…a really neat blog that talks about dating in Japan..its pretty interesting and a lot different than America!
Well okay, so weekly digs and things I love are awfully similar, but weekly digs focuses more on news articles, and well… I don’t care, here is some great stuff in this weeks news.
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2. 50 Beautiful Long Exposure Pictures.
3. 1000 year human life span? Pretty crazy.
4. Little known but useful HTML tags.
5. 30 Photoshop video tutorials.
6. Best ghost pictures ever taken!
I hope everyone survived their holidays, and that Santa (if you celebrate Christmas) was good to you! He was sure good to me, but perhaps a holiday recap later, right now its time for my Friday Fives! Oh and you can participate too! Feel free to talk about five of your own favorite whatever of the week on your own blogs or in the comments!
Top 5 Movies
1. Almost Famous
Sex, drugs and rock n roll! The story is set in the early 70’s, about a boy named William who wants to be a rock journalist. On his first assignment for Cream magazine William meets the ragtag band, Still Water as well as the group of “bandaids” lead by the infamous Penny Lane. William goes on to be asked to write an article for Rolling Stone Magazine and travels around with Still Water. The movie, in my opinion is a classic coming of age story, remember, in the words of Penny “Never take it seriously, you never get hurt. Never get hurt, you can always have fun. And if you ever get lonely, you just go to the record store and visit all your friends.”2. Lost In Translation
Sophia Coppola’s breath taking and heart breaking beautiful film starting Bill Murrary and Scarlett Johansson. Bob (Bill Murrary) is a declining movie start with a failing marriage and an overwhelming sense of emptiness in life. Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) is a newly wed whose husband neglects her. While staying at the same hotel in Tokyo, the two somehow meet and form a bond. The movie does a brilliant job of putting you right their with them, you feel the same loneliness, joys and failures.3. The Life Aquatic (& The Darjeeling Limited…and well anything by Wes Anderson)
Wes Anderson is my absolute favorite director. He hasn’t made a film that I didn’t love, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, and The Royal Tenenbaums are all among my favorites, but his two most recent films, The Life Aquatic and The Darjeeling Limited in my opinion are the best yet. They are fantastical, the music, colors, actors and settings are always spot on and I would imagine thats a pretty big accomplishment for a director. The Life Aquatic focuses on Steve Zissou, a once revered nature documentary star and his hunt for the jaguar shark that ate his partner Esteban. Along the way we meet Ned, Steve’s “son” (it never becomes fully clear whether he truly is his son or not), see the falling out with his wife, the kidnapping of the bond stooge and so much more. To top is off the entire movie is set to a soundtrack of David Bowie songs redone with acoustic guitar in Portuguese…and it is beautiful. The Darjeeling Limited centers around a family of dysfunctional brothers on a train journey through India, where they slowly reconnect, find themselves, their mother and finally are able to let go of the death of their father. However naturally they manage to get themselves into a trouble, illegal prescriptions, poisonous snakes, all help to get their journey off course and unplugged.4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
This movie is absolutely heart breaking at times, about a couple who erases each other from their memories, only to later meet up again and fall in love again and then find out that they had already knew each other. Clementine is such a crazy free spirit and a really identifiable character for me that it made it hard not to fall in love with this complicated and twisted movie. By the end you will be rooting for Joel and Clem, hoping that it finally works out for them.5. Empire Records
The well known cult classic from the mid-nineties. About the employees of Empire Records and the shenanigans they get into while trying to save their store from being closed. They are like the quintessential cast of off-beat characters, all ridden with personal problems and their own quirks. Which really just helps to make you love them all the more.