Cleo From 5 to 7

Karl Lagerfeld is the new Andy Warhol

2012-01-31T14:00:00.000-08:00

Azelia Banks performing 212 at Karl L's house. Iron curtain, say what?

Leslye Headland, I think I love you!

2012-01-30T19:58:00.000-08:00

So, let's start with the million-dollar question. I'm curious about your thoughts on this whole women-in-comedy revolution that the press keeps talking about. Looking back, I think women have always had such a strong voice in comedy in the movies, going as far back as Marion Davies or Anita Loos or Dorothy Arzner. There's an important legacy there. What do you think about the hubbub?
I haven't been a writer for hire for very long. I've only been doing it for three or four years. I was doing my plays and putting them up in black boxes and all that kind of stuff, but in my experience in the studio work for the very first time, I was really surprised about how intense they were about likeable female characters. I never thought of my characters as unlikeable. Ever. I thought I was writing women and that was that, you know? And then it just became this thing where they would say, "It makes her unlikeable if she does blank." I don't understand that.
What would be an example of "blank"?
The example I like to use is that "Sleepless in Seattle" would never be made now, because she has a nice guy and a nice life, and her only problem is that she's miserable and unhappy and she doesn't know why. And she hears this guy on the radio and she starts to fall in love with the idea of this man, and believes that they're soulmates and all that. But if I were to pitch that movie today, they'd say, "Well, she can't have a fiancé, because that would make her unlikeable." Does that make sense?
Yeah, I think that's totally true.
I really do firmly believe that. That's a hypothetical conversation. Of course, I've never had that exact one. But you get these romantic comedies with women in the last 10 or 15 years where... If "Reality Bites" were made today, she would probably end up with Ben Stiller. It's like, you get these women at the beginning of these movies and they're fine. They don't have any problems and it's because they're not allowed to have any problems.

- Excerpt from Leslye Headland's interview with Indiewire.

This girl! I'm so excited to see her film, and read a whole more about what she has to say about film - Bachlorette - clip below!

2012-01-30T09:15:00.001-08:00

New Fiona Apple album due this year, 2012 is looking up.

Also I can't believe its been 6 years since the last one.

How To: Throw Yourself a Pity Party

2012-01-30T09:07:00.000-08:00

Speaking of staying in....

How To: Throw Yourself a Pity Party

Provisions:
1. Alcohol. Whatever floats your boat.2. Lounging gear. Opt for cozy knits and a warm water bottle to hug.3. Food. Sometimes only ice cream will do the trick.4. Music, Movies & Journaling. I’ve watched Casablanca since high school and it still does the trick. I also posted my weepiest tunes on 8tracks and Spotify. Totally subjective and personal, but yeah, Radiohead makes me bawl.
Best Practices (for good measure):
1. Lay off the social media. This is an intimate party and odds are you’re not your “best self” in this state of mind. And let’s be honest, it’s probably pretty irritating to everyone else, too.2. Reach out to someone you can trust if you need support. Talking through things often helps us move on.3. Remember that everything looks better in the morning light. You’ll feel better tomorrow, I promise.

(via Wit and Delight)

Spending a Weekend In (AKA things to do in the winter)

2012-01-29T19:24:00.000-08:00

Trying to learn how to braid my hair (wheres a My Little Pony when you need one?). My hair is super long (for me) at the moment, I want to get some non-ponytail ways to get it off my sweaty neck for summer. I never mastered a top knot, but milk maid braids and a side plait seem to be working slightly better for me. Guides courtesy of Refinery 29 - here, here and here - who have also informed me that braids are "out" this season - nerds! Regardless I will master the ~~fishtail~~ fishbone and possibly the french braid yet.

Making a million different soups - mushroom, pumpkin, kale, spinach, carrot, pepper, etc! Before I was "healthy", yet still broke and lazy, I used to bring in a loaf of bread, cheese, tomato and ham for lunch, it was the best - so easy, so cheap. Then I went through a "healthy" phase of eating salad for lunch everyday. Biggest pain in the ass ever, seriously, bringing all that salad crap to work every week, then making the salad, oi vei, all that extra time spent in a communal kitchen trying to avoid awkward work conversations, no thank you! I've since discovered soup which is just as healthy (kind-of) and involved bringing a tupperware to work and about 1-2 minutes in said kitchen (best of both worlds, for the anti-social, awkward and lazy)! PS when in doubt look to Martha.

Reading the entire Hunger Games series, while listening to the new Sharon Van Etten album - preferably in the bath. Re-watching 30 Rock and/or Bored to death can also replace the Hunger Games here.

Picking a director and watch everything by them, I've done this before with Woody Allen, John Cassavetes and Robert Bresson, and at the moment I'm trying to do it with Italian Neorealism - loving Ermanno Olmi so far, we'll see about the rest.

Trying to learn to play Stooges and Ramones songs on the bass, I don't want to play well, I just want to play fast!

See you on the other side!

A Working List of Things I Will Never Tell You by Jon Sands

2012-01-28T21:45:00.001-08:00

When I said I wasn’t with another girl
the January after we fell in love for the 3rd time,
it’s because it wasn’t actual sex.

In the February that began our radio silence,
it was actual sex. I hate the tight shirts
that go below your waistline.

Not only do they make you look too young,
but then your torso is a giraffe’s neck attached to tiny legs.
I screamed at myself in the subway

for writing poems about you still.
I made a scene. I think about you almost
each morning, and roughly every five days, I still

believe you’re there.
I still masturbate to you.
When we got really bad,

I would put another coat of mop water on the floor of the bar
to make sure you were asleep when I got to my side of the bed.
You are the only person to whom I’ve lied, knowing

I was telling the truth. I miss the way your neck
wraps around my face like a cave we are both lost in.
I remember when you said being with me

is like being alone with company.
My friend Sarah wrote a poem about pink ponies.
I’m scared you’re my pink pony.

Hers is dead. It is really sad. You’re not dead.
You live in Ohio, or Washington, or Wherever.
You are a shadow my body leaves on other girls.

I have a growing queue of things I know
will make you laugh and I don’t know where to put them.
I mourn like you’re dead. If you had asked me to stay,

I would not have said no.
It would never mean yes

Does the Future Seem Hopeless To You?

2012-01-28T20:28:00.000-08:00

Its Saturday night and I'm trying to catch up on my Italian Neorealism this Winter. Considering my trauma relating to Bicycle Thieves, you can probably understand why this is isn't a film movement I have embraced the same why I did Screwball Comedies or French New Wave. In fact the above pretty much sums up my feelings about Italian Neorealism, but I've nervously begun attempting to watch at least a little more. I think its all about where you start with certain directors e.g. don't watch Faces as your first Cassavettes (if you're a depressive type) and then follow it with Love Streams and Opening Night (which of course I love, but seriously? Temper it with Gloria or Minne and Moskowitz), you could say the same thing about diving into the most recent Godard etc etc. Anyway point is I'm restarting with Il Posto and I Fidantzati, which don't seem quite so brutal, but I still teared up at the interview scene above (even though its kind of funny in its own way).

However I'm still sure it will be a cold day in hell before I settle in to watch Shoeshine or Umberto D. though.

Can I Get On Ya?

2012-01-22T12:59:00.000-08:00

I missed a month in mixtape making, 'cause I was too busy being unemployed. However I've finally made a new one, with my new fave track of 2012, so far.

Mozart's Sister is from Montreal, and I think she's going to be big in 2012. Just saying.

Jealous? Jalouse.

2012-01-19T08:09:00.000-08:00

Une Fille Comme Les Autres from Jalouse blog on Vimeo.

I love this and PS YES! I still want her hair, her outfits, and to live in France, BUT I wont' be buying Jalouse any time soon, 'cause really, who cares?

Matthew Frost, you are a bit of a genius.

New favourite director ALERT!

2012-01-15T20:46:00.000-08:00

I saw Joachim Trier's film, 'Oslo, 31 August' at TIFF last year, and I totally loved everything about it. Understated, starring semi-hip 20-somethings, who are contemplative and somewhat morose, quirky narrative style - yes, I'm SO on board! Not that I want in anyway to reduce a beautiful, affecting, work of art like 'Oslo, 31 August' to a bunch of conventions that I just happen to always love, because well, its better than that. Definitely one of my faves of last year, that I feel like not many people saw, and as such, I'm kicking myself that I forgot it for The Playlist Underrated/Overrated.

I'm also halfway through Reprise (his first film), and I can't believe I love it as much as 'Oslo, 31 August', maybe more! I hope I don't have to wait another 5 years for the next Joachim Trier movie (say it ain't so).

“There's a lot of things in life worth living for, isn't there.”

2012-01-10T20:53:00.000-08:00

Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966) - George Kuchar

I finally saw It Came from Kuchar, which was so good and so inspiring, I totally recommend it. The Kuchar's has such a positive can-do attitude towards film making, which I feel is rare, at least among me and my friends, we are more likely to obsess over 5 seconds rather than just make something 5 minutes thats pretty good.

I've also really got to track down some of their films, but the clips I saw from Hold Me While I'm Naked, especially resonated with me, and the ending!

Some of My Favourite People are Bass Players

2012-01-05T11:59:00.000-08:00

Bang, bang

2011-12-26T14:53:00.000-08:00

I've been trying to get used to long bangs for ages but to be honest it always drove me nuts, not to mention all the annoying trips to the hairdressers to have them trimmed! I've always appreciated shorter bangs, but do you know how hard it is to get a hairdresser to cut them super short? Sometimes it takes longer than the haircut! I'm hoping that Rooney Mara's super short fringe in 'Girl with Dragon Tattoo' will finally make them "in" enough for hairdressers not to think I'm mentally ill when I want them cut halfway up my forehead.

PS Rooney Mara's various hair do's in Fincher's 'Dragon Tattoo' was one of my favourite parts of the film - no joke. Though not so sure about the bleaches out eyebrows though....

Merry Xmas No One!

2011-12-23T20:21:00.000-08:00

Lists of Note

2011-12-22T10:28:00.000-08:00

David Foster Wallace's Word Lists

Joan Didion's Packing List

Woody Guthrie's New Year's Resolutions 1942

(the first and last via Lists of Note - possibly even better than Letters of Note?)

Fit for a Fortnight

2011-12-21T12:22:00.000-08:00

I'm not one for fancy knickers. Truth I used to live in Bonds, with the odd Perele bra thrown in (from my Mum for Gods sake). However the Canadian's have got it right with Fortnight - balconette bra's and high waisted sheer things (we wear them under long johns and unitards atm - just kidding - maybe). Its hot hot hot under all the layers - when its cold cold cold outside. I just dance around to this to keep warm.

PS They have a pop up Etsy Shop till early Jan - just saying.

DRUNK HISTORY

2011-12-21T12:15:00.001-08:00

Drunk History Vol. 5 w/ Will Ferrell, Don Cheadle & Zooey Deschanel from Will Ferrell

I watched all of these yesterday - please do yourself a favour this Xmas - its worth it!

I believe in love! I mean there's gotta be something for people to cling to besides TV right?

2011-12-18T10:23:00.000-08:00

It was Gregg Araki's birthday on Saturday. I'm crap with friends b'days, hell my own parents are hard enough, so goes without saying, I totally didn't realise it was Gregg's. Opening Ceremony did though! They curated a cute little dress in OC x screen cap ode that you can check here.

Seeing Gregg in conversation a TIFF Bell Lightbox was one of my all time fave events of the year - a year which included shaking Whit Stillman's hand, moving to Toronto, spending a month in Thailand with my best gal pal, going on a road trip to Detroit and visiting the Mo-town museum and seeing EMA, Louis CK, Malcolm Gladwell (and bajillion other peeps) live. So you know it was pretty good.

2011-12-13T15:03:00.000-08:00

um I'm so super psyched for Lena Dunham's 'Girls', it looks like something from the preppy 1980s dreamland. PS CHRIS EIGMAN

"I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me."

2011-12-13T14:58:00.001-08:00

One of Nicholas Ray's best - "In A Lonely Place"

Can someone please give Ice Cube his own TV Show?

2011-12-11T15:29:00.001-08:00

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Pretty Pls?

I miss laughing.

2011-12-11T13:56:00.001-08:00

Home for Actresses from Megan Mullally

This Funny or Die video with Lizzy Caplan, Lake Bell and Aubrey Plaza is really all I needed on a hangover Sunday.

I'm fucking with your cutie-q

2011-12-11T11:17:00.000-08:00

Uh!

We Need To Talk About Kevin

2011-12-10T10:14:00.000-08:00

Though it wasn't that long ago I was spouting superlatives about Cafe de Flore, I also just saw We Need to Talk About Kevin this week. I only saw Morvern Callar a few months ago, despite my good intentions. Lynne Ramsey has an undeniable aesthetic, which everyone seems drawn to, she somehow makes things affecting and poignant without being completely devastating and bleak (in a Lars Von Trier or John Cassavettes kinda way). This film is rad and you should totally see it, and read the book, because its awesome (love you Lionel Shriver).

And now we're back together, we've seen a change in weather

2011-12-10T10:07:00.000-08:00

Before The Weeknd there was Weekend!

Cafe de Flore

2011-12-04T19:06:00.000-08:00

I've been catching up on some of the films I missed at TIFF this year, including 'Cafe de Flore' which totally devastated me. As opposed to "tragic" young love stories like 'Like Crazy', which just make me feel old and five different types of cynical, 'Cafe de Flore' has so much going for it. It had character development and believable relationships - sorry 'Like Crazy' you were just 2-by-4 and all sorts of lame.

'Cafe de Flore' is also relatively free of bad romantic cliches, and instead has a healthy 'mount of bourgey introspection and a lot of 'fate' talk - which I love, yes, I'm a sucker for some of that interconnectedness of the universe guff, so it ticked a lot of boxes for me. Did I mention the fact that the closest they got to star power was Vanessa Paradis and that she couldn't look further from a 'glamazonian'?

The setting couldn't be further from Woody Allen's 'Midnight in Paris' Paris either, despite the touristy, nostalgic title, this is no romantic 'City of Lights' type-of-deal. However it still looks beautiful, I guess its hard to make Paris look ugly.

Though the film's tribute to music feels a bit over earnest at the time, it feels true enough for the cheeseball middle aged club DJ character - yes I swear I did actually like this film. BTW that role was sooooo perfectly cast, from the bad tattoo's down to over-sculpted biceps - and his GF toe rings.

2011-11-29T14:01:00.000-08:00

The Age of Movies - Pauline Kael

Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? - Mindy Kaling

Room - Emma Donoghue

Then Again - Diane Keaton

There are so many books I want to be reading right now! I stopped reading around August (right after finishing Life by Keith Richards) and didn't start again till November! I had absolutely zero concentration for anything without surround sound, despite having a bunch of books out from the library that weren't even that heavy going e.g. Black Postcards. I would read about a page before returning to whatever TV show is owning my life ATM (Bored to Death, Happy Endings you sucking my soul!) I couldn't even read on PT preferring to stare creepily out the window listening to EMA (or similar). I finally broke the cycle with The Marriage Plot however (AKA the best book of 2012) and am finally reading again, and I want to start with all of the above! Though first I have to pay off all those overdue fines at the library for the books I didn't read, bummer.

What I remember about Woody is he was short and cute

2011-11-24T15:17:00.000-08:00

Watch Woody Allen vs Manhattan on PBS. See more from AMERICAN MASTERS.

Watch When Woody Met Diane on PBS. See more from AMERICAN MASTERS.

The Woody Allen documentary is so amazing for once, I say the 90 minute rule is off - I wish this doc was 14 hours or more!

Say it Don't Spray It

2011-11-17T10:31:00.000-08:00

Baby its cold outside

2011-11-17T07:31:00.000-08:00

Apparently its going to snow today and all I can do is think about is what to wear...

incomparable

2011-11-17T07:16:00.000-08:00

I can't believe I ever doubted you J. Schwartz.

(via Kate Jinx)

2 Broke Girls

2011-11-11T14:41:00.000-08:00

Max Black's one-liners are what comes outta my mouth in my bitchy dreams.

Being a princess isn't all it's cracked up to be

2011-11-09T14:44:00.000-08:00

Photo of Princess Caroline of Monaco by Richard Melloul, 1982.

The weather at the moment is so rainy and changeable. This is exactly how I wish I was dressed every time it rains. Who woulda known she was a princess too?

(via Tomboy Style)

You know what we should do? We should just get in your car right now, and just drive off. Just find some totally new place and start a whole new life. Fuck everybody.

2011-11-09T14:40:00.000-08:00

A nice little composite of Enid's amazing outfits in non Clowes formation (via Got a Girl Crush)

Wanna be an Extra?

2011-10-23T17:17:00.000-07:00

Oh man, if ONLY!

In a Beautiful Country

2011-10-17T08:40:00.000-07:00

“

A good way to fall in love

is to turn off the headlights

and drive very fast down dark roads.

Another way to fall in love

is to say they are only mints

and swallow them with a strong drink.

Then it is autumn in the body.

Your hands are cold.

Then it is winter and we are still at war.

The gold-haired girl is singing into your ear

about how we live in a beautiful country.

Snow sifts from the clouds

into your drink. It doesn’t matter about the war.

A good way to fall in love

is to close up the garage and turn the engine on,

then down you’ll fall through lovely mists

as a body might fall early one morning

from a high window into love. Love,

the broken glass. Love, the scissors

and the water basin. A good way to fall

is with a rope to catch you.

A good way is with something to drink

to help you march forward.

The gold-haired girl says, Don’t worry

about the armies, says, We live in a time

full of love. You’re thinking about this too much.

Slow down. Nothing bad will happen.

”

- Kevin Prufer,

But something won't let me make love to you.

2011-10-15T08:54:00.000-07:00

I can't wait to see EMA live again as soon as possible. This cover in particular holds special place in my heart because of this

2011-09-28T07:58:00.000-07:00

These are the the three Amy Poehler alter egos I see in my future

2011-09-25T17:23:00.000-07:00

I want a jumper, in which to hide away from the world for a little while.

Richard Brautigan on Coffee:

2011-09-25T17:01:00.000-07:00

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords. I once read something about coffee. The thing said that coffee is good for you; it stimulates all the organs.

I thought at first this was a strange way to put it, and not altogether pleasant, but as time goes by I have found out that it makes sense in its own limited way. I’ll tell you what I mean.

Yesterday morning I went over to see a girl. I like her. Whatever we had going for us is gone now. She does not care for me. I blew it and wish I hadn’t.

I rang the door bell and waited on the stairs. I could hear her moving around upstairs. The way she moved I could tell that she was getting up. I had awakened her.

Then she came down the stairs. I could feel her approach in my stomach. Every step she took stirred my feelings and lead indirectly to her opening the door. She saw me and it did not please her.
Once upon a time it pleased her very much, last week. I wonder where it went, pretending to be naive.

“I feel strange now,” she said. “I don’t want to talk.”

“I want a cup of coffee,” I said, because it was the last thing in the world that I wanted. I said it in such a way that it sounded as if I were reading her a telegram from somebody else, a person who really wanted a cup of coffee, who cared about nothing else.

“All right,” she said.

I followed her up the stairs. It was ridiculous. She had just put some clothes on. They had not quite adjusted themselves to her body. I could tell you about her ass. We went into the kitchen.

She took a jar of instant coffee off the shelf and put it on the table. She placed a cup next to it, and a spoon. I looked at them. She put a pan full of water on the stove and turned the gas on under it.
All this time she did not say a word. Her clothes adjusted themselves to her body. I won’t. She left the kitchen.

Then she went down the stairs and outside to see if she had any mail. I didn’t remember seeing any.
She came back up the stairs and went into another room. She closed the door after her. I looked at the pan full of water on the stove.

I knew that it would take a year before the water started to boil. It was now October and there was too much water in the pan. That was the problem. I threw half of the water into the sink.

The water would boil faster now. It would take only six months. The house was quiet.

I looked out the back porch. There were sacks of garbage there. I stared at the garbage and tried to figure out what she had been eating lately by studying the containers and peelings and stuff. I couldn’t tell a thing.

It was now March. The water started to boil. I was pleased by this.

I looked at the table. There was the jar of instant coffee, the empty cup and the spoon all laid out like a funeral service. These are the things that you need to make a cup of coffee.

When I left the house ten minutes later, the cup of coffee safely inside me like a grave, I said, “Thank you for the cup of coffee.”

“You’re welcome,” she said. Her voice came from behind a closed door. Her voice sounded like another telegram. It was really time for me to leave.

I spent the rest of the day not making coffee. It was a comfort. And evening came, I had dinner in a restaurant and went to a bar. I had some drinks and talked to some people.

We were bar people and said bar things. None of them remembered, and the bar closed. It was two o’clock in the morning. I had to go outside. It was foggy and cold in San Francisco. I wondered about the fog and felt very human and exposed.

I decided to go visit another girl. We had not been friends for over a year. Once we were very close. I wondered what she was thinking about now.

I went to her house. She didn’t have a door bell. That was a small victory. One must keep track of all the small victories. I do, anyway.

She answered the door. She was holding a robe in front of her. She didn’t believe that she was seeing me. “What do you want?” she said, believing now that she was seeing me. I walked right into the house.

She turned and closed the door in such a way that I could see her profile. She had not bothered to wrap the robe completely around herself. She was just holding the robe in front of herself.

I could see an unbroken line of body running from her head to her feet. It looked kind of strange. Perhaps because it was so late at night.

“What do you want?” she said.

“I want a cup of coffee,” I said. What a funny thing to say, to say again for a cup of coffee was not what I really wanted.

She looked at me and wheeled slightly on the profile. She was not pleased to see me. Let the AMA tell us that time heals. I looked at the unbroken line of her body.

“Why don’t you have a cup of coffee with me?” I said. “I feel like talking to you. We haven’t talked for a long time.”

She looked at me and wheeled slightly on the profile. I stared at the unbroken line of her body. This was not good.

“It’s too late,” she said. “I have to get up in the morning. If you want a cup of coffee, there’s instant in the kitchen. I have to go to bed.”

The kitchen light was on. I looked down the hall into the kitchen. I didn’t feel like going into the kitchen and having another cup of coffee by myself. I didn’t feel like going to anybody else’s house and asking them for a cup of coffee.

I realized that the day had been committed to a very strange pilgrimage, and I had not planned it that way. At least the jar of instant coffee was not on the table, beside an empty white cup and a spoon.
They say in the spring a young man’s fancy turns to thoughts of love. Perhaps if he has enough time left over, his fancy can even make room for a cup of coffee.

He's lying, I find that very attractive

2011-09-03T10:38:00.001-07:00

Oh Whit Stillman.

This is my Proof

2011-08-20T19:35:00.000-07:00

Duane Michals: This Is My Proof, 1974.
Sometimes we find some pretty special things on the internet like this photo-note (also see here from Johnny Cash). It sounds weird (and pretty twee) to say - and I don't know whether its a good thing or a bad thing - but blogs, tumblrs and whatever, totally have helped me to train my eye to see the funny and amazing in all sorts of things I see everyday. I'm not vigilant enough (read = lazy) to take photos of them all to share them with everyone - and sometimes it seems wrong too, like over-documenting and over-sharing life is just a bit weird, but its nice when you find something like the above thats pretty amazing and everyone can 'see for themselves'.
(Via lost.)

She looks for him underneath the sand

2011-08-20T19:20:00.000-07:00

Dirty Gold - California Sunrise

This is my song of the summer...while it lasts.

my new hero

2011-08-13T10:15:00.000-07:00

Rachel Roy Wears Pajamas To Premiere, Generally Doesn’t Give A Sh*t

Sexy Creepy VIA CK

2011-08-13T10:13:00.000-07:00

Before Terry Richardson there was CK.

Well, it's not enough to be - I need your love

2011-08-10T09:02:00.000-07:00

Girls - Vomit

Jared Leto - I call her Red

Does anyone else think that the new Girls Video is better suited to Jared Leto's song and the Girls new song 'Vomit' (which I love beeteedubs) would be better suited to this scene in My So Called Life? Jes' sayin.

Blame It On My Wild Heart

2011-08-09T08:50:00.000-07:00

I feel like everybody has posted this - and then I realised that means something in blog-land but not in real life. So if you haven't seen this version of Wild Heart , well you'll see. Its at a freaking Rolling Stone photo session no less - the guy actually says at the end Welcome to New York! I die. Please watch.

PS also if you like the above you might like these totes

The type of bitch that make you wish that you ain't never met her

2011-08-03T08:56:00.000-07:00

Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci

Not sure what I think about this. But I definitely think something.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness."

2011-08-03T08:37:00.000-07:00

The Future (Trailer) by tv-prime

The Future - Miranda July

OK. So - I don't love everything Miranda July does, like her book, didn't even finish it. However this doesn't stop me thinking she's a bit amazing. Though I don't like her short stories, I love her dialogue (I lurve it, I luff it - 2 x f's). I love her pacing - both in film and performance - please see here.

I saw 'The Future' last night and had an overwhelmingly physical reaction to some of the lines. There were globs of dialogue that I could almost physically feel in my hand and I desperately wanted to shove in my pockets.

Its so hard to be true and not to be trite. Its so hard to be clever and still be true. Its really hard to make a good movie - and she does it really well. I also desperately want to see one of her performances live v. soon.

PS while googling I found a Sleater Kinney video the she directed for 'Get Up' - its pretty awesome.

"It's really good to be here and as I always say, it's really good to be anywhere!"

2011-08-02T21:21:00.000-07:00

I'm currently reading my 10th Rolling Stones book - Keith Richard's 'Life'. I've read Marianne Faithfull's ('Faithfull') which I adore, Tony Sanchez' 'I Was Keith Richards' Drug Dealer' which was kind of trashy fun, 'Mick and Keith', 'The Rolling Stones' (imaginative title I know), and more whose titles escape me - and they are back home in Australia where I can't reference them.

I've always loved the myth of the Rolling Stones more than the music - hence why I own more books about them, than their albums. The Rolling Stones epic journey was always infinitely more fascinating to me than The Beatles, whose story always seemed much more fractured and disparate - though obviously tangential or even parallel depending on your POV.

I remember being truly (retrospectively) saddened (as well as fascinated) by Brian Jones' death - even though he was a bit of a dick - and the conspiracy theories that still surround it. I also loved the women that surrounded them Faithfull obvs but also Anita Pallenberg and Bianca Jagger et al.

Keith's book has given me new appreciation for their music though and re-inspired me (for zillionth time) to learn guitar. The insight he gives into unconventional playing is totally inspiring, even to a non-player like me. I should also mention though I've joked that I'm more like Mick Jagger than any of the others (and I do love the man - see above), and though Charlie Watts is my favourite Stone, Keith Richards book makes you understand how he got the girls. The stories he tells particularly in the first 1/4 -its a long book - and his little rants, rave and insights, well they just make you think, this guy, this guy would be a lot of fun to get to know.

You've Broken All Our Hearts

2011-08-02T07:06:00.000-07:00

Tom Vek - Aroused

Its like 2005 all over again. Nostalgia, its a beautiful bitch.

You've only known me since i've been lonely

2011-07-25T07:16:00.001-07:00

Harper Simon "Ha Ha" from American Songwriter on Vimeo.

Harper Simon - Ha Ha

So much Paul Simon in the lyrics, melody and the sound of his voice. It doesn't hurt having a Dad like that sometimes does it?

I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me

2011-07-24T16:34:00.000-07:00

I've been listening to a lot of 2pac this summer (esp Keep ya Head Up). I've always been a Biggie girl but we're a bit past that now post-90s right?

Drive

2011-07-22T12:56:00.000-07:00

Finally looks like a Nicolas Winding Refn film I will be able to watch - here's hoping Drive comes out soon.

One thing though - I think Ryan Gosling's voice is too gentle to play a tough guy. He needs to find something more bogan. Is it weird as well how much Carey looks like Michelle Williams in this film? Jes sayin.

GIRLFRIEND! GIRLFRIEND!

2011-07-16T22:28:00.000-07:00

Ty Segall - Girlfriend (music video) from High5Collective on Vimeo.

L'Histoire d'Adèle H

2011-07-13T18:51:00.000-07:00

L'Histoire d'Adèle H - Francois Truffaut

I watched this movie partly to perve on Isabelle Adjani and Bruce Robinson (he of Withnail and I fame).

I didn't even realise its one of those amazing unrequited obsessive love movies - my fave! It made me want to read The Sorrows of Young Werther all over again!

If you're looking for a way in.....

2011-07-10T11:39:00.000-07:00

...to Fassbinder. I haven't seen an easier film to watch than Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. Inspired by Douglas Sirk by way of Max Ophuls and going on to work its magic on Todd Haynes in Far from Heaven. Its one of the sweetest, tenderest Fassbinder films I've ever seen and now for me puts his whole catalogue into perspective. Its weird but now I look at Fox and His Friends and Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant in a whole new light - frailty and tenderness are more apparent - as well as the ugliness and cruelty. However before the latter was really all I could see.

Fassbinder, he's just so tough with himself - and everyone else.

Mixtapes Not For Johanna (teenage rant style)

2011-07-06T08:21:00.000-07:00

So y'all know I like a good mixtape swap right? I'm quite into online mixtapes, as I feel like its perfectly suited to the whole mp3 revival of the single. Also the fact that my CD burner is fried, writing tracklists is boring and how expensive are blank CDs with cases theses days? I don't know, but I reckon they are more than 1 million blank CDs on a wheely spindly thingo.

Though of course we all miss the collage cover art (CDs were good for that) and the the "thinginess" of tapes. No jokes I have a drawer stacked high with tapes from the past decade - some are even spray painted gold. I will never part with them ever!

My friend Carew particularly laments the loss of actual mixtape tapes, because it was hard to skip tracks, and the listener was forced to listen to the entire mix all the way through in the order as the maker (he/she God of the Tape) intended it to be listened to - obviously with CDs/mp3s its easy to skip "dud" tracks. He also never made tracklists - so we really had no idea what were in for - sometimes I'd have to beg him for tracklists when even google wouldn't reveal certain songs to me for my portable mp3 listening pleasure. I've listened to some mixes so many times that even after years when I hear certain songs on the radio, I'm jarred that I don't hear the sequential mixtape song that I'm expecting right after.

He makes a fair point though, right? A mixtape is meant to be from someone you trust not to waste your time, and the point is to expand your music taste and be introduced to new things. Also that person has usually spent hours figuring out the order for maximum listening pleasure and mixtape flow x balance. Or is this just Carew and me?

A mixtape used to also be a way to seal a new friendship. I met a lot of people in my early 20s randomly talking about some band or song we both liked, and then a mixtape would confirm that we both had good taste in stuff a la Rob Gordon and we'd be best friends forever. Its weird to think about now but my oldest friends from my late teens/early 20s were ones I swapped actual tapes with.

Swapping mixtapes with boys I had crushes on always turned out to be a bit of a dud. They usually had crap taste in music and thought I had much the same. Joy! I also never made a mixtape to seduce - its too hard. I'm crap at pretending to like things I don't, and a faker mixtape is probably going to suck anyway - how do you know if its good or not, if you don't like it? I'm all for making mixtapes with someone else's taste in mind though - but it has to be filtered through YOUR taste. Its mixtape LAW dudes. You can't just go to Pitchfork and search for "cool hipster shit" or "obscuro disco track" and download and burn it - totally not the point - unless thats what you do to find music you like I guess?

I also hated making mixtapes worrying that people would think suggestive lyrics would "mean" something. This is a big problem for people who like a lot of slow jam R&B. Taking anything literally in lyrics is just a bit stupid right? The heightened emotion and drama of lyrics enjoyed by a listener is not meant to be automatically translated into action/thought. Otherwise everyone who put a plaintive folky song about feel crap on a tape would have committed suicide by now. Just because I through some R Kells on your tape does not mean that I want to do a young girl or you. It just means R Kells is jam!

I'm sure I could bang on forever about this subject, and it seems that I have a bit, because all I meant to post was Sean Fenessey (a music critic who writes the keywords you search for on Pitchfork) has made some excellent mixtapes for you to download here.

I've bled all my blood out. But these red pants they don't show that.

2011-07-06T06:29:00.000-07:00

EMA - California

Check her her out. She fressssssh.

Saturday Morning Music

2011-07-02T14:48:00.000-07:00

Judy Henske - Let the Good Times Roll

Perfect movie soundtrack music if I've heard such a thing (which of course I have).

In fact I want to make a movie just to have this on my soundtrack.

Where the Bad Bitches? Huh? Where y'all hiding?

2011-06-30T20:40:00.000-07:00

“When you’re a girl, you have to be everything. You have to be dope at what you do but you have to be super sweet and you have to be sexy and you have to be this, you have to be that, and you have to be nice,” she says. “It’s like, ‘I can’t be all those things at once. I’m a human being’.”

- Nicki Minaj

The Film That Changed My Life: 30 Directors on Their Epiphanies in the Dark:

2011-06-30T20:34:00.000-07:00

1.) Edgar Wright on An American Werewolf in London
2.) Rian Johnson on Annie Hall
3.) Danny Boyle on Apocalypse Now
4.) Bill Condon on Bonnie and Clyde
5.) Richard Kelly on Brazil
6.) Peter Bogdanovich on Citizen Kane
7.) John Dahl on A Clockwork Orange
8.) Henry Jaglom on 8½
9.) Brian Herzlinger on E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
10.) Alex Gibney on The Exterminating Angel
11.) Kimberly Peirce on The Godfather
12.) Steve James on Harlan County U.S.A.
13.) Austin Chick on Kings of the Road
14.) Guy Maddin on L’âge d’or
15.) Michel Gondry on Le voyage en ballon
16.) Michael Polish on Once Upon a Time in America
17.) Arthur Hiller on Open City
18.) Pete Docter on Paper Moon
19.) Atom Egoyan on Persona
20.) Gurinder Chadha on Purab aur Pachhim and It’s a Wonderful Life
21.) Richard Linklater on Raging Bull
22.) Jay Duplass on Raising Arizona
23.) John Woo on Rebel Without a Cause and Mean Streets
24.) John Landis on The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
25.) Kevin Smith on Slacker
26.) Chris Miller on Sleeper
27.) Neil LaBute on The Soft Skin
28.) George A. Romero on The Tales of Hoffmann
29.) Frank Oz on Touch of Evil
30.) John Waters on The Wizard of Oz

Currently Reading. Its a good book.

I can tell I'm going to be watching and rewatching A LOT.

My advice? You probs should too.

2011-06-30T20:24:00.000-07:00

“I think a cynic is just a crushed romantic.”

- Jeff Bridges

2011-06-30T20:21:00.000-07:00

“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested”

- Hunter S. Thompson

Woody Allen "Sounds from a town I love"

2011-06-30T20:18:00.001-07:00

Woody on JD

2011-06-30T20:08:00.000-07:00

“
It has always had special meaning for me because I read it when I was young – 18 or so. It resonated with my fantasies about Manhattan, the Upper East Side and New York City in general.
It was such a relief from the other books I was reading at the time, which all had a quality of homework to them. Reading The Catcher in the Rye was pure pleasure. The burden of entertainment is on the author. Salinger fulfils that obligation from the first sentence on.
Reading and pleasure didn’t go together for me when I was younger. Reading was something you did for school, out of obligation. It was something you did if you wanted to take out a certain kind of woman. It wasn’t something I did for fun. But The Catcher in the Rye was different. It was amusing, it was in my vernacular, and the atmosphere held great emotional resonance for me.
”

- Woody Allen on J.D. Salinger

I had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere

2011-06-30T19:49:00.000-07:00

“I had this idea that there was a whole world of marvelous golden people somewhere…Sort of super-heroic people, all of them beautiful and witty and calm and kind, and I always imagined that when I did find them I’d suddenly know that I belonged among them, that I was one of them, that I’d been meant to be one of them all along, and everything in the meantime had been a mistake.”

- Richard Yates, ‘Revolutionary Road’

Song

2011-06-25T20:39:00.000-07:00

“I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab
which is typical
and not just of modern life

mud clambers up the trellis of my nerves
must lovers of Eros end up with Venus
muss es sein? es muss nicht sein, I tell you

how I hate disease, it’s like worrying
that comes true
and it simply must not be able to happen

in a world where you are possible
my love
nothing can go wrong for us, tell me”

- Frank O’Hara,

The Blow – “Ask Me” (demo)

2011-06-22T14:19:00.001-07:00

SUMMER 2011: The Blow (ASK ME demo version) by Melissa Dyne + Khaela Maricich from Dyne + Maricich on Vimeo.

The Blow – “Ask Me” (demo)

black and white and beautiful

2011-06-21T13:03:00.000-07:00

Dream Baby Dream

2011-06-08T06:58:00.000-07:00

Bruce Springsteen covering Suicide - Dream Baby Dream.

Possibly one of the best covers of ALL TIME (definitive, yes).

Woody Allen's Favourites

2011-06-07T16:16:00.000-07:00

My Favorite Movies

by WOODY ALLEN

When I awake during the night, to quell my existential panic I make lists in my mind. This sometimes helps me fall back asleep. Almost always the lists are of movies - adding and subtracting titles, substituting. My tastes seem to me unremarkable except in the area of talking plot comedies where I seem to have little tolerance for anything and certainly not my own films.

Fifteen of Woody Allen's Favorite American Films In No Particular Order

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

Double Indemnity

Shane

Paths of Glory

The Godfather: Part II

Goodfellas

Citizen Kane

White Heat

The Informer

The Hill

The Third Man

Notorious

Shadow of a Doubt

A Streetcar Named Desire

The Maltese Falcon

Twelve of My Favorite European Films And Three Favorite Japanese Films

The Seventh Seal

Rashomon

The Bicycle Thief

The 400 Blows

Grand Illusion

Rules of the Game

Wild Strawberries

8 1/2

Amarcord

Throne of Blood

Cries and Whispers

La Strada

Breathless

The Seven Samurai

Shoeshine

(Note: If we take Citizen Kane from the top list and put it in the second list, this would be my list of the best films ever made.)

Silent comedies are all taken up by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

I put comedies in two categories - comedian's films which can be awful save for the comedian's work and comedy movies that have plots. Of the comedian's films or broader sillier films that I always laugh at are:

Duck Soup

Monkey Business

Horse Feathers

A Night at the Opera

A Day at the Races

Monsieur Beaucaire

You Can't Cheat an Honest Man

Never Give a Sucker an Even Break

Casanova's Big Night

Airplane!

Of talking plot comedies, I'm hesitant to say my list because my taste is eccentric and there are any number of comedies I love that would make me seem foolish or should I say, foolish in the eyes of the world. Plus there are any number of iconic comedies that never have and never will give me a laugh and I don't like to hurt the feelings of anyone who turns such a tough dollar making screen comedies or even their descendants.

I will admit my list is always topped by The White Sheik, and when I think of American comedies my conviction is that no finer ones exist than Born Yesterday and Trouble in Paradise. Also The Shop Around the Corner is pretty damned good (I get a lot of fishy looks when I tell people I think Born Yesterday is the best all-time American stage comedy but it's the way I feel. A close second is The Front Page, the play.) After the above four, my insomnia list gets dicey for public consumption with a few predictable choices but many very personal ones. Incidentally, my list never includes my own comedies.

From a note to Eric Lax.

(from This Recording)

All weakness tends to corrupt, and impotence corrupts absolutely

2011-06-07T11:54:00.000-07:00

I'm not the biggest Bob Dylan fans- because if you know anything about music, you know Bob Dylan fans aren't your average bear - but I do like this song a lot. FYIslers - its mentioned in Spalding Gray's movie Swimming to Cambodia too.

A country beyond my imagination and much too far to swim to

2011-06-07T11:15:00.000-07:00

"I would say that my major problem with Hollywood is this—I sometimes paraphrase Bob Dylan—Bob Dylan says 'I may look like Robert Frost, but I feel just like Jesse James.' I say 'I may look like a gynecologist, an American ambassador's aide, or a lawyer, but I feel like Woody Allen.' ...

"My insides are not what my outsides are. I'm not who I appear to be. I appear to be a Wasp Brahmin, but I'm really a sort of neurotic, perverse New York Jew. When I was performing one year ago at this time in Israel, a review came out in Hebrew about Monster in a Box, and it read, 'Spalding Gray is funny, sometimes hilarious, wonderfully neurotic for a non-Jew.' Only the Jews can say something like 'wonderfully neurotic.

- Spalding Gray (video from Swimming to Cambodia)

Kurt Smells Like Teen Spirit

2011-06-05T09:05:00.000-07:00

This is amazing for so many reasons (most of them explained by 90s woman)

Favourite Boys.

2011-06-03T21:33:00.000-07:00

I'm Goin' Down is my favourite Bruce Springsteen song.

One of Us Cannot be Wrong is my favourite Leonard Cohen song.

Oh Yoko! is my favourite John Lennon song.

Three of my favourite men.

I`ll never be able to do a sequel to Pink Flamingos (1972) because it would have to end with Divine taking a shit and the dog eating it.

2011-06-03T21:09:00.000-07:00

Sooooo theres a DIVINE movie and I didn't know about it until now?! WTHELL?!

I'm honestly shocked. Being the ridic JayDubya fan that I am, I of course love everyone involved in his movies - from Melanie Griffith straight through to Edith Massey - but all us J.W. fans hold a special place for Divine.

I couldn't be more psyched about this movie - unless it came to TIFF, and then John Waters came with i,t and I was given the job of hanging out with him 24/7. Something like that anyway.

love a good semi-sad love song

2011-06-03T07:47:00.000-07:00

Diana Ross & the Supremes - My World Is Empty Without You

Holiday - Bee Gees

Norwegian Wood - The Beatles

I'm trawling through the back catalog of Jarvis Cockers Sunday Service - always so many gems. Must make more mixtapes ASAP.

I saw two shooting stars last night, I wished on them, but they were only satellites.

2011-05-29T18:55:00.000-07:00

Billy Bragg - A New England

Rab | Myspace Video

I totally rate this song.

2011 Summer Adventures

2011-05-29T12:11:00.000-07:00

Though I'm about to start an intense job at a most awesome film festival on Monday, I'm determined to not let the Summer of 2011 pass me by! So I've come up with (and borrowed from others) a lovely list of Summer Adventures to complete by mid-August (cause I will be too busy after that). My activities are pretty generica (and/or helvetica) so if you have any suggestions please - I'm an adventure canvas in need of some more colour!

Wild Water Kingdom (water slides!)

High park (tree climbing, book reading, bike riding, cherry blossoms picnic etc)

Niagra Falls (day and night pls)

Toronto Islands Bike Tour

Walk from Leslieville to the Beaches and try Ed's Real Scoop Gelato at the beginning and the end!

Horse riding!

Road Trip to see John Water's Absentee Landlord in Minneapolis (may be a post summer more spring time event)

NXNE (Dum Dum Girls, Twin Shadow etc)

Paradoxes of Innovation talk by Malcolm Gladwell @ Luminato Festival

Garage Sale's to decorate my new room!

Then its on to Spring - Nuit Blanche, Road Trip to the West Coast and more!

"It’s the village girl who will change the world."

2011-05-29T11:54:00.000-07:00

I just raced through Kelly Cutrone's book 'If You Have to Cry Go Outside' and it was totally amazing. I'm reading so many increds memoirs (of sorts) this year - John Waters, Patti Smith, Sarah Silverman etc - that have really resonated with me. I can't recommend this book enough its such a great read and Cutrone speaks in such a unique voice. Though I don't agree with everything she says, I still felt like I got so much out of it. She's kind of like the cool tough aunt or older sister you wish you had - the one that gives you records and buys you condoms or something.

Also now I'm kind of obsessed with her. I want her to be my life coach, and I'm super jello of Marrisa Meltzer's life coach style interview with Ms Cutrone that you can also read here.

RIP Gil Scott-Heron

2011-05-29T08:50:00.000-07:00

Inner City Blues - Gil Scott-Heron

I've never been so sad about a musician dying.

Best Movies You've Never Seen #12

2011-05-26T20:20:00.000-07:00

Flannel Pajamas (2006) - Jeff Lipsky

This film feels like it was made in the 90s - which is about as high a compliment as I can give. Not quite up to the dialogue of that period but it does have that great low budget feel and relationship focus that just makes me shiver all over. My movie turn-ons include - overly talky (preferably relationship focused), low budget aesthetic and brunette leads. Flannel PJ's ticks dem boxes.

HelloGiggles

2011-05-26T19:11:00.001-07:00

I'm already totally stoked about the new girls site ya just gotta click on - HelloGiggles! Perfect example is this ridic simple nail art how-to. How many times have I ooh-ed over leopard print nails - never knowing how simple they were. So simple in fact that someone as. "meh 2 hard basket" as me could do it. Next time you see me I'll be totally rocking this.

Babies are so Punk Rock

2011-05-26T19:02:00.000-07:00

im so pretty like, be on my pedal bike,

2011-05-25T22:00:00.000-07:00

The other weekend I rode a bike in the city for the first time - ok that city was Montreal the easiest city in the world to bike around and it was a Bixi, not my own bike - but anyways I'm super happy with myself. I feel empowered to get my own pedal monster for the summer - and perhaps some makeshift L plates, just in case.

Happy Endings

2011-05-25T21:56:00.000-07:00

I finally found a new TV show I like! The premise sounds awful and so does this preview thingie I just posted. Don't let this stop you - like it did me initially - from giving this show a whirl. The first two episodes are terrible as well. I'm being honest and telling you know. I skipped them, in fact I started with the 6th episode and worked my forward and then back again. I have high hopes for the rest of the Happy Endings season - its pretty tight, well written (read funny and amusing) and not too sitcommy (no laugh track). Also its not Friends - and for that we can all be grateful - at least till the really good TV comes back.

“Be Nice” Because “Everybody’s Going to Forget You”

2011-05-25T08:23:00.000-07:00

Death Grips - Spread Eagle Cross the Block

Directed by: Terroreyes

Children of Marx and Coca-Cola

2011-05-24T21:09:00.000-07:00

I don't know what it is with me and tote bags. Slap a photo of Karl Lagerfeld or a Sonic Youth album cover on it, and I'm literally shoving my money into your hand.

So far (and god knows how) I've resisted the Woody Allen and Winona Ryder ones. Methinks nothing worthy as yet perhaps? Although I couldn't resist a throwback FREE WINONA if one ever surfaced.

Long story short - I bought the 1st tote bag. I also bought it cause I wanted to post about it but was scared the "hundreds" of people who read my blog might buy it. Logic!

I also had had to physically restrain myself, from also buying the second - in a MOST practical shade of black. Why do we so rarely see black totes? Creamy totes get super-dirty super-quick yo!

To surmise - more black totes and Godard tote bags in general pls.

PS you can buy me the black one from here.

PPS can someone do a Woody Allen one in his signature font pls?

Sometimes it lasts in love

2011-05-23T22:54:00.000-07:00

Adele's eyes when she performs this song totally breaks my heart.

41 rollin' to let you know what time it is, check / You can't hold me / I work my 9 to 5, better cut my check

This Odd Future (BBC clean) version of Sandwitches totally hits an eleven on the adorbsmeter for PG clean rap - "hit that thong".

That's okay. See me, I'm kinda into ugly... But only if it's sexy ugly.

2011-05-18T20:26:00.000-07:00

Danny McBride

Louis CK

Mark Duplass

Maybe ugly-sexy actually means "not conventionally beautiful but very funny and charismatic".

I can't believe I ate the whole thing

2011-05-18T16:59:00.000-07:00

Yourstru.ly Presents: tUnE-yArDs "You Yes You" from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

i love this woman so much. i missed seeing her in toronto. regrettttttzzzzz.....

He's Saying Life Is Bullshit and It Is So What Are You Screaming About?

2011-05-14T21:18:00.000-07:00

Network

Five Easy Pieces

Are you angry?

PS A guy once rang me 3 weeks later and said he found my number when he was doing his laundry. Not super important but I just remembered why I don't give my phone number out any more - and it made me angry.

Succesful Alcholics

2011-05-13T13:48:00.000-07:00

Successful Alcoholics from Lizzy Caplan

I love this - its the kind of short film I can get behind. I hope the future of VOD means more stuff like this.

Also I'm very hungover and kinda hate how perfect Lizzy Caplan's hair is while she's drunk. When I'm hungover my hair always looks like I've been for a 5k run that morning, when of course its the opposite.

Hot Docs

2011-05-11T21:43:00.000-07:00

Somewhere to Disappear

Wild Horses, Wild Ride

Who Took The Bomp? Le Tigre on Tour

I can't stress enough - if you have the chance to see any of these films - please take it!

They are totally magical documentaries, and the very best films I saw at Hot Docs festival 2011.

Random Jams

2011-05-11T21:38:00.000-07:00

You might have guessed that I'm currently sifting through months of music to make a new mixtape or two - stay tuned!

Virgins on my screen

2011-05-02T21:42:00.000-07:00

Virgin Suicides screen shots (for when its 5am and yr feeling arty)

"You earned that buck like a motherfucker, man. Keep that shit"

2011-04-24T20:01:00.000-07:00

Snoop from THE WIRE is the baddest female villain of all time. I am terrified and obsessed with her.

I want mine to be a cactus.

2011-04-23T20:26:00.000-07:00

I will be very careful the next time I fall in love, she told herself. Also, she had made a promise to herself that she intended on keeping. She was never going to go out with another writer: no matter how charming, sensitive, inventive or fun they could be. They weren’t worth it in the long run. They were emotionally too expensive and the upkeep was complicated. They were like having a vacuum cleaner around the house that broke all the time and only Einstein could fix it.

She wanted her next lover to be a broom.

Sombrero Fallout, by Richard Brautigan

Horses, Horses, Horses

2011-04-23T19:47:00.000-07:00

“I moved to New York to fuck Patti Smith.” -Thurston Moore

I like to think everyone moved to New York City to fuck someone - whether they admit it or not and who it is are just the tests as to how interesting a person they are right?

(via Slow Motion Crawl)