Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of women who love me.


The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.


"There is no love sincerer than the love of food. "

Some more of my favourite couples - Johnny Depp and Kate Moss - i think a nostalgification for 90s grunge americans and 60s new wave frenchies is starting to show on this blog. Cynical quotes on love courtesy of George Beranard Shaw (thanks Dale) and the realisation that none of my favourite couples are together anymore.


ps how awesome is their hair in these pics? most awesome.

Breakfast by Jacques Prévert

“He poured the coffee
Into the cup
He poured the milk
Into the cup of coffee
He added the sugar
To the coffee and milk
He stirred it
With a teaspoon
He drank the coffee
And put back the cup
Without speaking to me
He lit a cigarette
He blew some rings
With the smoke
He flicked the ashes
Into the ashtray
Without speaking to me
Without looking at me
He got up
He put his hat
On his head
He put on
His raincoat
Because it was raining
He went out
Into the rain
Without a word
Without looking at me
And I
I took my head
In my hands
And I wept”

— Breakfast by Jacques Prévert

I like how long and skinny this poem is - also that its called Breakfast and there's no food mentioned, which is kind of fitting if somebody you love is going to leave you - there really shouldn't be much on your mind except coffee, cigarettes and raincoats.

On a sidenote Prevert also wrote 'Les Enfants du paradis' - which I really need to see now more than ever.

There even were pills to keep you happy.

There even were pills to keep you happy. This is not very romantic but I find this funny, the thought that love stories with an unhappy ending can be healed using chemicals. - L'homme qui aimait les femmes (1977) Francois Truffaut

There are women that you can wonder if they got any interest in love. For others, they are carrying it on their face.

“Last night, I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept because I was no longer a child with a child’s blind faith. I wept because my eyes were opened to reality - to Henry’s selfishness, June’s love of power, my insatiable creativity which must concern itself with others and cannot be sufficient to itself. I wept because I could not believe anymore and I love to believe. I can still love passionately without believing. That means I love humanly. I wept because from now on I will weep less. I wept because I have lost my pain and I am not yet accustomed to its absence.”

—

Anaïs Nin

And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person’s eyes.

My heart stopped. It just stopped beating. And for the first time in my life, I had that feeling. You know, like the world is moving all around you, all beneath you, all inside you, and you’re floating. Floating in midair. And the only thing keeping you from drifting away is the other person’s eyes.”Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped

More young adult fiction via tumblr - i must have been an emotionally stunted immature young adult - because at 11-14 (the target age of this book) i wouldn't have been able to relate to this para above. In fact at 25 I'm still struggling to be honest - but doesn't it fit beautifully with the image?

"There's only trouble and desire... and when you desire something you get in trouble but when you're in trouble, you don't desire anything at all"

Watch this at Boston.com

I miss Hal Hartley, Whit Stillman, Noah Baumbach, Richard Linklater films from the 90s - I really do - the wordiness, don't people write scripts anymore? I also miss Martin Donovan and Chris Eigman of the 90s.

Apparently someone called The Vicious Kind a return to that golden age of cinema for now. I don't know if I quite buy a Brittany Snow picture as any such thing but I'm very ready to be proved wrong.

MIFF - 8 - in short reviews

We're Livin On Dog Food - Richard Lowenstein

“Tell me there’s gonna be a difference between Nick Cave and Duran Duran There just isn’t.” - Primitive Calculators.

Richard L has done well for himself with the opinionated yet endearingly self deprecating lot he's gathered together to talk about Melbourne in the 80s and Dogs in Space. There are so many stand out quotes from this film with Clinton Walker and Stuart from Primitive Calculators being two definite highlights. Controversial and funny.