words, a blog.

i can’t stop thinking about inception… and my hubby joe (he studied french at columbia and took a class in our department, i missed him by a year, ah swoon!!)!

omg, so excited for hp7!!! well, actually no, i don’t want it to end! and i also hate the director, he butchered the last film. for the launch of the final harry potter book years ago they turned mercer street into diagon alley. and yes, i dragged my bff there when we lived on prince. and they had a muggle board.

lost in translation came out right around the time i was studying abroad. i fell in love with it as i had fallen in love with the virgin suicides. i thought marie antoinette was so so so pretty but just horrible otherwise. am thinking i will fall in love with her next venture, too.

brilliant brilliant film by l’s friend zoe about love and relationships and breaking up(wards). m was worried that i’d relate too much of the film’s content to our lives but if anything, the only thing that really “upset” me was that these kids wrote an amazing script, created and shot a fucking beautiful film for $15k and went to south by and sold it to ifc! gawd, i need to do something a-mazing with my life…

so i finally got to see an education, i knew i would love it. the clothes, the red lipstick, the music, the coming of age story set in london ‘burbs!! jenny/carey mulligan was brilliant, god, i want her entire wardrobe!

part of me feels like i’m missing out on all these amazing festivals - sasquatch, coachella, sxsw, not to mention all the british ones; another part of me just can’t justify dropping so much cash. but south by southwest seems a little more doable since it’s both film and music. my bff’s bf has an amazing doc premiering then, the weird world of blowfly and blowfly himself will be performing, should be lots of fun! npr is also streaming the top 100 songs from the festival.

when i first saw the video clip of ryan gosling and michelle williams in blue valentine, i wanted to punch michelle williams (hated her since dawson’s creek) and was just not interested in seeing the film at all. however, i have succumbed to all the sundance hype and after seeing an interview w/the director, i am very much interested (and let’s face it, i’ll always see anything w/ryan gosling, my future husband, who i am 2 degrees away from!! hehe) my bff also works w/an editor/sound mixer/someone in the industry, i forget, who worked on this film and she gave me some inside scoop, so i think visually it’ll be really powerful in its depiction of love, and i can’t wait!
i’m a sucker for stories about love. i know it’s cheesy and cliche, but i am really drawn to stories that depict love and it’s rollercoaster ride. my favourite film of all time is eternal sunshine and how it follows the progression, death, and rebirth of a relationship. and blue valentine is another such film that shows that after everything that has happened, we inevitably look back to the beginning, whether it’s for nostalgia’s sake, whether it’s to understand ones demise, i feel like the process of going back to where it all started is an integral part of the journey. i think currently, personally, we’re doing a little too much reconnecting with the past, but i look forward to looking forward. also, i’m assuming the title is taken from the tom waits album, which just kills me. happy valentine’s day! hehe.

i have a big problem with uncertainty, as much as i want to believe that i’m spontaneous i really need to know what’s going to happen. (hence my need to ruin any surprise, read spoilers, skip to the last chapter in books, i almost find it more rewarding to understand the journey and know where you’re going or know vaguely where you want to end up, instead of just aimlessly going about life) (i do love surprises and wish [i'd let them] happen more). joseph gordon levitt’s new film is about the decisions you make and where they take you. here’s the tagline: Have you ever been faced with a decision and were certain it would lead your life in two totally different directions? i think the most interesting part of this film is that it was improvised. i’m sure as an actor it completely forces you to rely on your talent and what you bring to a character when you go in for a script read and there’s nothing on the page, how do you tell a story when there isn’t one. also i think i’ve fallen in love w/him, i wish he went to columbia when i was here, he majored in french literature. yummy!

going back to bam for the swedish circus troupe for inside out (with live rock band scoring the performance) but before that heading to margaret mead film festival for screening of a very long engagement at the museum of natural history (which i’ve avoided for years because i was holding out for someone to experience it with for the first time, but i suppose that feeling has passed, seems kind of silly in retrospect, to not do things because of sentimentality, eh?)

i’m debating on 2 tattoos (albeit cliche) they very much are indicative of me, an anchor (to be grounded) and a sparrow (to keep flying away). just saw this trailer for up in the air which seems to speak to that contention (gotta love jason reitman and george clooney).  i’ve been “grounded” for the last 4 years, which kinda freaks me out, not going to lie. there’s just something about being on the go, seeing new faces, new cities, new cultures, that’s just so fulfilling. if i could make traveling the world a career, i would. i think i don’t mind living, “being stuck” in new york because you can have a new experience every single day, so much of what the world offers can be found right here and is only a subway ride away. some people find my lifestyle so lonely: i live by myself, i prefer to do (some) things on my own, i like traveling by myself, but as george clooney says,  “i’m not isolated, i’m surrounded” - i absolutely love my life even if i sometimes wish the world could be smaller (there has to be a better way to travel 8 hours across the state and a cheaper way to fly west minus 3 hours), it’s just amazing how expansive life can be…