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oldfilmsflicker: Robert Frobisher: Sixsmith. I climb the steps...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:08:46 -0400

Robert Frobisher: Sixsmith. I climb the steps of the Scot monument every morning and all becomes clear. Wish I could make you see this brightness. Don’t worry, all is well. All is so perfectly, damnably well. I understand now that boundaries between noise and sound are conventions. All boundaries are conventions, waiting to be transcended. One may transcend any convention if only one can first conceive of doing so. Moments like this, I can feel your heart beating as clearly as I feel my own, and I know that separation is an illusion. My life extends far beyond the limitations of me.

Movie Quote of the Day – Cloud Atlas, 2012 (dir. Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski) | the diary of a film history fanatic

beautiful.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 19:49:09 -0400

casualcynic: So my mom and I have been working the same...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:13:41 -0400

casualcynic:

So my mom and I have been working the same waitress job for 5-6 years now. She had been waitressing years before, but this is recently. Anyway, about… 15 minutes ago this guy she waited on left and told her to take care. Just that. Prior to this she had talked to him about Italy. Her people are from Florence, this and that, and she said she’s never been. She’s got 8 years of art education and she’s working a waitress job. It’s pretty… Sad and disappointing, I guess. Her and my father divorced 6 years ago and she hasn’t had a real job ever. Just been stuck in a small town she’s not from.

This man who we have never seen before tipped her 1000 dollars for a trip to Italy. Walked out, not another word.

…you know. Just when I start to lose faith in humanity….Hm.

#REAL FUNNY OLD SPORT

Mon, 20 May 2013 16:27:25 -0400

#REAL FUNNY OLD SPORT

“I hope I see you again.”“You will. My whole life depends on...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:09:47 -0400

“I hope I see you again.”
“You will. My whole life depends on it.”

you can stay in the same place and still find ways to leave...

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:42:11 -0400

you can stay in the same place and still find ways to leave people

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Fri, 10 May 2013 16:59:22 -0400

I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short...

Sun, 05 May 2013 22:57:07 -0400

I cut it for the one straight man who has ever liked short hair and I wear it in memorial of somebody who really loved it. - Michelle Williams about her ‘pixie’ hairstyle

ohbabyitsnatalie: Beyoncé ft Andre 3000 — Back to Black

Thu, 02 May 2013 18:17:07 -0400

ohbabyitsnatalie:

Beyoncé ft Andre 3000 — Back to Black

"I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:10:35 -0400

“I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

- Joanne Harris, Five Quarters of the Orange (via creatingaquietmind)

"You tried to change didn’t you? closed your mouth more tried to be softer prettier less volatile,..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:10:01 -0400

“You tried to change didn’t you?
closed your mouth more
tried to be softer
prettier
less volatile, less awake
but even when sleeping you could feel
him travelling away from you in his dreams
so what did you want to do love
split his head open?
you can’t make homes out of human beings
someone should have already told you that
and if he wants to leave
then let him leave
you are terrifying
and strange and beautiful
something not everyone knows how to love.”

- “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love,” Warsan Shire (via creatingaquietmind)

"I decided on you, don’t you get that? I decided on you. I don’t want to go fucking other people and..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:08:41 -0400

“I decided on you, don’t you get that? I decided on you. I don’t want to go fucking other people and then walk around feeling thrilled and then sad, or empty, or whatever. I like the smell of your hair, and I like the sound of your voice, and I fucking decided on you.”

- Girls, HBO (via somethingbeyond)

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Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:08:09 -0400

conveys: okay let’s try this again. if there are any typos i...

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:06:38 -0400

conveys:

okay let’s try this again. if there are any typos i will scream

"Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:05:10 -0400

“Sometimes, when you are not getting the love you want, giving makes you think you will.”

- Mitch Albom, “The Time Keeper” (via dreamersmind)

"Don’t hang out with people who don’t love you. Don’t try to impress people who aren’t worth it...."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:03:47 -0400

“Don’t hang out with people who don’t love you. Don’t try to impress people who aren’t worth it. Don’t try to win people over who aren’t worth it. Focus on yourself, and focus on the people who are really awesome and who love you. Don’t hang out with people who make you feel like shit. Don’t spend your energy on them.”

- Beth Ditto (via barbieandken)

"We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really..."

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 18:00:43 -0400

““We have to allow ourselves to be loved by the people who really love us, the people who really matter. Too much of the time, we are blinded by our own pursuits of people to love us, people that don’t even matter, while all that time we waste and the people who do love us have to stand on the sidewalk and watch us beg in the streets! It’s time to put an end to this. It’s time for us to let ourselves be loved.””

- C. JoyBell C. (via creatingaquietmind)

"It wasn’t real. I deluded myself. I had this aching need to be loved and it was screwing with my..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 17:24:31 -0400

“It wasn’t real. I deluded myself. I had this aching need to be loved and it was screwing with my head. Sometimes, when you crave certain feelings, you’ll trick yourself into thinking the other person is something other than what he appears.”

- Ilona Andrews, Magic Strikes (via creatingaquietmind)

thefilmfatale: This breathtaking dance sequence from Anna...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 22:01:34 -0400

thefilmfatale:

This breathtaking dance sequence from Anna Karenina undoubtedly entailed a tedious amount of blocking from director Joe Wright and crew. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the film’s choreographer, describes the process of designing the elaborate, gorgeous dance as follows:

Cherkaoui set himself the task of inventing a variation on the waltz that would re-awaken it in all its allure. When he went “back into the books,” he says, “I read a lot about how the waltz was considered indecent. Not proper. It came from Poland” — a colonial outback by Russian lights — “but it seeped into the aristocracy, and people would do it because they couldn’t help themselves.

“Waltzes can be like a cosmos,” he continues, “all these couples twirling around each other but also around the other couples. You would lean in to the arm of your partner in such a way that both partners have the feeling they have no weight.” They could spin all the way to the moon. They could fly too close to the sun. That thrill and danger resounds in the waltzes of Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Ravel — and Marianelli, whose waltz for Anna and Vronsky grows progressively discordant the faster it turns.

“Anna and Vronsky’s passion is at the heart of the waltz,” Cherkaoui notes. The other couples freeze until the duo — “generating an energy like some kind of organic clockwork” — sweeps them along in its wake. The choreographer did not meddle with the patterns of the feet — they lend the waltz its necessary force — but he embellished the arms and upper body to bring out the waltz’s strict comportment as well as its erotic appeal and to adapt it for the camera, which generally favors faces — “how people look at each other” — over feet.

As for the waltz’s legendary raciness, Cherkaoui began by thinking about the prescribed limits to touch at the 19th century ball: “You would hold the hand without the palms touching.” Only fingers were clasped. “Touching the inside of the hand was considered very intimate, very sensual.” In his version, only the lower arm’s pale undersides graze. The hands are free to undulate and unfurl like time-lapse vines winding up trellises and flowering. “The looseness of the wrist only suggests touch. The hands flow through one another like weaving. I wanted the waltz to be magical, and you know how when you cast a spell it is with the weaving of hands?” (x)

porcelaineskulls: (via TumbleOn) Walked that street many a...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:04:22 -0400

porcelaineskulls:

(via TumbleOn)

Walked that street many a times