The Perks of Being A Wallflower 1/1/13
Looper 1/1/13
Beasts of the Southern Wild 1/1/13
The Darjeeling Limited 13/1/13
Young, Mormon & Single 17/1/13
Tabloid 17/1/13
Aladdin 19/1/13
The Women (1939) 12/2/13
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel 2/3/13
Argo 5/3/13
The Alps 23/3/13
Sherlock Holmes 2 25/3/13
The Royal Tenenbaums 31/3/13
Spring Breakers 13/4/13
The Paperboy 14/4/13
Silver Linings Playbook 15/4/13
Gangster Squad 20/4/13

I liked The Paperboy. It’s sweaty and heavy, even the more relaxed scenes displace you. Heavy in the way I feel heavy and self-indulgent because you more than half like feeling that way. It comes across so trashy in the trailer, all ~’vintage’ feature length crime drama~ which is very disappointing, so don’t youtube that. These stills look so much better.

I watched it because Zac Efron was on Ellen talking about him and Nicole Kidman dancing in the rain and I saw the clip and thought ‘now that’s real beautiful’. Like a fantasy I didn’t know I could imagine of me and a boy (if I could for once let go and wasn’t so easily embarrassed). Things should always just feel right. My feelings towards Zac Efron then were meh but it seemed like he cared so much, that working on this was important to him and that was good enough for me. You care, I care. Trailers spoil things, it’s better not knowing what happens. Watch it because you feel like you can’t not, that’s two hours of a life most likely spent on the internet anyway.

Afterwards, I looked up Peter Dexter and want to read the book.     / And then I tried to sleep and thought about unrelated things and cried and cried, thinking I was dreaming but remembering that I was just thinking. Maybe it’s that disturbing or I’m being hyperbolic. It doesn’t matter. The film carries this rhythmic anxiety, very quiet, very still. Like a slow smothering of your heart. On some psychological level I know why it resonates, how Charlotte points out my neuroses as she does hers and I feel like these are also my people. The sort of people whose brokenness you don’t see, the arsonists who set fires to become heros. That’s frightening. /    Am going to order it now. I hope the cover isn’t like the movie poster or anything. I want my book to be just the book.

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Got a copy with the poster cover instead because I like the financial times pink and the other felt dark (like it is) and even though that’s true, I want my swamp story to pretend to be pretty. Like how many things pretend to be pretty.

(Dorian Grey meets The Little Prince meets Bowie)

Us creating subtitles like Mr. David Jones.

At least the mother gifted me with, if nothing else creatively, a genetic predisposition to adore Prada. Which, really, isn’t much of an advantage because even when the clothes are ‘meh’ they are still in their own league of transcendent top-tier meh that is so impossibly stylish and good-looking. Miuccia can do no wrong. Teenage girls and gays on tumblr should be making gifs about her because she’s waaaay cooler than Mean Girls and cat memes.

This was meant to be me raving about the amazing set by OMA & Knoll because the clothes are just alright, but then I got distracted by hot chocolate and ASOS knock-offs of many seasons old purple fur arm warmers, which makes this distraction inception because I was first meant to be researching post-colonialism and cultural translation, before getting distracted by finding models, and then distracted by this during which I again got distracted.

Here, go read Charlie Porter.

Everything Was Moving 13/1/13

I feel like I have made a commitment to this space. That after a long period of philandering about on other internet pages I am finally happy enough with the way this looks/feels to be back. Ideally this would be password protected—not for any issue of privacy necessarily but peace of mind re: potential employers because it’s going to get a lot less pretty, a lot less this-is-my-work around here.

Some fairly recent developments:
- Picked up a tv to saw in half via freecycle
- My eBay account got suspended, which makes me very sad because I have shoes to sell (would you like some A.Wang/Miu Miu/Kirkwood?)
- I have borrowed Aaron’s ‘Jar of Happiness’ idea and now have my own ‘Jar of Good Things’

It might be worth bearing in mind that this is still an idealised version of my life.

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel 9/9/12
So Wrong They’re Right 27/9/12
Precious 4/10/12
The Boat That Rocked 14/10/12
Super 8 20/10/12
Paris is Burning 22/10/12
City of God 23/10/12
Electrick Children 18/11/12
Premium Rush 3/12/12
Ruby Sparks 4/12/12
Moonrise Kingdom 4/12/12
The Hobbit 13/12/12
Les Misérables 31/12/12