Put off your maiden blushes
I recently re-watched Kenneth Branagh’s splendid adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. The entire film (and play) is wonderful, but I’m especially fond of the interaction between Henry and Catherine in Act 5, Scene 2, in which he, with charmingly clumsy sweetness, tries to convince her to marry him. Branagh and Emma Thompson are fantastic together [...]
Every movie should have a Paul Krugman cameo
Permit me to do a little fangirl-ish squeeing: My step-dad and I saw Get Him to the Greek on Father’s Day. The movie was a lot funnier than I expected. Pretty hilarious, actually. And my nerdy heart almost exploded with SQUEE! when Paul Krugman showed up. Dreamy adorable Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman! So [...]
Some Monday lolziness
Today is the summer solstice, an event which sets the hearts of hippies and new age types all aflutter. Exhibit A: around 20,000 hippies flocked to Stonehenge today to wait for the solstice-y sun to rise. In addition to the hippies and new age types, joining in on the festivities were:“Druid King Arthur Pendragon” (yes, [...]
Now if only I had some Floo Powder handy…
Okay, Nerd Alert: I really, really want to go to The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (at Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida): (Click on the photo to enlarge it)I’m generally not much for theme parks, but a Harry Potter theme park? YES PLEASE! :)
Anna is delightful
Something delightful: Anna Karina singing in Jean-Luc Godard‘s Pierrot le fou: Anyway, we’ll know when we’re dead… in 60 years… we’ll know if we were always in love. ♥
Sex and the City = FAIL
I don’t throw the word “loathe” around lightly. But I loathe all things Sex and the City. Perhaps that’s because there are few things I find more boring or unpleasant than shopping, an activity that the show’s characters seem to find endlessly thrilling and fulfilling. Or perhaps it’s because, as exemplified by Carrie’s columns and [...]
so sweet and so cold
(This is cross-posted from my Tumblr. I love the combination of this lovely still from Godard’s Une femme mariée and the William Carlos Williams poem so much that I wanted to share it again.) William Carlos Williams’s “This Is Just To Say” I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you [...]
I never had a secret chart
This performance of Leonard Cohen‘s “The Stranger Song” is mesmerizing and so very, very gorgeous: Well, I’ve been waiting, I was sure we’d meet between the trains we’re waiting for I think it’s time to board another Please understand, I never had a secret chart to get me to the heart of this or any [...]
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