June 2008
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...
– Sylvia Plath (via misscedar) (via bellechoses)
(this sums up my short absence)
I’m not really interested in watching sports or anything like that but I think the girl in this video is so great. (I also love the VO)
via brooklynmutt:
Weasels of the world unite and creep up on all the stinky foxes.
– this is the best comment that anyone has ever left on my website.
via Hark, Hark, the dogs do bark » Apologies
“We shall not cease from exploration. And at the end of all our exploring will be to arrive at where we started. And know the place for the first time.”
T.S. Elliot.
“… and it seemed to me that inside these songs I was at home , that I derived from them, and if I had betrayed this home, I had only made it all the more my home […] but I was equally aware that this home was not of this world (though what kind of home was it if it wasn’t of this world?), that what we were singing and playing were only memories, recollections, an...
“I stare more closely at the city in my mind. And why, it is the Mirror City, it’s not Dunedin or London or Ibiza or Auckland or any other cities I have known. It is Mirror City before my own eyes. And the envoy waits.”
An Angel at my table, Janet Frame.
fourth wall (wikipedia): The term “breaking the fourth wall” means that a character is showing his/her awareness of the audience. Various artists have used this jarring effect to make a point, as it forces an audience to see the fiction in a new light and to watch it less passively.
one of my favourite things in cinema after POV shots, I relish ‘fourth wall’ moments so...