mws: an education

damn, all of my recent posts have been about films. this one will be no different.

i just finished watching an education and it was brilliance.
i enjoyed the elegance. i understood the fast-paced lifestyle she wanted. and the fashion. wow. amour!






watch it ASAP, it's amazing.

fyi

from the minds of me


percy jackson was REAL good.

mws: the squid and the whale

directed by noah baumbach & produced by wes anderson






the film is a lot darker than the trailer lets on.

movies worth seeing: a single man

tom ford's directorial debut, a single man, was amazing.
colin firth never ceases to amaze me.

The film centers on a middle-aged English professor, George Falconer, who is still struggling with life after his partner, Jim, dies.
It follows a day in his life -- the day when he decides to commit suicide. Throughout this day, he narrates for us. He takes us back to times where Jim was still alive and he shows us how he doesn't see much in his future.

The film changes colors quite frequently. Flashbacks tended to be more saturated than reality, implying that Falconer lived mostly in the past, I presume. Though, reality, at some points, were fully saturated as well.

Much emphasis was placed on the architecture and the fashion of the 60s, which was beautiful. The house that Colin Firth's character, George Falconer, stayed in was breathtaking -- a house of glass.

The film was quite beautiful, and I loved it.

random & quick

I couldn't help myself, but this made me laugh.


Love FML! Hahahhahahaahh
click on the image to enlarge it! :)

pursuit of happiness (nightmare)

kid cudi, mgmt & ratatat

I wonder, sometimes, what life would have been like if I hadn't moved. If I stayed in rural Kansas. When I was there, I was terrified of the bigger cities, and of the stories of abductions that came with it. Ann Arbor is not a big city, but it was many times larger than Burlington.
I wonder about my friends from Kansas. I occasionally talk to them online, and it is clear that we have both went our own ways -- we've become different people.
However, now I converse more with people I was simply friends with. My best friends aren't close to me anymore. When we used to talk, it ended after the "i'm good, too."
I stayed in contact with them for about a year -- eighth grade. We stopped talking ninth grade. I called them when I wished them on their birthdays, now I don't know their numbers, nor do they know mine.
And, the more depressing thing is that I don't think I would've remained friends with them had I stayed.
As I aforementioned, we're different people now. And the distance between us is our alibi.

boy with a coin

iron & wine
wasn't actually planning on posting today, but after coming across such a gruesomely hilarious website, I decided i wanted to share it.
This is why you're fat is "where your dreams become heart attacks". I strongly recommend checking them out.
it makes me glad i'm a vegetarian.
and, i'll never understand the obsession with bacon. it not only smells bad, but it also looks disgusting.



god god god god god. i have the urge to purge.

*pictures taken from this is why you're fat. (link above)

she loves everybody

chester french

i've adopted a new favourite colour - purple. no more putrid yellow or tacky orange for me.
purple is so beautiful. it is full of vitality, yet is more subdued. it's playful but sophisticated. it's perfect.

tomorrow is my kinda birthday. i get to fast, yay! but i also get coffeeeeeeeeee, yum? yes.

we got the long overdue snow day yesterday. it was great! however, going to school today wasn't.

gill gave me a bunch of great jazz cd's, which i am going to play right after chester french finishes the line she loves everybody. i would recommend checking them out, asap.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is easily my new favourite author, especially his short story "I Only Came to Use the Phone".

I don't really have much to say. I am just procrastinating from doing chem. And reading a short story.

and RIP alexander mcqueen. you will be greatly missed. :(

love on a train

skins, emily's episode. watch it.

made a bunch of notecards about viruses and envelopes and pathogens and the lysogenic cycles. Completing that only leaves me with a little bit of reading to do for French and World Literature, and then some math homework on the trigonometric functions.

i'm so excited for this weekend! I'm going to volunteer at the Red Cross tomorrow from 8-2, six hours! Yes! It's going to be so much fun. I haven't been able to volunteer for like a month and a half, and I really missed it! Now, it'll be mandatory because I joined Youth Volunteer Corps (YVC). No volunteering = bad grade. Bad grade = bad gpa.

AND, I'm going to go see Youth in Revolt! Michael Cera! I will most definitely be doing a movie review for it.

check out metric, they're an amazing canadian band. i enjoy their songs: help i'm alive, monster hospital, gimme sympathy. LISTENLISTENLISTEN

and as the first sentence of this blog states, watch the new episode of skins. It's really great, betterbetterbetter than the first episode. emily is most likely my favourite character from season 3/4. while maxxie, right now, is my favourite from season 1/2.

and my facebook changed. it's weird. so weird. i don't think i like it.

caring is creepy

the shins

caring is creepy. sometimes.
i think the titles of my blogs make up the essence of my blog itself.

i don't actually like this band (japanese motors) but i really enjoy this photo.


and i also really enjoyed the entrance of ke$ha and justin beiber at the grammys. she looks like a man, and he looks like her kid.