This mystery only leads to doubt

Today I get the keys to my new apartment! It is so odd that this now empty apartment will contain some of my future and final memories of college.

Enough sentiment. This lovely apartment belongs to a textile designer who lives in Brooklyn. Look at that bookcase. 

Post title from Say it To Me Now by Glen Hansard from the movie Once.

We accept the love we think we deserve

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is now a movie. They captured one of my favorite lines from the book perfectly in the trailer. I think it's gonna be good.

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English, motherfucker, do you speak it?!

Yes I watched Pulp Fiction last night for the first time. Dang. It was brilliant, but to be honest, I was hiding behind the pillow for most of the scenes. (To my sister who could hardly handle Drive, don't ever watch this...) But at least I understand so many more references... like the post title.

Since we are on the subject of movies, I found these beautiful remakes of movie posters. All of these are really more my kind of movies.

Let me be and let me live

I just snatched the window seats at Noble Tree, my favorite coffee shop in Chicago :)  Success.  The view is beautiful... I would much rather look out at snow covered streets then walk through it.

Anywhoo I've started reading Ulysses by James Joyce for one of my classes... and dang that book is dense. I feel like I'm reading an encyclopedia, but without the explanations.  But I get so much satisfaction in reading not because of Joyce's brilliance, but really because my copy of the book is so lovely.  It is a light blue hard cover with simple font.

Before you laugh at how silly I am for being obsessed with a book's appearance, check this girl out. She dressed up as her Ulysses book.  I admire her :)

That cover page is amazing. No one can argue with that.  Speaking of beautiful and simple graphic design, check out this movie poster for Never Let Me Go.  I love.

The in between bits

1.  Yesterday I watched Like Crazy for the second time and finished The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood... I would not recommend doing those two things on the same day. I was an emotional mess. You know that feeling you get when all you can do is lay in bed and listen to The Trapeze Swinger by Iron & Wine on repeat?  Oh wait... ugh why do I have so many feelings? 


The poem from Like Crazy:
I thought I understood it
That I could grasp it
But I didn’t, not really
I knew the smudgeness of it
The pink-slippered-all-containered-semi-precious eagerness of it
I didn’t realize it would sometimes be more than whole
The wholeness was a rather luxurious idea
Because its the halves that halve you in half
Didn’t know, don’t know about the in between bits
The gory bits of you
And gory bits of me 


2.  Alright enough with the feelings.  I really like this music video of We Found Love by Rihanna.  Please don't judge me.  This music video is actually really good... its like a condensed episode of Skins (and reminds me slightly of this music video).

I thought I understood it, but I didn't

I mentioned previously how my sister and I got to watch the early showing of Like Crazy for the Chicago International Film Festival and listen to the director and main two actors speak.  Here is my reaction to the movie: woah.  You know that feeling you have after you've watched a really intense movie like Atonement, and then you can't speak for fifteen minutes? The feeling is similar.  Like Crazy was so well done, focusing on little details that make up a relationship.  The movie was shot in 24 days, and most of the dialogue is improvised.  Dang.  Do they stay together or not, I can't tell you... guess you'll have to see it :)

City life

Chicago is so cool!  I am in love.  This weekend I went with a friend to this beautiful vintage independent movie theater near Wrigley Field called the Music Box Theatre.  We saw this French film called Love Crime, which was brilliant yet very dark.  I also ate at some great restaurants this weekend:  Uncommon Ground if you are looking for natural unique food, Carmine's if you want a classy Italian dinner, and Cozy Noodles and Rice in Evanston, yummy and quirky.


And if that's not enough to make me obsessed with this city, I'm also so excited to go next month to the special presentation at the Chicago International Film Festival of Like Crazy, that movie I was raving about a few posts ago!!! I cannot wait.  Apparently it is rumored that Anton Yelchin and Felicity Jones, the lead actor and actress, will be there!  I am trying not to get my hopes up, but I'm afraid it is too late for that.


Some options I envision wearing for this event, black dress and a trench coat or jeans and a loose blouse:

Come with me my love to the sea

I am definitely in the romantic movie mood.  Two nights ago I saw Leap Year again, which was alright... If your going for a movie where you know the ending within the first 10 minutes, but want to watch it anyway because of Matthew Goode's good looks and beautiful Irish scenery, Leap Year is the movie for you.  Now if you want something slightly better, or a lot better, I recommend One Day.  If I cried in movies, I would definitely have let the tears fall in this one.  It is one of those movies where you need a good two hours to decompress what just happened (which was great, because I had to go to the dentist after, which gave me lots of contemplation time).  Between these two movies, I'm in a bit of a romantic mood.  On top of this, both movies (which I really should not be bringing similarities to these movies, since they were polar opposites on the romantic movie scale) were set in Europe, so I got that whole "man I wish I lived in Ireland/England/France/anywhere not here."  Its super annoying.  You know, the mood where you start planning your future wedding and your honeymoon in the Scottish countryside.  Don't worry, it'll pass, but in the meantime, I'll leave you with this cute wedding photo.

Title from Sea of Love by Cat Power

Oh to live in the 20s

So I was planning on putting some pics up of Austin and Houston, but my camera is being silly.  So while we wait for this problem to go away, I would like to focus on Midnight in Paris.  Not only did I love this movie, no surprise there, but I really like Marion Cotillard.  She is one sexy beast.  

Anywho I also loved her dresses in the movie.  The whole boyish, drop waist dress is really hard to pull off, especially if you have a waist, but this blogger succeeded.

Be better than The Gap

I just saw Crazy, Stupid, Love.... sooo good.  My favorite quote would have to be the gap line, too close to home yet so true.  This is one of those great heartwarming movies and makes you leave the movie theater feeling like you're floating on a realistic amount of clouds, like Little Miss Sunshine or The Kids are Alright.  And this movie not only affirms the belief that love is worth fighting for (or whatever the moral of the movie was), but also that Ryan Gosling is the most attractive man to walk the earth.  Oh and I would like to be Emma Stone, love her.

Here's to you Mrs. Robinson

Movie stills from The Graduate.

Le temps passait

I love this short film, Faubourg Saint-Denis, from Paris, Je T'aime.

Ooh hot damn...

I am finally home for Thanksgiving weekend!! My fam and I watched The Proposal again.... so funny.  So I would say with being home with my favorite people, stuffing my face with food, and obsessing over Ryan Reynold's gorgeous face, its been a pretty good weekend :)

A girl can't read that sort of thing without her lipstick

I forgot how much I utterly love this movie.

The Kids Are Alright

Most of the time I leave the movie theater tired and grumpy.  There are few movies where I leave happier and just down right content, like 500 Days of Summer or Little Miss Sunshine.  The Kids Are All Right was definitely one of those movies.  I haven't seen a movie this honest in a long time.  You have got to see it!

Ondine

Today Watson from Brilliant Blue Baubles, Lauren from scribble. pen. ink., and I saw Ondine.  I recommend you see it!  We all left wishing we lived in Ireland.  Currently I am a little obsessed with the movie's beautiful scenery and music by Sigur Rós. Check out one of their music videos here.

My oh my!

I watched Untamed Heart this weekend. I definitely recommend it if you want to watch a weepy romance. I love this scene near the beginning; she is so cute, and I'm a fan of this song. Oh, the 90s!

Atonement

"I love you. I'll wait for you. Come back. Come back to me."

"Dearest Cecilia, the story can resume. The one I had been planning on that evening walk. I can become again the man who once crossed the surrey park at dusk, in my best suit, swaggering on the promise of life. The man who, with the clarity of passion, made love to you in the library. The story can resume.

I will return. Find you, love you, marry you and live without shame."

"So, my sister and Robbie were never able to have the time together they both so longed for and deserved. Which ever since I've, ever since I've always felt I prevented. But what sense of hope or satisfaction could a reader derive from an ending like that? So in the book, I wanted to give Robbie and Cecilia what they lost out on in life. I'd like to think this isn't weakness or evasion but a final act of kindness.

I gave them their happiness."