Intermission.

Today I went to the theatre alone for the first time. When I got to the cinema there was a line of elderly people waiting to buy tickets. I was the only person so it seemed that was under sixty. There are three possible reasons for this:

1. it was ten o'clock on a Monday morning.

2. they were screening Cleopatra, 1963.

and 3. Seniors get ridiculous discounts.

So the movie was brilliant and it wasn't as lonesome as I thought.

It is said that although Cleopatra is regarded as one of the most beautiful women in history she actually looked like a man. Elizabeth Taylor however lives up the the prior legend, as the most beautiful woman on earth. Stunning.

image via letterstodeadpeople.tumblr.

Forget about it.

Forrgetaboutitt.

My eyes hurt its so beautiful.

Here is a documentary series by Fred & Nick for Mumford & Sons. Its probably the best documentary I've seen since the documentary on sliced bread. I love the part in India where they swap clothes.

1. Mumford & Sons.

2. My Father's band circa 1975.

When I found the first photo it reminded me of my stylin' father, centre in the caramel flares, nice.

Brain and roses.

"This film is not of today or of the future.

It tells of no place.

It serves no tendency, party or class.

It has a moral that grows on the pillar of understanding:

'The mediator between brain and muscle must be heart'"

-Thea Bon Harbou from Metropolis.

Image via inconfidencias intimas.

Throw your heart out in front of you.

Cemetery Junction, what a fantastic film.

"Throw your heart out in front of you and run ahead to catch it."

Pastel marvel.

Oh Marie Antoinette.

I want to be forgotten

I don't want to be reminded.

You say "Please don't make this harder."

No, I won't yet.

I want to be beside her

She wanna be admired

...

You don't miss me I know.

Oh Tennessee, what did you write?

I come together in the middle of the night.

Oh, that's an ending I can't write, 'cause

I've got you to let me down.

-The Strokes, What Ever Happened.

On Wednesday I watched 'The Young Victoria' for the second time, and fell in love all over again. Today I watched 'Marie Antoinette' for the forth time and fell in love all over again. Now I want to watch 'Elizabeth' for the third time and once again, fall in love. It may be considered a waste of time, watching things that I have seen numerous times, but I like it. It doesn't seem like a waste to me, because it is, love. It is History, though slightly altered. And that I like.

By the sea.

I first saw Todd McMillan's 'By The Sea' in 2007 at the MCA with Zee. I loved it but I forgot to check the name of the artist. For the months proceeding I tried to make my own version but I realised that mini DV tapes only went for about forty minutes in comparison to the twelve hours that Mr McMillan spent standing still in the bitter cold.

So three years later [three weeks ago to be exact] I was shown a copy of 'I Love You I Want You I Need You' and it all clicked.

Todd McMillan creates amazing time-based videos. He is definitely one of my favourite artists.

'Something I'm quite interested in is lampooning what you love, and in a way I really love that sense of romanticism and that sense of the bigness and the wonder. But in the same way I can't really see it having a real thing in my life, so it's a way of sort of making fun, but also paying homage as well to an idea that I find quite beautiful...'

I couldn't find any of his actual works online but I did find this, I think it is Todd McMillan but if not it is enjoyable anyway.

Still Photograph from 'By The Sea'.

Alice.

Today, after my first trial exam for English, I retired to my abode and watched Tim Burton's 'Alice In Wonderland'. It was marvellous. I had expected it to be beautiful and well captured but I thought that the story may have been a little lacking. I was entirely wrong. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are incredible. I simply must add it to my collection. When I grow up and build my Grand Design in a nice country field I shall have to have a library with an adjoining film-library. If it ever happens, it will be grand.

Breakfast.

Via I heart love.

Kung fu saturday nights.

Last night I watched Kung Fu Hustle with my Mumma and Pappa. Even though I had seen it twice before I couldn't help but find it absolutely brilliant. A great film indeed.

Suitcase brown.

This afternoon I watched Jane Campion's film, 'Bright Star'. Oh boy! It was beautiful.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art —
Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night
And watching, with eternal lids apart,
Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,
The moving waters at their priestlike task
Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,
Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask
Of snow upon the mountains and the moors —
No — yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,
Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,
To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,
Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,
Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,
And so live ever — or else swoon to death

-John Keats, 'Bright Star, Would I Were As Steadfast As Thou Art'

Expectation met.

'500 Days of Summer' was nothing short of my expectations. Brilliant.

500 Days of Summer.

I'm really looking forward to seeing '500 Days of Summer'.

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fridays.

It's Friday afternoon and I just finished watching 'North & South' with my Mammy. It left me feeling blissful and thinking about all those beautiful love stories like Anne and Gilbert, Lizzy and Mr. Darcy, Emma and Mr. Knightley, and dare I say Bella and Edward. Oh the Glory!

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Glorious.

'A Cinderella Story' is probably one of my favorite movies of all time. Enough said.

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