February 2010
29 posts
Musing:
I think the best hugs have one’s head on the other’s chest. Resting your cheek on someone’s shoulder is a very intimate gesture.
January 2010
27 posts
Here are some things I know: 1. This song has been...
“Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew...”
– Thank you, Julia Rosendale, for reminding me that I love this movie! (Wristcutters: A Love Story, Goran Dukic, 2007)
Henry Joseph Darger, the author of thrilling...
I just finished watching a documentary called “In the Realms of the Unreal”. It was pretty freaking unreal. These are the words I wrote down while it was playing:
colorful, painful, peaceful, beautiful, heartbreaking, heartwarming, compelling, mind-boggling, original, familiar, inspiring, haunting, grandiose, cheeky, whimsical, awesome, complex, innocent, innovative, hellish,...
Do ALL the right things.
“This year, I will work with Congress and our military to finally repeal the law that denies gay Americans the right to serve the country they love because of who they are. It’s the right thing to do.”
-President Barack Obama, The State of the Union, January 27, 2010
“The right to _____ the _____ you love because of who you are. It’s the right thing to do.”
Something I have to remember every single day:
Life is not black and white. Especially, and most practically, in the realm of housekeeping.
If I drink some juice, I have to remind myself to wash the glass immediately. My instinct is to delay doing dishes until it is a necessity. Just before I resort to eating cereal with a serving spoon.
That’s not to say that I allow myself to live like that all the time, but that is where my mind...
I ♥ Gena Rowlands
{#18} Opening Night, John Cassavetes, 1977
Since 12/21:
In 25 pages, I will have read two books:
Transmission by Hari Kunzru
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
If you guys have any book recommendations please send them my way! I have plenty of books I haven’t read yet, but I always like hearing what other people have liked.
I have watched 17 movies that I’ve never seen before (Not all worth it, and I can already see the 100 mark is not...
WatchI wouldn’t normally post a 9 minute video of my crying self, but I think this really says a lot about where I am in my life and the challenges that I am facing due to this project. And since I decided to post something everyday, this is what it’s like today. And considering Hope For Haiti Now is on tonight, I don’t think I’m the only one who has cried today.
1/21/10
Before the clock strikes 12 and it is no longer the 21st, I would like to acknowledge what a great month it has been for me! I have gone through phases where I believed I was growing up and getting over my quirkyquirks and opening up to people, but I would always return to my old self.
This feels different.
I look in the mirror and I see a beautiful person who is really happy with the choices...
Fetch me my address book and fountain pen.
I should write a blog entry every day and a letter/email to at least one person each week to get the feeling of deadlines. Writing without the compulsive need for unending editing.
Someone will be reading my words every day.
I might need to settle occasionally.
I can’t always say everything perfectly. Who can?
I won’t hesitate doing things because my ideas are not worded with...
Golden Girl
A staggering number of women I watched on the Golden Globes tonight were recent recipients of facial plastic surgeries. Women who are beautiful when they wake up in the morning are ruining their faces to look younger.
Except they don’t look younger. The procedures don’t restore their faces to their natural look 10 years ago. They are given a taut, lopsided, pained and puffy visage...
This song is like my musical best friend....
Finally!
I’m going on vacation!
Well…
I’m going on a trip.
Wherein I (or my mother) will drive four hours and stay in a hotel for two nights.
And there will be a funeral betwixt them.
I wish it really was a vacation, but at least I’ll get out of the city for a little while. And I can try to take this month’s roll of film. Not at the funeral. (Is it sick that I even...
I may have splatters of agave nectar on my shirt...
but I cooked myself a beautiful dinner! It was a bit labor intensive, but Giada de Laurentiis’ grilled salmon with citrus salsa verde was really delicious. I’m glad I tried again.
For the recipe go to http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/grilled-salmon-with-citrus-salsa-verde-recipe/index.html
Some things are easy...
Yesterday, I made some trail mix in the midst of the chicken debacle. And it’s really good and simple! I got the recipe on the Food Network show “5 Ingredient Fix”. Here’s the recipe:
Pumpkin Seed Dried Cherry Trail Mix
Recipe courtesy of Claire Robinson, 2009
Cook Time:20 minLevel:EasyServes:about 6 cupsIngredients
2 cups baby pumpkin seeds (pepitas)
1 cup slivered...
Once you pop...
I’ve been having a really hard time with food today.
I haven’t been eating nonstop or spending too much money or making bad choices.
I’ve been cooking.
And it’s been bad.
I went to Fairway today, recipes in hand, ready to really start cooking for myself. The future meals weren’t anything special or particularly complex, but I was looking forward to buying quality...
Show Me Love
The BFI (British Film Institute) created a list of the 50 movies you should see before you turn 14.* In the top 10 is a Swedish film from 1998 by director Lukas Moodysson called Show Me Love {#9 of my 100}. Before I heard about this list, I was recommended by Netflix to rent this movie based its popularity in my neighborhood. I saw that I could watch it instantly on my computer** and I’m so...
Where would I be without Baby-sitters Little... →
Yes yes yes. I might just find myself sitting in Barnes and Noble and reading these cover to cover when they come out. They should definitely think about the second suggestion. Click on the title to see what I’m talking about.
5 tags
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_Muslims
If any of you have the Sundance channel, I am watching the documentary Gay Muslims, and I think you should too. This is astounding. Tragic.
I wish I could see their faces.
The narrator is pretty aggressive with her emphasis on words like mother.
This was on network television in Britain. It must have reached a lot of people who needed to see it. We need to do this in America. We don’t...
1/1/10
I’m really happy with the way I have been eating lately.
That doesn’t mean that I have only been snacking on carrot sticks and rice cakes, and I’m not saying it because I have lost weight (because I haven’t).
I am happy because I have been much more conscious of what and why I’m eating and I’m beginning to really understand the choices I have made about food...
This just in...
I love myself.