the dork side

A few job prospects! Hoorah! Nothing definite, but the possibility of hope has lifted my spirits. As well as letting myself embrace my monumental dorky & nostalgic tendencies. Now that October is over (the month of the year when I need to feel hopelessly wistful and melancholy) I'm letting myself do what I need to do to feel better in the moment (read: wine, crap movies, sleeping in). Obviously, as I'm unemployed, just had a root canal, and have to have my wisdom teeth out in a couple weeks (fingers crossed this will finally put a stop to eating altogether) I think this is okay...prescriptive even. But, yay...job prospects!!!

This weekend I went to Napa to see my darling friend, Ashley (had lunch at Oxbow Public Market). I had the most amazing Meyer Lemony Lemon cupcake!


I baked a cake for Jimmy; we watched the divine Big Trouble in Little China (which I'm writing a piece on for the film blog) & a truly painful movie from 1990 called, Lisa (which I, embarrassingly, used to watch at sleepovers). Oh, the cruelty of 15!


And I've been listening to the Grateful Dead -American Beauty (a rarity for me, but its reminding me of a beloved and long-lost mixtape from my early undergrad years).

Like I said...this weekend is dorky, low-key and comfortable ♥

i live in a time warp

the lovely bones

I'm obsessed with movies set in the 7os. I know, in reality, the 70s were a pretty creepy, dark time historically speaking - but societally some amazing, beautiful things were happening ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

virgin suicides

slums of beverly hills

the ice storm

dick

dazed & confused


....just to name a few ♥

I'm definitely starting to be obsessed with movies set in the 80s too (Adventureland, 200 Cigarettes, Wet Hot American Summer, Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Son of Rambow, The Squid and the Whale - but its not as acute (yet).

my arrested development

So, okay – I somehow managed to get really good marks on all my mid-terms (an absolute mind-blower) and even baked a bit for Thanksgiving an all...and all this whilst maintaining my composure at the constant barrage of Twilight hype.

Oh. Holy. Jesus.

Yes – I am quite the Pattinson fan (can’t wait for Little Ashes)! He is very talented and yes....he really is so very, very pretty.



- Exhibit A -

But seriously! Seriously. No, seriously.

Let the performers/filmmakers take a breather and for god’s sakes people give your hard earned and thin American dollars to smaller films too!

Or even big films, but just support other things as well (i.e. Milk!!!).

Having said that, I thought the movie was really lovely - I thought Catherine Hardwicke did a great job – obviously, I have a bit of a crush on Billy Burke now – and an even bigger crush on Rob Pattinson - and thought the film felt, I don’t know, oddly personal (well I guess the novels do too). Anyway, I enjoyed it...in spite of its rather silly and angst-y bits. Okay, so yeah.

(I also thought Australia was tremendous, despite most critics’ opinions. I can’t argue with their criticism, I just could not care less – I love Baz Luhrman. period.)

Oh...and I am soooo keen on myself right now because I even found time to see Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul at the Asian Art Museum. It was **humbling**. When you first enter the exhibition space it’s just a bit.... well, underwhelming really, but then, somehow very stealthy & subtly (there’s a slow build) as you meander through the multiple galleries and by the end it absolutely gives you tingles all over. And ridiculously, true to form....I cried.

Now, if I could only sit down and read my Proust (instead of, you know, Perez Hilton) I might somehow and sort of resemble the person I'd like to be.

3 weeks vacation = 3 weeks of Malle

I'm ready to live in the movies for a couple weeks....before the new quarter starts. Tick - tock - tick - tock.