a) I've acquired this horrible habit of dipping my Snyder's of Hanover mini pretzels in peanut butter and then finishing half of both the bag of pretzels and the jar of peanut butter in a day. Oh when are the dining halls going to reopen! I don't know how to fend for myself!
b) I went to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) yesterday with Veronica and saw, of all things, Magritte's The Treachery of Images. Oh, you know the one. It was not a pipe. But the best moment of the day was when Veronica asked me what the Ritz Carlton was. "Is it a type of cracker?"
c) I could have spent thousands in Santa Monica today. Suddenly everything is gorgeous. Restricted myself to the very cheap (ie. Forever 21 and H&M) and still spent hundreds. Am now the best dressed person in the world.
d) Huimin and Shu, are you guys in Ireland now?? Or what??
And now, DHFF, continued:
2) Antichrist, 2009, directed by Lars von Trier
Oh my god. Quite beautiful to look at and quite fucking weird to experience. Faint of heart, stay away.
3) Jules et Jim, 1962, directed by François Truffaut
Ah, the French New Wave. It was immediately obvious that Wes Anderson loves this movie. I, on the other hand, was somehow left rather cold.
4) The Headless Woman, 2008, directed by Lucrecia Martel
This was an Argentinian movie that's supposed to be really good. Obviously I didn't pay enough attention (was distracted by packing for Solvang) because I didn't really get it. For shame.
5) In The Mood for Love, 2000, directed by Wong Kar Wai
So lovely. Watching it felt something like how napping feels in this warm, breezy LA weather - deeply intoxicating, luxuriant, enveloping, unusually tactile and supremely satisfying. Now I have to see the prequel and the sequel.
6) The Birds, 1963, directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Love, love, love Hitchcock, although I want to say this isn't one of my favourites.
7) Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, 2009, directed by John Krasinski
Argh. There should be a rule against giving boring movies interesting titles.
Reflection: It's been pretty hit and miss so far! Next up: The cool hand of Paul Newman.
we're going to wales on sunday! im currently struggling to finish my 3 assessed essays before then ):
ReplyDeletei want to watch The Birds! i drove past his house in Bev Hills he had those bird statues on the posts of his gate
Oooh I want to see that movie Brief interviews with hideous men haha and Cool Hand Luke is a sad movie- Paul Newman is hot as usual =) with his cool blue eyes. And Wales beckons on Sunday!! I can't wait to see the SEA and visit castles and I think just standing in the middle of a field or beach or by a cliff/mountain/river will make me so so very happy
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