October 2009
Making Love - Rebecca McClanahan
Why make? I used to wonder. Is it something you have to keep on making, like beds or dinner, stir it up
or smooth it down? Sex, I understood, an easy creaking on the upholstered springs of a man you meet in passing.
You have sex, you don’t have to make it, it makes you - rise and fall and rise again, each time, each man, new. But love?
It could be the...
“Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among...”
– W.H. Auden
“The president playfully addresses his wife using her official acronym, “Flotus”...”
– The First Marriage - NYTimes.com (via apsies)
PSA
gloriaj:
Philip Glass Sampler Vol.I is free on Amazon right now.
highly recommended! act quickly!
Halloween Week: Carrie (1976)
Halloween Week rolls on: Tess Lynch on Carrie!
filmosophy:
MEAN GIRLS
by Tess Lynch
When I was in high school, there was a hazing ceremony that was in the final stages of its existence. In it, some senior girls would choose girls from the junior class, lead them down to a beach, blindfold them, and torture/humiliate them (mildly, like making them fellate a banana). Later, I heard of this...
Break
- Dorianne Laux
We put the puzzle together piece by piece, loving how one curved notch fits so sweetly with another. A yellow smudge becomes the brush of a broom, and two blue arms fill in the last of the sky. We patch together porch swings and autumn trees, matching gold to gold. We hold the eyes of deer in our palms, a pair of brown shoes. We do this as the child circles her...
Great Expectations - Jurassic 5
Halloween Week: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie...
Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies AND It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown all on the same day?! You bet. Meredith tackles the Peanuts classic in her latest piece…
filmosophy:
Cartoon characters should celebrate Halloween in the same fashion as humans. If Snoopy wants to be a fighter pilot for a night, that is just fine. Let him fly around and eat candy. If Linus wants to sit in a...
A Secret Life - Stephen Dunn
Why you need to have one is not much more mysterious than why you don’t say what you think at the birth of an ugly baby. Or, you’ve just made love and feel you’d rather have been in a dark booth where you partner was nodding, whispering yes, yes, you’re brilliant. The secret life begins early, is kept alive in you, all that you know a Baptist, say, or some...
“Lately I feel like somebody made a big mess and I’ve got my mop and I’m mopping...”
– President Obama via Reuters (via amazingamanda) (via stevewoolf) (via mikehudack) (via apsies)
Halloween Week: Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies...
It’s quite shameful to me that Filmosophy has somehow existed for over three months now and has never done a piece on Wishmaster 2: Evil Never Dies!
Thankfully, Andy fills in that gaping hole in our site’s credibility today with his excellent essay for Halloween Week…
filmosophy:
…The plot is something like this: a group of art thieves, led by a nose-crinkling...
wolfandfox:
Arthur’s Theme - Christopher Cross
Easy - Justin Vernon
(from 2006, pre-Bon Iver)
...
bethlehems:
(via aseablackwithink)
Cass McCombs...
“I can’t stand the way people say, “When I was a child, I loved elephants,” “When...”
– Wallace Shawn (via suzywire)
Epitaph - Merrit Malloy
When I die Give what’s left of me away To children And old men that wait to die. And if you need to cry, Cry for your brother Walking the street beside you. And when you need me, Put your arms Around anyone And give them What you need to give to me. I want to leave you something, Something better Than words Or sounds. Look for me In the people I’ve known Or loved, And if you cannot...
if you can't sleep/work either, these are entire...
Okay, I’m adding to my previous list, because I’m bored, and I still can’t really believe how awesome this is.
via YouTube:
Jackie Brown
Casino
Mean Streets
Rushmore
Ghost World
Sleeper
The Philadelphia Story
Holiday (1938)
The Lady Eve
Suddenly Last Summer
Batman (1989)
National Lampoon’s Vacation
The Truman Show
The Ice Storm
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
...
eceu:
Bad Diary Days - Pedro the Lion
This is...
Not Waving But Drowning, Stevie Smith
Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning.
Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he’s dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said.
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
...
i have a cold.
i no feel good.
Between the Bars - Elliott Smith
(live in...
Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
I tell you why you should watch Lars and The Real Girl immediately, over at Filmosophy…
filmosophy:
AN ISLAND NEVER CRIES
Lars is a lonely man, as so many of us are. He avoids life as much as humanly possible, avoids interactions and emotions, activities and relationships. He chooses to live a (mostly) solitary life, with days that are neat, predictable, and manageable. He rarely...
i'm going to be posting a LOT of elliott smith...
…and you’re just going to have to deal with it.
copycats:
Waterloo Sunset - Elliott Smith...
