Rebel Without A Cause

 

 

James Dean, how can you be so adorable? 

deep in the woods

The Kids Were Wrong by Memoryhouse

Quite proud of the fact that even though I didn't manage to watch 30 films in a month, I managed to fit in 15. I am going to try and finish this 30 film plan within  2 months though, that's not too bad, is it?

Ah well, here's the update:

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Our Idiot Brother

Manhattan

Melinda + Melinda

The Big Lebowski

Blood Diamond

Norwegian Wood

Hollywood Ending

Fairly excited about Christmas vacation, need a break from school. (You wouldn't guess I actually do any work for it, judging by the amount of time I spend watching films but you'd be surprised) Also quite nervous for my uni interview, the 11th of January. Got a ticket for Laura Marling's show in March. Right now waiting for my friend to show up so we can get ready for the school Christmas gala, which I'm kind of reluctant about...

Time for another mixtape

Sea Oleena &

I've been stressing out lately, really need to relax and spend some me time which is ironic since it feels like it's the only thing I've been doing lately. But to be honest I have been pretty busy with school and I don't even mean only homework. I mean yearbook committee, school play, preparation for Model European Council and until a few days ago Uni applications. I'm happy I just received an email from the Uni I'm applying to, saying that they're ready to arrange an interview but are asking me to wait til February, because they're closing for a long Christmas vacation. I am not liking the idea. I'll be stressing so much til I know that I'm in for sure...Physics is a nightmare, that's it. Anyway, this is boring, I'm sure that my 2 followers are not interested in my school-girl life.

I've been trying to keep up with my 30 Days, 30 Films project, but it's been 12 days and I've only seen 8 films. I don't like making up excuses for myself, but this is my final year of school so I think I can forgive me.

Other than that I've been re-discovering Sea Oleena :

Sea Oleena is this girl from Montreal, who makes this beautiful, pure, dreamy music :)
You should definitely give a listen, you can find her music here. Here's a first taste : 

Sea Oleena – Southbound

Other than that I got my Florence + The Machine ticket for Paradiso for April 1st :D But also my Ben Howard ticket, again Paradiso on the 14th :)

Finally, I should probably mention the films I've seen these past days:

Motorcycle Diaries

Almost Famous

 

Scenes from the Suburbs (short)

The Dreamers

Midnight in Paris

30 Days, 30 Films

I'm starting this for myself. I'll try to keep it up, but it is my last year in school, and pre-Bac's coming up..(mini freak-out). In any case, I've only began 2 days ago, officially. So here we are:

Day 1: The Brothers Bloom

Day 2: La Belle Personne

Day 3: Hanna

I suppose these aren't what you'd call the classics, but hey they were on my list for quite some time. I think when I'm done with this "challenge", I should probably pull my act together and watch 10 classic Hollywood films, then10 must-see Nouvelle Vague films, or something along those lines. But that will all come... I mustn't forget my academic duties!
* cough cough*

Florence + the machine

Florence + the machine are coming to Amsterdam! FINALLY. I cannot begin to describe how ecstatic I am right now. Freaking out already about getting tickets on time. I cannot miss this show. I remember a year ago, I thought she was coming, but I got completely mixed up with the year for some ridiculous, unexplainable reason. I guess I was so thrilled when I read it, I didn't realize I had missed it. In any case, I'm ready for it now! Mwahaha.
And now I stop ranting and post some lovely pictures and music. :)

 

 

 

 

 

Before Sunrise

Is one of the most romantic films I've seen in a long time. Picture this : Most charming Ethan Hawke meets lovely Julie Jelpy (with that adorable French accent and her lucious red lips) on a train to Vienna. Out of the blue he convinces her to get of the train with him, in order to spend the night with him wandering the streets of the capital, waiting for his flight back home. They meet a poet and a fortune teller, they go on the ferris wheel and steal a bottle of wine and listen to records, they discuss life and relationships.
I will not spoil the ending for you, but let me just say that I cannot wait to watch the second film, Before Sunset.

 

“Daydream delusion
Limousine Eyelash
Oh, baby with your pretty face
Drop a tear in my wineglass
Look at those big eyes
See what you mean to me
Sweet cakes and milkshakes
I am a delusion angel
I am a fantasy parade
I want you to know what I think
Don’t want you to guess anymore
You have no idea where I came from
We have no idea where we’re going
Launched in life
Like branches in the river
Flowing downstream
Caught in the current
I’ll carry you. You’ll carry me
That’s how it could be
Don’t you know me?
Don’t you know me by now?”   

                    —  Milkshake Poem, Before Sunrise

                                 

“You are both stars, don’t forget it. When the stars exploded billions of years ago, they formed everything that is this world. Everything we know is stardust. So, don’t forget, you are stardust.”

                                                   

Tintin (Kuifje)

This week I went to see the "Adventures of Tintin :The Secret of the Unicorn" and I will not lie, I was stoked! Couldn't wait to see it. Not even sure why, I never read the comics as a child. I did play the computer game though (90ies kid), and I remember not being able to pass a level with a gorilla having kidnapped this scientist. I just couldn't beat him.
Anyway, back to the film. I really really enjoyed it. The animation was great, I loved the direction as well. Even though I'm not a huge fan of adventure films, this one was pretty good! Never mind the comical element. Man, I was laughing so hard with Captain Haddock. His expressions, his use of alliteration, but also the Scottish accent!

After reading this article *click* on Tintin's sexuality, I couldn't help but notice (or imagine) sexual tension between Tintin and Captain Haddock, in some scenes, especially near the ending. On the one hand, as a child I always imagined Tintin completely asexual. He was just a child in my eyes, he didn't care about crushes or love or whatever, nor with boys nor with girls. On the other hand, it could be possible that Tintin's meant to be having some secret passionate affair with Haddock? I don't know, I don't plan to look into it too much, although I do plan to get a couple of those comic strips in my hands !

 

 

 

(this was in that computer game as well! 

ah, I even remember the bagpipe soundtrack...)

My room

Well this is my room. Kinda messy, but it's all mine :)

Not sure why I'm posting this.

November

 

untitled by hey van on Flickr.

 

Holobody : Sea Oleena and Felix Green

Bob Dylan

Dark Haired Beauties, Alexie Alexeivich Harlamoff

Ode to Autumn

SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness,
Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun;
Conspiring with him how to load and bless
With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;
To bend with apples the moss'd cottage-trees,
And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core;
To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells
With a sweet kernel; to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease;
For Summer has o'erbrimm'd their clammy cells.
Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?
Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find
Thee sitting careless on a granary floor,
Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind;
Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep,
Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook
Spares the next swath and all its twinèd flowers:
And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep
Steady thy laden head across a brook;
Or by a cyder-press, with patient look,
Thou watchest the last oozings, hours by hours.
Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,—
While barrèd clouds bloom the soft-dying day
And touch the stubble-plains with rosy hue;
Then in a wailful choir the small gnats mourn
Among the river-sallows, borne aloft
Or sinking as the light wind lives or dies;
And full-grown lambs loud bleat from hilly bourn;
Hedge-crickets sing; and now with treble soft
The redbreast whistles from a garden-croft;
And gathering swallows twitter in the skies.

Christina Ricci and Johnny Depp in Sleepy Hollow

Mia Wasikowska as Jane Eyre 

Bon Iver