The man who said ‘I’d rather be lucky than good’ saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It’s scary to think so much is out of one’s control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn’t and you lose.
Last week I watched this movie and love it with all my heart.
2011, Finally!! And I am ready to get the most of it. That’s why I decided to share this: As I’ve said before, I am a movie Watcher, last year, I ran a challenge for myself, which consisted on watching 52 new movies, one per week. I used flixter to keep count of it. Sadly, at some point around 35 I lose my count. I am pretty sure I got over 32, but I couldn’t really know.
This year I am doing it again, but now I am also adding books. It will not go as A movie/A book every week, it’s more of a ‘whenever it happens, it will happen’ and since I’m mad like that, I’ll keep a registry here.
On top of the right column you will find two links referring to 52 books in 2011 and 52 movies in 2011, check them constantly as I will be adding more and more.
I you want you can join me on my madness, the only rule I keep (at least for myself, but you don’t have to keep it) is that these have to be new books and movies, I constantly re-read and re-watch movies, but I won’t be posting these, If it were like that I could easily reach over 200 movies.
Wish me luck!
…which mainly consists on the last day, since my birthday is tomorrow (yeeppi!) So let’s see.
That’s it, I guess this is just me documenting my last day as a 24 yr. old, now let’s just wait for that quarter of life crisis to come. I guess this list got really self-centered, but hey… it’s just to remind me life is good, huh?
Love,
Red Shoes Diaries
I sometimes forget to acknowledge it, but I am, blissfully, dazzling, ecstatically in love! My boyfriend is the most fantastic boy I’ve ever been with.
Lately I’ve been a bit emotionally troubled. I got my hands on a copy of Red Shoes Diaries (the movie, not the soft-porn series, I’ll come back to talk about it in the near future) and got even more depressed. It’s been hard. But Last night I got to talk with the boy, and I’m feeling a lot better right now. I sometimes find it a bit hard to react to situations as it’s been years since the last time I was in a deep committed relationship. Sometimes it’s just still plain scary. But I love him, a lot… I sometimes can’t believe we were friends for such a long time without noticing we could be so happy together…
Holy over-exposure, Batman!
Also, this week:
+ I re-watched The Rocky Horror Picture Show, just because even though my boyfriend hates musicals, last week I sounded so excited about it, he was curious. I love him
+ I started working on a video project, I’ve done some interviewing, and yadda yadda.
+ I got my belly button pierced. I’m big into body mods, I already had 10 tattoos and 4 piercings, I’d been thinking about getting this one for a couple of months but chickened out, until now. It came right after one full year since my last tattoo.
+ I watched Resident Evil 4. Mila…
I feel like I’m finally getting over my depression. I don’t know what got me into it to begin with, all I know is that I suddenly felt like going downhill, and I was really scared, but everything seems to be going better right now I still have some issues to solve, but still.
I’ve been thinking a lot, and I shall post again really soon.
Last night I watched this movie named ‘The Joneses’ featuring the ever gorgeous Demi Moore and David Duchovney (Which reminded me I have to look for the movie Red Shoes Diaries) there, they played this really weird family reprising the roles of Mr. and Mrs. Jones, not the best movie really, but not as mindless as I was expecting it to be; I actually loved how they play with the idea of ‘Keeping up with the Joneses‘ an american saying meaning ‘to keep doing or even just appear to be doing as well as your neighbors, economically speaking’ (Ace marketing, ace) as the poster says, it is quite a sharp criticism to the consumerist society; anyway, suddenly I was the in the movie theatre and I found myself remembering my very own Mr. Jones.
A few years ago my friend Charlotte introduced me to this really nice guy whom I liked to call Mr. Jones, he was big into music and big into movies, big enough to put me into shame and make me feel uneducated *in a very polite manner* from time to time, still he’d seen a lot of movies I’d seen and could talk about a lot of my music, his favorite movie was Audition by Miike Takashi, a Movie I’ve never dare to watch entirely, but still own and usually quoted ‘First day of my life’ a song by Bright Eyes that *literally* has the power to bring me to tears. I don’t even remember his name, I think I actually just called him by that the very first times we met. I eventually found out he was crazy over Mr. Jones – Counting Crows and I ended up calling him that.
I don’t really know what happened to him, he was involved in some pretty heavy stuff and was one of those squirrelly guys who never let anything too personal out, we eventually drifted apart, last time I checked he was unhappily married and all that. No kids luckily. Anyway.
Today I woke up with the urge to listen to this song. I’m going to leave it here just to share, I hope you like it.
I was down at the New Amsterdam
staring at this yellow-haired girl
Mr. Jones strikes up a conversation
with this black-haired flamenco dancer
She dances while his father plays guitar
She’s suddenly beautiful
We all want something beautiful
I wish I was beautiful
So come dance this silence down through the morning
Cut Maria! Show me some of them Spanish dances
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me
Help me believe in anything
I want to be someone who believes
Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales
Stare at the beautiful women
“She’s looking at you. Ah, no, no, she’s looking at me.”
Smiling in the bright lights
Coming through in stereo
When everybody loves you, you can never be lonely
I will paint my picture
Paint myself in blue and red and black and gray
All of the beautiful colors are very very meaningful
Grey is my favorite color
I felt so symbolic yesterday
If I knew Picasso
I would buy myself a gray guitar and play
Mr. Jones and me look into the future
Stare at the beautiful women
“She’s looking at you.
Uh, I don’t think so. She’s looking at me.”
Standing in the spotlight
I bought myself a gray guitar
When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely
I want to be a lion
Everybody wants to pass as cats
We all want to be big big stars,
but we got different reasons for that
Believe in me because I don’t believe in anything
and I want to be someone to believe
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