I saw Capote tonight, and it was wonderful. The movie itself was long, but the performances, incredible. It brings back everything I loved about In Cold Blood, and amazingly I think Truman and Perry were brought to life in the most honest way they could have been. Perry was vulnerable, pathetic, confused, sympathetic, and dignified...and Truman was ( Read more... )

Perfect rainy day spent drinking tea, doing World Religions homework, and watching Dangerous Liaisons.

Dorian Gray is just delicious{"Well, eighteen, then. And I saw you with him the other night at the opera." She laughed nervously as she spoke, and watched him with her vague forget-me-not eyes. She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, ( Read more... )

A woman who looked like Shelley Duvall in the Shining, all sickly and bug eyed, stared at me from a few feet away for about a half hour at my brother's hockey game. Not so nice.

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Pretty sentence of the day, as read in the TV Guide:
"Star à 17 ans...Romy Schneider quitte l'Autriche et la gloire pour l'amour d'Alain Delon."

oh GOD Im doing my Petit Prince project and its killing me. My moron french teacher has dissected this book so terribly I might have to hurt him. I love this book to death and I cant bear to see him pick it apart any longer, hes destroying such a beautiful read. In other news I saw the Interpreter and it was pretty damn good. I love that African ( Read more... )

Well, complicated things going on for the last...forever, so I completely forgot about this, and I had only just begun. Why not update a little ( Read more... )

I like John McCrae and war vets. Unhealthily so. Maybe this is the reason Im so in lust with this week. Its a somber and reflective holiday, but you have to applaud me for making the best of it. Because why not, really. Plus I get a kick out of the unspoken law that every reporter must begin wearing a poppy at an appropriate time before ( Read more... )

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