Music: Way Too Blue by Nick Drake, Enon's record High Society, or the Postal Service album.
Poetry: Blessing the Boats, by Lucille Clifton, or The Beautiful, by Michelle Tea. These poets couldn't be more different -- Clifton is concentrated and lyrical, and Tea's poems are vast, sprawling colloquial narratives. Both poets motivate me to engage with the world more passionately, which is why I love them.
Movies: The Saddest Music In the World, The Heart of the World, or Careful, by Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin, or the short films of Maya Deren. They're both pretty obscure, but worth seeking out. The Heart of the World is extremely short, and it's probably available on-line somewhere. That should give you a good taste of Maddin's style. (It's weird, but beautiful.)
I'm new to your journal, but I really love your writing, so I think I'll be back soon.
nick drake is absolutely beautiful, i have never heard enon, or either poetry collection or the films, isn't it amazing how artistic inspiration is so endless? i will look for all of them, thank you thank you so much for this comment!! and oh about my writing!!! i hope you do!!
i really need to read waiting for godot again, and i haven't listened to ok computer in so long! there are so many perfect albums that sometimes i forget one for several months, but then it's all the more amazing when it reaches my ears again jackson pollock blows my mind, i did an online search and found a few chuck close self portraits and wasn't sure which one you meant but i couldn't keep my eyes off any of them, they really are wonderful, and i will definitely seek out the film thankyou:)
Song - "Sing,Sing,Sing" by Bright Eyes Album - "And Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out" by Yo La Tengo Book - A Thousand Little Pieces forgot the authors name. Movie - Harold and Maude, The Gift(starring Perry Farrell), Amelie, Place - La Push, Washington (semi-remote, er very remote place on the western seaboard of Washington)
Music always inspires me. Helping people also inspires me.
i've always liked what i've heard of yo la tengo but haven't heard that album, thank you for recommending it, and harold and maude!! i need to watch again, i wrote down a thousand little pieces and the gift, do you live in washington? i may be attending school there next fall! but i am not sure i live in pennsylvania and have never venture westward
i've got a nervous foot on the ramp thankyou for this push :)
HArold and Maude always gets me writing something. Usually, that dreamy damn I love life's simple treasures type tone will surface in my words after watching that flick. I live in Grand Rapids, MI, with my wife Deirdre (she is sisterDeirdre on LJ). I grew up in Seattle and we have a notion to move in that direction when we get our debts settled. The west is totally the best. Pennsylvania has mountains in eye's edge and that something that I really miss here in the flat-drab-as-can-be midwest. Northern Michigan is awesome so I take that back. Anyway, Washington awesome! Yo La Tengo, they're from Hoboken, NJ. I saw them with Deirdre in Madison WI. It was our honeymoon and they were absolutely amazing. They've been around for a while, mostly they rocked hard and indie in the beginning and now they are so very beautifully melancholy and make darkly dreamtime music about everyday life. Good hearted people making good hearted music. Where in the PA are you? Why do I always write response in novel form? "WHAa happened?" Have you heard of
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i hope you don't mind me commenting. I've wanted to comment infinite times but didn't know if i was welcomed. you probably don't know this but you inspire me. the days don't seem complete somehow without your words. when i read you, i feel like life has meaning and i'm urged to do something. and i am glad that you have deleted me. i felt embarassed that you might be reading my incessant and silly fluff. [because some of me are underneath]
anyway, i just wanted to leave you things that inspire me. I was going to say All the real Girls, but you seemed to have already saw it. So I want to recommend 8 Women, a French film with Catherine Deneuve, Happenstance with Audrey Tatou, The Photographer with Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Spirited Away. Also, a place to visit, The Guggenheim Museum in NY, the exhibition Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) ends May 19.
oh wow thank you so, so much, of course i don't mind in the slightest! i can't even convey how much this means to me, i've never thought i inspired anyone and nononono i never thought anything you wrote was silly!!!! oh no! i feel awful that you thought that, my friends' list was getting so long and i couldn't keep up with everyone's journals, and i felt like such a jerk removing anyone at all , but i finally just took off some people who i didn't know or hadn't spoken to really, i saw this comment earlier today and went out and rented happenstance i'm excited to watch it, and i've been meaning to see 8 women and the photographer, catherine denevue and maggie gyllenhaal are fantastic, and i wrote down spirited away, oh i wish i could see the exhibit! i used to attend school right near new york, if i get in the city before the nineteenth i'd really like to see it, i've actually never been to the guggenheim! thank you again so incredibly much for this comment i hope you have an utterly amazing day,night,weekend,etcetera ad infinitum :)
awww... well you do. You make me wanna do something. Anything.
I was always excited to read your latest entry and i would think, "what's she going to write about today?" And i never commented because i felt like there were no words. you always left me in awe.
and it's okay about the friend's list thing. i understand. it was just sudden. sorry for making you feel bad. it's totally okay.
and i'm glad you found Happenstance. let me know how you liked it. I would love to own the movie but i can't find it anywhere, but for rent or online and i don't like to buy things via the internet.
and try to catch the exhibit. it's amazing. The very last piece is mind-blowing.
I don't know you but found your site through Godista's LJ. Anyway, here's a few suggestions: a book: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor a song: Streets of Your Town by Ivy a poem: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats a story: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities by Delmore Schwartz. a film: Cinema Paradiso a place to visit: The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin
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Poetry: Blessing the Boats, by Lucille Clifton, or The Beautiful, by Michelle Tea. These poets couldn't be more different -- Clifton is concentrated and lyrical, and Tea's poems are vast, sprawling colloquial narratives. Both poets motivate me to engage with the world more passionately, which is why I love them.
Movies: The Saddest Music In the World, The Heart of the World, or Careful, by Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin, or the short films of Maya Deren. They're both pretty obscure, but worth seeking out. The Heart of the World is extremely short, and it's probably available on-line somewhere. That should give you a good taste of Maddin's style. (It's weird, but beautiful.)
I'm new to your journal, but I really love your writing, so I think I'll be back soon.
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jackson pollock blows my mind, i did an online search and found a few chuck close self portraits and wasn't sure which one you meant but i couldn't keep my eyes off any of them, they really are wonderful, and i will definitely seek out the film
thankyou:)
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Album - "And Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out" by Yo La Tengo
Book - A Thousand Little Pieces forgot the authors name.
Movie - Harold and Maude, The Gift(starring Perry Farrell), Amelie,
Place - La Push, Washington (semi-remote, er very remote place on the western seaboard of Washington)
Music always inspires me. Helping people also inspires me.
Your ship is already here, just get on.
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i live in pennsylvania and have never venture westward
i've got a nervous foot on the ramp
thankyou for this push
:)
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anyway, i just wanted to leave you things that inspire me. I was going to say All the real Girls, but you seemed to have already saw it. So I want to recommend 8 Women, a French film with Catherine Deneuve, Happenstance with Audrey Tatou, The Photographer with Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Spirited Away. Also, a place to visit, The Guggenheim Museum in NY, the exhibition Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) ends May 19.
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i can't even convey how much this means to me, i've never thought i inspired anyone
and nononono i never thought anything you wrote was silly!!!! oh no! i feel awful that you thought that, my friends' list was getting so long and i couldn't keep up with everyone's journals, and i felt like such a jerk removing anyone at all , but i finally just took off some people who i didn't know or hadn't spoken to really,
i saw this comment earlier today and went out and rented happenstance i'm excited to watch it, and i've been meaning to see 8 women and the photographer, catherine denevue and maggie gyllenhaal are fantastic, and i wrote down spirited away,
oh i wish i could see the exhibit! i used to attend school right near new york, if i get in the city before the nineteenth i'd really like to see it, i've actually never been to the guggenheim!
thank you again so incredibly much for this comment
i hope you have an utterly amazing day,night,weekend,etcetera ad infinitum
:)
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I was always excited to read your latest entry and i would think, "what's she going to write about today?" And i never commented because i felt like there were no words. you always left me in awe.
and it's okay about the friend's list thing. i understand. it was just sudden. sorry for making you feel bad. it's totally okay.
and i'm glad you found Happenstance. let me know how you liked it. I would love to own the movie but i can't find it anywhere, but for rent or online and i don't like to buy things via the internet.
and try to catch the exhibit. it's amazing. The very last piece is mind-blowing.
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Anyway, here's a few suggestions:
a book: If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon McGregor
a song: Streets of Your Town by Ivy
a poem: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W.B. Yeats
a story: In Dreams Begin Responsibilities by Delmore Schwartz.
a film: Cinema Paradiso
a place to visit: The Chester Beatty Library in Dublin
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