i spend a whole night dreaming, including a lucid dream in which i'm sitting in front of a mirror (typical), saying to people around me, 'i'm dreaming, i know i'm dreaming, let me check the time' (as i remembered this is what you're meant to do, according to richard linklater anyways) and i get up and find a clock, which is a digital one, and it's ( Read more... )

over the last few days we saw first 'three colours blue' with the amazing juliette binoche, then, last night, 'three colours white' with julie delpy and, while we're waiting for 'three colours red' to come, things are slowly sinking in ( Read more... )

i make my first ever gnocchi. and the first ever pesto (well, with walnuts instead of pinenuts as we didn't have any + no parmesan, obviously ( Read more... )

and no, not exclusive to them across the ocean - this had me in stitches, shame you can't actually hear what the shouting is

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last night we finally watch 'dom za vesanje' (time for gypsies) and it's really good to be watching it, especially as, to me, it's inextricably linked to his other gypsies film, 'black cat white cat'. 'time for gypsies' is set in a historical context (of the early problems with human trafficking of roma children and people between yugoslavia and ( Read more... )

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i like it even better than through the scanner darkly, as waking life is so much more familiarly fluid and familiarly collectively conscious and brilliant.

ari thinks i should be running around in flippers.

reason number nine i guess ( Read more... )

this would explain why ming was frantically pawing my head and hair and face and pillow and duvet.

we finally watch 'the slacker'. i don't know which version of the reality we saw last night but it was very beautiful.

our quote of the day is 'yes i live badly, but i don't want to have to work to do it.' (i think).

my muscles are almost not hurting today which is great. i really ought to start taking pictures of them.