Watched "Once" tonight. Felt it, loved it, understood it, believed in it. Wanted to be in it, please, please? Remake it, invite me, please. I won't make a peep, I promise ( Read more... )

My viewpoint, in telling the history of the United States, is different: that we must not accept the memory of states as our own. Nations are not communities and never have been, The history of any country, presented as the history of a family, conceals fierce conflicts of interest (sometimes exploding, most often repressed) between conquerors and ( Read more... )

this morning i laid my head down on the kitchen table and listened to a song that was sent to me by a friend who knows me well ( Read more... )

"Atonement" was one of those movies that left me curled up in a ball, crying and clinging to Brad in the dark, all night. Maybe that seems a bit excessive, but the threat of loss seemed to be looming over me. How instantly it can happen, how cruel life and war are. The profound ugliness of war... Deeper than that-- if there ever has been pure ( Read more... )

she was right, i love it ( Read more... )

don't persecute! it's a cool idea! (i will stick my tongue out at you if you disagree ( Read more... )

I watched the first half of "I'm Not There" tonight (To Be Continued tomorrow...). This was the movie that came out last year based on "the music and many lives of Bob Dylan." artistic, edgy, black, white, male, female... good. Anyway: Who are we, anyway? We live these multiple lives on multiple layers, coping, living, engaging, with ourselves, ( Read more... )

so you know that feeling when you're tired and your eyes are worn out from another day and you know you need to sleep, 'cause tomorrow is going to be kind of important and kind of long and you're not sure what to do or how to do the next day's tasks? (that sentence doesn't make sense ( Read more... )

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Saturday afternoon I sat at my kitchen table, silently reviewing the last week and all the ups and downs of every day that sometimes seem like the mountains crashing into the valleys. I wrote a lot, here's a bit ( Read more... )