Sincerely, Molly

reverse-shot: The cinema is home to any number of legendary...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:30:07 -0400

The cinema is home to any number of legendary asses: Bardot, Balthazar, Brett Ratner … and that’s just a sample of the Bs. Filmmakers have used them to a wide variety of ends, most often to tease, tempt, or titillate, but Sofia Coppola uses Scarlett Johansson’s as a cry for help. Her script begins: “The back of a GIRL in pink underwear, she leans at a big window, looking out over Tokyo.” The writing is lucid and spare, but the image, as it appears in the finished film, offers even less information—most critically, the curtain on that big window is pulled closed. The unmistakable sight of Tokyo blinking in the distance might have normalized the frame, deflating the image of its mystery and reducing its components to their most blunt interpretations—that’s Tokyo, that’s a crisp hotel bed, that’s a privileged white ass. Effectively, surrounding that totemic butt with detail would have solved it, which is a tactic counter to the film’s most basic approach to the inner lives of its characters and the rare beauty of the connection they share. But Coppola opts for obfuscation—the girl could be anywhere, but to know her is to learn why she isn’t.

nevver: The Naked City

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:58:17 -0400

nevver:

The Naked City

“Oh, and when you meet Dame Judi Dench, please introduce...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 12:08:01 -0500

“Oh, and when you meet Dame Judi Dench, please introduce me. Before
that, use all your energy for your art.”

- Laura Winters via email

"13. Apparently, there’s a battle between Brooklyn and Portland for the hippest place in the..."

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:54:21 -0500

“

13. Apparently, there’s a battle between Brooklyn and Portland for the hippest place in the country, what are your thoughts?

About this, I have only one thought: the amount of fuck I do not give about such battles is so gigantic it cannot be measured.

”

- http://www.mourninggoats.blogspot.ca/2013/02/47-cheryl-strayed.html

bless Cheryl Strayed’s heart.

nevver: I love you

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 22:33:17 -0500

nevver:

I love you

maggie and milly and molly and may

Thu, 17 Jan 2013 15:21:00 -0500

maggie and milly and molly and may

went down to the beach(to play one day)

and maggie discovered a shell that sang 
so sweetly she couldn't remember her troubles,and

milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;

and molly was chased by a horrible thing 
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and

may came home with a smooth round stone 
as small as a world and as large as alone.

For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) 
it's always ourselves we find in the sea

e e cummings

"It’s all pornography to me, all of life is so visually rich and it all hits me absolutely like flat sheets of hard rain so that the only feeling I trust is the one that comes down in a devastating way."

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:31:51 -0500

"It’s all pornography to me, all of life is so visually rich and it all hits me absolutely like flat sheets of hard rain so that the only feeling I trust is the one that comes down in a devastating way."

"My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and..."

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:58:30 -0500

““My idea of an interesting person is someone who is quite proud of their seemingly abnormal life and turns their disadvantage into a career.””

- ― John Waters, Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste

thebottomfallsout: Sometimes I feel the bonecrushing weight of the universe, and I am overwhelmed...

Sun, 06 Jan 2013 16:51:17 -0500

thebottomfallsout:

Sometimes I feel the bonecrushing weight of the universe, and I am overwhelmed by the concept of time and the existence of love. Other times I eat like four things of Easy Mac and listen to Ke$ha.

#georgiaokeefe #art #fear

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 13:05:21 -0500

#georgiaokeefe #art #fear

this is so beautiful. #dance #photography

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 13:53:06 -0500

this is so beautiful. #dance #photography

howshouldapersonbe: Nylon, August issue “What is it like...

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:32:31 -0500

howshouldapersonbe:

Nylon, August issue

“What is it like if you allow all those parts of yourself to exist in the world”

Book shopping.

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:48:25 -0500

I wandered amongst the books and waited for him. I read all the last lines of every book I picked up in hopes that if I do not know my own fate that they may.

"“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we..."

Sun, 30 Dec 2012 17:31:41 -0500

“

“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the sacrifices we make for our children. It can be romantic, platonic, familial, fleeting, everlasting, conditional, unconditional, imbued with sorrow, stoked by sex, sullied by abuse, amplified by kindness, twisted by betrayal, deepened by time, darkened by difficulty, leavened by generosity, nourished by humor and “loaded with promises and commitments” that we may or may not want or keep.

The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of it.”

”

- ― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING BUT AT LEAST I AM TRYING

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:15:46 -0500

I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I AM DOING BUT AT LEAST I AM TRYING

"On what Toronto really needs for its food scene to become internationally recognized: “Maybe you..."

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:42:40 -0500

“On what Toronto really needs for its food scene to become internationally recognized: “Maybe you just need a good slogan. Maybe you already had it. Hogtown. Hogtown, eh? Fuck your town. And my town. And Funky Town. And Flavourtown for that matter, bitches. I want to go to Hogtown. A magical place, for magical animals, where a pig is always turning slowly, slowly on a spit somewhere close, and the scent of bacon lingers like wildflowers in the air. Where cracklings fall freely from the sky at intermittent intervals, and the women folk rub lardo in their hair.””

- http://www.torontolife.com/daily/daily-dish/tv-diner/2012/12/18/anthony-bourdains-the-layover-toronto/ #toronto #anthonybourdain #foodie

“There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised...

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:24:30 -0500

“There are certain people who do not feel like they were raised by wolves, and they are the ones who make the world tick. They are the ones who keep everything functioning so the rest of us can worry about what sort of person we should be.”
― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?

an addition to the kindness of strangers.

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:59:00 -0400

I received a very descriptive, funny and unusual (maybe even slightly bizarre) email from a woman across the country that I barely know whom I’ve emailed with a few times. She was thanking my boss for her recent attendance at an event. It was such an inventive, bizarre and unique thank you email. I forwarded it to my boss, and then replied to the woman and said, “You’re a very good writer!”

I continued to eat some almonds and flip through my iTunes.

The phone rang five minutes later and it was the woman I had just emailed. She told me that her dad was in the hospital, her mom had recently died, she was late for an important meeting and that my response to her was the equivalent of a hug that she badly needed. She told me that she wanted me to know that I could rest my head on my pillow tonight and be assured that I had turned someone’s day around for the better. She thanked me with the rare tone of complete sincerity.

I was in tears when I hung up the phone. How can someone I don’t know be so kind? How can someone I love so dearly be so cruel?

Yesterday I received a vicious email from a dear friend which made me feel like a terrible person - selfish, arrogant, needy and hypocritical. While my friend’s email was callous and aggressive in its approach and tone, the real reason I felt broken because I feared the truth behind the venom. I couldn’t shake the feeling until this phone call.

This stranger’s simple “thank you” reminded me that I am a good person. Sometimes, maybe I am a bad person. But that is okay.

Thank you are such powerful words when delivered with sincerity.

She may have told me I turned her day around more than I know, but I have a strong feeling it is actually the other way around.

Thank you.

suicideblonde: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey at the Post-Emmys...

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:42:28 -0400

suicideblonde:

Amy Poehler and Tina Fey at the Post-Emmys afterparties in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2011, and 2012

humansofnewyork: “What’s your greatest struggle right...

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:34:28 -0400

humansofnewyork:

“What’s your greatest struggle right now?”

“Just figuring out what I want to do. Cause it ain’t this.”