Make Stuff, Not War

Here's a nice little reminder via etsy.

mmmm... why I do theatre. Also why.

and one day I'm going to write a book and follow these steps
Paris thoughts, dreams.

Let's change for the better, one little baby step at a time.

I'm jam packing this year up with creation!

Peter and Vandy

I watched the movie, Peter and Vandy tonight. I'd never heard of it and enjoyed it for being so exotic (because that's what constitutes something I have never heard of...er...right...) To my taste, at first it was hard to feel like I was being taken care of as a viewer, but it did grew on me after a good 10 minutes. It's a love letter to a relationship, essentially. There's also the "could-work-or-may-not-work-let's-hope-it-works" film making device with the choppy wonky timeline - but in a way it becomes half the fun to figure out where these two are in terms of their association. There's quite a good scene at the end where this editing is very effective. My favourite scene was one in a flower shop where Peter has a gorgeous piece of writing to say that everyone should say to their significant-other someday. If you can find someone who can tell you the words, "I know you" and mean it (and all knowing encompasses) then you've probably found THE one. I think at that point, "I know you" is even more powerful than, "I love you".

Anna, finally, on the subway

I'm watching Out of Africa right now...she just got diagnosed with syphilis...didn't see that one coming...

I thought I'd type up some of my favourite Anna Karenina quotes so far, I got a lot of reading done on the subway today. I can't say what attracts me to these quotes, I seem to like the ideas:

"He went down, trying not to look long at her, as though she were the sun, but he saw her, as one sees the sun, without looking."

Oblonsky: "You have everything before you."
Levin: "And you have everything behind you?"
Oblonsky: "Well, perhaps not, but the future is yours and only the present is mine - and that too only in part."

(talking about women who lead a life of sin) "fallen creatures" < I think I'd like to name something that someday.

"Well you see,' said Oblonsky, 'you are a thoroughly earnest and sincere man. This is your strength and your limitation. You are thoroughly earnest and sincere and you want all life to be earnest and sincere too, but it never is. You despise public service because you think its practice ought to be as single-minded as its aims, but that never happens. You want the activity of every single man always to have an aim, and love and family life always to be one and the same thing. But that doesn't happen either. All the diversity, all the charm, and all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade."

I really like Levin's character. I don't normally immediately and completely relate to a character that I have nothing in common with but I find he thinks and feels as I do. Very irrationally, but with total commitment to his heart and he feels so deeply it consumes him.

It's funny, I remember looking up quotes from this book a while ago, for a project I had to do (obviously before I'd started reading it). I realise now that finding quotes online is ridiculous - it's so subjective - the words one person is going to find 'quotable' are not necessarily the ones others would find so. Half the fun of reading is finding a sentence and getting the feeling that, "Yeah, I know what this means, and I've never read it worded like that anywhere else." Much more visceral.

Icicles/Bicycles

I needs me a bike to ride around and look hip on. It is finally springtime (although I remember ides of March that were much much chillier than nowadays)!

these pics aren't mine...they belong to the world

Yay Sandra!

^Look at her, acting her big heart out.
That's all I'm afraid, it's already Monday.

We Can Work It Out

Life is very short, (and there's no time - like the present!)
I didn't do what I wanted to do today, but it is time to forgive and forget, so we're moving on.

The key to looking fabulous in workout clothes?






Of course it's always fun when you have a significant other joining you and making you look even more hardcore.

I think Jessica Biel (below) is one of the few 'celebrities' (and I'm not a big fan of that word for its negative connotations) whom us simple folks can look to for body image. She's in great shape and she doesn't seem to compromise her health for her career. I don't know about her skills acting-wise...but nobody is perfect :)


























I'm doing well with Mrs. Karenina, several chapters in already, and it's nice because they are so short. I confess I wasn't expecting it to be this easy to read - but then again I guess I had it in my mind that, being a classic (and a translated-from-Russian one at that!) it would've been harder to read. Plus short chapters make me feel like I'm accomplishing more in a short amount of time. When really I'm still reading the same amount of pages that I would normally (but it's the experience that counts!)

Taylor, Tolstoy and Tegan (and Sara)

Oh Lizzy, ever since National Velvet I've wanted to be you
Those eyes! Those brows! How you snarl with your teeth at the men you love (and hate)

^ isn't this one a beaut? Effortless, laid back elegance and grace

(all pics from google)

So I recently watched the 2000 BBC version of Anna Karenina with Helen McCrory and Kevin (McKillmewithhotness) McKidd. I watched mainly for Kevin's sake - but I ended up realising halfway through...why am I watching this without having read the book?

So Today, I will pick Anna up and read through the beast. I've already learned something; apparently it took Tolstoy only 3 months to draft 'tedious, banal Karenina', started in 1873 and then after a hellofalongtime published in 1877. Though I don't blame him. Masterpieces take while I'm sure. I'm just hoping it doesn't take the same amount of time for me to read it. Okay Tolstoy, it's you and me baby.

Lastly, playing through these ears are the ever trendy Tegan and Sara. I've yet to see them live, but this is one of my new obsessions. I'm sensing many a cover of this one will pop up - or most likely already have...




So hot.

Tomorrow, in T-theme, I will make a tuna salad and go to a ten o'clock Vinyasa Yoga class. Something I've never done before! Oh those horizons they are expaaaaannndddiiinnggg!!!