A career

I decided I want a job that involves movies, design, writing, and interacting with great people.

Please and thank you.

Wasp

Kickpleat recommended this short film yesterday. It is amazing. I sat rapt from the opening frames. Available on youtube in three parts (8 minutes each), it is absolutely a masterpiece of mood and tension.

10/10.

Ange goes high fashion.

Guest blogging over at Fashionable People, Questionable Things. My first post (on fashion uniforms) is up today. Yay.

Things I took out of the library today:

Born Standing Up / Steve Martin
The Gospel of Food / Barry Glassner
The Lovvers LP / AIDS Wolf
The Song Is You / Arthur Phillips
You Can Pick Me Up at Peggy's Cove / Brian Doyle (Tiffany's recommendation/ she went and got it off the shelf and handed it to me. We were at Peggy's Cove on Thursday.)

Labyrinth again:

Apparently there is an authorized English language manga sequel to Labyrinth...



Awesome.

Labyrinth

I watched Labyrinth tonight, and as I watched I was struck by two things.

One: Sarah's outfit is almost exactly what I see on 18 year old girls all over campus every day. The sleeves are maybe a little extreme, but aside from that, these girls might be carbon copies.

Two: Jareth the Goblin King was probably my first encounter with sex and danger so intertwined in a character. I'm not sure how old I was the first time I saw the film, but I must have been pretty young, and I'm pretty sure it must have had a major impact on my psyche, romantic and otherwise.

See both here:

Things I love today

The number 9.

Sleep.

Coffee.

Sunshine.

Looking forward to seeing District 9 when I make that happen. (Maybe it should be today, theme day.)

Smoothies.

Wooden boats (went to the maritime museum yesterday with friends from Vancouver - cried at the Halifax Explosion exhibit. Also - Tuesdays are by donation, yay.).

My half-price sunscreen that smells like creamsicle, even though the hornets love it too.

Water.

The library (as per usual).

Scott Pilgrim.

Thinking about space.

Serendipity: I was sitting on a bench, reading the aforementioned Scott Pilgrim, when I came across the word gallivanting, and paused to reflect on the fact that it was spelled differently than I thought it was. As I was staring at the word and thinking about this, the woman sitting next to me said into her cellphone, "Yeah, they're off gallivanting around..." It just made me feel like I was in the right spot.

Cutting off split ends.

Thinking about food.

090909

I love the number 9. Happy 9 day.

Steve McCurry

Explore the gorgeousness that is the Steve McCurry website. He is the photographer who took that uber-famous portrait of the girl in Afghanistan with the eyes. His other work is also amazing - the colours especially. I love the geisha in the subway (?) stairwell.

Aaron Sorkin, how I've missed you

Now that I've run out of Aaron Sorkin era West Wing episodes (I still haven't decided whether I am going to continue on with the series, any thoughts?), I've been left with a void that was once filled with great characters and better than great dialogue.

A movie about Facebook: sounds ridiculous. And probably boring.

Add a screenplay by Mr. Sorkin and I am so in I'm almost out again.

I have no idea when The Social Network will actually get made, and subsequently released. But I am psyched.