not 100%

not feeling
100%
after
a late night
bus ride
back from
nyc
sunday.

but i have
a lavendar
bar
from saltie
so it's
not all bad.



feeling quiet
lately.
hope you
will bear
with me...



i always
get
introspective
this time
of year.

photos from
nyc
later
this week.
xo

weekend film

on sundays,
when the weather
cools
and
i don't have
to spend
my weekends
feeding
caterpillars,
grub and i
like to
take walks
around town...

come join us...

we discover
a little park
with an
old fence.



and a VW
with
a mustache!



and
of course
we have
to stop
at our
favorite
place
for lunch.

chanterelle
bruschetta
to start.



and then
zucchini
and
zucchini flower
pizza.



yum.

there's
a new
dessert place
across the street,
so of course
i have
to try
a cupcake.

grub always
gets
chocolate.



i prefer
vanilla.



thanks
for joining
us...

i hope you
have a lovely
weekend!

xo

violet, not purple

purple's
not
my favorite
color
but last year
i made
a conscious
effort
to add
purple
to my closet.

i always
preferred
the word
violet
better
than purple.
i think
i would have
liked
purple
better
if we
called it
violet.

i have
been thinking
about
depression era
movies
lately
(for obvious
reasons)...
the purple rose of cairo
is always
the first
that comes
to mind.
so sad.
so beautiful.

what movies
come
to your mind?

happy
hump-day!
xo

ps
i need
this tee.

film: mon oncle

just a quick
last film
for abby's
beautiful film week.

when i
think
beautiful films
this one
always
comes to mind.



when i first
started dating
grub
he would show me
famous
modern buildings
and
i would
always tease him
and tell him
they
reminded me
of
mon oncle.



i was shocked
that
he had never
seen it,
as it
is a critique
of modernism
and
pokes fun
at modern architecture.
naturally
i made him
see it.



apropos
the building
he had been
working on
had
the mon oncle poster
hanging in it.


(see top right corner)

i first saw it
in my french class
years ago
and
from then on
was obsessed
with
jacques tati.
all
his
movies
are amazing



but
mon oncle
is
my favorite.







i love that it
has almost
no dialogue
and when
people speak
it is usally
drowned out
by sounds
of the city.



it is also
amazing to me
that
a movie made
some time ago
(1958)
rings so
true today
much like
two other
of my favorite movies,
blade runner & brazil.
movies about
the future
that in many ways
were dead on.

besides
all that
it's just
a fun,
feel-good
movie.
we need that
every
now
and then.

watch the trailer.


have a lovely
weekend.
xo

film: kwaidan

(moto, nyc)

. . . . .

another film
for abby's
beautiful film week.


when i was little,
(not sure how little
but when you
remember things
in patches of moments)
my dad piled
all 5 of us kids
into the station wagon,
drove somewhere
that seems far away
(long beach?)
to see a film
called
kwaidan.



all i remember
were bits
and pieces
(i think that
i may have nodded off)
and the story of
hoichi the earless.



it is one
of my clearest
memories
from childhood
and i never forgot
the frightening beauty
of that movie.





years later
i mentioned
this to my siblings
and each
and every one of us
felt the same way.
the imagery
of that
saturday afternoon
movie so long ago
was burned into
each of
our memories.







watch
the trailer.

xo

art & film

what could
be better?

---

art.




my brother
johnny and i
spent a day
in nyc
at MOMA.
he wanted me
to see
the
martin puryear
exhibit
before it closed
(more photos
of that later).



both of us
agreed
that
sometimes
seeing art
is like
going to church
(we were good
catholic kids
at one time).
it was an
incredibly
spiritual experience
to see
puryear's work.
more so
because i was
with
johnny-
someone
who is, at times,
like my twin.



i also
wanted
to see
the
lucian freud
exhibition...

we took
a break
and had
a sundae...



then
we wandered
into
the architecture/design
exhibits
(where
was grub?)...





and
we squealed
at the same
things

---

film.

abby is hosting
a beautiful film week

so here
are 2 films,
to start,
that left
a lasting
impression
on me.

a warning...
i tend
(perhaps it's
the german heritage)
to find
beauty in
what some
may see
as sad
or depressing...

the first film,
tuvalu

i first saw
at the
seattle film fest
a few years ago.
i went with
my brother johnny...
i just
randomly picked it
because it
sounded interesting.
the imagery
in this film
is stunning.



see the
trailer
(although it doesn't
do it justice).

the second film,
tideland,
is one
of those films
that you
just aren't sure
how you feel
about it right away
but it seeps
into you...

tideland
is a terry gilliam film
that did not get
very good reviews
or
much play here
in the US.
it is a new direction
for him and
in some ways
probably
the most
deeply
personal
film he's made...



if you can get
past terry gilliam's
strange
intro
and remember
that it's from
a child's
prespective
you are in
for
an amazing
(albeit a bit creepy)
and
beautiful film.





reminds me of this:



more
thursday.

xo