December 2009
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“Incomplete and Insecure” - The Avett...
Watchjakeandamir:
Set Up
Dear Jake and Amir:
For a little while, I forgot how much I love you. It won’t happen again.
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leilacohan, copycats, julie911:
Dancing in the...
About Last Night.
You know what kind of night I love? The kind that starts so innocuously with a “Want to grab a beer?” text and then spirals into a giant game of sardines, one friend pulling you along into the next gathering which subsequently runs into and absorbs other friends until you’re this Lawrence Kasdan directed cast of men and women debating the flaws and assets of guys in their 30’s, girls in their 20’s...
Skipping yoga
To hash through life over dark beer with Amber. Today, this seems a sensible trade.
On Mid-Winter Wars
He calls back late last night, finds you hiding from the cold under ten pounds of blankets. Still awake. He feeds you lines from the old “30 Rock” episodes you sent him in a brief non-sequitor and makes you laugh harder than anyone which makes him laugh harder and you like the surprise, the pleasure in that laugh. He calls to apologize if he handled your comments too lightly earlier. He knows...
However do you want me, however do you need me?
When I was in seventh grade, we took a school trip north to the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center.
Lots of rather monumental things happened that week:
I started “going with” my First Boyfriend (A doctor’s son who may or may not now be involved with the South American drug cartel. Didn’t see that one coming…).
Learned to snowshoe and scale the climbing...
On an open letter to Zooey Deschanel
sparo:
Hello.
How are you?
Would you like to go out to dinner with me, Zooey? That’s really all I want. I know most guys probably ask you to marry them or show them risqué photographs of yourself but I’m just a simple guy that wants to have nice conversation over dinner. I mean if you wanted to marry me or show me risqué photographs of yourself I wouldn’t argue but for now let’s just do...
“I probably didn’t need to start those noodles yet. But I am drunk. ...”
– After a long snowshoeing trek, stopping for a couple of beers seemed like a good idea. In retrospect, expecting my lightweight mom to help me cook following this consumption was probably unrealistic.
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“Rainbow Connection” - Willie Nelson
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Christmas Week: National Lampoon's Christmas...
In which I write about Christmas, Chevy Chase and coming to terms with my father. You always get more than you pay for here at Filmosophy! Happy Holidays!!
filmosophy:
GETTING THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS RIGHT
by Erica U.
All month I’ve been contemplating which holiday movie I wanted to write about and I’m embarrassed to tell you how much time I spent Googling “obscure Christmas film.”
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“My dad left the theater. My mom followed. Peter staggered out. I was puddled on...”
– filmosophy.: Christmas Week: Gran Torino (2008) by Tess Lynch
I love: This movie, Christmas and anything even slightly relating to Christmas, and Tess Lynch. It’s like a holiday hat trick. Go read it.
I don't want you to judge me but,
I’m driving in to work - late - eating a sausage, egg and cheese McGriddle and sincerely enjoying Miley Cyrus on the radio.
Note: it gets worse! I had to spell check McGriddle by digging out the crumpled empty wrapper. Apparently, I feel less pressure to be the best version of myself during the holidays…
2 feet for Christmas? You better watch out →
stuffaboutminneapolis:
A storm likely to hit on Wednesday could make this “the snowiest Christmas … in 30 years” - and be a pain for last-minute travelers.
A large winter storm with the potential to dump a foot or more of snow is grinding its way toward Minnesota, and its arrival is likely to mess up travel plans, complicate last-minute errands and ensure a very white Christmas.
“This is...
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“I think about how insane politics has become and lament knowing what I know...”
– thehipsterdiet: So I wake up
I liked this more than a button conveys.
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“The Lower East Side will always feel like an inherently sad place to me, like...”
– Life is hard. Here is someone.
“There is a certain kind of film that, if done well, I am bound to fall for each...”
– filmosophy.: Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
So well put, Chad. Nice piece and an interesting choice!
“The look that passed between them held such awful sadness. If either of the two...”
– “The Lacuna” - Barbara Kingsolver
In which I am a Man-Girl
So we have our holiday party tonight and I’m planning to go straight from work. And this morning, like any sensible farmer, here is what I decide: It seems like a lot of work to completely change clothes beforehand. Instead, why don’t I wear half of my party outfit to the office and just cover it with daytime clothes? Brilliant, right? So on go the tights, on goes the awkwardly heavy makeup,...
The State of Things in the North:
My bedroom has transformed into a frozen garden these days. Growing ice vines on the bare windows and preserving me like root vegetables in my bed. Last night I scavenged the cupboards for an old heating pad and curved it behind my cold back. Pretended that it was the heat of flesh and blood; Maybe yours.
“This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an...”
– “All Quiet on the Western Front” - Erich Maria Remarque
Had dinner with friends last night and we got to talking about war. And later, it occurred to me with a little shame how inadequate my opinions are, despite the authority with which they are served. Or maybe, how unentitled we civilians...
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Even if all the sidewalks are trampled in to ice.
Took the back roads home from some old house tonight, full of stubborn memories and two people I love. Left smiling at their Swedish highchair and organic oreos, their heartbreaking purposefulness. Their loyalty.
Drove in through the edges of the city, through Northeast with its own ghosts. Its tired luggage store, its neon pool hall, its foreclosure-specialty realtor. Figures bundled and...
“I always lose you in the spring. I think you know this. I think you’re the...”
– In Which We’re Our Own Executioners - Home - This Recording
Read this one by Meredith too, while you’re at it. Because it’s heartbreaking and beautiful and hopeful and true. And really, aren’t those four of the very best adjectives?
“It’s late, we’re drunk, still drinking, the two of us, but I...”
– In Which We Wonder If We’re Safe - Home - This Recording
I’m discovering more and more frequently that Meredith’s writing knocks me out.
well this is a little awkward... →
Hearing that one of the women Tumblrs you most respect / photographers you most admire thinks you’re ok is like discovering that the boy you liked in 8th grade wants to hold your hand at hockey games too. I am both happy and sweaty palmed. Thanks, Lauren – the crush is all mine.
#Neuroses. Or: Why reading is better than dating.
So I was talking to my delightful friend Sal this morning, who married her college sweetheart and is pregnant with her third child and is generally in as different a station of life from me as one could possibly be. Which makes her a good, easily entertained audience for tales of my rusty / awkward-since-the-dawn-of-mankind dating style. And eventually our conversation came to this: Why can’t I...
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Things I Want to Say - by eireann lorsung
Your brother lost his virginity at seventeen. The dark upstairs, your parents asleep in one room: he was there, where passing cars made movies out of light and his walls - alone with a girl, some girl, who knows which girl it was. I know you were in the same house, another girl, two years older, same late kind of night. All confidences in the nightlight’s circle. I don’t know what it’s like...
SUDDEN MANHATTAN, Meaghan O'Connell
poetry365:
“You should be in love,” he tells me
We look at each other always with guilt and turn away.
(What revelations I suffer at your hands).
Every time I cross the street I glance sidelong into traffic hoping you are in all of the cars.
And for days after people say hello Behind me on the sidewalk And my heart stops.
I brighten the way only a man who loved me would...
“If only it was that easy.
*Claps Hands Twice*
Nothing.
The focus required...”
– thehipsterdiet: All the Things You Can’t Choose
Funny. Just today I was thinking about how you should be writing more. Good timing, W. And thanks.
He Said/She Said: When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Here are my thoughts – the She Said – on “When Harry Met Sally.” As usual they are rambly and far more focused on Erica’s Feelings About Relationships And The World than the actual movie. One of these days, Filmosophy is going to figure this out and kick me off the site. Until then, read on! PS – I DO HAVE male friends, Chad. Lots of them – the vast majority of whom I promise I...
“When Harry Met Sally is a film both of its time and beyond it. Each moment seems...”
– filmosophy.: He Said/She Said: When Harry Met Sally (1989)
Marginal Gloss does a really thoughtful He Said to my forthcoming She Said. Why did I agree to be paired with someone smart and capable of detached reason?…
