I'm giving up on trying to think of a new story idea.  It's just ( Read more... )

Pen-ek Ratanaruang, director of Last Life in the Universe:

"Reading has been very good to me.  Art history made me have to read a lot, so reading became the way I live."

I still don't get it. A haunting profoundly beauitful sadness. I just can't figure out what's there that's affecting me so. It makes me want to try and talk it out with someone, analyze it until there are no words left, but it just isn't happening. Because the only person who could possibly help me make sense of it all, make sense of me, is ( Read more... )

I was bored with the Met today.  Which is saying something ( Read more... )

I just watched Last Life in the Universe and while I was watching the beginning, I was at peace. As the movie progressed, I went with it, understanding feeling out of the element. And the end, there was that sorrowful but sweet sort of longing. And the smoking scene with handcuffs was a quiet reassurance that somehow it would all be okay. Yet ( Read more... )