Let's Talk About Love

As its the month of love... I thought we could do a post about love to hopefully warm your hearts in this chilly winter season that February brings. 

First off... I have never seen any of the previous movies, but really want to see Before Midnight. It's gotten rave reviews from after its initial showings at the Sundance Film Festival, and early thoughts for Julie Deply to get an Academy Award as best actress for her performance. What other romantic movies do you guys love? Here are some of mine

The English Patient

Blue Valentine

P.S I Love You

Pride & Prejudice

(And though they're not strictly romance)

Howl's Moving Castle and Princess Mononoke

Secondly... here's a blog devoted to the stories and woes of love with many a heart-melting images. Its called le love

Wow! Isn't this crazy!?

Thirdly...Last week a lovely blog called A CUP OF JO had a post on how couples met. I honestly spent a good hour reading all of the comments as they warmed my heart so much. Here's the LINK and maybe add your own? Happy heart warming!

Well I can think of somebody who pertains to this, though I didn't strictly "lose" him. The last sentence is very fitting however.

Have you guys seen Moonrise Kingdom ?

      Its an adorable tale of young love. Very whimsical and visually stunning. Great soundtrack too. 

And lastly... something I think everyone will enjoy. A beautiful short film to lift everyone's spirits about love. Enjoy! 

(Its also Oscar-nominated!)     

The Months

Last year I came across a blog with short phrases and sentences of beautifully strung together words that speak to the most personal, private part of your soul. They are from the blog titled I Wrote This For You, which says in its subtext, 

            "I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everything else who reads it, doesn't get it. They may think they get it, but they don't. This the sign you've been looking for. You were meant to read these words." 

So, here is one of my favorite passages titled The Children of Time;

"January has issues with her mother, February is always talking about things he wants to do while March does them, April eats sweets and May pays for them, June is the oldest but not the wisest and July always has an opinion of everything. August never stops trying to do the right thing, even if he doesn't always know what that is. September once saw something so sad, she never stopped crying. October holds the lift for anyone, vice-presidents and street sweepers alike (for his memory, not for theirs) and November makes fun of him for this. December is tired but always hopeful. He has never once stopped believing. 

Monday's obviously as bastard, quite literally as Dad can't remember what or who he was doing. Tuesday's temperamental but ok as long as you stay on her good side. Wednesday doesn't say much and Thursday sometimes hums just to break the silence. They're in love. Friday's always wasted and she and Saturday hold each other tightly until their delirium fades.

But Sunday, Sunday knows she's the end. But she closes her eyes, and she pretends with all the strength in her tiny heart that really, she's the dawn"

but the hippo didn't want to go to heaven...

What did we do in french class last Friday you ask? We watched, literally, the cutest little French girl on Youtube tell a story that gets rather dark, rather fast. 



My favorite part is around 1:50 when she makes that frown-y face asking "how do you say when you protect yourself?" ADORABLE.

In Search of Your Dream

"My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer", the boy told the alchemist, one night as they looked up at the moonless sky."
   "Tell you heart that the fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams."

That Bitch Sandy

My heart and best wishes go out to everyone who is dealing with the aftermath of Sandy's destruction. 
Here is a time-lapse video of NYC during the torrents of rain, including the black-out. And man, New York City must be so erie plunged into darkness. 



HOOLLYY. The city was lit up and then BOOM. Darkness. And then it was interesting to see the car lights zoom across the city, most likely emergency vehichles, and the following morning's flashes of sun against the skyscrapers.

Brooklyn- it looks like the apocolypse

Ground Zero

Apparently, the taxi driver was pulled out safely by a doorman at 51st and FDR drive and this photo was taken just afterwards around 9pm. 

The NY Times has a montage of submitted photos of the destruction here

Bond Shoots Lincoln!

Oh, very good, poster paster. I love it. 

P.S, there some very funny comments back on the original site NYmag

Color this World

Hope this added a bit of happiness to your day!