November 2010
133 posts
“It’s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what’s changed, is you.”
—The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via kari-shma)
“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea.”
— honore de balzac
“We become aware of the void as we fill it.”
—antonio porchia
“The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal.”
— Astrid Alauda
“Who depends on another man’s table often dines late.”
—john ray
Listen
Jerry Goldsmith - Love Theme from Chinatown (via Chinatown: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
“The score to Chinatown features a highly unorthodox instrumental lineup: one trumpet, four pianos, four harps, two percussionists and a string section. At first glance that looks like the sort of ensemble from which you’d expect to hear a piece of avant-garde classical music, and some parts of the Chinatown score are startlingly modern-sounding. But the film opens with an elegiac yet sensuous trumpet solo that floats freely over a cushion of tolling harps and brooding strings, a “love theme” that evokes the doomed romance of Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, the film’s stars.
Uan Rasey, the celebrated Hollywood studio trumpeter heard on the soundtrack, later told an interviewer that Arthur Morton, Goldsmith’s arranger, ‘told me to play it sexy—but like it’s not good sex!’”
-Terry Teachout, “The Perfect Film Score”, Wall Street Journal (via)
“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
—james thurber
You are what you believe.
Pep Talk: When someone insults you, it is your job not to believe them. Some bullshit comment could potentially derail you if you let it in, so do not. You are good and kind. You are beautiful and smart. You are what you are, not what some asshole says you are.
Today remind yourself: I am what I believe.
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
— Henry David Thoreau
Only The Young
Brandon Flowers
brandon flowers,only the young.
“Because of our routines we forget that life is an ongoing adventure.”
—Maya Angelou
“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
—Michael Phelps
