Petits films

A short film called 6ft. in 7 min.



A film about a prayer plant

Too many nerds in a bundt pan

This was not a night of wearing make up or anything special.

So Cal has such nice trick or treating weather, but there is still too much leftover candy. 

Apparently, sugar no longer makes you hyper, but it must have some jarring effect on body chemistry nonetheless. Why?




Why did "Rollin With the Homies" ever get stuck in my head?

From buzzfeed

Why did my chalkboard calligraphy never look this good when they asked me to write the beer specials on the board?

Why?

Hmmm...

scapeclub.org

A new orange flower

As (runs to the door) I (runs to the door) am (runs to the door!) rapidly doling out all the fruit punch flavored Nerds before starting on the orange ones, I have been searching for a picture of a pimpernel because last weekend I went over to a neighbor's place and ate their crushed Oreo dessert. These neighbors are very relaxed people who were carving pumpkins with friends on the front lawn. We talked about being in bit parts in musicals. (Me: The Sound of Music. Them: The Scarlet Pimpernel.)

Actually, it's orange!
http://austenauthors.net/the-cajun-cheesehead-chronicles-14/the-scarlet-pimpernel
 

They have a pretty black and white cat and told me I can come up and say hi to her whenever I like.
 
The kitty cat's name is Coraline.

Halloweenhalloweenhalloweeencaramel

My oven is gonna have so much fun making this:
 

From realsimple

while my stove slowly sautes some onions in a saucepan!

 http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57610125-93/googles-halloween-doodle-turns-you-into-a-witch/

That google doodle reminded me of an experience I had earlier this week. After waking up in the morning, I watched a film behind my eyelids. I had to half relax/half concentrate for it to happen. It was a short, soundless color film with simple animation. A little dog moved around and interacted with objects or maybe even other animals, but it's hard to remember. After a short time, it faded out, and the next thing I saw was a crudely drawn witch. She sat in front of a TV set. She started to jump up and down and open her mouth, as if screaming (in rage? I had to guess at that because there was no sound.) Then I couldn't keep the film rolling any longer. I opened my eyes. But it intrigued me. Where did that little film come from? It seemed as if it might actually exist somewhere...


Synaesthesia - Colour and Sound Hypnosis animation

Abracadabra, it's Halloween

Last weekend, I found out a fire warden lived at my address about a hundred years ago...

From rockmymakeup

Halloween themed text message of the day:

The orange Nerds are better. Give the punch ones to the kids.

From chronicallyvintage.com

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This sort of drove me crazy a few weeks ago

https://twitter.com/MistressAlexNYC/status/385444525973712896

whatmovie?whatmovieisit?whatwhatwhat? Best guess?

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone movie. Maybe?

Song-heavenly-to-my-inner-6-year-old (and because the magic stuff also seems appropriate for Halloween!)

Uncoverings

Some interesting but slightly confusing news stories about a da Vinci mural have been making it sound as if they've just discovered the room with a mural of mulberry trees, but it's not such a recent discovery...

http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2013/10/lost_da_vinci_mural_found_unde.html

Golden knots, branches, leaves
from discovery.com

"The first major study on Leonardo's fresco was by Luca Beltrami, published in 1902...He interpreted the fresco as both a commemoration of Beatrice d'Este and an exploration of Leonardo's personal interests in nature and interlaced designs."

"In 1981 Martin Kemp provided the first political reading of the iconography in the fresco. He interpreted the Sala delle Asse as a courtly fantasy that commemorated the dynastic union of the Sforza and Este families. The heavily rooted trees represented a personal symbol of the Duke and the gold interlaced rope represented one of Beatrice d'Este's favorite designs."

"The mulberry tree, as a personal impresa of the Duke, was rooted in the already established image of the black African Moor."

~ From Architectural Trees and Moorish Knots...
by Thane Young, Thesis from Spring of 2011

They had already uncovered some roots...

from discovery.com

and now they have found some flowers?

from discovery.com

A few raisons to learn francais

Dega's Four Dancers ~ nga.gov

All that dance terminology

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It's interesting to listen to.

Abdellatif Kechiche

L'Esquive

(Remember watching Games of Love and Chance at The Moorings. Traveling vicariously around the world through cinema...just one of many films available at this wonderful library...)

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It was the langue de plume of Christine.

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Because of the letters written to Benjamin Franklin by all of his good friends in France.

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Just generally....food!

http://onthetable.us/culinaryfrench.shtml

(Seems like a good enough reason to learn just about any vernacular...)

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-25/michael-pollan-joins-cheese-nun-in-crusade-for-real-food.html

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To see if Tartuffe is funnier in the original language. 

Tea Time 2

Tea Time

from iHerb

http://steepster.com/teas/celestial-seasonings/922-tension-tamer

Oh God

Those Darlins – Oh God Lyrics I was a drunk girl in the shower In yet another shit hotel I could have been just anywhere The towel I held Well I was drying off my hair Both my feet and legs were bare My shirt was almost ripped in two That ragged shirt I wear to prove That mom and dad That mom and daddy’s love was true It was a picture that he drew It was the fabric that she made And every hole was one I earned I earned them holes A different city every day I earned them holes A different city every day Well after every toilet seat And every ash tray of a night The gas pump sidewalk sort of days I smell the fumes I smell them every single night It was a drunk and steamy shower You left a message on my phone When I pressed it to my ear I heard you whine Oh god I heard you whine and moan Well as I pressed it to my hear I could hear you whine and moan In a frantic voice you asked What have I done You said oh god what have I done

http://www.unpopularlyrics.com/those-darlins-oh-god-lyrics.html#ixzz2ixNzKMf5assdlj

It's Sunday

The world is all like, b*****s be submissive & sexy or something! Reading NY Times review of Blue is the Warmest Color:

"Mr. Kechiche employs a selective aesthetic that shows Adèle slurping her food (“You’re voracious,” Emma says) but, importantly, does not permit her a similarly sloppy appetite in bed, where the movie’s carefully constructed realism is jettisoned along with bodily excesses and excretions in favor of tasteful, decorous poses. This may be what Ms. Maroh meant when she said the sex scenes were missing lesbians; I’d go further and say they’re missing women of any kind. Adèle’s hunger is contained, prettified, aestheticized."

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"There’s a banality to how a lot of directors represent female bodies and female pleasure, partly because they borrow from the industrial handbook of male-oriented pornography.       

 

In truth, it isn’t sex per se that makes “Blue Is the Warmest Color” problematic; it’s the patriarchal anxieties about sex, female appetite and maternity that leach into its sights and sounds and the way it frames, with scrutinizing closeness, the female body. In the logic of the movie, Adèle’s body is a mystery that needs solving and, for a brief while, it seems as if Emma will help solve it. In “The Second Sex,” Beauvoir wrote that “the erotic experience is one that most poignantly discloses to human beings the ambiguity of their condition; in it they are aware of themselves as flesh and spirit, as the other and as the subject.” This is the ideal, but for Adèle, the erotic experience leads to despair, desperation, isolation. The body betrays her — just like a woman."

From Seeing You Seeing Me...

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Friday night/Saturday morning in the suburbs: The woman upstairs is entertaining a visitor. Loudly. Are they fighting or not? Snippets of conversation make it sound unfriendly but then there is laughter.

Man: I am NOT a WHITE GUY. My last name is GERMAN.
Woman: You are an ASSHOLE.
LOL!

Later they sound something like this:

Man: talking in a very low tone. Makes it sounds like he's reading off a script.
Woman: Ow. Oh. Ah. Auuuuuugh. Oh. Yes. Yes. YES! You're a GOOD BOY. AAAAAAAAAAAAH.

Recounting another interesting development later on:

A: So they were being really loud and she was screaming a lot. And it sounded like her sister stomped over and said "Shut the fuck up!"
B: Nice!

Next Day:

Concerned Father & Husband next door: Did you hear your upstairs neighbor last night? What was going on? We were outside and saw him pushing her up against the railing and she was saying "Ow, ow, you're hurting me."

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Also  'Woman of The Year' In Esquire, Wants To Be A 'Brand'

AAs

"On the Chicken Little aspect: It’s actually awesome..."

~ Addicted to the Apocalypse

Adorable Amusement

Oh, name

Some neighbors just invited me to a little Halloween thing. I could not remember one of their names, so I desperately typed in the other one's name (and I only remembered it because it's the same unusual name as some kid I knew in Seattle.) Well, I didn't turn up my neighbor's name right away, but I accidentally found the kid's name. This kid used to tell me I should stay on a basketball team I left. He also wrote something rather lewd in a yearbook. Now he's a pastor with kids who has rejected his New Age upbringing in favor of Christianity. Of course. I know, I know, I KNOW religion will get me in trouble my whole entire life. I probably should stay in and do homework. No, I will go out and admire jack o'lanterns and eat a scary dessert made of Oreo cookie crumbs! Then I will return and do the homework...

http://blog.showclix.com/family-friendly-halloween-events/

Film to finish

Watched the first half of Samsara.




Interview: The Filmmakers Behind Samsara

http://billcharlesblog.wordpress.com/video/joseph-rodriguez/

Samsara Director and Producer on Globetrotting...

Recent Scenes from North Korea

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/09/recent_scenes_from_north_korea.html

Only In Ghana Does One Get Buried In Style

Not Thoreau's Mommy's Garden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansevieria

Also

http://www.flickr.com/photos/33901600@N00/2183268682/

Choses existent

http://htmlgiant.com/random/twoclosewords-refusal-refusal/

http://htmlgiant.com/random/twoclosewords-refusal-refusal/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baubo

Weaning

Seinfield ~ Kramer and his cane

Today I saw a nurse practitioner. Found out that my immobility over the past 2 months has resulted in weight gain. She made not unkind yet oddly pointed suggestions about obtaining health insurance and seeing a good endocrinologist. Have to decide between Medi-Cal (newly available to more people starting next year) or Obamacare. Also was noticing that it is extremely jarring when flower shops advertise blooms for funerals alongside any sort of sign with exclamation points!!! Dear mind that sees a media world fogged with mind-numbing superficiality, I feel fatigued. That is why I'm going to get these eyes outside to see some nature tomorrow as I wean myself off the cane.

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Meanwhile, the internet tells me about interesting writers.

"I saw that look many, many times at the wedding and it was… hard to take. It crushed whatever shreds of confidence I had mustered. This isn’t in my head. This isn’t poor self-esteem. This is what comes from years of being the fat one in the gorgeous family. I know the look well. For so long I’ve never talked about this. I suppose we should keep our shames to ourselves, but I’m bored with that. Silence hasn’t worked out that well.
Or maybe this is someone else’s shame and I’m just being forced to carry it.
I added salt and pepper and began to stir the sauce, let it simmer. I really dig Italian food." 

http://roxanegay.tumblr.com/post/64215351430/sharp-against-my-thumb

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"It’s amazing how many narratives are driven by the image of a girl’s dead body, isn’t it? Where would network TV drama be without it? Sometimes the frequency, the simplicity, gets under my skin…The girl is usually barely developed as any more important than, say, the person who hands a drink out a fast food window."

Review of The Stud Book at

 http://therumpus.net/2013/10/the-rumpus-interview-with-monica-drake/

musique pour des temps

contemplatingobsequies&drivingthroughwallsofgrief? or
searchingwebforanaffordablenightguardtoforestallbruxism?

depend du moment de la nuit


Stanley Bros. ~ Master's Bouquet



Tori Amos ~ Strange

The kooky religious corner of the internet

http://danoftheday.com/funny-thoughts-on/reincarnation/

http://www.near-death.com/experiences/origen06.html

http://www.beliefnet.com/Faiths/Hinduism/2002/06/I-Have-Lived-Before-The-Reincarnation-Of-Shanti-Devi.aspx?p=1

http://www.adishakti.org/_/reincarnation_in_islam.htm

http://www.alanpeto.com/buddhism/understanding-reincarnation-rebirth/

http://news.yahoo.com/4-times-girl-scouts-demonized-religious-060600697.html

Spider Baby

From fabyoubliss

No Vaping

Doctors recommend smoking 60 years ago...especially if they're camels...

Imagine all the stuff that people say is okay now that will look unbelievably unhealthy in 60 years...

http://www.boredpanda.com/vintage-ads/

Hmmm, two movies

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/film/cannes-2013-like-father-like-son-and-jimmy-p-psychotherapy-of-a-plains-indian

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/oct/20/like-father-like-son-review

 http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/may/18/cannes-2013-jimmy-p-review 

Plus the first thing that came up on youtube for "aria" because hey why not?
  
Mozart's Top 5 Beautiful Arias for Female Voice - #5 Ruhe Sanft

Cool stuff

In the middle of the day, this song/video had to spontaneously insert itself into my head, when that head was preoccupied with other things....

Depeche Mode ~ Halo

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October Evening = hummingbird on phone wire.

From Jeff Sinon Photography

From stitchesofviolet

Pangur Ban

from bandocats.org

"So in peace our task we ply,
Pangur Ban, my cat, and I;
In our arts we find our bliss,
I have mine and he has his." 

~To a scholar and his cat, Pangur Ban

Hail Mary

http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/05/10/what-is-your-states-highest-paid-public-employee/

"For the most part, things in Maryville have returned to normal.

The high school football team is off to its usual dominant start, sporting a 7-0 record following Friday’s 50-10 win over Smithville. The college is preparing for its homecoming festivities, and the A&G Restaurant still fills up quickly on Sundays after church.

Many in town are happy to put the episode behind them, including White, who makes little attempt to mask his opinion of Coleman, a woman he says 'clearly has issues.'

'We did our job,' he says. 'We did it well. It’s unfortunate that they are unhappy.

'I guess they’re just going to have to get over it.'

Getting over it, it turns out, hasn’t proved all that easy.

Since that night in January, Daisy has been in regular therapy. She has been admitted to a Smithville hospital four times and spent 90 days at Missouri Girls Town, a residential facility for struggling teens.

Last May, shortly after returning home from college, Charlie found his sister collapsed in the family’s bathroom, where she had ingested a bottle of depression medication."

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2013/10/12/4549775/nightmare-in-maryville-teens-sexual.html#storylink=cpy

~Nightmare In Maryville by Dugan Arnett

laundry...

Librarians in Fashion

Shrinking Women

Broken Glass Jello

Jane Eyre Baby Lit

http://www.earthrights.net/wg/mod4.html



Mesmerizing...and sort of...lurid?

Finger Limes

How2aMuseTheeIlllll...

http://www.lolbrary.com/post/7408/spidercat-is-not-amused/

grumpycats.com

health. care.

description of symptoms: like a panic attack
a crawling warm burning feeling on the skin
but not a real panic attack because "had a good day"
new medication? therapist is trying to get it
pharmacist is trying to help
decided not to write a letter
frustration vs. anger
two days later a phone survey asked
about women's reproductive health
do you want to be reimbursed
for your minutes
a mysterious $100 payment
applied to a medical bill
art therapy for kids
your card is in the mail
it was my favorite

Entypement

http://seattletimes.com/html/picturethis/2021898213_openairartisjusthistype.html

I am a little confused by the masculine pronoun in the headline...

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http://www.thecarriagereturn.com/

Trees, troubled world

http://fineartamerica.com/featured/father-son-and-holy-spirit-in-a-world-on-fire-edwin-alverio.html

Half of American Births Are Covered By Medicaid
What Chris Brown's Virginity Story Really Says
TV's Strongest Female Characters Share One Stupid Flaw
You Might Not Be Beautiful The Way You Are

Amusements

From Classic Toy Museum

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http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/fantastic-halloween-costume-ideas-for-90s-girls

http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/13-things-one-must-know-about-the-log-lady-of-twin-peaks

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Memories....

http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/sassy-magazines-twin-peaks-fashion-spread-is-genius

BoomBoomBoom (messages!)

So before I went to bed last night, I saw this Gloria Steinem quote.

And then I slept and woke up and went out into the world. In the car, I heard this: http://uprisingradio.org/home/2013/10/07/why-girls-halloween-costumes-are-so-sexualized-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/

And then right after that, the subversive thought of the day was the same Gloria Steinem quote!

Something about that was cheerful.

Halloween is coming! So far, I have been invited to two parties I cannot attend on the East Coast, and nothing on the West Coast. Even though I tend towards a level of introversion, the xx% of my personality that leans towards socializing was always happy to attend a fun Halloween party hosted by others, so I'm a little bit sorry about that. But maybe I shall use the time to bake pumpkiny things, or brood and stare into candles. Or investigate the holiday's pagan origins.

http://www.jasonrhart.com/creepy-weird-halloween-halloween-and-its-origin-with-the-druids/

Evening brought a surprise late birthday present in the mail...homemade music CDS (yay!) & a napkin sketchbook, which will have to contain something very special, undoubtedly.

For fall things I usually tend to ignore: a little comic about football: http://www.lefthandedtoons.com/1519/

Leafy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leaf_morphology.svg

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http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/products/2011-06-10-smithsonian-tree-app_n.htm

On wishlist for future phone that can work with "apps."

Leafsnap

Appealing Bark

18 Trees With Beautiful Bark ~ Mnn.com

Colores

If something is frustrating to me, like for example, if someone I care for is not getting respected enough or is getting made fun of by older people who should (but somehow don't) seem to know better, I wonder, what's to be done? Better to turn the anger into love somehow, probably? Maybe the ones whose behavior looks so idiotic to me should go get a chakra healing? Well, it's a possibility.

From Audio Entrainment

Girls on film & such

Mail, mirror, shmail, shmirror.

"Pop star Annie Lennox has attacked the music industry for peddling “highly styled pornography” and accused some stars of misogyny."

-http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/after-miley-cyrus-sinead-oconnor-2343163#ixzz2gtKmaIqh

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Thanks to the Vodka Cranberry Clooney profile and posts, I watched Taken. (Sort of my kind of action movie?)

Also, several things by Garfunkel & Oates. Including, though not limited to:

This Party Just Took A Turn...
Pregnant Women Are Smug
The Loophole
Self Esteem
Go Kart Racing

From myspace

Matchbox cars

Cute moment of the morning: someone had matchbox cars scattered all over the dashboard of their car. They looked like the older ones from the 80s. Felt like I hadn't seen those in a while...

http://saramorris.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/matchbox-car-molly/

Search interrupted

I was looking for cat birthday stuff, and then all of a sudden the Black Books dude appeared.

http://amybickers.blogspot.com/2012/12/im-nobody.html

(Emily's birthday! must remember in December)

http://amybickers.blogspot.com/search/label/Neil%20deGrasse%20Tyson

Women have no feelings

Americans

Shoes!

http://www.pinterest.com/joeannacardona/so-are-you-saying-theres-something-wrong-with-my-s/