nostomania
noun • /nos-tuh-MAY-nee-uh, -mayn-yuh/ • (obsolete, rare) overwhelming homesickness, or desire to return to familiar places.
From Greek νόστος (nostos, “a return home”) + mania.
Whither the wind blows.
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I just saw (500) Days of Summer again, and it was even better the second time. I love love love love it, and Zooey Deschanel, and everyone else is just awesome. And, I won’t spoil it I hope to say that in one scene people dance to this song and it’s simply the best thing ever in the whole world. It’s exactly what musicals assume — that people just start singing and dancing in their everyday life — except it really conveys that feeling in a way that no other narrative technique really could.
It’s actually a pretty out-there movie, narrative-wise, at least as much so as, say, Memento. The trick with fooling with structure in that way is to only do it when it really 100% fits the story; in Memento, for example, the structure is as it is because it reflects the protagonist’s understanding of the world and mindset. Similarly with this, since it’s so tight on Tom’s POV. And, relationships live on after they end in memories, and those memories aren’t linear but skip around: one great moment to the next, or one sucky moment to the next.
The Kennedy brothers Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), John F. Kennedy (1917 – 1963) and Edward “Ted” Kennedy (1932 – 2009) in Palm Beach, Florida, 1957
So sad. I had a poster in college of the three of them in Hyannisport in 1963, I think. It was black and white, and there was a sort of air of tragedy about the whole thing. I really wished he’d at least been able to see some movement on health care.
Not a fan of the hot nights we’re having.
Don’t even get me started. All my nights are hot, and in precisely the wrong way, too.
This is where I've been working »
(to the extent that I’ve been working)
Jittery Joe’s Roasting Company. Tin-roofed warehouse with random smattering of chairs and tables, and bikes hanging and standing, to be sold. Also bike frames, bike tires, etc. And half of it is filled with roasting machinery. Smells great.
sweet calendar that keeps time based on how much ink has been absorbed into a strip of absorbant paper. the strip of paper is shaped into the numbers of the calendar, and is porous enough to move the ink through each number on the proper day. I really love how this gives a more observable & tangible feeling of time passing.
batrachomyomachian
adjective • petty (of a quarrel)From Ancient Greek βάτραχος (batrakos, “frog”) + μῦς (moos, “mouse”) + μάχη (makei, “battle”), from the comedy Batrachomyomachia.
"Apetite"
Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen
Another of my go-to bands that is secretly Brittish, like Belle and Sebastian. Am I just unable to hear accents in sung vocals? Or are they trying to minimize their accent?
Calamity is just part of the equation here, as if God gave California so much glamour and grandeur and great weather that he had to throw in some apocalyptic menace to provide a little balance. Earthquakes, say. Or Sacramento.”
