12:49 AM
I am laying in my bed with my multi-colored christmas lights on and frank is blowing in the breeze from the fan, and no one is around to facilitate hatred conversations over my nose ring (funny though they may be) and I am not wearing pants. I am thinking of thinking and how much I love my people. the fan is consistent and my thoughts are adrift on it’s waves, gently floating atop the current. I feel so whole at home.
The American artist Frederic Dorr Steele’s portrait of Sherlock Holmes; the most popular of all the portraits of Holmes outside Great Britain. Though dated some twenty-five years after the Paget Sketch (1891), it is intended to show Holmes as a young, and not a middle-aged, man.
May 23rd
8:27 PM
8:27 PM
a post my friends will not like
When I go to Italy next semester I assume I will pick up casually smoking, both because Laura smokes and because I envision Italy being a beautiful land of fabulous people who smoke to bond. I don’t smoke now and thus have been toying with this idea for a while. Today I had some time to kill before going to our friend gathering, and having already done my cigarette research (as I am wont to do before investing my money and body), I picked up a pack of American Spirits mellow. Let me tell you, I have NO idea how to smoke a cigarette. Trying to smoke that thing was comparable to taking my glasses off and walking through a prickle maze in the dark, I was so lost. I finished the cigarette and I feel a little drunk, like “under the influence of cigarettes” is a viable reason to arrest someone for causing a car crash. This is weird and I don’t know how to do it and Italy is going to be quite the interesting trip. Also who in their right mind buys a pack a day, that shit is EXPENSIVE.
Trailer: The Great Gatsby - Dec 25th
Directed by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton, Tobey Maguire, Amitabh Bachchan, and Isla Fisher.
This might not be the Gatsby you remember from high school english class, but it’s surely the Baz Luhrmann you’ll remember from Moulin Rouge and Romeo + Juliet. This spot is equally as stylized as those and relies just as much on modern, popular music, but there’s some undeniable je ne sais quoi that sells it. Though I expect the stylization to be turn off to many.
(via Cinema Blend)
I think that is Gatsby as it was made to be interpreted. The novel was so striking and defining; the film deserves to be as well. I don’t think it will accurately portray the novel, but I also think that accuracy is not it’s mission nor it’s duty. The point of film adaptions is to interpret. This film will take a great classic and create another world of it, just as the book did upon it’s release. It will do the novel justice.
9:34 PM
I was wrangle hunting at work yesterday and found a standard that is in great shape and my boss and I got giddily excited and were discussing it with the bouncer. the bouncer asked if I could drive a shift and tony unthinkingly went ‘of course she does, it’s Mackenzie’. admittedly I do, but I LOVE that I come across as the kind of girl who has that ability.
wooooo this blog is so narcissistic.
