How I Sank Into Your Soul

What is it about this place that haunts me so? The way it overflows with emptiness? Saturated with love lovely songs and tangles of words aching to mean something. Everyone here is aching to mean something.

[andfromaboveyou]

I used to spend endless hours thinking about these faeries. I would play with them and write stories about them, dream of them. And now, I miss them.

[andfromaboveyou]

[andfromaboveyou]

But everything changes when you go away, and you can’t dive back into a dream (unless you’re me).

[andfromaboveyou]

So, I just re-watched Almost Famous because I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately (and fondly), and now I remember that this movie pisses me off. It captures the era/essence of the 70’s music scene so well, but it’s not actually a good movie! There is too much going on, it’s overly sentimental, the protagonist is more annoying than Nick Caraway, and the dialogue sucks, yet comes off as pretentious. I want to like the movie, but I just don’t. The soundtrack, costumes, and cinematography are amazing, though. And there are some great (even iconic) scenes, but as a whole, the film just fails. I kind of feel like all Cameron Crowe movies fall a little flat, yet so many are acclaimed...people are just fooled by filters and nostalgia.

[andfromaboveyou]

[la-catharsis]

Luis Falero - A beauty (1886)

[funeral-wreath]

Julia Margaret Cameron, So like a shatter’d Column lay the King, c. 1875. Illustrating Tennyson’s Idylls of the King.

[andfromaboveyou]

Tennyson and Cameron were friends. Cameron was a sort of poet’s companion. I think her poetry is visually stunning.

[19th20th-blog]

Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere (1874)

Julia Margaret Cameron

[andfromaboveyou]

[fawnvelveteen]

Alfons Mucha 1896 - Modèle: Evelyn Nesbit

[randomfives]

[scrickiras]

[aishlingbrown]

“Frankly my dear…”

Clark Gable (and the back of Vivien Leigh’s head) in Gone with the Wind, 1939.

Inktober, day 13.

[lejazzhot]

Judy Garland - A collection of candids (part one)

[silenceformysoul]

Alexandre de Riquer (1856-1920)

[petehawthorne]

[nitratediva]