decent

you should feel bad.

[ashwilliam]

2021 Film Diary:

BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA (1992) - dir. Francis Ford Coppola

[mdub]

its called an aesthetic, sweetie. look it up.

[mdub]

He chose a certain path in life, it proved to be a misguided one, but there, he chose it, he can say that at least. As for myself, I cannot even claim that. You see, I trusted. I trusted in his lordship’s wisdom. All those years I served him, I trusted I was doing something worthwhile. I can’t even say I made my own mistakes. Really–one has to ask oneself–what dignity is there in that?

The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

[mdub]

And you must have seen it, Stevens. How could you not have seen it? The way they’ve used it, manipulated it, turned something fine and noble into something else–something they can use for their own foul ends? You must have seen it, Stevens.

The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

[mdub]

Continentals are unable to be butlers because they are as a breed incapable of the emotional restraint which only the English race are capable of. Continentals–and by and large the Celts, as you will no doubt agree–are as a rule unable to control themselves in moments of strong emotion, and are thus unable to maintain a professional demeanour other than in the least challenging of situations.

The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro

[mdub]

You would have burned upon the water like Cleopatra in the poem.

The Once and Future King, TH White

[avicana]

[mdub]

practically perfect in every way

[mdub]

quiet loud quiet

[mdub]

He was not at all an unpleasant person really, but clever, quick, proud, passionate and ambitious. He was one of those people who would be neither a follower nor a leader, but only an aspiring heart, impatient in the failing body which imprisoned it.

The Once and Future King

[pullingmebackto-earth]

[mdub]

like.

[mdub]

The Jefferson Bottles

How could one collector find so much rare fine wine?

Rajat Parr, a prominent wine director who oversees restaurants in Las Vegas, told me that several years ago some of his customers ordered a bottle of 1982 Pétrus, which can sell in restaurants for as much as six thousand dollars. The party finished the bottle and ordered a second. But the second bottle tasted noticeably different, so they sent it back. The staff apologetically produced a third bottle, which the diners consumed with pleasure. Parr closely examined the three bottles and discovered the problem with the second one: it was genuine.

[mdub]

Fyre Festival, a Luxury Music Weekend, Crumbles in the Bahamas

A high-end event founded by Ja Rule and the entrepreneur Billy McFarland was supposed to feature shows and yachts. Attendees found chaos instead.

hashtag lord of the flies

[itcouldbemine]

[mdub]

Has the Supreme Court ever heard such a peculiarly American story as that of Anna Nicole Smith? And they didn’t know the half of it.

“She ate little. She held the baby. She took her pills. Howard helped her to take them. She slept with a poster-size photo of Daniel.”

bring out your personality disorders

[mdub]

“Love Is Blind and Deaf”

“They ate apples when they ate and, after a while, they knew it all.”

so close to great

[cinegirletlesvelus]

ALESSANDRO

© Brigitte Lacombe

[mdub]

crush emoji

[diefordries]

Dries Van Noten Fall 2012

[mdub]

the real real

[a-state-of-bliss]

Harpers Bazaar US 1994 ‘Romance Decadence’ - Nadja Auermann by Mario Testino

[mdub]

slay.