Usual Prattle

“If you care about something you have to protect it. If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.” ― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

[pretendingtobeinteresting]

“And as we sat there listening to the carolers, I wanted to tell Brian it was over now and everything would be okay. But that was a lie, plus, I couldn’t speak anyway. I wish there was some way for us to go back and undo the past. But there wasn’t. There was nothing we could do. So I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate how sorry I was about what had happened. And I thought of all the grief and sadness and fucked up suffering in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically… disappear.”

- Mysterious Skin 2004

[pretendingtobeinteresting]

Happy Holidays Rock n’ Roll *

[gnossienne]

“…one can see pages spanning decades and countries, with identical compositions. They couldn’t have known about each other. Their expressions of love - so identical, so similarly expressive - could only have emerged from their common humanity.” ‘Not married but willing to be!’: Men in love from the 1850s-1950s

[flintsjohn]

all this would be for nothing. we will have been for nothing. defined by their histories. distorted to fit into their narrative. until all that is left of us are the monsters in the stories they tell their children. i don’t care. you will. someday, you will. someday.

[pretendingtobeinteresting]

“And as we sat there listening to the carolers, I wanted to tell Brian it was over now and everything would be okay. But that was a lie, plus, I couldn’t speak anyway. I wish there was some way for us to go back and undo the past. But there wasn’t. There was nothing we could do. So I just stayed silent and trying to telepathically communicate how sorry I was about what had happened. And I thought of all the grief and sadness and fucked up suffering in the world, and it made me want to escape. I wished with all my heart that we could just leave this world behind. Rise like two angels in the night and magically… disappear.”

- Mysterious Skin 2004

[luntfontanne]

1. The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook 2. Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee 3. Black Sails 4.08 - “XXXVI” (2017) 4. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture] (2018) 5. Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins 6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma 7. Black Mirror 3.04 - “San Junipero” (2016) 8. God’s Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee 9. Saving Face (2004) dir. Alice Wu 10 + 11. Happy Together (1999) dir. Wong Kar-wai

[kingofunseelie]

the goldfinch//the fall by alan stephens foster

“throw yourself head first and laughing into the holy rage calling your name”

[badlandshotel]

goblin doesn’t stay still enough for clear pictures, so here’s this

[unexplained-events]

The abandoned autopsy theater in the basement of New Orleans Charity Hospital

[tomhordy]

What’s a kick?

[la-cineaste]

Happy Together (1997)

Wong Kar-Wai

[luntfontanne]

1. The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook 2. Brokeback Mountain (2005) dir. Ang Lee 3. Black Sails 4.08 - “XXXVI” (2017) 4. Janelle Monáe - Dirty Computer [Emotion Picture] (2018) 5. Moonlight (2016) dir. Barry Jenkins 6. Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) dir. Céline Sciamma 7. Black Mirror 3.04 - “San Junipero” (2016) 8. God’s Own Country (2017) dir. Francis Lee 9. Saving Face (2004) dir. Alice Wu 10 + 11. Happy Together (1999) dir. Wong Kar-wai

[oddfilmstills]

y tu mamá también (2001)

[vintageeveryday]

Chicago, December 1962. Photographed by Vivian Maier.

[lousolversons]

It made me think of you.

[larvalhex]

shots from within 90′s-era Hot Topic stores

[criterionblog]

My Own Private Idaho (1991) Directed by Gus Van Sant