Words and Coffee

This is my side blog with quotes, my writing, and other things that I find interesting or inspiring. I'm an adult Kiwi.

[victusinveritas]

[theartofbeingblack]

Marjane Satrapi, cartoonist and film director, best known for Persepolis

22 November 1969 - 4 June 2026

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Vladimir Mayakovsky; A letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930," (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

[mournfulroses]

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

[vexheart]

[words-and-coffee]

Me watching “Mr. Burns a post-electric play"

[words-and-coffee]

Like last year I don’t really have a best-of list for books, as other than uni stuff, my “read” shelf didn’t expand much. Hopefully this year my reader spirit is revived a bit.

However, I watched heaps of interesting movies and shorts for uni and pleasure, so I figured I’d share some I found fantastic.

Let me know if you have any recommendations

List form of the movies in Keep reading

Favourite Films of 2025:

Joyland (2022)

In the Mood for Love (2000)

Frances Ha (2012)

Bugonia (2025)

Fiona Clark: Unafraid (2021)

The Substance (2024)

Late Night with the Devil (2023)

The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)

Conclave (2024)

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

The Power of the Dog (2021)

The Salesman (2016)

The Lobster (2015)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Wicked (2024)

Honourable Mentions:

Barfi! (2012)

Prime Minister (2025)

Showing Up (2022)

Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)

Tinā (2024)

Krampus (2015)

The Roses (2025)

This Is the Tom Green Documentary (2025)

Paddington in Peru (2024)

Death of a Unicorn (2025)

Favourite Shorts:

The Cat with Hands (2001)

OPAL (2020)

Solipsist (2012)

Field Song (2017)

All These Voices (2015)

Simone (2022)

Irregulars (2015)

Two Cars, One Night (2003)

Night Shift (2012)

Forty Three Thousand Feet (2012)

Favourite Rewatches:

The Princess Bride (1987)

Winter’s Bone (2010)

The Piano (1993)

Boy (2010)

Brooklyn (2015)

[thoughtkick]

“You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.”

— Iyanla Vanzant

[weltenwellen]

Kaveh Akbar, from “Desunt Nonnulla,”, Calling a Wolf a Wolf

[1five1two]

'In the Winter Dusk'. David Grossmann. 2022.

[thunderstruck9]

David Grossmann (American, 1984), In the Winter Dusk, 2022. Oil on linen over panel, 127 × 76.2 cm.

[paper-wounds]

[words-and-coffee]

Any man can style himself the Great even if the only achievement of his life is spilling a dramatic ordeal of blood.

Ava Reid, Lady Macbeth

[nixscriptum]

less of a poem, more of a reminder. ( ఌ )

[words-and-coffee]

Like last year I don’t really have a best-of list for books, as other than uni stuff, my “read” shelf didn’t expand much. Hopefully this year my reader spirit is revived a bit.

However, I watched heaps of interesting movies and shorts for uni and pleasure, so I figured I’d share some I found fantastic.

Let me know if you have any recommendations

List form of the movies in Keep reading

Favourite Films of 2025:

Joyland (2022)

In the Mood for Love (2000)

Frances Ha (2012)

Bugonia (2025)

Fiona Clark: Unafraid (2021)

The Substance (2024)

Late Night with the Devil (2023)

The Count of Monte Cristo (2024)

Conclave (2024)

Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

The Power of the Dog (2021)

The Salesman (2016)

The Lobster (2015)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Wicked (2024)

Honourable Mentions:

Barfi! (2012)

Prime Minister (2025)

Showing Up (2022)

Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus (2019)

Tinā (2024)

Krampus (2015)

The Roses (2025)

This Is the Tom Green Documentary (2025)

Paddington in Peru (2024)

Death of a Unicorn (2025)

Favourite Shorts:

The Cat with Hands (2001)

OPAL (2020)

Solipsist (2012)

Field Song (2017)

All These Voices (2015)

Simone (2022)

Irregulars (2015)

Two Cars, One Night (2003)

Night Shift (2012)

Forty Three Thousand Feet (2012)

Favourite Rewatches:

The Princess Bride (1987)

Winter’s Bone (2010)

The Piano (1993)

Boy (2010)

Brooklyn (2015)

[rosieandthemoon]

By Greg Mort

[havingapoemwithyou]

Ode to Mitski by William Fargason

[words-and-coffee]

Every child in Gaza is me. Every mother and father is me. Every house is my heart. Every tree is my leg. Every plant is my arm. Every flower is my eye. Every hole in the earth is my wound.

Mosab Abu Toha, Forest of Noise