Y-Gurrola

Friends and family, below is a glimpse of what I am up to, and what I am into while I am away. It's possible that I am blogging to myself, but incase anyone drops in, text me the words "Omnia Paratus" so I know your listening. Most of my posts are of films, music, and writing that I once loved and am still loving (I'll try to stay more present for the sake of you and I). 

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It's getting real over here

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Buenos Aires is cinematographer Christopher Doyle’s visual and narrative diary of his participation in the making of Wong Kar Wai’s film Happy Together.

The cars, the colours, the isolation, the trains, the (same) cast, the (same) crew, the weather and the unfamiliar language.We start to have a deja vu feeling. It seems that unconsciously, we’re finally making that ‘Days of Being Wild Part II’ that so many have expected of us for so long.Leslie even started humming the theme from ‘Days’ as he prepared for a shot today. Checking his costume and make-up in a wall mirror, he turned very Carina Lau-ish and mimicked her glorious 'How do I look?’ line from 'Days I.

pics credit: x

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<3

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Fleetwood Mac- The Chain

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And I breathe 

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09/12-17- Nevada. Wake up, eat breakfast, drive 15 miles, and then flat tire. 

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9/11/17- Nevada

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American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and … labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

bell hooks (via coocoolah)

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09/11/17- California and Nevada

[quotemadness]

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain (via quotemadness)

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09/03/17- Oakland, Ca

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One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find–– is they are not always with whom we spend our lives

Beau Taplin

[hirxeth]

“From her to eternity.”

Wings of Desire (1987) dir. Wim Wenders

[ygurrola]

Gawd, its brilliant  

[nemfrog]

“The kitefish.” Aquatic life.  March 1917.

[aliphantparts]

Laura Nyro, 1969 by Joel Bernstein

[ygurrola]

Beautiful music, beautiful person, so underrated. Her music is my entire summer

[down-bythe-sea]

“I want you and your hands on the arch of night, to send you all the love I’ve ever felt inside. Whoever I may have liked before…I feel since I met you. Perhaps, perhaps in all the others..it’s only you I’ve always loved. Only you. And now the night comes to an end. Alone, alone, alone. But I think of your hands, and tenderly I fall asleep.”

- Aimee and Jaguar (via down-bythe-sea)

[wocinsolidarity]

I’m writing for black people, in the same way that Tolstoy was not writing for me, a 14-year-old coloured girl from Lorain, Ohio. I don’t have to apologise or consider myself limited because I don’t [write about white people] – which is not absolutely true, there are lots of white people in my books. The point is not having the white critic sit on your shoulder and approve it.

Toni Morrison from an interview in The Guardian [x].   (via 5ft1)