Gallimaufry

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Movies are social and novels are private, and this difference is as essential as the addition of visuals and sound in storytelling. Movies are collaborative creations, novels are written by one. We watch movies together, you can’t ever really read a novel with another person. Reading a novel is always a private moment between you and the author. If you’ve never had that sense the author of the book you are reading must have read your mind somehow, you’re just not reading the right books.

People who really love movies, and from time to time I am one of them, are always trying to get that sense of one-on-one novelistic intimacy. My favorite way to start a weekend is to wake up Saturday at an ungodly hour, 5 am or so, make espresso and watch a film that will make me think. At that hour, watching a film feels less like passively enjoying a work of art than something you imagined and took part in. A hypnagogic revelation.

You see a movie with your friend, go out for drinks afterward, and this disrupts the process of letting it sink in. The best thing to do after a film…is to walk around, aimlessly, when the city’s yet to wake up and you run no risk of your thoughts interrupted by people asking for directions, catcalling, wanting your attention.

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— Joanne McNeil (via unicornology)

Reblogged from HOLY SHIT, IT'S A FUCKING RAINBOW..

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"Anything you say will be more interesting than everything they’ve ever said."

— Bill Nighy as Lawrence Montague in The Girl in the Cafe (via windycitygirl)

Reblogged from Windy City Girl.

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"This song is about…waking up under a bush in your ex-girlfriend’s garden…this is a song is about getting drunk and forgetting you don’t go out with her anymore, forgetting she doens’t love you anymore. So this is about…wanting too much, wanting to be close to someone too much, wanting to know where they are all the time, and when they’re going out you’re like “Where are you going?” or “What time will you be back?” or “I’ll come with you”. It’s about trying to do the right thing, trying to withdraw so that you don’t love so much, trying to go “ok”. And in doing so, something inside of you just dies and you turn off, and then like all things in life, she falls in love with you and you don’t care. And it’s a song of hope."

— Glen Hansard of The Frames, intro to What Happens When The Heart Just Stops

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"It always fascinated me how people go from loving you madly to nothing at all, nothing. It hurts so much. When I feel someone is going to leave me, I have a tendency to break up first before I get to hear the whole thing. Here it is. One more, one less. Another wasted love story. I really love this one. When I think that its over, that I’ll never see him again like this… well yes, I’ll bump into him, we’ll meet our new boyfriend and girlfriend, act as if we had never been together, then we’ll slowly think of each other less and less until we forget each other completely. Almost. Always the same for me. Break up, break down. Drunk up, fool around. Meet one guy, then another, fuck around. Forget the one and only. Then after a few months of total emptiness start again to look for true love, desperately look everywhere and after two years of loneliness meet a new love and swear it is the one, until that one is gone as well. There’s a moment in life where you can’t recover any more from another break-up. And even if this person bugs you sixty percent of the time, well you still can’t live without him. And even if he wakes you up every day by sneezing right in your face, well you love his sneezes more than anyone else’s kisses."

— Marion, 2 Days in Paris