better new years resolutions

end of 2013

“Still—so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.”  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is The Night

FAVOURITE BOOKS READ OR RE-READ THIS YEAR
1. Tender Is The Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, James Joyce
4. The Turn of the Screw and Other Short Fiction, Henry James
5. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Joan Didion
7. The Awakening, Kate Chopin
8. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
9. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

MOST-LISTENED TO ALBUMS THIS YEAR
1. Trouble Will Find Me – The National
2. Pure Heroine – Lorde
3. AM – Arctic Monkeys
4. The Great Gatsby OST


Song on repeat for the end of the year: Never Let Me Go – Lana Del Rey

Monday mood-board

 

A World Alone – Lorde

Born to Die – Lana Del Rey

Instant Crush ft. Julian Casablancas – Daft Punk

No. 1 Party Anthem – Arctic Monkeys
Still Sane – Lorde
Ribs – Lorde

Monday mood

 

 

 

“So much has been written about those few words at the end that Bob whispers into Charlotte’s ear. We can’t hear them. They seem meaningful for both of them. Coppola said she didn’t know. It wasn’t scripted. Advanced sound engineering has been used to produce a fuzzy enhancement. Harry Caul of “The Conversation” would be proud of it, but it’s entirely irrelevant. Those words weren’t for our ears. Coppola (1) didn’t write the dialog, (2) didn’t intentionally record the dialogue, and (3) was happy to release the movie that way, so we cannot hear. Why must we know? Do we need closure? This isn’t a closure kind of movie. We get all we need in simply knowing they share a moment private to them, and seeing that it contains something true before they part forever.”
— Roger Ebert on Lost in Translation

SONGS ON REPEAT:                                                                       
Lorde – Team
Lorde – Glory and Gore
The National – I Need My Girl
The National – Pink Rabbits
Arctic Monkeys – Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High (Layered)
Arctic Monkeys – One For The Road
Lorde – 400 Lux
Florence + the Machine – Blinding (Acoustic)
TV on the Radio – DLZ
Arctic Monkeys – I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor


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monday mood-board

songs on repeat:
Miley Cyrus’s cover of ‘Summertime Sadness’ by Lana Del Rey
Tennis Court – Lorde
Do I Wanna Know – Arctic Monkeys
This is the Last Time (live) – The National


“It’s about misunderstandings between people and places, being disconnected and looking for moments of connection. There are so many moments in life when people don’t say what they mean, when they are just missing each other, waiting to run into each other in a hallway.” – Sofia Coppola, trying to explain what Lost In Translation is about

I want to start posting here again.

 

In between school and ballet classes and work, the only Internet thing I seem to have (unreasonable amounts of) time for is tumblr, but I miss this a lot.