Bewitching Buckley

And maybe I'm too young to keep good love from going wrong

Books to read 2012

1. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Dee Brown
2. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test- Tom Wolfe
3. Hell's Angels - Hunter S Thompson
4. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Edward Albee
5. Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut 
6. The Dialogues of Plato - Plato
7. The Loved One - Evelyn Waugh
8. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
9. Bel- Ami - Guy De Maupassant
10. On the Road - Jack Keroauc 
11. The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee- Jared Diamond
12. Crime and Punishment - Dostoyevsky
13. The Plague - Camus
14. The Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen
15. Frankenstein - Mary Shelly 
16. Paradise Lost- Milton
17. The Doors of Perception- Aldous Huxley
18. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonothan Safran Foer
19. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
20. The Post Office - Bukowski

Fabulous Frida

Lovers II (1956) - Joy Hester 

Lovers - Jarek Puczel 

The Death of Bunny Munro

"All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there. "

- Rumi 

HTRK VIDEOS

Some stunning videos from HTRK. The visuals are effortlessly beautiful. 

HTRK

I've been listening to both HTRK albums on repeat for the last month especially since i've been back from Melbourne. I find their music quite difficult to describe. It's in a way minimalist but also complicated simultaneously. I just live the sounds they make, raw, emotional and bare, music stripped back to it's soul and back bone. Their music just connects with me on some other worldly level that I can't really explain. 

Atonement

Atonement

I found this film utterly beautiful and devastating. I haven't cried that much in a film for a very long time. To have all your hopes of true love conquering all crushed so completely, so comprehensively, just when you've been lead (by the film) to believe that it may in fact be true. 


Not only were the costumes and cinematography breathtaking, but the characters themselves, and in fact the pure tragedy of the tale were equally as moving. 


I wonder what it says about me that I wanted so desperately for Cecilia and Robbie to live the hollywood stereotype of 'happily ever after'. Perhaps its the lack of love within my own life, be it from 'friends' or anyone of the opposite sex that had me clinging so hopelessly to this idea of pure and undying love. Whatever the reason, I can't help but admit my disappointment at the lack of the 'hollywood' style ending I usually despise so much. 


Somehow I feel that I'll never have anywhere near that kind of love and devotion from another person in my life, which is why I guess I'll have to make do with living precariously through the 'idea' rather than the impossible reality. 

"If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed" — Sylvia Plath