Whistling for Moonbeams

"He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight." 

Revisited Sophia Coppola, 1999 From this book: Jeffrey Eugenides, 1993 "From five, they had become four, and they were all the li...

After a "eureka!" moment a couple of days ago, which happened while I was watching "Runaway Bride" for the 17th time, I ...

Had to have this: (Despicable Me, 2010) after my mind got blown away to super  nega land by this: (Requiem For a Dream, 2000) Whew.  D...

the method to this madness the drifts the thrums pulsating the quiet in this music the solitude in this togetherness the reeling mind reelin...

Next, the mind, where the chase leads, the mind-- where the chase is

Lovin' lovin' lovin' via Joanna Goddard

The two-day training course was going smoothly, if a bit without any major surprises and/or excitements. I had successfully psyched myself u...

Her unquestionable celebrity and prolific contributions to the arts; her tumultuous love affairs and the numerous men who chased her shamele...

and am lovin' it to bits!!!

Toadies - the currency of frogs.

Last night, while I was having my nails done, I felt the stirrings of an earthquake (the salon was at the third floor of the mall, so, ok, y...

Loss of breath, the first sign of the permanence that will become the end of this story.

B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L !!!

Miles, oh, Miles! This always brings tears to my eyes.

soporific tune. Forget the words if you may, the words will not forget. Strum away the drifts that our cares may drift away.

I could never compete with you Lightfoot, skipping across the moss and stone. I crashed through tangled woods, Ripping roots from the...

Why do you follow me?­ Any moment I can be Nothing but a laurel-tree. Any moment of the chase I can leave you in my place A pink bough ...

For what life, after all, is not complicated? What set of sensibilities is not without peculiarity, what mentality without absurdity? What...

It was how it was with "Snow White", "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty", "The Little Mermaid", "Be...

Took my love and I took it down Climbed a mountain and I turned around And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills Well, the lands...

I have read the novel a thousand times and now, this movie. The anticipation is sending shivers up and down my spine. No kidding.

reminds her of Franciscan sisters clad in gray habits and blue veils; of her fourteen-year-old self, falling in love with those nuns, wantin...

‎ This is a song for every girl who's  Ever been through something she thought she couldn't make it through I sing these words be...

(Mark Strand) In a field I am the absence of field. This is always the case. Wherever I am I am what is missing. When I walk I p...

"It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every ti...

So let me share with you a list of the women I stalk online, just because they remind me that a woman with a mind of her own is a wonderful ...

"I come here and imagine that this is the spot where everything I've lost since my childhood is washed out. I tell myself, if that ...

Mark Romanek, 2010 The artist's mind is a terrible, beautiful thing. This line germinated and went floating in my thoughts for approxim...

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The House Gun , Nadine Gordimer PHP20 lang yan! =)

Todd Field, 2006

about the girl who prayed to St. Jude the sad clump of candles drooping beneath the weight of flame and supplication

that unlocking of so many doors, and yet, everywhere else, the knowledge that there were so many other doors that remained locked, and will ...

cryptic thoughts. Your evasive mind. Your vacillations, five in a minute. Your irresoluteness, even in things that don't matter. Your un...

This entire hullabaloo over the RH Bill is so frustrating. What the antis need to realize is that women have as much right to their bodies, ...

Love in the context of choice. Love in the context of reality as reality dictates, of the non-dream, of the non-fairy tale, of the non-illus...

Tony and Maria, for the nth time, and I still love this film to bits. I remember getting irked when, years ago, I heard someone say how it...

But then again, this question would always beg to be asked: after the bills have been paid, from which bowels of my paycheck do I get the fu...

These came in from the (e)mail today: Chanson's shoes at age 5 (?) or 6(?), kept by mom all these years, unearthed last Christmas He...

Nowadays, my compulsion to wear 3-inch heels has definitely mellowed. Call it growing old (c ringe ) if you will, but I seem to be realizing...

to compartmentalize my life.

The latest from Radiohead: "Lotus Flower", here .

Tailing the heels of a funked-up first month of the year, my February is brimming over with laughter and Oscar nominees and Grammy winners a...

We find ways, or look for ways. When the creaking of a door reminds us of someone leaving, of someone arriving, of a door opening for memo...

Since it's almost hearts' day and all, thought I'd share this piece of loveliness with you. Indeed, few singers could rival Kare...

This week promises to be a real grind, as Kim's got the measles and I won't be able to take time off from work so I'll be jettin...