Whistling for Moonbeams

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.   - Sicilian Proverb

"Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. It wanders perturbedly through the halls and galleries of ...

Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999

"…words have been all my life, all my life--this need is like the Spider's need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which ...

I used to tell you my dreams. - Louise Gluck, "Siren" These short, sudden silences, in syncopation with each other, like the mi...

My traipses into Jonathan Carroll's blog almost always yield loots of beautiful snippets. This morning, I found this there and it just ...

A life should leave deep tracks: ruts where she went out and back to get the mail or move the hose around the yard; where she used t...

"...life is made of ever so many partings welded together." 'So,' said Estella, 'I must be taken as I have been made. ...

"I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.  I'm not quite sure w...

"And today is whatever I want it to mean." - Beth Orton, "Central Reservation" If my eyes are to be trusted, I'd...

What are regrets? They're just lessons we haven't learned yet It's like catching snow on your tongue You can't pin th...

Paulit-ulit-ulit-ulit kong pinakikinggan ang kantang ito. Tapos, susundan ng "Oo", kung saan galing na galing ako sa bass, ang sa...

Here is where it all leads, this emptiness that shall be filled with words, and it shall go on, yes, it will go on, gap after blankness afte...

Roman Polanski, 2010 "Oh yes, the wall of ego. We all have one, our equivalent of the dentist's fish tank."

Give me a pretty, unpretentious scarf, instead, with nachos and lots of cheese on the side. Give me The Postal Service, please, no Maria Cal...

it's "Julia", "Norwegian Wood", "Something", "And I Love Her", "Eleanor Rigby", "...

that blah feeling, that "BBB: Bored Beyond Belief" status on facebook, that perpetual stare at the ceiling, that urge to roll the ...

at its swiftest. The limbs fail to persevere, though the mind endures, still, the shadows lengthen, two shadows-- soon, the night, the sh...

"You have a poetic sensibility and an ability to see beyond the day to day. You often seem to be living in a higher realm, or to be not...

"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...