rewatch pride & prejudice (2005 or 1995, your pick)
take a long shower & shave legs
stare at face in mirror for a long time, reflect on changes that have occured in past year
sara bareilles cd on repeat
“deep mystery”
lying on the floor listening to music you liked fifteen years ago
watch dust motes travel across the room in the late afternoon haze
what would be different about my life if i had been a cheerleader in high school?
what was the title of that book you read in the fourth grade? you only remember the main character’s name and nothing about the plot. you spend the next three hours googling and then you drop $60 for a first edition on ebay
cup of tea, then another
are you there god?
“efficiency”
take out five boxes of paperwork from the closet and spend the next three hours making small piles around your body on the floor
write first chapter of novel
cover wall in post it notes
lists lists lists
highlight everything
now’s a good time to start that bullet journal
must empty email inbox
plan out next five years of life down to the month, week, day
“shake it up”
blast nsync while scrubbing out microwave
rearrange living room four different ways
today’s a good day to repaint your bedroom
let’s research and plan a trip to san francisco
develop new fashion style, must throw away all items of clothes that don’t work with it
I’ve seen a lot of curious people wanting to dive into classical music but don’t know where to start, so I have written out a list of pieces to listen to depending on mood. I’ve only put out a few, but please add more if you want to. hope this helps y’all out. :)
One piece that I’ve always loved going to is O Magnum Mysterium by M. Lauridsen! It’s such a beautiful piece of music. Its slow, soft, calm, and so, so peaceful. I personally would recommend it for maybe if you’re trying to fall asleep. I personally have used it to calm myself down from a panic attack and for me it’s always usually worked every time if I can get myself to focus on the music. Just a suggestion if anyone’s interested! :D
Webby isn’t quite sure what this all means. Somehow, though, she feels like he’s telling her something important. Like he understands the questions she’s asking. She tucks these words away, close to her heart, for a time when she’ll understand them. “I… see.”
He smiles. “I remember being your age… I was very lonely. Always looking for where I belonged.” He ashes his cigar. “There is no ‘where’. You don’t belong with places. You belong with people.”
Fun fact, the guns being labelled “sword” is not just them being Extra™.
Most of the guns being used by the main characters are modified Taurus PT99 pistols, the different types of which are often named after specific types of knives and swords, thus enabling them to not have to change the Shakespearean dialogue, but to also manage that specific visual pun.
So Shakespeare would have absolutely been 100% all over that shit.
For example, Tybalt’s gun is a modified 9mm “Rapier” (from the Taurus PT99 Series ‘R’) and is actually one of my favorite visual aesthetics of quite probably any weapon in movie history to date.
While everyone else seems to be using a much more heavier and “powerful” version of pistol, his is sleek and light in frame, making it much easier for him to fight the way that he does. Which is undoubtedly Extra™ in comparison to everyone else, but also intended to mimic the dueling stance of actual rapier swordsmen of the time who relied on speed rather than brute force. They were Gentlemen after all. If you were going to cut someone down you ought to do it with some finesse.
If you look closely at his hand you’ll notice that with the exception of his middle finger on the trigger, he’s actually holding it the way one would a sword hilt. He’s also got the poise of a honed duelist.
This is someone who has been brought up with a very strong sense of Family Honor, and is expected to fight to defend it, but not as a common foot soldier (who carry “longswords” which are modified shotguns in the film), but as a Gentleman.
A gentleman who suddenly finds himself having to fight in the streets with people carrying “daggers”.
Like Mercutio’s modified pistol, which while beautiful and (importantly thematic) transparent in its function, is also heavy and cumbersome in comparison to Tybalt’s rapier, which also has a much further range, something he also makes better use of with the addition of a quick release mount for a c-scope, which allows him to either be slow and accurate, or to forgo accuracy for speed during say, a one on one duel vs a street brawl.
Which means even if he can’t make as many quickfire short range movements as Mercutio can, he’s still going to fucking obliterate him with the practiced ease of someone who has been training for duels their entire life.
Not to mention just how fucking ornate this thing is. Look at it. What an extra little sob, I love it. I love the whole movie. It’s an excellent adaptation and I’ll bite my thumb at anyone who says otherwise.
When we left the theater after seeing it, my partner asked me that same question about what Shakespeare would think. Then, as now, I think he would have loved it. Elizabethan theater was a popular art form and at it’s best, Shakespeare is deliberately playing to everyone from the drunks standing up front to the toffs in the boxes. he’s competing with vendors and orange girls who weren’t just selling oranges. He’s competing with conversations and possible fist fights or worse. There were none of the modern cues we use to get audiences to shut up, like dimming lights, curtain opening, etc. as they were performing on an open air stage.
Most of his plays are designed specifically to do something attention grabbing in the first scene to get the audience to SHUT UP and Watch. This production does that with noise and action and glorious visuals. It grabbed everyone in the theater, and the production did what the original was meant to do: bring in all walks of life. The showing we went to had as many teens as adults and they were all really enjoying it. As we were leaving, the gaggle of teens in front of us were planning to come back and see it again.
Which was kind of the point. These plays survived because they drew in audiences over and over. They could remount Romeo and Juliet next year and people would want to see it again. Before we labelled them high art and dissected them, they were crowd pleasures full of slang and dirty jokes and swordfights as well as the poetry and characters and themes that gave them staying power. They work best when all those things are still in there and accessible so people can experience all of those things.
This version captures that better than any other Romeo & Juliet I’ve seen. Romeo + Juliet is alive and brash and still grabs me every fucking time. This version is the closest I’m likely to get to what it felt like to watch it the first time, even if the outfits are different and as the poster points out Luhrmann has carefully translated the swords and fighting styles into modern weaponry. I know next to nothing about firearms, but I could see that Tybalt moved right, like a swordsman. I could read the body language in the fights just as clearly.
I still think I’m unlikely to see a version I’ll like better.
I don’t mean to impose a personal favour on you guys, but I really would like to ask that everyonewho follows me reblog this.
I don’t think I made it very clear but last month I was sexually assaulted by someone who I thought was my friend (I don’t want to talk about it don’t ask), and it’s… really fucked with my head.
Had I known this a month ago I would have been able to get away.
So, essentially, I’m really pleading with you to reblog this so everyone who follows you doesn’t get stuck in the same position I was with no way out.
I mean again I don’t want the point of this to be my sob story or whatever but if you could reblog this it would seriously mean a lot
and im asking to all of my followers who see this post in your dashboard to please press play to this video, you never know when this is gonna be useful, PLEASE DON’T IGNORE IT.
