June 2011
31 posts
“I had read the text of the role by itself, I had played the character by itself, without relating the one to the other. The words interfered with the acting, and the acting with the words.”
—Konstantin Stanislavski (An Actor Prepares) And also exactly how tonight’s show went.
who will love you? who will fight? who will fall far behind?
and i told you to be:
Just a little classic Bon Iver love while I listen to the brand new album.
- patient.
- fine.
- balanced.
- kind.
“There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they found the strength to prevent themselves from succumbing every second. Rightfully, the world should be a whirlpool of kissing into which we sank and never found the strength to rise up again.”
—Ann Patchett, BEL CANTO
“The most important things in your life are almost always impossible to predict.”
—Joe Meno, The Boy Detective Fails
“”Many years later I realize it is there, that moment, that dooms me forever. I fall in love with a woman as soon as she begins crying, which always, always occurs at the end of everything.”
—Joe Meno, ‘Women I Have Made Cry’ (via gradyk)
Let the only thing that holds me down be the weight of the books I carry with me.