friday favorites v.6

Hi, and happy Friday!  

Here are a few of my favorite things this week.

edit: It's now Saturday.  It turned out that my schedule yesterday evening was already full of important things, like knitting for ten minutes before falling asleep on the couch.  Whoops.

The movie In A World... is now on Netflix, and it's fantastic.  I've always been interested in speech patterns, which this film explores a bit, and it's an interesting look into the voice-over industry.  It also acknowledges a small but niggling annoyance that I encounter constantly on the train: the 'sexy baby voice.'  As a girl with a relatively high-pitched speaking voice and a baby-face myself, I definitely understand that sometimes, it's just who you are.  Buuuuut other times it's a really bizarre and irritating affectation.


This is the Milkweed sweater by Carol Sunday-- and I am absolutely crazy about it.  Flatteringly shaped cables and a moss stitch portrait collar?  Yes please!  I am itching to cast this on... but it will have to wait until after Christmas because my list of people to knit or craft things for is out of control.


Ew, I wish the logo for this podcast was less gruesome-- but don't let that put you off, because it's the best podcast I've listened to in years.  Serial is hosted by Sarah Koenig, formerly of This American Life, and she explores one story through an entire season of podcasts.  The first season is an in-depth look at a murder case, including the possibility that the man serving jail time after being convicted is actually innocent.  New episodes come out every Thursday and I can't wait for the next one!

               

Kate Davis, super-cute upright bass player and singer, recorded this acoustic version of Katy Perry's song 'Roar' for the New York Humane Society.  I love the song (go ahead and judge me if you feel the need) and Kate has such a sweet voice.  And obviously, the cats.  Oh, the cats.  I want every single one of those little babies.

              

Peggy Collins takes adorable photos of her chipmunk, Chipper.  This 'Tea Party' photo is one of my favorites.  Also, hi, of course I want to have tea parties with woodland creatures.

I hope you're having a wonderful weekend!

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the story of pines

Good morning, sunshines!

Today I want to share with you the sweetest, most beautiful video ever.

It's the short film made to accompany A Fine Frenzy's latest album, Pines.

you might want to gather up some tissues and a snuggly cat/dog/teddy bear/human before pressing play.

Sigh.

Isn't it wonderful?

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moonrise kingdom

On Tuesday night, I saw Moonrise Kingdom.

It was one of the cutest movies I've ever seen.

Y'know what's in that basket?  A kitten.

I've gotta admit, I spent a lot of the movie worrying about something happening to that kitten.

I blame The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.

Which I hated.

But this post isn't about a movie I hated.

It's about a movie I loved.

So anyway.

One of my very favorite actors in the world and one of my earliest crushes, Edward Norton, is in Moonrise Kingdom!  Yay!

He is LIT-trally the only man on the planet who could make high-waisted khaki shorts look good.

I loved the storybook aspect of the movie-- interestingly, none of these books actually exist as published works, Wes Anderson just wrote passages from them, but he's currently working on a side-project of animating the books that Suzy brought with her.  Yay!

I absolutely loved the whole movie.  Although it did make me a little melancholy that these two twelve-year-olds did so much to be able to stay together, and it made me very conscious of the fact that I don't currently have someone to go on adventures with.

(Except my best-friend-in-the-whole-wide-world, Marissa, of course.  But I mean a male someone.  A male someone who isn't one of my cats.  You know what I mean.)

If you saw Moonrise Kingdom, what did you think of it?

This awesome piece of embroidery is one of my favorite quotes from the film.

Have a fantastic evening!

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the illusionist

Tonight I finally, finally bought my own copy of The Illusionist.

It is my absolute favorite movie of all time.

Every time I watch it I'm just blown away by how beautiful it is.

"What do you want?"
"Nothing."

"Then why are you doing this?"

"To be with her."

“From the moment we enter this life we are in the flow of it. We measure it and we mock it, but we cannot defy it. We cannot even speed it up or slow it down. Or can we? Have we not each experienced the sensation that a beautiful moment seemed to pass too quickly, and wished that we could make it linger? Or felt time slow on a dull day, and wished that we could speed things up a bit?”

The love scene from The Illusionist is by far the most beautiful one in any movie, anywhere, at any time.  
There's no explicit nudity (amazingly) but you probably shouldn't watch it at work.  
Your computer might explode from the perfection of it.








I almost didn't post this because this movie is so special to me and so close to my heart that I had a moment of wanting to keep it hidden.  But it's too perfect not to share.

If you've seen The Illusionist-- what did you think of it?

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happy birthday doris!

Happy 88th birthday to one of my very favorite leading ladies...

Doris Day!

My favorite Doris Day movie is 'Pillow Talk' from 1959

Doris and her co-star, Rock Hudson

Doris Day is known for avoiding the public eye, but she recently did an interview with Terry Gross from the NPR show 'Fresh Air.'  You can listen to it here!
Who is your favorite classic starlet?

Oh, and Bucky says hi.  He's so excited to have someone around who has to lay down most of the time.  I've been nose-to-nose with him for the better part of the last two days.

I hope you're having a great day!

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hugo

I am so excited that Hugo did so well at the Oscars. 

Cinematography

Art Direction

Sound Editing

Sound Mixing

Visual Effects

It comes out on DVD tomorrow and I can't wait to get it within the next few days.  I'm hoping for a good amount of behind-the-scenes content because the film is so visually stunning that I would loooove to see how it came together.

images from here

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that thing you do

You guuuuuys.  One of my favorite movies, That Thing You Do, is on Netflix right now!  Basically, it's the story of a 1960s rock band with one major hit song.  It's a really fun movie, and Tom Everett Scott is completely adorable as the leading man, and Liv Tyler looks so ridiculously pretty.  Go watch it!

I've been feeling a bit under the weather lately-- by 7 p.m., I'm so ready for bed.  I think it's just belated exhaustion from everything that's happened during the last month.  I haven't been taking particularly good care of myself recently, because there were other people who needed care way more than I did, but now I'm paying for it.  So I'm going to try to get back to yoga more often, and I think I'm also going to cut out sugar, at least for a few weeks.  I just feel so sluggish after even a little bit of it lately.  Alright.  Yeah, let's do that.  Has anybody else tried cutting out sugar?  How'd it work for you?  

Also, since I've been so narcoleptic lately and sleeping instead of blogging, I'm extending the etsy shop giveaway until February 20th.  Yaaaay!  Enter it!  There are only two completed entries right now, so your chances of winning are excellent.  

Hope you're all having a fantastic Thursday evening!  Or whatever day you read this.  I hope it's a good one.

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hugo ♥

This has not been a great year for me.

It started out with two heart-shattering break-ups-- the really, really bad kind, where all you can do for a week or two afterward is cry and get sick.  One was with someone who I genuinely thought was the love of my life. The other was with my exact opposite. I was his anima, he was my animus.

The summer culminated with the sudden and devastating loss of my dad.

I'm emotionally exhausted.

Life doesn't feel magical anymore.

Tonight I saw Hugo with my mom.

It's such a beautiful movie, visually and thematically.  It felt so poetic.

It was reminiscent of Amélie, especially in the color story and the mix of reality and fantasy.

It made me feel more alive than I have in months.  I plan on seeing it at least two or three more times.

Have you seen Hugo?  What did you think of it?

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