It is a surreal experience to revisit your thoughts and to remember how important it is to document your feelings and impressions. To delve and to reveal. For years later you will remember a passion that was inside you , and the fire will be ignited all over again.
NOVEMBER:
Things I Watched:
Black Mirror (season 3)
Good Girls Revolt
The Beach
Transparent
Fleabag
The graduate
Interview with a vampire
Mozart in the jungle (season 1 and 2)
Westworld
Love (Netflix)
Tiny furniture
The Intern
Alan Partridge
Steve Jobs
Clueless
Music I Listened To:
Lijadu Sisters
Caribou
Max Richter's - Leftovers soundtrack
Things I Read:
JUST KIDS (1/2)
DECEMBER:
Things I Watched:
When Harry Met Sally
Desperately Seeking Susan
Bridget Jones Diary
Midnight in Paris
Arrival
La Ciénaga
Youth
Home Alone
Say Anything
Wild Tales
20th Century 2omen
Divorced
Everest
La La Land
Freaks and Geeks
Minority Report
Leolo
Just Friends
The OA
Love Actually
Easy
Two Days, One Night
Nocturnal Animals (X2)
Because I Said So
The Holiday
Manchester By The Sea
Why Him
New Girl
Blind Date
Edge of Seventeen
Music I Listened to:
Christmas Music
La La Land Soundtrack
Arrival Soundtrack
Things I Read:
Scripts (some good, some bad)
Cortazar short stories
Things I Watched:
Quiz Show (again...)
Music I Listened To:
Her Soundtrack
Painted Veil soundtrack
Bodyguard soundtrack
Digable Planets
Sinkane
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band
Vinicius
Things I Read:
READY PLAYER ONE (Ernest Cline)
JUST KIDS (Patti Smith)
THE MEN WITHOUT THE WOMEN (just started...Haruki Marakami)
Things I learned:
Confidence is everything. Be confident.
Be humble, be kind. Always. Never question this.
Unless you do, people don't know.
If something you're working on frustrates you, let it go. Then go back to it and try again.
Perspective and time go hand in hand.
Words of Wisdom:
“ I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.”
-Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
Things I Watched:
Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates
La Delagada Linea Amarilla
El Clan
The Night Of
The Danish Girl
Sisters
Masters Of Sex
New Girl
Clueless
Music I Listened To:
Gino Vanelli
Carpenters
Carol King
Belanova
Dorothy Ashby
Dean Martin
Rolling Stones
Connie Conway
Things I Read:
Started READY PLAYER ONE (Ernest Cline)
Started JUST KIDS (Patty Smith)
Words of Wisdom:
"The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free." - Baruch Spinoza
"When the child was a child
It was the time of the following questions
Why am I me and why not you
Why am I here and why not there
Why did time begin and where does space end
Isn't what I see and hear and smell
Just the appearance of the world in front of the world
Isn't life under the sun just a dream?"
-Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders) // Song of Child (Peter Handke) // Song of Being a Child (Van Morrison)
Things I watched:
What Women Want
Mr robot
The Martian
Wedding Crashers
Music I listened to:
Cassie
*Margo Guryan - Sunday Morning
*The Delfonica - Ready or Not Here I Come
*Gil Scott-Heron
Olivia Newton John - magic
The Delfonics
Luther Vandross
Best Coast
Janet Jackson
Muddy Waters
Ottis Redding
Badbadnotgood -
Margo Guryan - Sunday morning
The Whitest Boy alive
The Meters - Cissy Strut
The Staples Singers
The Story of the Soul Bros Inc - 1964-1974
John Coltrane
Stan Getz
Bob Dylan - Bring it all back home again
The Drifters
Toulouse
Fugees - Zealots
Toro Y Moi
Small Black
Bill Withers
Little Jimmy Scott- Be My Sunshine
Bonson Berner
Slow Meadow
Things I Read:
Revenant (screenplay)
The Girl on a Train (for character analysis)
This I Learned:
That no matter what, I am blessed to have my family, healthy, alive, together.
Things I watched:
Greenberg
Shampoo
Margot at the Wedding
Roman Holiday
Jurassic Park
Coming to America
Heaven Knows What
About Elly
An Affair to Remember
Vanya on 42nd Street
Working Girl
Frankie and Grace
Stranger Things
Things I Listened To:
Start Up Pod Cast
Jimmy Scott- Be my Sunshine
Tom Jobim
Marissa Nadler (Echo)
Joni Mitchell
Astrud Gilberto
Dreezy
Little Dragon
Paul Anka
Real Estate
The Tornados
CAN
El Michels Affair- CREAM
Ri-Ri
Beyoncé - lemonade
Things I watched:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Adrift (A Deriva)
Everest
Shorts programs LVFF (Sumo Road - The Musical, So Good to See You, Monday, The Aquarium, Night of the Slasher, In Pursuit, FLEX, Thunder Road, The Bloop, Hit & Run, The Babysitter Murders, Youth, Wally's Will, Mobilize.
BAFTA student Shorts (El Adios, Where We Stand, An Object at Rest, 219, Seide, Unremarkable, None of That, Spark)
Magnolia
I Am Love
Girlhood
Shark Week
Finding Dory
Broad City (Season 3)
L'enfance Nue
Greenberg
Interiors
The Lobster
The Hairy Ape (starring Ben Hethcoat at Odyssey Theater)
Things I read:
The Girl on the Train (Paula Hawkins)
Things I listened to:
K-Pop
Jaakko eino kalevu (double talk)
Things I learned:
To accept and embrace uncertainty
That I can still sing like Shakira
THINGS I WATCHED IN MAY:
The Eye In The Sky
Love (Gaspar Noe)
Wetlands
In The House
Closer
The Holiday
New Girl (Season 5)
Anomalisa
Three Kings
The Sitter
Transparent (seasons 1 and 2)
Man and Chicken
In The Mood For Love
Sundance Shorts (Partners, Thunde Road, Procedure)
Pitter Patter Goes My Heart
Las Elegidas
Mr. Pig
The Overnight
THINGS I LISTENED TO: (Check out my Spotify Playlist J’ai 2.9. to listen to this playlist)
The Hics
The Horrors
Honey Honey
Nina Simone
Lee Hazelwood
Washed Out
Sun Rai
The School of Greatness podcast
SONGS OF THE MONTH:
Mr. Bojangles - Nina Simone
My Autumn's Done Come- Lee Hazelwood
THINGS I LEARNED:
That change is good
(Learning) to play the guitar
Do what you're afraid to do
That a good leader listens and always continues to learn and grow
Don't compromise your power
Be a consummate professional
That I hate taxes and DMV with all my might, but- you have to deal with it, so be happy and don't waste time getting mad because no matter, what, you gotta deal with it
Keep your hand up
HALA on NYLON:
http://www.nylon.com/articles/hala-short-film?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=article-page
HALA on VIMEO STAFF PICK page:
https://vimeo.com/channels/staffpicks/162554910
Things I watched:
Princess Bride (for the first time evaaaa)
What We Do In The Shadows
Annie Hall
Golden Eighties (35mm)
Weekend
Enter the Void
Blow
The Painted Veil
Claire’s Knee
The Valley of the Dolls
Paris, Texas
Coming to America
400 blows
The Addams Family
Batman
Midnight Special
What I read:
Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf
Nice is Just a Place in France (research)
New Music I listened to:
*check out my Spotify Playlist J’ai 2.9. to listen to this playlist.
Gardens and Villas
Wild Child
Yelle
Sunny Levine
Sun Rai
Parallel Dance Ensemble
Arthur Russell
Rainy Milo
Giraffage
PRPL
Rodrigo Amarante
Mr Twin Sister
Nosaj Thing
TOPS
Sales
The Clientele
Viktor Vaughn
The Cool Kids
Big Black Delta
Songs of the month:
Santo & Johnny - Sleepwalk
Parallel Dance Ensemble - Shopping Cart
Sports- You are the right one
Things I learned:
To meditate
That I feel forever 25
To decree - because you just might get it (re: palms springs)
To trust your instinct, always
DO THE RIGHT THING, ALWAYS
That standing for your principles will always make you win
That you don’t have power, until you have ALL the power
That 2 + 2 is not always 4
March. 14. 16.
I am a fish. You are the moon.
You cannot touch me, but your light
Fills the ocean where I live.
- Rumi
MARCH 2016
Things I watched:
Outlander
House of Cards
Dope
Seeking a Friend at the End of the World
The Skinny (refinery 29)
High Maintenance (Vimeo)
Love (Netflix original)
Spaceballs
Ratcatcher
Snowtown Murders
Pigs d. Marc Lawrence (1972) (film print)
Desperately Seeking Susan (35mm print)
Broad City
Stranger than Paradise (35mm print)
Weekend of a Champion
Let the Right One In
Happy Go-Lucky
New Music:
GOLDROOM
DEERHUNTER
JOYWAVE
ALVVAYS
ANDERSON PAAK
BB DIAMOND
MXXWLL (4U)
LETHERETTE
Things I learned / discovered:
That I dig mainstream music more than I want to admit
That my sister and I make an exquisite producing team
That no matter how much sunscreen I wear, I will tan hard
That brown sugar is a great exfoliant
I only like to eat oranges that are cold
That you don't always have to multitask to feel accomplished
That I am still really good at jump roping
Essentialism
Kinfolk Magazine
To trust my path
My roommate's recipe for his exquisite Bibimbap
2. 23. 15 // 10:36AM.
No one saw it coming. It came to all as a shock. Yes, these are things that we think about. But you have to accept the curve balls that life throws at you and confront those round things. Come to terms with yourself and your feelings. Accept the events and not over analyze a situation.
Why, you may say? It's easier said than done, we all say. Well. Yes, you're right. But- Life is hard as it is, don't make it harder on you.
You my think, well, maybe an escape to the ocean will be the answer. Well, let me tell you, that the blue of the ocean now penetrates in my mind the color of his soul. That the soft breeze makes me think of his sweet kisses. That when I look up at the spectacle up there, I can't help but wonder why it all had to happen this way.
Attempts to vanish, to escape, to let go. Attempts, are all they are.
As one cannot escape a feeling or circumstances. After all we are humans.
It is that horrible feeling that goes from your stomach to the top of your throat that as a result creates human rain. But don't suppress that rain- let it stream down, as it's a necessary evil.
Walking the crowded streets invaded by twosomes, hard it is, but you must open your heart, look up be thankful, thankful for what it was, what you learned, what you gained, and believe that things come and go for a real purpose, for a good reason, like the cold waves approaching my feet, which then return home.
Things I watched:
Room
Revenant
Spotlight
The Diary of a Teenage Girl
The Great Beauty
Joy
The End of the Tour
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Beasts of No Nation
Nightcrawler (again)
The Little Death
Phoenix
Like Water for Chocolate
Kill Bill
The Intern
Hail, Caesar!
Zoolander 2
Dope
Grandma
Mistress America
Entourage
Black Mass
Sundance Shorts
New Things I Listened To:
Alabama Shakes
Tei Shi
Gabriel Garzon Montano
Doja Cat
Cults
Wale
Carla Morrison
Myron & E
Dumbo Gets Mad
J Dilla
Denitia and Sene
Things I read:
Sputnik Love (Haruki Murakami)
The Night Circus (Erin Morgenstern)
Golemchik (William Exley)
Things I learned:
I laugh, all the time.
Always trust your instincts, always- you're prob right.
Apply the advice you give to others. In order to be a good leader, you must abide by your own standards.
Let go.
Don't let people in your life so easily, get to know them first.
I dig skateboarding and I'm not that bad at it.
"This is how it always ends.
With death. But first there was life. Hidden beneath the blah, blah, blah. It is all settled beneath the chitter chatter and the noise.
Silence and sentiment.
Emotion and fear.
The haggard, inconstant flashes of beauty.
And then the wretched squalor and miserable humanity.
All buried under the cover of the embarrassment of being in the world … blah, blah, blah.
It’s just a trick. It’s just a trick."
- from Paolo Sorrentino’s THE GREAT BEAUTY.
Disregard the date. This was in fact written mid September, 2015.
Luxembourg jardin, Paris, France
Jazz playing. Kids laughing. Sirens ringing.i hear the water from the fountain.
The sun shining so bright. Perfect white and grey clouds hovering over on the crayola blue sky.
Greens and bright reds.
Toy sailing boats color the laguna blue water of the fountain.
And here I am.
Listening to myself. My thoughts. It's peace at its fullest. The most blissful feeling. And I can hear happiness, in my heart. Tears stroll down my cheeks. Like the light rain from a few nights ago. Cleansing me and bringing life to where there was none.
I think I'm in a french film. In color. Dazzling- glaring- my heart shining, and I am smiling.
