So I hope everyone who celebrates Halloween had a good one! And please admire my beautiful Halloween icon for a little because I will have to delete it after today. Tragedy!
It's not really celebrated over here, but I did have a good day. I went to a free screening of The Fall at the train station (yes really haha) with![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
a_suitcase - that wasn't very Halloweeny obviously, but when I got home I FINALLY got around to seeing American Psycho, which was a little more like it!
All in all I've seen a lot of films this week - I went to see My Winnipeg in Amsterdam with my dad on Tuesday, which was preceded by a surprise showing of the short film The Heart Of The World WHICH I LOVED SO MUCH, OMFG. It is up on youtube so I can share its amazingness with you:
AMAZING, RIGHT? RIGHT.
Then on Wednesday I saw This Is It with my mum (I loved it and I'll be going again soon, not gonna lie), and on Thursday I saw Julie & Julia AND Bright Star. My wallet does not particularly like me just now, but it was fun!
I loved Julie & Julia mostly for the gorgeousness of the scenes set in 1950s Paris and a variety of beautiful French houses and kitchens, and Bright Star was just gorgeous all around - there are some screencaps here which frankly don't even do it justice, but I'm just trying to get you guys to see it haha so anything helps I suppose. They left out this cap which I LOVE:
Soooo yes, go see it!
When dad and I were in Amsterdam on Monday, we also went to the Van Gogh Museum, to see the exhibition about his letters. He was a prolific letter-writer, and a lot of the letters he sent and received have been preserved. A lot of them contained little sketches of paintings he was working on as well, and were shown next to the same, finished paintings. It was a great exhibition but it made me a bit sad because I'm a sap, I guess. It just makes me sad to read his letters where he talks about what he wants to achieve with his art, and how one must always try to keep seeing the beauty in things, but to know that he ended up feeling like such an all around failure and so plagued by his psychiatric problems that he took his own life a few years later, after all. idk, boo, it sucks. He deserved better.
Aside from my sad life story-related emo, it was really exciting and interesting to read van Gogh's letters. He quoted a lot of poetry and literature, and even aside from that they were very interesting to read. A complete annotated collection of them has actually just been published, but it costs €400, ffffuuuuuuuuck the world. I want it bad, but yeah, never gonna happen.
And lastly for now... Nanowrimo has started?! And I still don't know whether or not I want to try and participate this year, haha. I don't have a plot so it would end up being a hot mess anyway, but last year was so much fun that I kind of want to. idk idk idk. Anyone got any plot ideas lying around? haha.
DAMN, LONG POST. I'm done.
It's not really celebrated over here, but I did have a good day. I went to a free screening of The Fall at the train station (yes really haha) with
a_suitcase - that wasn't very Halloweeny obviously, but when I got home I FINALLY got around to seeing American Psycho, which was a little more like it!All in all I've seen a lot of films this week - I went to see My Winnipeg in Amsterdam with my dad on Tuesday, which was preceded by a surprise showing of the short film The Heart Of The World WHICH I LOVED SO MUCH, OMFG. It is up on youtube so I can share its amazingness with you:
AMAZING, RIGHT? RIGHT.
Then on Wednesday I saw This Is It with my mum (I loved it and I'll be going again soon, not gonna lie), and on Thursday I saw Julie & Julia AND Bright Star. My wallet does not particularly like me just now, but it was fun!
I loved Julie & Julia mostly for the gorgeousness of the scenes set in 1950s Paris and a variety of beautiful French houses and kitchens, and Bright Star was just gorgeous all around - there are some screencaps here which frankly don't even do it justice, but I'm just trying to get you guys to see it haha so anything helps I suppose. They left out this cap which I LOVE:
Soooo yes, go see it!
When dad and I were in Amsterdam on Monday, we also went to the Van Gogh Museum, to see the exhibition about his letters. He was a prolific letter-writer, and a lot of the letters he sent and received have been preserved. A lot of them contained little sketches of paintings he was working on as well, and were shown next to the same, finished paintings. It was a great exhibition but it made me a bit sad because I'm a sap, I guess. It just makes me sad to read his letters where he talks about what he wants to achieve with his art, and how one must always try to keep seeing the beauty in things, but to know that he ended up feeling like such an all around failure and so plagued by his psychiatric problems that he took his own life a few years later, after all. idk, boo, it sucks. He deserved better.
Aside from my sad life story-related emo, it was really exciting and interesting to read van Gogh's letters. He quoted a lot of poetry and literature, and even aside from that they were very interesting to read. A complete annotated collection of them has actually just been published, but it costs €400, ffffuuuuuuuuck the world. I want it bad, but yeah, never gonna happen.
And lastly for now... Nanowrimo has started?! And I still don't know whether or not I want to try and participate this year, haha. I don't have a plot so it would end up being a hot mess anyway, but last year was so much fun that I kind of want to. idk idk idk. Anyone got any plot ideas lying around? haha.
DAMN, LONG POST. I'm done.
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