lost at sea

"These waters, thought Quoyle, haunted by lost ships, fishermen, explorers gurgled down into sea holes as black as a dog's throat. Bawling into salt broth. Vikings down the cracking winds, steering through fog by the polarized light of sun-stones. The Inuit in skin boats, breathing, breathing, rhythmic suck of frigid air, iced paddles dipping, spray freezing, sleek back rising, jostle, the boat torn, spiraling down. Millenial bergs from the glaciers, morbid, silent shorline where there was not shore. Foghorns, smothered gun reports along the coast. Ice welding land to sea. Frost smoke. Clouds mottled by reflections of water holes in the plains of ice. The glare of ice erasing dimension, distance, subjecting senses to mirage and illusion. A rare place."

from The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx

flotilla

I love Tom Ford. I am IN love with Colin Firth. Absolutely a must-see. The cinematography will be so beautiful!

love is our homeland, why do we wander so?

I like pretty movies.
Stills from Marie Antoinette, Bright Star, Annie Hall, 500 Days of Summer,Moulin Rouge

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Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Admit impediments. Love is not love

Which alters when it alteration finds,

Or bends with the remover to remove:

O no! it is an ever-fixed mark

That looks on tempests and is never shaken;

It is the star to every wandering bark,

Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks

Within his bending sickle's compass come:

Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,

But bears it out even to the edge of doom.

If this be error and upon me proved,

I never writ, nor no man ever loved.

amanda ziller is my soul sister

story of my life.

flashbulb puff

I really love Juergen Teller. I named my violin in his honor.
Some of my personal favorites:

Obviously. Such perfect, simple geometry.

Rawrr.

One of my all-time favorite pictures, ever. I have a thing for artists who insert themselves into their own art...the shadow is brilliant, you don't even notice it the first time you see this ad.

I always wonder how he manages to get the light juuuust so...

don't look at me like that.

My spirit animal was on the front page of Bing today!
Red panda, AKA the lesser panda, the shining bear cat, or (my personal favorite) the firefox.

What is your spirit animal?

your childhood dreams are manifesting themselves in your present-day fixations

Today, I went downtown, and was swept up in the holiday madness...I love Christmastime!

I should have ridden this while I still had the chance...

If it weren't for certain creams and lotions, my skin would be as dry and flakey as an iguana. Or a desert. Or something equally as unpleasant. These are my absolute favorites right now:

Very Important: DO NOT BUY THE LOTION. The Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing GEL is where it's at. For grosspeelyitchytight dry spots (my eye area always gets EXTREMELY dry and crackly in the wintertime, and this works fantastical quick-fix WONDERS)

so fresh so clean

Mint is my favorite thing. Nothing makes me happier then feeling clean and refreshed and smelling like an Altoid.

Minty Things: