June 2013
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“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.”
—- Benedict Cumberbatch
May 2013
11 posts
“Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.”
—Dream Hampton (via ablogwithaview)
“Do you have anyone that does this better unbroken, than I do broken?”
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Will Graham
Hannibal: Season 1, Episode 10
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“My main theme on the Everest trip is anti-aging. This is studied medically and philosophically. I myself got a medical degree in anti-aging.”
“The message to old people who are 80 years old is - if you don’t give up your dream, you have the capability and capacity to climb Mount Everest. “
“Your friend who is the same age, but gives up the dream and has no
motivation suffers from Alzheimer’s and also other kinds of diseases. THE KEY FACTOR IS TO NEVER GIVE UP YOUR DREAM.”
“I made it! I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world’s best feeling, although I’m totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well.”
—Japan’s Yuichiro Miura, from summit of Mount Everest
“When you can get that monologue to come out of Benedict Cumberbatch’s mouth, does the “writing” even matter? I mean, seriously, I made that guy say “Milk, milk lemonade, and this is where the fudge is made” and it scared the living sh*t out of me.”
— Damon Lindelof, Co-writer, Producer “Star Trek Into Darkness (article and tons of spoilers via)
The Five Stages of a Doctor Who Season Finale
1. Excitement
2. Confidence
3. Shock
4. Heartbreak…
… so
…much
… heartbreak
5. Acceptance
April 2013
8 posts
Top 3 Week 3
My Top 3 from the past week of internet browsing, tv watching and movie ticket buying.
1. They are remaking Point Break… unfortunately they’re changing everything about it. A remake is really unnecessary because they got it so right the first time around. It’ll be interesting to see how this comes together. Best headline of the week:
They Are Remaking Point Break and Everything is Terrible
2. New Arrested Development posters. The show returns next month and in anticipation Netflix released a series of posters for each character. I think my favorite one is Tobias’.
3. Possible spoilers ahead. They’re filming the fall for BBC Sherlock. There’s so much speculation around how Sherlock pulled off the season 2 finale. I suppose if you don’t want to see any set photos, don’t click through. But, I happen to like behind the scenes photos. In the following photo we don’t see anything that we don’t already know… the actor in a safety rig for the fall. However there many photos online from this shoot which show a lot more… be warned. (photo via)
What I'm watching: Broadchurch
I started watching Broadchurch, and I’m hooked. A new episode comes on tonight. Besides starring the “Tenth Doctor,” it is a really great 8-part mini-series. It’s the best “whodunnit” I’ve seen in a long time. In it, the entire town of Broadchurch is a suspect in the murder of Danny Latimer. I really hope to be surprised by the big reveal. There are only three episodes left and I have no idea whodunnit. I recently read that article that says the actors were even kept in the dark on the big secret while shooting. They were gradually let in on the secret on a need-to-know basis. Photo via
Top 3. Week 2
My Top 3 from the past week of internet browsing, tv watching and movie ticket buying.
1. Bobby returns… sort of! It was brief but Bobby was back in all his surly glory. This week’s episode of Supernatural was a real heartbreaker. It’s true, that there have been a number of lighter episodes this season ( the LARPing episode, the classic cartoon episode), but there have been some really touching heart to hearts between Sam and Dean and Dean and Benny too (this episode included). Bobby’s short return was just icing on the cake.
2. Rookie Blue returns…next month! I didn’t realize it was starting back up already. Rookie Blue returns next month to ABC. Looks like Swarek has moved on from Andy (oh no!). I’m looking forward to the new season. I started watching Chicago Fire this week, which reminds me a lot of Rookie Blue. So much drama!
3. Daily vlogging! This past week natural hair vlogger, Naptural85 did daily vlogs. She asked her fans to vote on whether they wanted her to daily vlog all month long. It seems like a lot of work, but I really enjoyed seeing little Olivia learn to roll over all week. It’s like have a nice little snippet of your favorite show. That family is really entertaining. The vlogs were short and posted around the same time everyday. She’s since decided to just do the vlogs every other day for the rest of the month. I’ll keep watching.
“When I am writing, my problems become invisible, and I am the same person I always was. All is well. I am as I should be.”
—RIP Roger Ebert (via austinkleon)
March 2013
11 posts
Top 3: Week 01/ 3.18.13 - 3.24.13
Top 3 are the three best things I found on the internet all week long that are interesting to me. They are found through my personal perusing and through my professional perusing for newsgathering purposes. ***
1. Season 3 of BBC Sherlock Starts Filming
Gaaah! So much excitement! Season 3 started filming on Monday. I’m hoping it starts airing in the fall, but no air date has been announced. While we know that Sherlock is still alive, how he is still alive is the big question. I can’t wait to find out. If you haven’t been watching this, both seasons are available on Netflix. Three 90-minute episodes per season… so six amazing movies! Mark Gatiss, Sherlock writer and the man who portrays Mycroft posted this picture on twitter.
2. Doctor Who Prequel to The Bells of St. John
The ending of this prequel isn’t a huge shocker, but it really is more about the exchange between the Doctor and a little girl - who once lost her mojo - that is very sweet. What’s more likely to pull at your heart strings than seeing the Doctor sitting sadly on a swingset? Plus you get this wonderful line from the Doctor: “Oh dear, I’m way past strange. I think I’m probably incredible.” And it just gets you ready for the mystery of Clara. I’m excited to see the last half of the season. It starts airing next Saturday! “Run, you clever boy… and remember.”
3. Star Trek International Trailer
This the movie that I am most excited to see so far this year. Finally. we have a trailer that really shows Benedict Cumberbatch as our villain. He kind of steals the show with bad-guy one liners like “I will walk over your cold corpses.” I know you’re not supposed to root for the bad guy, but I’m thrilled to see him wreak havoc on Starfleet.
“I feel I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers out there. My biggest challenge is being frequently underestimated. Underestimated for not actually being truly funny, not actually being the lead or the credible love interest.”
—Mindy Kaling via The Guardian
“By being yourself, you put something wonderful in the world that was not there before.”
—Edwin Elliot (via kari-shma)
“If you talk about it, it’s a dream, if you envision it, it’s possible, but if you schedule it, it’s real.”
—Tony Robbins (via aljoscha-laschgari-inspiration)
“Sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand.”
—Cool Hand Luke
February 2013
7 posts
“I’m a fierce advocate for living out the best life you possibly can. There’s no glory in living beneath yourself,”
—Johnathan Lee Iverson, Ringling Bros.’ first black ringmaster
“Be of good heart if things sometimes get difficult, everything will come right later on, and no one can do what he really wants in the beginning.”
—Vincent Van Gogh: Letter to Theo/ The Hague, 28 Jan. 1873
“Some animals naturally carry shelter everywhere they go, and some humans are just the same.”
—Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
“I want to go on adventures, I think. Not get stuck in one place.”
—Moonrise Kingdom (via winterr-breeze)
January 2013
21 posts
Steven Soderbergh's exit interview →
vulture.com
After 25 or so years of directing, Steven Soderbergh is retiring from film. A few great bits:
“Just make stuff and don’t agonize over it.”
I was watching one of those iconoclast shows on the Sundance Channel. Jamie Oliver said Paul Smith had told him something he hadn’t understood until very recently: “I’d rather be No. 2 forever than No. 1 for a while.” Just make stuff and don’t agonize over it. Stop worrying about being No. 1. I see a lot of people getting paralyzed by the response to their work, the imagined result. It’s like playing a Jedi mind trick on yourself, and Smith is right. That’s the way I’ve always approached films, the way I approach everything. Just make ’em.
How to learn anything: identify your heroes, figure out what they did, then get going.
On learning to paint:
What’s exciting is to feel at the very beginning of something. It’s also terrifying starting from scratch, but panic has always energized me. It’s the same process as anything: identifying who your heroes are, figuring out what they did, and then just going and doing it. I can stare at my Lucian Freud book for hours and hours, but at a certain point you have to go to the wall and imitate. … I’m always curious to hear how something was made—though I have no interest in why an artist did something, or what his work means. Like with Jackson Pollock: I’m always interested in what kind of paint and canvas he used, I just don’t want to know what he meant. You’re supposed to expand your mind to fit the art, you’re not supposed to chop the art down to fit your mind.
Steal from everywhere.
The very idea that someone from Congress can’t take something from the other side because they’ll be punished by their own party? That’s stupid. If I were running for office, I would be poaching ideas from everywhere. That’s how art works. You steal from everything.
“I’m just a storyteller, and the cinema happens to be my medium. I like it because it recreates life in movement, enlarges it, enhances it, distills it. For me, it’s far closer to the miraculous creation of life than, say, a painting or music or even literature. It’s not just an art form; it’s actually a new form of life, with its own rhythms, cadences, perspectives and transparencies. It’s my way of telling a story.”
— Federico Fellini
“As I was already a Beatnik, I had to be a Hippie.”
—David Bowie
