An excerpt from memory

If you haven't seen The Philadelphia Story, stop what you are doing and watch it. It's probably overstating, the point to say that until you watch it, you will have been living a partial and colorless life. However, it is definitely on the list of perfect things. You know what I mean, the list that includes the starry sky over the desert, grilled cheese sandwiches, The Great Gatsby, the Chrysler building, Ella Fitzgerald singing "It Don't Mean A Thing (If You Ain't Got That Swing)," white peonies, and those little sketches of hands by Leonardo Da Vinci.

In college, I took a film studies class in which the professor talked about the trick The Philadelphia Story pulls off. It should never have worked: creating a fantastic love scene between two characters whom you know are not in love with each other, getting you to somehow root for them wholeheartedly during the scene, but then to feel completely satisfied when they end up with other people. Before you get the wrong impression, you should know that I'm not and never one of those film people, the kind who argue into the wee hours about the auteur theory and whether Spielberg is the new Capra, or whether John Huston impacts, in unseen ways, every second of American life. I don't know from camera angles, and I don't have an encyclopedic knowledge of pre-World War II German cinema, but I fell a little in love with the film professor when he looked upon us with shining eyes and proclaimed, "No, it should not work. But work it does!" because he was so passionate and right.

He was so passionate and right.

Skinny Love, what happened here?

"Who will love you?
Who will fight?
Who will fall far behind"

Yup, that kind of Friday. Birdy is an incredibly talented English singer. I don't have a taste for Bon Iver (sadly) but I do love Birdy's take on Skinny Love. It is wonderful. She also sampled Shelter by The xx, check it. England, you make the best singers. God save you.

Blame It On The Girls

Hello. A simple reminder on a prevalent human condition. Cheers to this week!

Life could be simple but you never fail
To complicate it every single time

It's a Choose Day and I choose to see people as people, and nothing else. It's a Choose Day and I choose to move forward and be blissfully happy.