take this sinking boat & point it home

You guys, Once is one of the most beautiful films I have ever seen. Just a simple little vignette of a story, lit from inside by the music and the sheer raw subtle emotion of it: and the cinematography was surprisingly lovely for being done on such wobbly hand-held cameras -- it had an almost accidental feel to it, as though someone only happened to be filming, and sometimes the camera would sort of trail off like a wandering mind. I really loved the scene filmed through the window of the cafe, with the reflections of the city going by over the faces of the two protagonists eating lunch, and the scene comprised of home videos/memories of the ex-girlfriend, and a lot of the bus scenes with their veering close-ups. When they sang "Falling Slowly" in the little music shop I actually got tears in my eyes, which is a never if you're me, especially as I knew the song inside-out already, and had actually viewed that scene already; the Fabulist posted a YouTube'd excerpt back when the film first came out. And the end was so simple and lovely and right that I wept and laughed all mixed up at the same time.

Also it's been raining quite magnificently much of the day; we had a truly mighty and brief thunderstorm blow down the road in the early evening. And I found my longed-after dream boots at Goodwill today -- the very tall, lace-up, heeled-but-not-pointily-so somewhat gothy boots for which I have been seeking since the age of fourteen; and there was an irresistable seven-dollar dress on a clearance rack at Rue 21. Furthermore, my mother found me an excellent tripod when she was out yard-saleing this afternoon. And since all of these elements together made it impossible to resist photographing myself, I shall also show off my New Hair.

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Speaking of photographs, by the way, I've actually been putting things up on the Flickr account I created, I don't even know, a year ago? I've been doing more creative photography recently, and while I plan to go back to deviantART someday when I'm not so embarrassed about not having been there in over a year, at the moment Flickr is suiting my hey-look-I-did-something-slightly-nifty needs. So, er, go have a look, yeah?