surprised no one else has mentioned her! Florence Welch has the voice, looks, and passion of a pre-raphaelite siren luring you into the ocean to drown because that’s how much she loves you.
i forgot how much i love her and her work. discovered her in my teens, her songs give me so much comfort. listening to flatlands from unknown rooms, i am very teary atm helppp :,,,,)
This applies to popular works that are often recommended by others (for me: bell hooks’s work, Man’s Search for Meaning, Braiding Sweetgrass) but it also applies to the classics that people don’t necessarily recommend because they’re difficult— often assigned instead of recommended because they’re important— but their significance and perceived difficulty often overshadows the fact that yes, they’re actually really that fucking good. The works in this category that come to mind for me are Moby Dick and Le Samouraï. What are yours?
Der Himmel uber Berlin. Slow cinema. Magical Realism. The actors that are cast as angels are entirely believable as angels. A beautiful yearning romance with not only a woman, but the human experience. Nick Cave is there. A New Year’s film, to me.
if you don’t feel like a dancer, try martial arts! It gave me better balance, control, and flexibility, and the dojo I was at was very welcoming. I’m getting clumsy again after moving and I really need to start again!
