3 Things I Love Today

1. Having a fiance who will work out the whole seating chart by himself, only asking me some questions, mostly taking my advice. I've seen this part cause drama, but this was one of the most low key nights of weddinging ever, so kudos to him for taking on 99% of that frustration while I worked on my lecture for tomorrow.

from www.theguardian.com

2. Kirani James- The seriously fabulous runner who won the first Olympic medal (it was a gold!) for the country of Grenada. Not only did he destroy everyone else in the race, he was seriously the definition of good sportsman, shaking hands warmly with every competitor. Last night in the preliminaries he traded numbers with the runner who had prosthetic legs. Just so much respect and kindness out of one person. I have seen some athletes in this competition who could learn from this guy!

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3. Martha Rosler- One of the best. Today's key inspiration!

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Picture of the Week- Jim Weekend

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Marilyn Monroe-Gentlemen prefer blondes

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Quote of the Week- Love

"A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."

Mahatma Gandhi

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3 Things I Love Today

1.Having cell service- One of those things you appreciate once you don't have it! Today, we all headed to Muir woods so the Boy's friend Jim could see some Redwoods. Apparently everyone else ever also had the same idea, so it was insane there. We could find a parking spot less than a mile and a half from the park (we searched the three of us for at least 45 minutes). So I dropped the boys off and did rounds for another hour to find a spot. Their instructions were to just find the car/me after their hike, since no one had service. Instead, they took some side path and got lost for three hours. Luckily the Boy had service long enough to send me a text to say they werent dead, which I got an hour and a half in when i randomly got service on a boredom walk. He then called me like 40 minutes later to say they were really lost. I moved the car closer (we got there at 3, and I was finally in the loop around 6), then found a map to help them figure out where they were, then went on another pursuit of cell service.We finally caught up with each other at 630. How I miss cell phones when I need them and don't have them!
2. Cotton candy- Delicious and horrible for you. LOVE.

3. Flowers with Julie- Nothing like altar guild to kick off your weekend. Also orange marigolds, purple dahlias, and sunflowers shouldn't work, but they are just heaven. Those dahlias were seriously the best. Yay August at California Farmers Markets!

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3 Things I Love Today

1. Peruvian Tapas at Piqueos in San Francisco- Delicious, the Boy's friend from college is here and we got about half the tapas and they were pretty much all awesome. Great restaurant.
2. Swimming- After we ate out, we went back to Jim's fancypants hotel (he is here for a fancypants job interview). The boys sat in the hot tub and talked to some weirdo couple, and I got to just play in the pool. I love swimming. It is the most relaxing thing in the whole world to just play in the water.
3. Doing your Dirty Work: a sampler of contemporary work about sex- The Center for Sex and Culture have a fantastic show opening this weekend, which really captures much of the mission of the CSC and features a broad range of work about sex, showing the range of intelligent, fun, and emotional work available on a topic that a lot of art institutions still shy away from. It's a great show, and if you are in San Francisco, you should check it out. It also has to be the only place where you have a couple of naked guys walking around your opening. If you haven't been to the CSC yet, go. I guarantee you it will surprise you.

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3 Things I Love Today

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from www.thefreshfilms.com/Movies/bonclyde.htm

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1. Everything Bonnie from Bonnie and Clyde- I watched this movie from 1967 this afternoon, and Faye Dunaway is really pretty fantastic in it. It is amazing to me this movie doesn't get mentioned more often as a good example of a great female character because her badassery is both the catalyst of the whole film and treated as an absolute given. The story is as more hers than anyone else's and she is the most well-rounded and flawed character of them all. Also, and on a much shallower note, her wardrobe is this unbelievable 1930's/60's hybrid that is just jaw dropping in every single scene. Seriously, you could watch the movie just for her clothes, as bizarrely double-dated as they are. Someone waify needs to use this as a starting ground for their personal style. When the film started, I didn't totally get the appeal of Faye Dunaway, but man she is just a quiet powerhouse. Fantastic performance that built a lot out of a character who could have been a stereotype or underwritten a great deal.

from imdb.com

Dunaway on the part-  "Never have I felt so close to a character as I felt to Bonnie. She was a yearning, edgy, ambitious southern girl who wanted to get out of wherever she was. I knew everything about wanting to get out, and getting out doesn’t come easy. But with Bonnie there was real tragic irony. She got out only to see that she was heading nowhere and the end was death.

There was a real kind of fierceness I’d seen in Bonnie that I recognized in myself as well. You look at photos of her and see it in her eyes, the set of her jaw. It takes fierceness in life to get ahead. I already knew that. Bonnie was Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof time. She knew the only way to get what she wanted was through her own sheer force of will. She was driven by her own desire. I know that territory - you do whatever it takes. She wanted to be something special, something out of the ordinary.”

from www.ifc.com/fix/2010/04/dede-allen-1923-2010

2. Dede Hall's editing in Bonnie and Clyde- not only does the film boast two interesting performances from women, but it also has really fantastic cinematography and editing. When I looked up the info on the editor, I was happily surprised that it was a woman. Two sequences come to mind- one is immediately after this particular heist, when a chase scene is spliced together with the interogation of the victims. The whole thing, with the addition of the music, really has a lot of joy and fun (helping to endear the criminals to the audience). Secondly, and I don't want to ruin it in case you netflix instant stream this movie (do it, it's long but it is worth it), but the last two minutes are extremely effecting without being sappy- it's all the editing that does it. It is a tour de force set of cuts and it creates a great emotional ambiguity and strange tension/calm that are so effective and smart.
3. Any Olympic Coverage that isn't Swimming- I am so sick of swimming. It becomes much less impressive that Phelps won so many medals when you see how many freaking swims there are. He has the widest net ever. And, no offense to Amanda Rose who I know has a much better understanding of the sport than I, you can only watch so many races. They are all the same and they are all boring. Also, the big star swimmers are not that likable, other than Missy Franklin who is pretty adorable. But seriously NBC, how much of this do we have to watch when there are so many sports to cover!? So bored with it.

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