the blue bird

last friday i sipped on my vanilla milkshake and watched the blue bird on youtube. it's a silent film made in 1918 about these two poor children, mytyl and tyltyl, who embark on a journey to find the blue bird of happiness, at the request of fairy berylune. they're assisted by the souls of some things that are in their house who take the form of humans. the film is really cute and magical and the scenery and outfits and messages are all so enchanting. i'd most definitely recommend this film, i loved it so much. the children get to visit mother night and the land of luxury and chief happiness and the happy dead and the unborn children. by the end of the film i'm so jealous that i never experienced such wonder and beauty but i'm also very in love. silent films are really amazing because they can move you without a word being spoken. all that you hear is music.

when i finished the blue bird i felt so cheerful and i just wanted to listen to doris day and dance around the house aw. :-) i had never print screened anything before but i did attempt to when i watched the film so i'm going to share them. it's pretty cool. oh and the above images are from either google or tumblr, i can't remember.

i also watched the 1940 adaptation of the blue bird in which shirley temple stars. i didn't like this one so much but i really did love when mr and mrs luxury said: "they're just too young to appreciate luxury." "or maybe we're too old to escape from it." there's another later version from i think the 70s but i had barely started it before i got bored.

~ heaven is where you and i kiss each other ~

~ whatever will be will be ~

monday moodboard

i watched loads of films last week: thumbelina, coney island, the blue bird (1918 & 1940) then valerie and her week of wonders. czech new wave and silent films are really cool, i plan to watch more some time. on saturday i went to my aunty's place and she had scented candles lit around the house and beautiful african art everywhere. today was really weird. i got a 5 minute detention because i sat on the floor in spanish lol. my art teacher is also very very worried about me and she's going to speak to my year head. i don't even know why. i hope she understands that i don't go out of my way to be so 'unresponsive' or anything. she said it's like i'm not even in the room. i keep wondering why there are no school counselors or anything, someone to just sit in silence with or ramble about everything to and they might not mind so much.

you can't choose what stays and what fades away

beautiful black men

richie havens (above) and malcom x (right)

in assembly today one of the english teachers spoke about the importance of reading, using malcom x as an example. she said that at age 13 he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a 'petty crime' - breaking and entering i think - where there was an excellent, rare collection of great books. over time malcom x became an intelligent, self-educated man. that's pretty inspiring, considering he was an inarticulate street hustler who had dropped out of school prior to his imprisonment. he changed his own life and turned something negative into something positive, i admire that.

i also learnt today, through this blog post, that a musician called richie havens died today. i had never heard of him before but it sounds like he was an amazing guy. his guitar playing was really cool and he also did poetry. this man opened woodstock festival in 1969 with a 3 hour performance while other musicians arrived and the crowd never got tired. richie havens once said that he only sang songs that moved him. how special and lovely. :-)

monday moodboard

i just finished watching the help. it's a wonderful film oh my god it really made me cry. i didn't go to school today. i told my mum that my head hurts but i just didn't feel up to it at all. she stayed home as well, her back hurts a lot and we haven't done anything. we talked a little bit and decided that in the summer we'll go to this car boot sale near my aunty's house then maybe go strawberry picking afterwards with my brothers and cousins. :-) i'm not looking forward to school this week, i'm really not.

meet my husband ; )

"my sickness is that i'm fascinated by human behaviour, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people"

"i was always fascinated by people who are considered completely normal, because i find them the weirdest of all"

hands

hands are so very special. i read this beautiful article and it's one of those things that i think everybody should read, i loved it: http://paperdarts.org/literary-magazine/nonfiction-dj-lee.html

"drawing hands" by m.c escher
i studied him in art in year 8
i dislike my art lessons

monday moodboard

i go back to school tomorrow ew. last week was really nice at times because i kept thinking very positively about my body. i've put on some weight now and i feel really comfortable with it even though i still wonder if i look a bit skinny. anyhoo i love these pictures oh my god fairies are real i don't even care what anybody says. i want to be some sort of goddess beautiful queen supreme uber cool lipstick wearing woman when i'm 17, and for that birthday i think i know how i want to celebrate it. me and some cool weird crazy friends are going to dress up as fairies and have a picnic in a forest somewhere and dance around and sing and maybe camp and stuff our faces with haribos. i love haribos.