Charlton Heston and some damn, dirty ape on the set of Planet of the Apes (1968, dir. Franklin J. Schaffner)
Photo by Dennis Stock for Magnum.
I’m surfing!! I’m surfing! oh yes I am!
This weekend will be interesting. I’m not sure who exactly i’m going to be with, this is just one of those random things and I feel free. I want to break free!!!
God.
People are so goddam sensitive these days. This is what I get for choosing to go on this path. I should have double, triple checked first.I feel like crap for something I didn’t mean to do. You should have seen your face. It was fucking priceless.
“You can never know if a person forgives you when you wrong them. Therefore it is existentially important to you. It is a question you are intensely concerned with. Neither can you know whether a person loves you. It’s something you just have to believe or hope. But these things are more important to you than the fact that the sum of the angles in a triangle is 180 degrees. You don’t think about the law of cause and effect or about modes of perception when you are in the middle of your first kiss.” — Jostein Gaarder,Sophie’s World (via brubismarie)
(via bookmania)
“There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.” — Ernest Hemingway, an American author and journalist. His distinctive writing style, characterized by economy and understatement, influenced 20th-century fiction, as did his life of adventure and his public image. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954. Hemingway’s fiction was successful because the characters he presented exhibited authenticity that resonated with his audience. Many of his works are classics of American literature. He published seven novels, six short story collections, and two non-fiction works during his lifetime; a further three novels, four collections of short stories, and three non-fiction works were published posthumously.
(via bookmania)
“This shot is the most expensive shot in silent film history. It was filmed in a single take, that had to be perfect, with a real train and a ‘dummy’ engineer (notice the white arm hanging out the conductors window). Some of the locals who came to watch the filming, thought the dummy was a real person and screamed in horror; supposedly, one person even fainted.”
(via theloudestvoice)
Revenge.
The lesson for today is all about revenge. The evil R that strikes where it hurts and where it can leave a mark.
There is a thin line between love and hate. I should not care but for some reason, I still do. But that’s too tiring.
I really am my cat’s pet. From the moment I wake up, up until I retire to my favorite part of the day - sleep, I am completely devoured by Minnie’s presence, (her hair on my face and all)
My morning duties are completely devoted to her. I clean her litterbox and bowl, I mix tuna with her catfood, I play with her - these are responsiblities that are expected of me. Not doing these things would mean seeing Minnie’s acts of defiance.
Anna and Mark met each other back in college. They fell in love and intertwined their lives and with each finger perfectly fitting the other’s, their relationship went on for 9 long years. By then, we were all wondering what the next step was. Was it ever going to lead to what we all expected? We all hoped that a marriage proposal from Mark would ensue and we held our breaths until Anna told us the wonderful news.
Wedding proposals whether done in a dimly-lit restaurant or at the back of a pick-up truck, are carefully stitched together to get to the main objective of the action: a resounding yes from the beloved. Mark had to be more creative with his stitches, after all how do you surprise somebody you have been with for almost a decade? He could have opted for the traditional candle-lit dinner, my sister would have said yes anyway but because my brother-in-law is a spawn of Mr. Darcy from Pride and Prejudice he decided to take 2 steps back and overcome his fear of the water first before proposing.
Ocean lovers often declare that their romance with nature is something that is innate, a love affair that will go on without end, Mark on the other hand does not like the ocean, he does not like to swim in it nor does he like to hang around it. He prefers being in his bubble of comfort away from the depths of the scary sea. However Mark realized that bursting his bubble was the only way he could prove that he was fit for forever. He secretly took diving lessons and made plans to propose to Anna who was already a diver, 40ft deep into the ocean.
It was November 22, 2009. My sister was almost done with her morning dive when she noticed that her instructor was luring her to another direction, far from where the other divers were. A white sign that seemed to bear her name caught her eye and she stopped and took a second to find out what was going on. Then there it was a tarpaulin with her full name and the words “Will you marry me?” She looked closer and saw Mark in a tuxedo kneeling down on the sand with a nervous smile on his face. No words could ever capture what my sister felt at that moment. Being proposed to, realizing the measures taken in order to get to that definitive moment and most importantly feeling loved in the bottom of the ocean, that was what it took for her to say yes to forever.
al pacino on robert de niro: “i remember seeing things that bob had done in the past, and very recent times, and have been taken with the work so much that i even wrote him about it. some of his great work - which is plenty - i was staggered by the subtlety of his portrayal and the warmth, which is what we often talk about with bob among us actors who admire him so. it is the warmth and the way he approaches things.”
robert de niro on al pacino: “al, over the years, we’ve taken roles from each other. people have tried to compare us to one another, to put us against one another and to tear us apart personally. i’ve never seen the comparison frankly. i’m clearly much taller, more the leading-man type. honestly, you just may be the finest actor of our generation - with the possible exception of me.”
(via siopaopropaganda)
