Clubbing Nightlife On The Amalfi Coast Sounds Like A Fun Way To Spend Time With Friends/family. Imbibe

Clubbing nightlife on the Amalfi coast sounds like a fun way to spend time with friends/family. Imbibe a little, listen, dance, break bread...love life.

Wonder if Mr. Garfield has ever sampled Delizia al Limone, the wonderful lemon cake dessert that makes use of the tasty and succulent lemons for which the Amalfi coast is known? Hope so, because life is too short not to!

ANDREW GARFIELD at Music on the Rocks in Positano, Italy | July 31, 2023.

I love this reflection and story. Perhaps it’s why the pen/pencil diary should never go away entirely. Sometimes I think we get worried and delete our electronic thoughts so quickly—privacy concerns, embarrassment, etc but having a small collection of written thoughts on paper, a physical archive of your past is underrated.

I've been rereading some of my old travel diaries from my early 20's, and one of them seriously reads like a slow-burn fanfic. I was on tour with a small indie band and there was a cute guy my age traveling with the band. And we spent two weeks "accidentally" hanging out and sitting close to each other at the merch table in smoky bars and reading Tolkien poetry to each other and taking walks at the beach and sharing food and stargazing and sleeping next to each other on living room floors and giving each other back rubs and talking late into the night gazing into each other's eyes.

We never kissed. We never even held hands. I pretended to fall asleep on his shoulder once in the car, and one day I gave him a little kiss on the cheek. And that was it. We said goodbye two weeks later and we both thought it was forever and I pined so hard that I threw up.

A month later he sent me an apologetic letter saying that he was sorry for being so presumptuous when I clearly had no romantic interest in him, but that he had to be honest that he was in love with me. And I was like, "What?! He was in love with me this whole time???"

So yeah, we're married now (celebrated ten years last autumn) but if you're ever wondering if your slow-burn fic is too slow, or that your characters are too oblivious, just remember me and my now-spouse mutually pining over each other every single second of the day for two weeks without ever saying a word to each other about how we felt. I was reading my own diary yelling, "JUST KISS HIM ALREADY!"

Reblogging this because it resonates. John Wick was on tv the other evening and I happened to recall this post while watching and yeah, everything about it is brilliant. Talk about drawing the viewer into the world little by little. You want to know this man and figure him out. What's his story? What is he like? WHO is he?

John Wick. We learn his name of course. And then we learn his story. And like children listening at bedtime to the folklore story from which his nickname, Baba Yaga, derives, we sit riveted until the end.

Keanu Reeves, talented and hard working actor: hat's off to you!

And Keanu says something really interesting to me on the first John Wick. He comes to me and he goes, “Look, just so you know, little bit of advice, when you edit, once a week, you should see the edit on the big screen.” And I’m like, OK, we’ll try. Later, alone with him, I’m going, “Well, why?” He’s like, “I’m a big-screen actor.” And I had no fucking idea what that meant. I thought it meant a movie star. And he’s like, “No, no, no, no.”

And he started talking to me about non-verbal acting, like gestures, motions. And he’s like, “Look, when you see me on a little monitor and I give this little look, it’s one thing. But when you see it on a 40-foot screen, that look’s going to say a lot. That’s what I want to play this guy as. So just please be aware of it, so when we punch in on the closeups, it’s going to mean something.” And it kind of really clicked for me right there.

I’ve always been fascinated by non-verbal gesture, body language. Keanu would go through and strip his dialogue down. It was like, “No, no, nope. I’m just going to cuddle the puppy.” In the first John Wick, he doesn’t talk for 32 minutes. Try to sell that one to a studio: You have Keanu Reeves and you’re not going to let him talk.

Chad Stahelski on what the John Wick movies owe to Buster Keaton

Just curious, who's your favorite live-action Spiderman? Tell me why in the tags!

(I am in no way pitting these actors against each other, they all brought something great to Peter Parker and Spiderman)

what really got to me about the barbie movie is how the movie is really about how there is still a little girl inside all of us, and when you walk around the movie theater and see all these grown women dressed in pink and visibly excited, it's a reminder of that. but moreso, it's how your mother is a little girl too. and that all comes together in the end when barbie meets her creator. barbie was made so ruth's daughter could be anything she wanted to be, and she named her after her. in the end when ruth helps barbie become human, she is her mother. and when in the end barbie introduces herself as barbara, she is her daugher again. you can be anything, but being human and mortal and imperfect is the greatest gift of all.

Sometimes I don't want to go with the flow.

Sometimes I want to sit in the water like a rock and let the flow go.