not too warm here, brr
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Taking my books back to the library. I may spend the afternoon reading on the sofa
That sounds like a perfect rainy afternoon!
Before Sunset thoughts: ahhhhhhhhhh
That was a nice little distraction.
4/5 Hobbits.
they are nice movies π
I watch and read a lot of essays and pods and stuff about movie and tv and one thing I notice is that writers like to effusively write about all the influences and all the references to other works, books and movies and art, in a movie or show.
I would love to sit and discuss with an average real person who doesn't make tv or movies and we can find all the artistic and literary references they have spoken or written that day in the course of their everyday life.
because art is every where and in everyone's everyday lives, they just forgot
The tissue box next to me has a printed marble pattern on it. Marble has been used to beautify objects and spaces for thousands of years. Itβs expensive so itβs used by the wealthy and thus associated with luxury. The echos of that art have traversed thousands of years to be printed on a tissue box.
Had ticket inspectors on the tram do our tickets, get off at Anzac station, then a new crew of em got on at the next stop π€£ be careful on st Kilda Rd today guys!