Last week, I wrote about patriotism, and I mentioned the protests of Donald Trump’s inauguration. I questioned joining those protests. Last week seems like a long time ago. It’s before we choked on our coffee: “Oh god, looks like he’s actually going to build a wall. I’d hoped that was just empty election posturing.” Obviously,…
It’s been a long time since I loved a movie as much as I loved Hidden Figures. Sure, it’s a biopic – it’s a sort of formulaic biopic – but man, they do it so well! The acting is great, the script is great, and even though there might not have been any shocking twists…
As a girl, growing up with an old stack of my mother’s Vanity Fair magazines, I was a little bit fascinated by Jackie Kennedy. I thought she was beautiful. Those Vanity Fairs were also my first introduction to fame, as a concept. It took me months to understand why we’d want to read stories about…
Z and I aren’t avid gallery-goers, by any means. Some art I like, some I don’t. Some, quite frankly, I think is vastly overrated. But some? When you see something beautiful, it really is a treat for the eyes. The other night, we watched Sky Ladder, a Netflix documentary about Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, who works…
This weekend, we powered through 3 episodes of HBO’s new series, Westworld. I loved it, and am excited for tonight’s fourth episode. I don’t usually like Westerns (except No Country for Old Men), but this one has a healthy dose of Sci Fi and dystopia. I’ve also seen it compared to Lost, a “mystery box”…
One of my close friends recently watched Tiny Furniture. When she told me, I paused: “What did you think?” She (hesitant): “It was good.” Me: “I thought it was so painful. Oh my God.” She: “So painful!” The film, which some have described as a comedy, follows the young Aura as she flounders around New…
Most of my clothing is highly practical. Flat shoes, sturdy trousers. Some of it is less so – silk blouses or shifts I try to keep brilliantly white. Only a couple of items are in my closet because I love them: I saw them and I thought: “That is so pretty!” and now wait, sometimes…
Obviously, I watched Beyonce’s Lemonade several times, and loved it. Obviously. And then obsessively called the two people I knew would watch it until they’d watched it, so we could recap. One observed: “She’s so dramatic!” For those of you who haven’t seen it, the visuals attach the struggles of the singer’s marriage to the…
In the segment of Lemonade labelled: “Denial”, Beyonce recites part of Warsan Shire’s “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love”. We’ve just seen her jump off the side of a building, as though ending her life; she’s chanting while floating in water – almost as in utero: “I tried to change closed my mouth more…
The other night, I zipped through and watched bits of both Sex and the City movies on Netflix. Z caught me: “Ah, you’re watching this?!” I was, momentarily, embarrassed. Me: “What?! Did you even ever watch Sex and the City?” Z: “Yeah, a few episodes.” Me: “Oh God, I loved it.” You know why I…
