Quotes: Oscar Wilde

“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”

Eye Candy

Movies: Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino - "I am Love"

Quotes from their interview with The Guardian:

About the relationship of love to loneliness."
The latter is, for her, "the last great taboo of modern western civilisation. Capitalism is built on the idea that one can go out and buy another scented candle and get less lonely somehow. But I think the deal is that you are fully lonely, and the sooner we accept and embrace our loneliness, the healthier we are. And that real love has nothing to do with that romantic idea of oneness, of distracting and healing each other from our loneliness, it's about witnessing each other as individuals and saying: I'll show you mine if you show me yours."
Tilda Swinton

About love and family
"I personally don't think that blood ties should be something that signifies so much more than anything else," he says. "I understand perfectly when somebody leaves their family for good. I do believe that if you stick to these blood ties you are going to stick to a big hypocrisy. I have always felt ashamed and embarrassed by the idea that there is something of such value in a family. It's awful, it's terrible."

There's always such a danger with families," says Swinton, "this myth that members of one family represent each other and carry some kind of collective identity. It's so endlessly problematic and wasteful." So why do people cling to it? Control, says Guadagnino. Inheritance, says Swinton. "Not just that of capital, but the whole idea of the energy matrix going through every family; the sort of theme tune. Finding any sense of individual identity is always rather challenging."


Read the whole interview here
source: The Guardian

Music: Goldfrapp - "Head first"

I have very mixed feelings about this album.....and did not top felt mountain....
listen to their newest album and judge for yourself:
http://listen.grooveshark.com/#/album/Head+First/3931499

Interview: Eva Green

One has the sense that she is still calibrating her career. There was a point, after Casino Royale, when she could have relocated to LA and become Hollywood's French temptress of choice. She decided this was not for her. "I was in LA last week for a meeting and I don't like it. I get knots in my stomach and have to walk around a museum to make myself feel better. It's a cruel place, very hierarchical. If you're in the middle, you're shit, and if you're at the bottom, you're nothing. The people have no idea about anything that doesn't come from Hollywood. Most of them have never heard of The White Ribbon or A Prophet, and the only film of mine they know is Bond, because it made lots of money. I'm the Bond girl. It's as though it's written on my forehead."

(....)"It doesn't satisfy me completely, this job," she says. "I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes."
read the whole interview here:

Cool peeps: Pippi Longstocking

Personal hero.

Art: Josefine Lycke

Josefine Lycke is one of my favorite Norwegian artists. Her work is among other things, an opposition to the rejection of sensorial beauty in Art.