• Black Swan Ethereal and intense. The imagery is beautiful and haunting. The emotions are so real and raw. The entire thing engaged all the way through and kept me perpetually astonished. Barbara Hershey did wonderfully as the creepy mom, simeltaneously playing the over-attentive stage mother and the manipulative matron from hell. But then again, every actor played their part with such beauty. I love ballet, so I loved all of the dancing scenes. Despite all of its dark, twisted brilliance, I do no think it's best picture material. It surely deserved to be nominated, but not to win. I feel I was more affected by the visuals and the psychotic visions than the undrlying message. All I really got out of the movie is that ballerinas are crazy and get discarded as soon as they hit thirty. I mean there was the whole "perfection" aspect, and Nina's quest for immortali...

• "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" David Foster Wallace
• "Infinite Jest" David Foster Wallace
• "On Beauty" Zadie Smith
• "The Corrections" Jonathan Franzen
• "Sleepwalk with me" Mike Birbiglia

• Girls to the Front: The True Story of the Riot Grrrl Revolution (Sara Marcus)
• At Home (Bill Bryson)

• Kurt Vonnegut:
  • "Harrison Bergeron"
  • "Unready to Wear"
  • "More Stately Mansions"
  • "Report on the Barnhouse Effect"
• "Teddy" J.D. Salinger
• "Those Who Walk Away From the Omelas" Ursula K. Leguin
• "The Tell Tale Heart" Edgar Allen Poe
• Stephen King
  • "Jerusalem's Lot"
  • "I Am the Doorway"
  • "The Mangler"
  • "The Boogeyman"
  • "Trucks"
  • Children of the Corn"

• Daria
• The Adventures of Pete and Pete
• Futurama (it's coming back, though!)
• Freaks and Geeks
• Scrubs (before everyone went to Medical School and started sucking)
• Clarissa Explains it All
• Arrested Development (crossing fingers for the movie!)

• books
• pocket watches
• nail polish
• the oscars
• star gazing
• fingerless gloves
• toffee
• mismatched socks
• the ocean at night
• sleeping in
• owls
• girl scout cookies
• sociology
• fencing
• spending time with my family
• moonstone
• denmark
• getting excited over weird things
• psychology today
• nonconformity
• dorky glasses

• black maxi skirt
• white Hanes tee
• pleather jacket
• colorful scarf
• white sweater
• denim shirt
• jeans
• Germany scarf
• sequin shirt
• black shorts w/ tights
• denim shirt
• blazer
• plaid shirt
• longed sleeve striped shirt
• jeans
• vintage plaid shirt
• blue HM skirt
• booties or lace-up boots

January

• True Grit
• Hard Candy
• Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
• Easy A
• Blue Valentine

February

• The King's Speech
• Daria: Is it Fall Yet?
• GATTACA
• Scooby Doo
• One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

• Jeans on Campus
• How to Wear Black and Gray Denim
• How to Wear a Boyfriend Blazer
• Outfits Under $100: Campus Casual pt. 1 ...
• Outfits Under $100: Campus Casual pt. 2 ...
• Fashion Challenge: Doc Martens

• ethereal
• ephemeral
• clandestine
• anachronism
• eunoia
• dysphemism
• alterity
• baroque
• superflous
• synesthesia
• cacophony
• vespertine
• irredescent
• chiromancy
• philogyny
• noctivagant
• macabre
• chimerical
• aphrodasaic
• versimilitude

• Day 1 Your favorite song: "On a Neck On a Spit" Grizzly Bear- I feel naming my "favorite song" is limiting, as favorite songs change as frequently as people change. But, as of right now, On a Neck, On a Spit is my absolute favorite. It is very multi-faceted, with many different emotions and feelings attached to it. It's slow and haunting and one point, and urgent yet beautiful at others. I feel dumb that it took so long for me to find this song, especially since Grizzly Bear is one of my favorite bands.
• Day 2 Your least favorite song: "Don't Stop Believing" Journey- For some perverse reason, this song is a staple at most Sweet Sixteens, and is a favorite of most of my peers. I used to like it, but the constant repetition of it made me see the light. It's generic and has no musical merit. I'll never understand why Glee's creators a...

Actors/ Actresses

• Ellen Page
• Zooey Deschanel
• Joseph Gordon-Levitt
• Robin Williams
• Jude Law
• Natalie Portman
• Zach Braff
• Peter Sarsgaard
• Justin Long
• Chloe Sevigny
• Anne Hathaway
• Andy Samberg
• Alton Brown (yes, he's a TV chef, I still love him)
• Mia Farrow
• Paul Rudd
• Rashida Jones

Authors

January

• Labyrinth
• Lost in Translation

• I know how to play the flute and the baritone horn (barely) but I want to learn how to play the harp and the cello
• I’m a vegetarian (but I still eat marshmallows)
• I miss my dog so much, it hurts (she died over the summer)
• My best friends and I are an “ethnic rainbow”. I have an Indian friend, a “West Indian”/African American friend, an Asian friend and one white friend, but she’s Jewish
• California is calling me. I desperately want to go to college there.
• Before I die, I want to see all of the beauty I possibly can in the world
• I have an aversion to answering the door and picking up the phone when I don’t know who it is.
• I wish I could speak Danish
• I think Twitter is dumb and for people w...

• ballet shoes
• the sound of a harp
• your hair underwater
• imperfection
• the sound of a singer's breath in between lyrics
• unadulterated emotion
• the amalfi coast
• heirlooms
• lace
• red lipstick and movie star curls
• letting go
• blown glass
• pillow talk
• "I'm sorry"
• an old graveyard during the day
• forests
• cameos
• rough, old hands
• a good night's sleep
• sea glass

• Anytime I have a horrid case of cramps (which is much more frequent than normal)
• When I was in the Dominican Republic last April and get wretched sunburn even though I re-applied sunscreen every hour out of paranoia.
• When I fractured my ankle after jumping off a 10-inch ledge
• When Matt Marner accidentally slammed his locker on my finger
• When I fell and scraped my knee getting out of the shool bus
• When I fell on wet grass and scraped my foot on the brick path after running home from my next door neighbor's house

American Beauty LOVED it. It's sad and emotional and shocking, but beautiful. Above all, beautiful. The characters are all relateable and thoughtful, but never perfect. Kevin Spacey and Thora Birch are especially wonderful. The themes and ideas present throughout the story, (beauty, normalcy, et) were absoutely brilliant.

Sixth Sense A great movie, all around. It's haunting and border-line disturbing, but balances that with raw human emotion. The ending is brilliant (though unoriginal when compared to Shamylan's other movies), as is Haley Joel Osment. This is one of those movies that's just as great the second or third time around. Not as meaningful as American Beauty, though.

Cider House Rules Didn't even finish watching it. I found it too boring and a bit to0 forced to be taken seriously as an Oscar pick. Michael Caine, of course did wonderfully, as the ether-addicted Orphanage-doctor/ father-...