"A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another… One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object — and most particularly an object of vision: a sight."
John Berger, Ways of Seeing (via howtocatchamonster)
"Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in school, where I’d keep the book hidden so I could read during class. Before long I bought a small stereo and spent all my time in my room, listening to jazz records. But I had almost no desire to talk to anyone about the experience I gained through books and music. I felt happy just being me and no one else. In that sense I could be called a stack-up loner."
Haruki Murakami (via eccentric-eeyore)
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"I don’t like the idea of “understanding” a film. I don’t believe that rational understanding is an essential element in the reception of any work of art. Either a film has something to say to you or it hasn’t. If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it."
Federico Fellini (via chriswaltzs)
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Radiohead Albums transformed into Books by StandardDesigns
1. Pablo Honey
2. OK Computer
3. Kid ‘A’
4. In Rainbows
5. Amnesiac
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"Spielberg is a pig. He takes what could have been a decent movie and infiltrates it with loads of unnecessary profanity - enough that our filtering system cut out much of the dialog. His use of profanity in nearly everything he creates is the reason we ban most of his movies lately."
On Lincoln (via onestarnetflixreviews)
