books!

I love watching people who smile while they're reading.

a musical

i saw the film "once" today. it's a contemporary musical, set in dublin, and is absolutely brilliant, simple, tiny! it explores the process of music, music as a language, music as healing, music as community and communication. there's this one scene where after spending an entire weekend in a studio recording songs, the musicians all go on a little road trip to the ocean and when they get there, they run around on the sand and play frisbee and run with a dog and it's the most beautiful scene in the world. the way it was shot and then edited, with the music beneath...and you can just feel how the connection among the people is so deeply rooted in the music they made together.

don't you sometimes just feel like you're going to jump out of your body with excitement when you think about the power of music???


also! "paris, je t'aime" was amazing!!!
and coming up is a summer of great cinema! i'm excited.

new york's been a little cold lately...still the parks are all so GREEN. the trees are really living.

this morning

this morning i went on a walk in the east river park. families were having picnics, and people were sailing on the water between brooklyn and manhattan, and groups played games of basketball and soccer and baseball in the fields.

there is a bridge near my apartment that allows pedestrians to cross the FDR highway and get to the path by the river. on my way back home, crossing the bridge back over to my neighborhood, i passed a young boy walking toward the park. he was carrying a basketball and on top of the ball, he carried a silver tray with a homemade cake on it covered in white frosting. this made me feel so nice! he was going to celebrate a birthday with sweets and basketball by the river.

every weekend, my neighborhood feels like summer.