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Jon and Joy: 40 Days of Dating

life & love January 28, 2014 Leave a comment

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Back in 2013, Tim and Jessica’s 40 Days of Dating took the world by storm. This January, a good friend of mine and his friend decided to try the same experiment. Jonathan is an Art Director and Joy is a Creative Manager. Both live in LA. Friends, they decided to transition gradually into dating, trying it for 40 days and writing about their experiences. Their story is currently on day 7, and it’s my favorite post thus far because it’s honest, raw, and intensely relatable (for anyone who has ever struggled with commitment and not getting answers, or lack of commitment and communication issues, respectively).

Also? Since they’re both artistically inclined, their accompanying illustrations are wonderfully quirky.

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You can also follow the story on Instagram and Twitter!

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I Need Romance 3

film & television December 30, 2013 Leave a comment

Teaser for the upcoming Kdrama rom-com I Need Romance 3 (stand-alone, not a sequel) and wow, the sexual chemistry between Kim So-Yeon and Sung Joon is crackling. Kim So-Yeon is among my top 5 Korean actresses so I think I’ll be checking this out. 

Quotidian

this & that December 12, 2013 Leave a comment

An hour later she stretched out a bare arm and tickled my ear and said: “Would you consider marrying me?”

“It wouldn’t last six months.”

“Well, for God’s sake,” she said, “suppose it didn’t. Wouldn’t it be worth it? What do you expect from life – full coverage against all possible risks?”

–The Long Goodbye, Raymond Chandler

Heirs MV – I Will Always Want You

film & television, this & that December 1, 2013 Leave a comment

Heirs has me, heart and soul. It’s not that it’s a particularly well-written show, but the romance within it has that spark of sheer, achingly real magic that I look for in my favorite romances. I’m obsessed with the below music video. (Note: you can watch Heirs online on Dramafever). The song is a stellar cover of Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” by Sam Tsui and Kylee.

Laughter

life & love November 30, 2013 Leave a comment

Something about the clear chemistry between the couple in this picture just gets me.

Electricity and laughter. Don’t settle for less in a relationship.

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Marriage Advice from Jane Austen

books poetry lit, life & love November 24, 2013 Leave a comment

“In the provincial world of Austen’s novels, small-mindedness is among the greatest of personal and social follies, for which an expansive library serves as a counterbalance. Darcy’s fetching library serves as metaphor for a variety of qualities in a marriage partner today which might counteract contemporary excesses and limitations: broad-mindedness in an age of identity politics and narrow partisanship, integrity in an era of brutal pragmatism, strong work ethic in a culture of shortcuts, steadiness in a swirl of passing fancies. While countless other qualities might substitute for those represented by Darcy’s library, these attracted me to my husband and have deepened my love for him more over the years. Not to mention the fact that he built me my own library, and its shelves are overflowing.”

I Learned Everything I need to know about marriage from Pride and Prejudice, via The Atlantic

Caffeinated Links: Being Single, Before Midnight, The Hobbit, J.J. Abrams

film & television, this & that March 31, 2013 Leave a comment

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Devastatingly accurate movie reviews, via Buzzfeed

What it’s like to be single, As Told By Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Stone, And Rebel Wilson

Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy On Jesse And Celine & The Making Of Linklater’s ‘Before’ Trilogy, via The Playlist

‘The Hobbit’ Passes One Billion, via Mashable – Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” has joined a very special club: it is now among the 15 movies in history that have earned more than one billion dollars worldwide.

J.J. Abrams ‘Just Getting Started’ on New “Star Wars” film, via Rolling Stone. “How we were going to get there [with Star Trek], what the choices were going to be, who was going to be in it – all of those things I knew would have to be figured out, but it was all based on a foundation of this indescribable, guttural passion for something that could be. It’s a similar feeling that I have with Star Wars. I feel like I can identify a hunger for what I would want to see again and that is an incredibly exciting place to begin a project. The movies, the worlds could not be more different but that feeling that there’s something amazing here is the thing that they share.”

Caffeinated Links

this & that March 25, 2013 Leave a comment

Everything you need to know about Game of Thrones season 3 (via Flavorwire)

The penultimate episode of the Lizzie Bennet Diaries was dizzyingly romantic and wonderful (Youtube)

First teaser trailer for the third Riddick movie (coming out 2013) is out. Not much but shadows, special effects, and Vin Diesel’s ever-impressive gravelly voice. (Trailer)

Government-encouraged hacking for high school students (The New York Times)

This basically stars everyone ever. 10 Reasons Why You Absolutely Must Check Out the BBC’s Radio Version of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere (Pajiba)

Goodbye Lizzie Bennet Diaries

film & television March 25, 2013 Leave a comment

If you’re female, and haven’t been watching the original Youtube series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, you don’t know what you’re missing. Go. Watch. Now. Your ovaries will thank you. If you have, well wasn’t the penultimate episode the most adorable thing ever?
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Quotidian

books poetry lit March 18, 2013 Leave a comment

“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”

-Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina