Pieces of (and Moments In) Media That Evokes Emotion

from early 2021 - late 2024

(includes non-media related things too)

after yang trailer

why can't i by liz phair (specifically used in the movie 13 going on 30)

this photo ↓ of pj harvey

george harrison photographed by pattie boyd

“in the absence of a natural disaster we are left again to our own uneasy devices. we are here on this island in the middle of the pacific in lieu of filing for divorce” -Joan Didion The White Album

the dedication page of Just Kids by Patti Smith:

'amour fou'

‘sein und zeit’ (being and time)

the idea of magnum opus

that scene in Almost Famous where Sapphire talks abt how important it is to be a fan and to love smthg so much: “To truly love some silly little piece of music, or some band, so much that it hurts.”

that scene in A Christmas Tale where faunia is basically overflowing with emotion and happiness

the whole of Just Kids by Patti Smith

the feeling of being almost done with a book - one that brings so much joy and easy to read because it’s so good

the ending of Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf:

“the hug” painted by egon schiele:

this excerpt from Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion: “once in a dry season, i wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends with when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. although now, some years later, i marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, i recall with embarrassing clarity the flavour of those particular ashes. it was a matter of misplaced self respect”

the whole chapter “on keeping a notebook” in Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

~another~ quote from Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion:

you know what - all of Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion, my favorite of her books so far

Gilmore Girls - especially the beginning and when lorelai says “i smell snow” on first snow episodes

the film Asako 1 & 2 (japanese title: 寝ても覚めても 'whether asleep or awake'):

this quote from My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante: “I was satisfied with these thoughts. I was pleased with everything, in those days, with my love for Nino, with my sadness, with the affection that I felt surrounded by, with my own capacity to read, think, reflect in solitude.”

baker 4 baker 4 BAKER FOUR (one of my favorite skate videos that holds so much nostalgia and comfort for me)

quote from The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir: “little star that i see, drawn by the moon”

limerence

the film Before Sunset - the scene in the car specifically when céline is about to touch jesse but then doesn’t and the ending “baby you’re gonna miss that plane” “i know”:

“I can’t fall apart because i’ve never fallen together” -Andy Warhol (quoted in Things I Don’t Want to Know by Deborah Levy)

oneiric

quote from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez: “Only God knows how much I loved you”

FML by Seventeen - 'i don't understand but i luv u' specifically

from Actress by Anne Enright: “what did i ever do, to deserve something as beautiful as you?”

watching Ryusuke Hamaguchis Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy - reminiscing in the feeling of watching something good and utterly moving

excerpt from Patti Smiths' Devotion:

my acquisition of the Sofia Coppola Archive, signed!, most prized possession:

the entirety of the anime NANA- being emotionally attached and intertwined with something as this show is a blessing of life

the Gregg Araki film Doom Generation restoration and uncut - had an indescribable emotional reaction to finishing this masterpiece, started tearing up just thinking about it - movies truly are what makes the gears in me turn especially this one

Black Swans by Eve Babitz - the book and the short story where the loss of her great love coincided with the beginning of her very great writing career

'I Know' by Fiona Apple from the album When the Pawn…

One Hundred Years of Solitude series teaser (my fave book ever adapted)

the teaser trailer for The Brutalist