TOKYO GIRLS

Living in a sorority and making the best friends I’ve ever had in my life and knowing people better than I ever thought I could has made me realize the true meaning of friendship. I think this quote sums up a good friend.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.  The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.  -Henri Nouwen

I’m just sitting in my study lounge, which is actually called S.T.A.R. (an acronym for study, tutor, and read) and talking to my friend John. He has a cool blog by the way. He actually has a theme with his posts. I’m like all over the place with my sporatic thoughts. My friend just broke up with her boyfriend. It’s like break-up season I think. I feel like most of the people I talk to are going through that phase getting over someone. It’s sad really. We came up with the phases of a break-up (although it varies).
1. Denial (basically) – You tell yourself and everyone else that you are fine and you are better off. You can actually keep up a smile and be relatively happy for a few days max.

2.The breakdown- The worst and most depressing/pathetic part of a break up. You feel like you can’t function without his touch. It takes extreme will-power not to send him a cute little text that says, “hey what’s up? thinking of you “. You don’t see the point in making plans or going out. It’s really tragic. You may even be expecting him to call you back and say, “I’ve made a terrible mistake!” You are hoping for that. Your playlist consists of Alanis Morrissette, old Green day, and Journey.

3.Friend Intervention- Your friends are sick of all your quoting emo songs and refusal to shower. They drag you out for some “girls night out” type fun. You then realize that there are a lot of “other fish in the sea” and your spirits are lifted. You now can resume doing your daily activities like showering and attending class, but the nights are still sad because you don’t have your nightly day recap chats with your boo.

4.Relapse/Move on- This phase is what separates the ones that hold on to the past for too long from the ones that can get up and go! You may go back into a slump or pick up your life, still holding a sad thought or two. Every once in awhile you may think of the good times you had, but it doesn’t stop you from doing anything! You may not be ready to date again, but you don’t feel bad looking anymore

5.New Boo- Oh the bliss of a new relationship! Hopefully this is the one or it’ll happen all over again!

Note: I just made all this up.

In my Social Psychology class we were discussing which sex tends to be more romantic. It turns out that men are more romantic initially, while women are more cautious. Then there is this point when women decide that they are allowed to fall in love with this guy. That is the point when the romantic-ness of the women surpasses the man’s romantic-ness. This is the point when it sucks to get broken up with the most. Sorry

I embarked on my first (albeit, brief and very rough) collaborative drawing.  I decided it was best to enact it in a social setting with someone, so I invited my friend Taylor Ashbrook.  We went to a bar near Hynes in Boston, and found several people who were willing to draw with us.   In fact, I only completed one of the drawings below.  It was great fun to see people enjoying themselves while studying and talking with other people, making drawing more like a social event than a solo sojourn in a studio.   A guy named Keith said to me, “I really liked this project, thanks for letting me draw.”  PoS became exciting last night!

Next time, I will be sure to video tape this event.

Relax. Nap. Best friend. Jessie. Zach. Feature films. Shorts. Stephanie. Joe. Chinese. Fortune cookie fight.

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Thank you so much for passing by so often. Today your are 200 223 Flickr viewers, 71 057 WordPress viewers, 61 770 Ipernity viewers and many form Facebook to have been visiting my photostreams.

Your precious comments and your kind support are my energy to carry on this work.

I am not the photographer of this picture, it was shot a few decades ago, I was a kid then biting a “Elle” cover magazine with Liz Taylor on it.

It says in French “Liz se fait une beauté à Paris” and “Comment défatiguer votre écolier?” which means in English “Liz comes to prettify herself in Paris” and “How to untire your schoolboy?”

All this is about celebrity bites but for me YOU are the celebrities right now…!!!

Thank you for your words and for reading mine.

Namaste to all of you. 

So, I made a new friend, but Mia and Ana are very jealous. In fact not only them. Also other “real life” friends dislike my new friend. And it is not fair, it made me lie and it made me feel bad about myself so that Ana and Mia tried to take care of me. Mia especially on Friday and Saturday and then Ana took over. I have fought them though tonight. I had dinner. A good, healthy dinner.
Anyway, so I am glad I made this new friend. She is great. We have a lot in common and we don’t judge each other. I even asked her if she is anorexic and that I was worried about her, because she is really skinny, but she reassured that she is fine. That she actually tries to gain weight, but that her mother is also really tiny… so I believe her, although it is hard to believe. she is a pretty, but dangerously skinny girl. And also my other friends commented on that and said pejoratively that she was sick and anorexic. And they just looked at me like I was stupid when I said, that’s he may be, but that this was nothing to judge someone by and that she may have some problems because of that and that Anorexia and eating disorders in general are mental illnesses. They really looked as me as if I was talking crap. They don’t understand. And because of that it is making me angry that they judge her. They don’t know her. They talked to her a couple of hours-that’s it. Frustrating. So now I realized I would feel bad if i would tell them I was going to hang out with her. And since I do they kind of distanced themselves from me. I hate that. Talk to me but don’t treat me like that.

Anyway, I also saw this guy again this weekend. He was in town for a night and he came with his cousin to meet me at a bar where me and my new friend hang out. I went home with him and we got home at like 3am, staying at a Hard Rock Bar or something that late. It was good, fun and interesting people. And M. and I talked a lot, too, I did not tell him everything I talked about with my therapist but mentioned a couple of things, especially my problem with men and the way my brother treated me when I was younger. I also said that I had bad experience with men sexually but I did not say what happened. He asked me if I ever mentioned it to my therapist… and that I should. It’s difficult though and again, I have said that before – ye more I think about my past ye weirder it feels. There is so much I don’t even remember. I always thought I will never forget my life, but I have. I wonder what my life was like when I was little? It must not have been as great as I have always wanted it to be. I wasted my youth and there must be a reason why I did that.
It’s painful to think about it because I do not have an answer at this very moment, but I can sense the evil as strange as it may sound.

I want to start living again. I want to be whole with my soul and body.
I am working hard to get there but I am stumbling, there are too many rocks on the path and it’s sometimes too dark to see them before it’s too late.

¿De qué trata?: Basada en dos historias reales, la última película de Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle 1993, You’ve Got Mail 1998) Julie & Julia 2009 narra la historia de Julie Powell (Amy Adams), una joven que siente que está desperdiciando su vida y que decide dedicar un año a preparar todas las recetas de “Dominando el Arte de la Cocina Francesa” (Mastering the art of french cooking), clásico libro de cocina de la célebre cocinera Julia Child (Meryl Streep) Así, Julie decide aprender a cocinar a su manera con la legendaria cocinera Julia. Durante el año que supone su experiencia como alumna de Child, escribe cada día sus experiencias en un blog que ganará múltiples adeptos.

            Si bien Nora Ephron no es santo de la devoción de casi nadie, puesto que a pesar de alguna película interesante no ha dejado una gran marca en el séptimo arte, no se puede objetar que el atractivo reparto y ese toque de dulce comedia que inspira la película es una poderosa razón para acercarse a ver Julie & Julia. Lo mejor de la película son sin duda sus actrices: Meryl Streep y Amy Adams vuelven a juntarse tras la fuerza que ambas demostraron en ‘La Duda’, haciendo que Julie & Julia tenga dos de las mejores interpretaciones femeninas del año, dándole un punto a favor para no ser otra comedia del montón. En cuanto a la parte cinéfila se refiere, subrayar el realismo en cuanto a localizaciones y temporalidad se refiere.

            La película además posee una narración curiosa, pues cuenta dos historias paralelas y entremezcladas muy parecidas, las de Julie y Julia. Pero no en el mismo tiempo, pues mientras una trascurre en 1949, la otra sucede en el 2002. Más que una comedia romántica, Julie & Julia es un manual sobre la superación personal y el alcance de metas imprescindibles para nuestra satisfacción. En este sentido, se presenta la historia de Julia (Streep), que en los años 50 y siendo extranjera allá donde iba (países o aprendizajes: mujer americana en Europa), superaba las trabas de los prejuicios con tal de exprimir hasta la última gota de su creatividad y de su vitalidad, lastrada además por su incapacidad de tener hijos a los que alimentar. Y en el Nueva York, post 11 – S, Julie (Adams), una treintañera más, perdida en la insatisfacción de una generación destinada a lo superficial, a lo práctico, a lo acomodaticio, que encuentra en el legado de Julia y en su vivaz espíritu, la brújula para reorientar sus pasiones, sus ambiciones y su ansia de vida.

          Y aunque hacia la mitad del metraje este se vuelve excesivamente repetitivo y no aprovecha historias ya presentes, Ephron tiene tal pulso emotivo en lo dramático y en lo cómico durante la primera mitad, que todo se perdona, más contando con dos actrices tan extraordinarias como Adams y Streep, que asumen el timing cómico y la sensibilidad de la historia. Tal vez Un poco menos de duración no hubiera estado mal, ya que al película se llega a sentir un tanto cansada, desluciendo grados de ese sabor que la sustenta.

Al grano: Lo mejor es ver esta película con el estómago vacío porque al salir de ella, estarás deseando degustar una buena comida o cena. Y para terminar una pequeña frase repetida por Julia Child: ¡Bon appetit!

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