Friday, March 30, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
There's something magical about going to the cinema to see a movie you've heard little about and have not seen the trailer for! Turns out being super busy and disappearing to little dorps up-country has some benefits. Last night I went for a little bit (ok, a lot of) wine and 1/2 price sushi at Food Lovers Market Claremont followed by a little Cinema Nouveau screening of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.
It's set in India (where I fly to on Sunday Morning! *yay*) and the cast is an array of stalwarts of British Cinema as well as the cute guy from Slumdog Millionaire. Go see it.
It's getting some great reviews on www.rottentomatoes.com - my favourite film review site. Otherwise, here's the official trailer:
It's set in India (where I fly to on Sunday Morning! *yay*) and the cast is an array of stalwarts of British Cinema as well as the cute guy from Slumdog Millionaire. Go see it.
It's getting some great reviews on www.rottentomatoes.com - my favourite film review site. Otherwise, here's the official trailer:
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Tuesday Tune: "Blue Eyes" - Cary Brothers
Today's Tuesday Tune comes off the soundtrack of Garden State. If you haven't seen the film, it's a real gem and you really should. The song is sweet and seductive and silly, and makes me think of a boy with blue eyes.
Thursday, March 15, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
On the Book Shelf
The books we're currently reading... (the blurbs are thanks to google books)
Kiki: 'Shantaram' - Gregory David Roberts.
"It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured." So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. Shantaramis narrated by Lin, an escaped convict with a false passport who flees maximum security prison in Australia for the teeming streets of a city where he can disappear. Accompanied by his guide and faithful friend, Prabaker, the two enter Bombay's hidden society of beggars and gangsters, prostitutes and holy men, soldiers and actors, and Indians and exiles from other countries, who seek in this remarkable place what they cannot find elsewhere. As a hunted man without a home, family, or identity, Lin searches for love and meaning while running a clinic in one of the city's poorest slums, and serving his apprenticeship in the dark arts of the Bombay mafia. The search leads him to war, prison torture, murder, and a series of enigmatic and bloody betrayals. The keys to unlock the mysteries and intrigues that bind Lin are held by two people. The first is Khader Khan: mafia godfather, criminal-philosopher-saint, and mentor to Lin in the underworld of the Golden City. The second is Karla: elusive, dangerous, and beautiful, whose passions are driven by secrets that torment her and yet give her a terrible power. Burning slums and five-star hotels, romantic love and prison agonies, criminal wars and Bollywood films, spiritual gurus and mujaheddin guerrillas---this huge novel has the world of human experience in its reach, and a passionate love for India at its heart. Based on the life of the author, it is by any measure the debut of an extraordinary voice in literature.
I'm leaving for India in two and a half weeks, and the universe was hinting big time that I delve into this book. I've only read one chapter, but am already entranced.
Mizz Honey: 'Prisoner of Birth' - Jeffrey Archer
International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in a story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge. If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe your side of the story? Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. However, Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny's determination to seek revenge, and Beth's relentless quest to pursue justice, which ends up with all four fighting for their lives, Thus begins Jeffrey Archer's most powerful novel since Kane and Abel, with a cast of characters that will remain with you long after you've turned the last page. And if that is not enough, prepare for an ending that will shock even the most ardent of Archer's fans.
The CEO: 'The Help' - Kathryn Stockett
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Helpis a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
Kiki: 'Shantaram' - Gregory David Roberts.
I'm leaving for India in two and a half weeks, and the universe was hinting big time that I delve into this book. I've only read one chapter, but am already entranced.
Mizz Honey: 'Prisoner of Birth' - Jeffrey Archer
International bestseller and master storyteller Jeffrey Archer is at the very top of his game in a story of fate and fortune, redemption and revenge. If Danny Cartwright had proposed to Beth Wilson the day before, or the day after, he would not have been arrested and charged with the murder of his best friend. But when the four prosecution witnesses are a barrister, a popular actor, an aristocrat, and the youngest partner in an established firm's history, who is going to believe your side of the story? Danny is sentenced to twenty-two years and sent to Belmarsh prison, the highest-security jail in the land, from where no inmate has ever escaped. However, Spencer Craig, Lawrence Davenport, Gerald Payne, and Toby Mortimer all underestimate Danny's determination to seek revenge, and Beth's relentless quest to pursue justice, which ends up with all four fighting for their lives, Thus begins Jeffrey Archer's most powerful novel since Kane and Abel, with a cast of characters that will remain with you long after you've turned the last page. And if that is not enough, prepare for an ending that will shock even the most ardent of Archer's fans. The CEO: 'The Help' - Kathryn Stockett
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step. Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone. Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken. Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own. Seemingly as different from one another as can be, these women will nonetheless come together for a clandestine project that will put them all at risk. And why? Because they are suffocating within the lines that define their town and their times. And sometimes lines are made to be crossed. In pitch-perfect voices, Kathryn Stockett creates three extraordinary women whose determination to start a movement of their own forever changes a town, and the way women—mothers, daughters, caregivers, friends—view one another. A deeply moving novel filled with poignancy, humor, and hope, The Helpis a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don't.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Schick TV Commercial
I'm a volleyball player at the beginning of this commercial - tough life getting paid to hang out on Cape Town beaches :P
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Excerpt from a letter...
Excerpt from a letter that Richard Feynman wrote to his late wife, 16 months after she passed away at the age of 25.
When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn't have worried. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true - you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else - but I want you to stand there. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.
When you were sick you worried because you could not give me something that you wanted to and thought I needed. You needn't have worried. Just as I told you then there was no real need because I loved you in so many ways so much. And now it is clearly even more true - you can give me nothing now yet I love you so that you stand in my way of loving anyone else - but I want you to stand there. You, dead, are so much better than anyone else alive.
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Tuesday Tunes: Taylor Swift feat. The Civil Wars - Safe & Sound
Beautiful haunting Tuesday Tune today. This song is for the upcoming film adaptation of The Hunger Games. I really hope I can get hold of a copy of the book, I hear it is a goodie. The movie is released in the USA this month, but in the meantime enjoy the music...
Monday, March 5, 2012
Friday, March 2, 2012
A little more fairy fun in the forest
I shot this awhile ago when finding my inner absinthe fairy.
Photographer: Robert Miller
Make-up: Michelle Dickman
Styling: Tarryn Sessions
And of course, the hot boy in my lap: Bjorn Steinbach
Photographer: Robert Miller
Make-up: Michelle Dickman
Styling: Tarryn Sessions
And of course, the hot boy in my lap: Bjorn Steinbach
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