Wes Anderson called Moonrise Kingdom a "memory of a fantasy," and envisioned the whole "These Days" scene from The Royal Tenenbaums when he first heard the song, building the rest of the movie around that moment (I have no source for this, a friend told me, I'll choose to believe it's true).
Rookie
WELCOME TO ROOM 0012
MEMORIES OF FANTASY, FABRIC’S SMALL SHOW.
We stop whatever else
is going on and look each other
in the eyes. Like dogs.
Like morning newspapers
in evening light.
Sunset on 14th Street
You can be sad
and still look so good. You can
say New York is beautiful
and it wouldn’t be a headline
and it wouldn’t be a lie.
Sunset on 14th Street
I don’t want to sound unreasonable
but I need to be in love immediately.
Sunset on 14th Street
Like the story of everyone
who found fame and soon understood
being known is almost enough.
Rehearsals for Utopia
He calls himself a storyteller—and storytellers, he says, are “Death’s Secretaries.”
Our Faces, My Heart…
And you wanted to talk about, like, Rilke and being in love with your lesbian best friend. Drive a car on the sidewalk-level love. Obsessions. Which I loved because I don't have any part of my personality beyond obsessions.
aesthetics over everything
‘Hollywood dreams’ – I mean, think about it. Close your eyes and what does it mean, visually? It means a ray of light, actually, to me, rather than a success story.
The art of everyday
West–to Southern California, to the dark, golden dreams of Los Angeles, to the grand, cinematic emptiness and possibility of Hollywood.
Ed Ruscha
It was summer.
I was there.
So was he.
Peanut Butter
The poems contained in this children’s poetry portfolio are not made for children.
All good slides are slippery
Then by dawn I’m a fold in the fabric’s small show.
Champagne
Not everything is an ending.
Not anything’s worth believing.
Tuesday
This morning, this evening, so soon.
Baldwin
Death and time were always in alliance.
Our Faces, My Heart…
I did wear all white. But only for that summer. I was going through a crisis but I can't remember why.
aesthetics over everything
My ex was perfect except for that he was poor
and sucked
Anonymous Via Groupchat
Monotony and the horizontal go hand in hand. You throw a vertical in and it’s disruptive. It’s like a brick wall. It stands up and you run into it.
Ed Ruscha
And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
Late Fragment
It's the place in the city people go if they want to make out but haven't seen the inside of each other's apartments yet.
aesthetics over everything
If it’s good enough for Walt Disney, it’s good enough for my son.
Ed Ruscha
