I wanna be where the people are. I wanna see…wanna see ‘em dancing.
remember when it was safe® to go outside and you could throw on a coat and grab your bag and take the bus downtown and wander around the street, maybe dipping into a few bookstores along the street, as the sky got dark and the air got that little bite of chilliness into it and you could flip through all the notebooks and paperbacks and touch things and have a conversation with the vendor and see their entire face and then go sit in a cafe and drink coffee and eat a bagel, bumping into people but not minding bc it wasn’t like they could give you a deadly virus, and then go home all happy and rosy-cheeked without a care in the world? yea, me neither.
…and her name was antheia, the supreme, the goddess of gardens, flowers, swamps, and marshes.
I take it extremely seriously to do absolutely the best work possible, and the truest work possible, because I feel like that is what’s going to resonate not only for myself but hopefully for an audience. And there just aren’t yet a lot of varieties of images that my community can pull from. But I am absolutely aware of the significance and take it very seriously because we need it. Not only just for my community — and hopefully what that means to be represented and seen — but also for culture. We’re a part of it. Let us not only see ourselves, but let others see us.
Is it stupid to love someone being someone like you?
— The Handmaiden (2016) dir. Park Chan-wook.
Certainly there’s a huge appeal to the ‘60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change, the boiling point. People rebelled against things - the hippies, the feminists, the protesters. All these things just built up and boiled over. I think people can relate to that today.