Posts Tagged Downton Abbey
IN THE REALM–FEBRUARY
what’s on my radar this month:
BOOKS
what I’ve read or am currently reading:
FILM
films I’ve seen or plan to see this month:
–powerful film about sexual assault on women in the military
–20% of female military veterans have been sexually assaulted. 33% didn’t report it because the report was a friend of the rapist. 25% didn’t report because report was the rapist.
MUSIC
in rotation:
Cuff the Duke, Union
My Gold Mask, Leave Me Midnight
Cuddle Magic, Info Nympho
TELEVISION
what’s on my DVR this month:
–all the intrigue, dirt and backstabbing of Washington, D.C. politics.
–sigh. Timothy Olyphant. I might be confused sometimes but there’s tons of action.
–soapy. Meagan Good.
–I miss Sybil. but I’m still watching the end of S3 Downton Abbey.
–Cold War. spies. KGB in America. Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys.
IN THE REALM–JANUARY
what’s on my radar this month:
BOOKS
–partway through Jennifer Haigh’s excellent short story collection. I plan on reading the other two soon.
FILM
–Django Unchained and Zero Dark Thirty are two of the most intense, moving films I’ve seen in a while. I cried during both. How to Survive a Plague, a riveting Academy Award-nominated documentary about ACT UP and early HIV/AIDS activism, available on Netflix instant.
MUSIC
He’s My Brother She’s My Sister
Nobody Dances in This Town
Park the Van Records
release date: 1/22
Indians
Somewhere Else
4AD
release date: 1/29
The Joy Formidable
Wolf’s Law
Atlantic
release date: 1/22
TELEVISION
Elizabeth McGovern is bloody cool [Downton Abbey update]
Posted by Amy Steele in Celebs, Music, TV on June 24, 2012
She performed with BIG COUNTRY at Isle of Wight festival yesterday.
The stunning Lady Cora of Downton Abbey rocks! love what she’s wearing. very cool. McGovern also performs in her own band called Sadie and the Hotheads!
Week in the Realm: QUOTES
Posted by Amy Steele in Books, TV on March 30, 2011
There are two things I know about white people, they love Rachel Ray and they are terrified of curses.
“Harvest Festival,” Parks and Recreation
I don’t even want to be here. The air is too fresh. It’s disgusting. I can’t breathe.
– April [Aubrey Plaza], “Camping,” Parks and Recreation
To me, love is a pure idea forged in flesh, awkwardly maybe, but it had to connect to somewhere, despite twists and turns of underground cable. An all-to-imperfect thing. Sometimes the lines get crossed. Or you get a wrong number. But that’s nobody’s fault. It’ll always be like that, so long as we exist in this physical form. As a matter of principle.
Dance Dance Dance by Haruki Murakami
Cora, Countess of Grantham [Elizabeth McGovern]: I might send her to New York.
Violet, Dowager Countess of Grantham [Maggie Smith]: I don’t think we’re that desperate.
–Downton Abbey
Week in the Realm: QUOTES
Posted by Amy Steele in Books, DVD on March 20, 2011
How strange that technology has brought us into a world where there are no fixed places anymore. You speak out of nowhere, you can be anywhere, and because nothing can be checked, you choose to imagine is, at bottom, true.
–FAME by Daniel Kehlmann
I just want people to get that this is simple. This is love.
–8: The Mormon Proposition
–So he slipped the hook?
–At least I’m not fishing with no bait.
from Downton Abbey
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