i live vicariously through tv and film.
and sometimes i cry because one direction
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i live vicariously through tv and film.
and sometimes i cry because one direction
I think it’s safe to say that we’d all like to be this koala, am I right ladies?
(Source: barkingsparrows)
Acclaimed Australian filmmaker Sarah Watt passed away after a long battle with cancer last Friday. While I’m not the biggest fan of Australian film and television, there are some exceptional artists in the field and Watt was definitely one of them for me.
More than most directors, her films drew on her personal experiences. Her 2005 film, Look Both Ways, gorgeously incorporated animation into live action to tell a story about a man (played by her husband William McInnes) coping with a cancer diagnosis, which she was dealing with herself at the time.
She then chronicled the experience of illness with humour and heart in her 2009 film My Year Without Sex, which follows a couple trying to cope when the thirty-something wife and mother nearly dies from a brain aneurysm and is advised, on her discharge from hospital, that one of the risk factors is sex.
I studied Look Both Ways as a text for my Year 12 English exam in high school, and my best friend is in My Year Without Sex, so I hold a special spot in my heart for Watt anyway. These two are both really brilliant films, and I highly encourage you to check them out if you haven’t.
In her films Watt found our contemporary Australian voice without the embarrassing self deprecation or historical reenactments of former years. She was a truly original and wonderfully creative person.
Gone too soon. RIP, Sarah.
Matt Lewis is in our country. TRYING TO COME TO TERMS WITH THIS.
IT’S GOOD TO BE AUSTRALIAN
This report made me so fucking angry. I seriously cannot understand how people like this exist. For days after, I was still fuming.
Look at how they’re brainwashing those children, it is deplorable. And to say our nation deserved the bushfires and Heath Ledger’s death because we acknowledge and accept homosexuality, is the lowest thing I think I’ve ever heard.
They made ‘Heath in Hell’ posters because he played a gay character, they thank God for September 11 and picket the funerals of dead US soldiers. I just..can’t comprehend this shit.
They’re not even real Christians, or actually part of the Westboro Baptist Church despite identifying themselves as such.
I want to throw up.
You beautiful beautiful soul.
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