it’s nice to feel something | #1
things i liked and how they made me feel
- Trying Times by James Blake
his lates record truly gives me chills. i’ve always liked how his albums have a clear theme and story, and how the songs connect with each other so well. it’s the kind of album that you can listen to from start to finish and still feel something different every time 🩷
2. Beginners (2010) by Mike Mills
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this is my kind of romance movie. it might not be romantic in the usual or straightfoward way, but its beautiful in its own way. i love how mike mills tells the story through the main character’s perspective, just quitely observing and trying to understand love and connection in his own life :’) he always nails that melancholic yet hopeful feeling in all of his work.
3. The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean
it’s a nonfiction book but it’s written almost like a novel. it follows an orchid poacher John Laroche in florida, who becomes obsessed with rare orchids and ends up in a legal case for stealing them from protected land. it made me understand how ‘obsession’ works and how it can shape a person’s life, why fixating so intensely on a certain things can make you feel deeply alive, even it can also change the direction of someone’s life, there’s a certain beauty in it, and it shows how far someone might go for something they love so deeply.
