#being there

[nobeerreviews]

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there.

-- William Stafford

(lake Zurich, Switzerland)

[yourlovelyspace]

I couldn't have done it without you 💝

[cinematicjourney]

Being There (1979) | dir. Hal Ashby

[estellaestella]

There's a bit in WONKA where, for a moment, he appears to walk on water. Its a delightful visual and reminded me of BEING THERE (1979). Its an absolute gem of a film with one of Peter Seller's more restrained performances. He's still funny, just not his usual overthetop kind of funny. We watch him lose a job and bumble his way through conversations sure that he's an idiot, while everyone in the movie thinks he's the wisest man alive! The script allows for both interpretations and by the end of the movie you dont know what to think of him anymore 😋. Highly recommend for the double-edged performance!

Might be enjoyed by folks who saw a duality in Chalamet's Wonka & felt he was 2 head bonks & 1 betrayal away from unhinged.

[pret-a-party]

“If not you, who?”

I understand.

BEING THERE (1979) dir. Hal Ashby

[spyderschaos]

I love batfam Peter Parker fics (I know exactly jackshit about Batman characters)

[hiddenbyleaves]

Being There (Hal Ashby, 1979)

[sharkchunks]

Being There (1979, Hal Ashby)

[lastnightswritings]

And even though I typed this out to you and deleted it, unsend so you wouldn't see it,

I'm still putting it out there by putting it here.

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Thank you.

Thank you for everything.

Thank you for how you made me feel.

Thank you for all of it, but also just thank you for being there.

Thank you for listening and literally picking up the pieces when I was falling apart that night in June because I told you what happened to me years before.

Thank you for giving me all the right responses of support and love and just being there as I told you what was one of the worst periods of my life.

Thank you for not leaving me alone, for after all of it, somehow, after you comforted me, we ended up laughing at a stupid joke and we were , I was not that upset anymore. Then you sent me to sleep with murmurs and thoughts of sleepy cuddles, already taking my worries and hurt from me as if you were lifting a strand of hair from me, pulling them away from me as if saying that doesn't belong there. Because the self-hate I had for myself was still present because I hated myself so much years before and yet you, and my sister slowly took it away.

You made all the difference. To me. To my pain. To my hurt

Because of you, I am able to sleep soundly tonight after doing the start of my tell-all of this trauma in therapy.

Thankful for you.

Buenas noches, cariño.

Te quiero.

[oldshowbiz]

[jnjo]

Being There (1979) dir. Hal Ashby

[yessferatu]

Life is a State of Mind.

BEING THERE (1979), dir. Hal Ashby

[nedison]

McCartney bop inspiration uncovered!

It actually makes a lot of sense that Macca would be reading this book around the time Secretary was recorded, since he was probably interested in the book after Peter Sellers was cast in Hal Ashby's 1979 film.

[trippercrazy]

Jeff Tweedy from Wilco

[something-about-sunflowers]

Microdosing being a slutty transmasc by wearing a nude bra under a very open-sided tank top.

[thatstrangekid63]

Whenever people tell me like those bad things that they’re going through and there’s just nothing you can say in response, like “my mom has cancer,” or “my ex just stole my dogs,” I’ve started offering to twerk for them in their troubled time. It makes them laugh and it’s validated that Ive heard them, because I really have nothing comforting to respond with other than that 99% of the time.