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The Virgin Suicides (Blue) “…she turned, she sent her blue gaze out in every direction, the same color gaze the girls had had, icy and spectral and unknowable and then she turned back and followed her husband into the house.” (Eugenides 235)

The Virgin Suicides (Blue)

“…she turned, she sent her blue gaze out in every direction, the same color gaze the girls had had, icy and spectral and unknowable and then she turned back and followed her husband into the house.” (Eugenides 235)

richbarrett: L is for The Lisbon Girlsfrom The Virigin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides5 characters for 1 this week. This was a last minute change of plans for me. I originally intended to do Luisa Rey from Cloud Atlas but after watching the awesome trailer for the new movie I can no longer not picture Halley Berry in that role. Plus, I’m going to save a Cloud Atlas character for later in the alphabet I think and I don’t like repeating books here. I’m glad I got to represent Jeffrey Eugenides in my AlphaBooks collection though because he is an amazing writer. His second book, Middlesex, is even better than this one. Of course, there is an excellent movie adaptation of The Virgin Suicides as well and more importantly a fantastic soundtrack by Air that I still listen to all the time.

richbarrett:

L is for The Lisbon Girls
from The Virigin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
5 characters for 1 this week. This was a last minute change of plans for me. I originally intended to do Luisa Rey from Cloud Atlas but after watching the awesome trailer for the new movie I can no longer not picture Halley Berry in that role. Plus, I’m going to save a Cloud Atlas character for later in the alphabet I think and I don’t like repeating books here. I’m glad I got to represent Jeffrey Eugenides in my AlphaBooks collection though because he is an amazing writer. His second book, Middlesex, is even better than this one. Of course, there is an excellent movie adaptation of The Virgin Suicides as well and more importantly a fantastic soundtrack by Air that I still listen to all the time.

“In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn’t name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.” The Virgin Suicides (1999)

“In the end we had pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained. Oddly shaped emptiness mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn’t name. What lingered after them was not life, but the most trivial list of mundane facts. A clock ticking on the wall, a room dim at noon, the outrageousness of a human being thinking only of herself.”
 The Virgin Suicides (1999)

ourbodiesbreak:

“So much has been said about the girls over the years. But we have never found an answer. It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls… but only that we had loved them… and that they hadn’t heard us calling… still do not hear us calling them from out of those rooms… where they went to be alone for all time… and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.” The Virgin Suicides

(Source: taylangdon)

Themed Party | Challenge 24: IN MEMORIAM (The Lisbon sisters, The Virgin Suicides) “We had loved them, and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us… calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”

Themed Party | Challenge 24: IN MEMORIAM (The Lisbon sisters, The Virgin Suicides)

“We had loved them, and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us… calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”

THEMED PARTY CHALLENGE: HAIR » The Virgin Suicides

THEMED PARTY CHALLENGE: HAIR » The Virgin Suicides

365 Movies for 2011 Challenge-Movie #54: The Virgin Suicides (1999) Rating: 5/5 Enjoying my current Sofia Coppola kick immensely. I really loved this movie, it’s so eerie and surreal throughout while at the same time being visually stunning. It also seemed really accurate to the era, even in the colors used. Visually it’s almost like an old home movie, like a retro, tragic, American fairytale of sorts. It inspired me to go read the book after and from what I’ve read thus far I can say that the film really was pretty true to the source. I will definitely be watching it again, soon, and even after one viewing I kind of consider it as a favorite. As for this poster/graphic, I wanted it to be a bit minimalistic and almost made it just her eye but then I thought better of it and wound up with this.

365 Movies for 2011 Challenge-Movie #54: The Virgin Suicides (1999) Rating: 5/5

Enjoying my current Sofia Coppola kick immensely. I really loved this movie, it’s so eerie and surreal throughout while at the same time being visually stunning. It also seemed really accurate to the era, even in the colors used. Visually it’s almost like an old home movie, like a retro, tragic, American fairytale of sorts. It inspired me to go read the book after and from what I’ve read thus far I can say that the film really was pretty true to the source. I will definitely be watching it again, soon, and even after one viewing I kind of consider it as a favorite.

As for this poster/graphic, I wanted it to be a bit minimalistic and almost made it just her eye but then I thought better of it and wound up with this.

THEMED PARTY CHALLENGE THIRTEEN, FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS - The Lisbon girls, The Virgin Suicides “So much has been said about the girls over the years. But we have never found an answer. It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”

THEMED PARTY CHALLENGE THIRTEEN, FEMALE RELATIONSHIPS - The Lisbon girls, The Virgin Suicides

“So much has been said about the girls over the years. But we have never found an answer. It didn’t matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them and that they hadn’t heard us calling, still do not hear us calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.”

“They swirl in and around one another,creating the beginnings of the storm. we can clearly observe the two masses, one high pressure and one low, coming in contact with one another. The result is a surging storm of tremendous strength that strikes with forceful determination.” (The Virgin Suicides)

“They swirl in and around one another,creating the beginnings of the storm. we can clearly observe the two masses, one high pressure and one low, coming in contact with one another. The result is a surging storm of tremendous strength that strikes with forceful determination.” (The Virgin Suicides)