something about this just makes me feel old.

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what ever happened?

Published 2.18.2007 by matt o | E-mail this post

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so it has to have been almost a year ago that ashley and i became entranced by the sweet tones of new order's "age of consent," which, in my mind, has become a bit of a theme song for college since, and began to look forward to sofia coppola's marie antoinette. it didn't end up playing where we needed it to, so we missed the theatre run, but there were the magazines and the curious trailer (running in corsets!) and lost in translation, enough to get by until the dvd. now that i have said dvd and we've finally seen the movie, laughing along the way and feeling quite fulfilled after the long wait, the same feeling that i had on the night i went to bed early and listened to "age of consent" over and over again has come back: stylised, contemplative contentment.

i look at the rest of last spring and the summer that followed, last semester and last week. two direct points of reference: hearing about marie antoinette and finally seeing marie antoinette, and what a life between the two. from a distance, though, because the fullness of a moment exists only in the now, much of it is silence and scenery, as in the film; the actual words that were said have faded and it's the settings i can remember most clearly. and sometimes the soundtrack is wildly anachronistic.

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