”match my freak” match my melancholy. be nostalgic about a past you weren’t even that happy in. find something to be haunted about throughout every second of your day
Inosculation, a natural phenomenon in which trunks, roots or branches of two trees grow together. When branches or roots from different trees are in prolonged intimate contact, they often abrade each other exposing their inner tissues, which may eventually fuse.
the true tragedy (and comedy) of The Holdovers was watching every scene where Paul Hunham makes a dorky historical or literary reference only to receive blank stares and being a person living in the year 2023 knowing without a doubt “man this guy would absolutely thrive in some sort of history nerd facebook group”
rue sous la neige ; la pie, claude monet / three women, sylvia plath / little women (2019) dir. greta gerwig / christmas song, mccarthy trenching / dead poets society (1989) dir. peter weir / friedrich nietzsche, from selected letters / the perks of being a wallflower (2012) dir. stephen chbosky / war of the foxes, richard siken / the holdovers (2023) dir. alexander payne.
god just the spaghetti scene like? the “i always thought I shared this special close thing with someone i loved” and then b/c martin’s such a straightforward character to drop the “finding out that everyone eats spaghetti like that made me sad. even more sad then when my dad died.” FUCKING GUT PUNCHED ME!!!! LIKE YEAH GRIEF HITS LIKE THAT!!!!!!!!!!