Lisa Smit

The Thing (1982)

Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills. Watch this with Dad! Instead of too many cheesy graphic special effects like the newest reproduction, most of the alien gore is real! And by real I mean fake! But the actors were physically present with the automated aliens and fake placenta-blood! Doesn't get much better than that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ftmr17M-a4

Devendra Banhart. Check Him Out!

This song is my best friend Hunter in a song. It's a song that makes me happy though it's a slightly cynical commentary on relationships from a woman's point of view. Enjoy! http://www.last.fm/music/Devendra+Banhart/_/Won't+You+Come+Over

For Cassie

I had considered writing you a letter, but I couldn't continue to edit and add on to the letter after I mailed it to you. So instead I'm writing you a blog. This is a blog of all the things I wished someone had told me about life, and being a girl, and dealing with issues too big for me, and finding God. There will be lots of music & cinema & Art. Everything that I've gathered and pieced together and haphazardly figured out through conversations and meditations. I want to share this with you because it's IMPORTANT. I've spent more hours away from you than with you, but I can still be present with you in this format. I don't expect you to love everything I post, but I hope by sharing these things that inspire me you'll find things that say something to you, too.

Love,

Nat