Late At Night

“You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.”

— Maxwell Maltz

oxford, hilary term 2020

Pop pop pop pop

movies u should watch:

fight club

american beauty

trainspotting

fear and loathing in las vegas

pulp fiction

girl, interrupted

virgin suicides

lolita (1997)

inglorious basterds

basketball diaries

lords of dogtown

thirteen

thelma and louise

across the universe

10 things i hate about you

anchorman

forrest gump

american history x

the wall

the usual suspects

one day

taking woodstock

looper

romeo and juliet (96 baz lurhmann version)

chocolat

requiem for a dream

factory girl

one flew over the cuckoos nest

blow

django unchained

dead poets society

shawshank redemption

city of god

memento

monty python & the holy grail

pineapple express

batman begins, the dark knight, dark knight rises

man on fire

fargo

v for vendetta

into the wild

slumdog millionaire

titanic

inception

ALL harry potters

the notebook

godfather part I and II

transformers

easy rider

candy

perks of being a wallflower

avatar

silence of the lambs

L.A. confidential

moulin rouge

wish you were here (Australian film)

what’s eating gilbert grape

21 jump street

iron man 1,2 and 3

king of california

the pursuit of happyness

argo

good will hunting

500 days of summer

x men

the help

million dollar baby

burlesque

grease

shes the man

death at a funeral

superbad

dazed and confused

almost famous

the doors

the dreamers

a beautiful mind

trance

closer

american psycho

a clockwork orange

pride and prejudice

anna karenina

no country for old men

masculin feminin

annie hall

bananas

gia

happy new year everyone! i know it's a little late but i hope you all had fun, one of my big new years resolutions is to read more and become more educated, i've been very lucky and had access to education and have been encouraged to read and learn but i feel like theres no limit to new things you can learn. this led me to buying this brilliant book of latin phrases which i hope to learn and quote pretentiously! also in this pile of books is "if we were villains" which i finished yesterday and...i am devastated, i cried and cried, i loved it so much just!!!! please read it, anyway, thankyou if you read all my silly ramblings and have a lovely 2020!

Nice things Italians say

(or, a random list of italian expressions that i felt like sharing with the world)

“Se son rose fioriranno.” (literally, “If it’s roses, they will bloom.”) It’s usually used to calm down someone (or even oneself) who’s anxious about a certain situation (for instance going on a date), and it means that if something is bound to happen, it will, and hence that there’s no use being nervous.

“Non s'ha da fare.” It means “it’s not to be done”/“it’s not to happen”. Although this construct is strictly typical of the Florentine dialect, this fixed expression has become widely used in the Italian language after one of the most famous scenes in Alessandro Manzoni’s I Promessi Sposi (The Betrothed), in the line “Questo matrimonio non s'ha da fare, né domani, né mai.” (“This wedding is not to be celebrated, not tomorrow, nor ever.”)

“Hai scoperto l'acqua calda.” (literally “You have discovered hot water.”) Used to ironise about someone’s obvious remark by calling it a revolutionary discovery.

“Morto un papa, se ne fa un altro.” (literally, “Once a pope dies, another one is elected.”) It’s usually used after the end of a relationship and it means that once you lose a lover, you just find another one. It can also be used in other situations with an equivalent meaning.

“Una volta ogni morte di papa.” It literally means “Once every pope’s death” and it’s used as an informal synonym for “very rarely”. (e.g. “Mi ammalo una volta ogni morte di papa.” -> “I get sick very rarely.”)

“La mamma è sempre la mamma.” It means “Mum will always be mum.” and it’s just an expression to state how your mum will always be there for you and will always be your home.

“Che pizza!” It literally translates “What a pizza!” but it has the same meaning as the English “Nuts!” (e.g. “Piove.” “Che pizza!” -> “It’s raining.” “Nuts!”). In the same way, the word “pizza” can be used as an adjective to describe an annoyingly boring person (e.g. “Sei una pizza, non vuoi mai fare nulla.” -> “You’re so boring, you never want to do anything”).

Shooting star wishes u luck

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