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“Nothing is Pure”
(Better Days)
A few months ago when Totally Crushed Out interviewed Coastal, we knew that they would be a band that was on the precipice of breaking big, particularly in their brand of revivalist emo. Now armed with a new name (fuck lawsuits, amirite?) and a new…
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Do it do it do it do it do it
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“Can you get that book for me right there?”
“Oh.. no. It is just out of reach.”
this is my full extension
Heather…please tell me you’re watching the new season!
Just got the skater dress (9pm post - weird) I ordered last week on asos and yeeeeeees it fits!
It is a size US8
Do you know when the last time I was able to fit into a size US8 with my hips and my ass? I was probably in a training bra and still wearing braces.
Anyway, I just wanted Tumblr to know that asos is a beautiful thing.
gurrrrrrl love me some asos!
hahahahah this is how i feel right now
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This past week has been awesome!
Pro-Marriage Equality Mayors of the Day: The mayors of New York City, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Houston, San Diego, and dozens of other cities across the country have announced the formation of a coalition in support “of the freedom of same-sex couples to marry.”
Mayors for Freedom to Marry brings together 78 mayors and counting under the banner of marriage equality.
In a statement released jointly with the LGBT group Freedom to Marry, the mayors express their unequivocal belief that all people deserve the right “to marry the person with whom they share their life.”
The statement continues:
We stand for the freedom to marry because it enhances the economic competitiveness of our communities, improves the lives of families that call our cities home, and is simply the right thing to do. We look forward to working to build an America where all people can share in the love and commitment of marriage with the person with whom they share their life.
The complete statement and a full list of mayors who have joined the initiative can be seen here.
[towleroad.]
I wish I could describe just how little I want to be at work right now. On the plus side, I’m leaving in 3 minutes. FINALLY picking up my package from the post office, that got here oh…about 2-3 weeks ago. Working 9-5 really sucks sometimes when everywhere you need to go closes at 5.
I take comfort in the fact that there are two human moments that seem to be doled out equally and democratically within the human condition—and that there is no satisfying ultimate explanation for either. One is coincidence, the other is déja vu. It doesn’t matter if you’re Queen Elizabeth, one of the thirty-three miners rescued in Chile, a South Korean housewife or a migrant herder in Zimbabwe—in the span of 365 days you will pretty much have two déja vus as well as one coincidence that makes you stop and say, “Wow, that was a coincidence.”
The thing about coincidence is that when you imagine the umpteen trillions of coincidences that can happen at any given moment, the fact is, that in practice, coincidences almost never do occur. Coincidences are actually so rare that when they do occur they are, in fact memorable. This suggests to me that the universe is designed to ward of coincidence whenever possible—the universe hates coincidence—I don’t know why—it just seems to be true. So when a coincidence happens, that coincidence had to work awfully hard to escape the system. There’s a message there. What is it? Look. Look harder. Mathematicians perhaps have a theorem for this, and if they do, it might, by default be a theorem for something larger than what they think it is.
What’s both eerie and interesting to me about déja vus is that they occur almost like metronomes throughout our lives, about one every six months, a poetic timekeeping device that, at the very least, reminds us we are alive. I can safely assume that my thirteen year old niece, Stephen Hawking and someone working in a Beijing luggage-making factory each experience two déja vus a year. Not one. Not three. Two.
The underlying biodynamics of déja vus is probably ascribable to some sort of tingling neurons in a certain part of the brain, yet this doesn’t tell us why they exist. They seem to me to be a signal from larger point of view that wants to remind us that our lives are distinct, that they have meaning, and that they occur throughout a span of time. We are important, and what makes us valuable to the universe is our sentience and our curse and blessing of perpetual self-awareness.
Happy Birthday to the master, John Carpenter, who turns 64 years young today! (photo via)
Rolling Stones - Rocks Off, 1972
Edited by Nuno Monteiro 2009. Super 8 footage shot by Robert Frank of The Rolling Stones in LA and NY, 1971. Rephotographed by Frank for the cover of ‘Exile On Main Street’.