February 2012
12 posts
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners. I wish someone had told me. All...”
– Ira Glass
> I wish I had read this and taken it to heart two years ago when I gave up on art school.
(via esqueleto)
So true.
“You will never find interior solitude unless you make some conscious effort to...”
– Thomas Merton in New Seeds of Contemplation (1962) (via predatorywaspobserver)
“Lovers do not notice where they are, do not notice that they repeat themselves....”
– Roger Ebert on Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love (2000)
“Rape culture is telling girls and women to be careful about what you wear, how...”
– I might just copy and paste this so I can have this perfect answer ready when people say things like “but how does this “rape culture” actually affect women?” (via holdmecloser-tonydanza)
This. THIS. Read it. Now read it again. Now the next time you victim-blame, or rag on women for any of the...
Lips Richmond: jaraconnell: Woman’s emotional... →
jaraconnell:
Woman’s emotional testimony helps kill abortion bill in Virginia Senate committee
stfuhypocrisy:
By Associated Press, Published: February 2
RICHMOND, Va. — After hearing emotionally wrenching testimony Thursday from a woman who terminated her…
Operator, Can You Help Me Call The Love Of My... →
HAPPINESS TAKES (A LITTLE) MAGIC →
youmightfindyourself:
By: Brian Lam The Wirecutter, January 25, 2012
There’s a whole laundry list of disclaimers attached to it, but my pal (and Pulitzer winner) Matt Richtel wrote about a Stanford research report suggesting that spending considerable amounts of time on multimedia/technology can make us unhappy.
In his words: “The answer, in the peer-reviewed study of the online habits of...
January 2012
35 posts
Totally Crushed Out: Placeholder, "Nothing is... →
totallycrushedout:
Placeholder “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…
Awesome Interview with Brandon Gepfer of... →
Do it do it do it do it do it
Really good things
This past week has been awesome!
Working out almost every day
Amazing friends/family
Jamming out with friends for the first time
Date nights : )
Good outfits
Dancing!
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.
Douglas Coupland on coincidence and déja vu →
youmightfindyourself:
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...
Advice From Life’s Graying Edge on Finishing With... →
youmightfindyourself:
By JANE E. BRODY NY TIMES Published: January 9, 2012
At 17, I wrote a speech titled, “When You Come to the End of Your Days, Will You Be Able to Write Your Own Epitaph?” It reflected the approach to life I adopted after my mother’s untimely death from cancer at age 49. I chose to live each day as if it could be my last — but with a watchful eye on the future in case it...
areukittenme asked: ;) I think I miiiight
areukittenme:
To buy a camera or save my money…. Eeep.
Probably should buy a camera…
“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via serialstranger)
“Sexuality in old age, with all it’s unique sadness and pleasure, is an adventure...”
– Sexuality in Old Age: An Adventure Worth Taking by Clementine Cannibal
read the rest of the article: http://clementinecannibal.com/2011/09/12/sexuality-in-old-age-an-adventure-worth-taking-an-essay-by-clementine-cannibal/
(via grrrlvirus)
theweightofemptiness:
We stay up all night searching for what the day was missing.
“You have to question a cinematic culture which preaches artistic expression, and...”
– Ryan Gosling, in a letter protesting the NC-17 rating of ‘Blue Valentine’. The rating was based on one consensual sex scene, in which he performs cunnilingus on Michelle Williams. (via proclamationofemaciation)
December 2011
44 posts
I found out today...
that I am now considered a permanent full-time staff member at my job…YEEEY benefits and having a real adult job…i guess
“Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a...”
– Chis McCandless in a letter as quoted by Jon Krakauer in Into The Wild (1996)
YES
: Placeholder's remaining tour dates: →
areukittenme:
DEC 28 - Portage, IN @ House Show DEC 29 - Aroma Park, IL @ Aroma Park Methodist Church DEC 30 - Oskaloosa, IA @ Old Farm Bureau Building DEC 31 - Denver, CO @ House Show JAN 01 - Cheyenne, WY @ TBA JAN 02 - Salt Lake City, UT @ House Show JAN 03 - Boise, ID @ The Venue JAN 04 - Tacoma, WA @ The…
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