May 2011
Ambling Alp
Yeasayer
Yeasayer - Ambling Alp
Facebook groups have become increasingly annoying and increasingly less funny and they are all the same and how is it humanly possible to like 65 other pages in a day what are you doing with yourself?
Tetris effect
The Tetris effect occurs when people devote sufficient time and attention to an activity that it begins to overshadow their thoughts, mental images, and dreams. It is named after the video game Tetris.
People who play Tetris for a prolonged amount of time may then find themselves thinking about ways different shapes in the real world can fit together, such as the boxes on a supermarket shelf or the buildings on a street. In this sense, the Tetris effect is a form of habit. They might also dream about falling Tetris shapes when drifting off to sleep or see images of falling Tetris shapes at the edges of their visual fields or when they close their eyes. In this sense, the Tetris effect is a form of hallucination or hypnagogic imagery. A Nintendo TV ad from the early 1990s suggested this effect by showing players imagining Tetris blocks in real life.
i hate green ones haha
green clinkers, along with cordial, snakes and frogs, are the most underrated and un-appreciated flavour of all lollies
you can go and eat the red/pink ones, leave the yum green ones to me!
On responsibility
“Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you… it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre: “I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy solutions—predigested books and ideas… marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talents and aspirations short… and this, in turn, means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives. It means, therefore, the courage to be “different”… The difference between a life lived actively, and a life of passive drifting and dispersal of energies, is an immense difference. Once we begin to feel committed to our lives, responsible to ourselves, we can never again be satisfied with the old, passive way.”Adrienne Rich
“It is easier to produce ten volumes of philosophical writings than to put one principle into practice.”
—Leo Tolstoy (via elige)
Blue Cassette
Friendly Fires
Blue Cassette // Friendly Fires
Grand Theft Autumn / Where Is Your Boy
The Angry String Orchestra
a string quartet performing GRAND THEFT AUTUMN (WHERE IS YOUR BOY) by FALL OUT BOY
Ten Reasons Why You Should Get Your Shit Together →
thoughtcatalog.com
“You can grow up anytime you want. You can do it at 20, 25, or 40. It doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with age. Growing up just means deleting things and people who are bad for you. It means taking care of business, taking care of yourself, and not repeating the same mistakes. Everyone has their own growing up to do. It does not mean you have to drink Earl Grey every night, get a cat and be in bed by 11. Jesus, that would suck.”
A list of things I should not do:
- Do not look back on things that hurt
- Do no reminisce on things I find ridiculous
- Do not regret
- Do not lose focus on the significant things versus the insignificant
- Do not cheat myself out of a good opportunity
- Do not choose to expect less that what I am worth
- Do not lose to life
“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
—Neil Gaiman (via roguemonster)
Beth / Rest
Bon Iver
Beth / Rest - Bon Iver
it was found what we orphaned
didn’t mention it would serve us picked
said your love is known
I’m standing up on it
Aren’t we married?!
I ainʼt living in the dark no more
it’s not a promise, Iʼm just gonna call it
Heavy mitted love
Party Talk
Craft Spells
jkbx:
Craft Spells - Party Talk
“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
—Leo Tolstoy (via oxblood)
“And yet pain hurts but it doesn’t kill. When you consider the alternative — an anesthetized dream of self-sufficiency, abetted by technology — pain emerges as the natural product and natural indicator of being alive in a resistant world. To go through a life painlessly is to have not lived. Even just to say to yourself, “Oh, I’ll get to that love and pain stuff later, maybe in my 30s” is to consign yourself to 10 years of merely taking up space on the planet and burning up its resources. Of being (and I mean this in the most damning sense of the word) a consumer.”
—“Liking is for cowards. Go for what hurts”, by Jonathan Franzen (ViaThe New York Times)
