June 2011
“Real women wear high heels and skirts. Or not.
Real women are feminine and...”
– Hanne Blank
Aloe Blacc - I Need A Dollar
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writing is hard
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The confession of an apricot | Carl Adamshick
muscovite:
I love incorrectly.
There is a solemnity in hands, the way a palm will curve in accordance to a contour of skin, the way it will release a story.
This should be the pilgrimage. The touching of a source. This is what sanctifies.
This pleading. This mercy. I want to be a pilgrim to everyone, close to the inaccuracies, the astringent dislikes, the wayward peace, the private ...
The Melancholy of Life →
quirkducirque:
The concept of life is rather bittersweet. We can exist without love, without purpose, without joy, yet to merely exist is not enough. We go through the notions of everyday life, of an engrained routine, yet we so desperately try to unearth something different everyday -…
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my brother just called me to warn that his girlfriend is coming over to visit for afternoon tea
and to remind me that him and his girlfriend ‘are humans’ and so therefore it’s a requirement for me to ‘wear pants in other human company’
wellalright:
i think by the third movie we all realized that the missions were never really impossible.
“When we observe a woman who seems hostile and fiercely independent some of the...”
– Walter Mischel, psychologist, as quoted in Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point
I was supposed to be on my way out tonight to go ice skating in the city. I’ve never done it before, however as a child I had an unpleasant experience with rollerblading (I actually managed to shatter my coccyx) and so was apprehensive over this new plan. Over the weekend, several friends convinced me to agree coming and so I (thought) I had no problem.
I couldn’t even make it out of my...
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy...”
– Oscar Wilde
“Fifteen to eighteen percent of girls under twelve now wear mascara, eyeliner and...”
– “How To Talk To Little Girls” by Lisa Bloom (via crookedindifference)
lately, all Bon Iver does is make me cry
but in the best and worst ways, you know?
“Female toplessness is legal in a lot of places in the US (although not where I...”
– The Pervocracy: My boobs want to be free
“Every fact of science was once damned. Every invention was considered...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
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“You know, it’s sort of an ironic question. It points to the whole problem. If...”
– Jason Segel, after being asked the question, “You mentioned Paul Feig, and Bad Teacher is coming out six weeks after Bridesmaids kinda flipped the script on female-fronted comedies. Do you think there’s any pressure on the film to perform at the box office?” (via ONTD)
croatoan:
i’ve never understood how christian is a name, but the concept has sparked a new incentive for having a kid - so i can name it ‘jew.’
summer murmurs →
lookedlikelaughing:
violent violet with grey, then blue, a deep, crystal blue. lighter greys, then neutral white dipped in with a fine tip brush, forming a seeping, slow spreading fade: finite, precise, a wonderful tint of blue with elephant’s skin in its pores, and soft caribbean light, oh so golden, turquoise…
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“If the education of our kids comes from radio, television, newspapers - if...”
– Maynard James Keenan.
“A woman’s worst nightmare? That’s pretty easy. Novelist Margaret Atwood writes...”
– http://www.pbs.org/kued/nosafeplace/articles/nightmare.html
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Fall Out Boy, Chicago Is So Two Years Ago
“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never...”
– Oscar Wilde
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel...”
– Andrew Boy
I normally drive with the left-handed window down; despite it being winter now, my car seems to still be able to retain enough heat so that it can roast me. I was sitting at the lights in a far right lane, with two cars next to me, both with their right-hand window down. One was a BMW, the one next to me was a Volvo, and I drive a Mercedes. All of a sudden, Volvo called to me out the window. Now,...
thanatesque: Lazarus syndrome or autoresuscitation... →
thanatesque:
Lazarus syndrome or autoresuscitation after failed cardiopulmonary resuscitation is the spontaneous return of circulation after failed attempts at resuscitation. Its occurrence has been noted in medical literature at least 25 times since 1982. Also called Lazarus phenomenon, it takes its…
“We may spend the better part of our professional lives projecting strength and...”
– Alain de Botton, A Week at the Airport
there’s a customer at my work who looks like an ashy blonde James Frain.
I think I’m in love.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-6-19) →
God Is an Astronaut (72)
Coconut Records (44)
Devin Townsend Project (40)
Bloc Party (16)
Coldplay (15)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“Chicago” by Sufjan Stevens and “Clocks” by...
“A person hears only what they understand.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Traumatizing highschoolers to "prepare" them for a... →
flameow:
”It was Friday the 13th, and Skylar Walters thought he was going to die.
The 16-year-old inmate of Orangeville Jr.-Sr. High in Illinois was in gym class when a deranged-looking man barged into the school and began firing what appeared to be a handgun at several of the other students.
“I started praying to God and saying my last words,” Skylar later recalled. “I was scared. I...
“I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says ‘You...”
– Aaron Sorkin 