February 2009
THERE'S A 500 DAYS OF SUMMER TUMBLR WTF →
That’s called overeager, you guys. (premature evaluation?)
more of my thoughts on the subject here
“Love kills. But being single only hurts.”
(via sus) (via lhh) (via shiningstar) OK SRSLY, I know Tumblr “has no rules” and you should “never tell people what not to post” because, Oh God, talk about taking this all too seriously. But. Not that anyone cares, but I have made a rule for myself: unfollow anyone who indiscriminately (or even discriminatingly) posts normative love quotations all day long. Honestly. What the fuck.
Reducing love...
fine.
25 things you probably don’t know about me, even if you know me really well, aka how the fuck did this get so long and rambly oh well you tagged me so now you get to read it.
1. Franny and Zooey and The Little Prince are among my top five favorite books, even though I have never actually finished either of them. 2. My first kiss and its aftermath was, undoubtedly, the most demeaning...
January 2009
"Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying"
“I passed the hours of my weeks at Columbia, like Virginia Woolf’s Clarissa Dalloway, in long-established patterns—the 8:40 a.m. coffee and muffin at Samad’s, the Sundays at the Barnes and Noble magazine rack hiding Us Weekly behind The Atlantic, saying I would buy the flowers myself. I knew how many hot-dog stands I’d hit between Lincoln Square and Columbus Circle. I...
I should get food poisoning more often.
I come back from a whole afternoon of grossness and have 75 pages of Tumblr devoted to pictures of obscure celebrities with the words “I care about you” on them? I love Molls but am almost glad I just missed it in real time. Although I did like this punny one by tumblr yourkitchensink:
Just kidding about the food poisoning though. It fucking blows.
“A CRIME AGAINST BLOODY COOKING.”
– So good: The World’s Best Passenger Complaint Letter? // Telegraph
“In 1996, with nothing more than a flashy dance and a catchphrase, Cuba Gooding Jr. managed to swipe the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor from William H. Macy, whose performance as Jerry Lundegaard in the Coen Brothers’ neo-noir masterpiece Fargo, was a time-bomb of nerves constantly on the brink of detonating. More than a decade later, Macy has become one of America’s most respected and...
gift that keeps on giving
me: hi
bro: supdog millionaire
tired sentiment, new obsession
I am so in love with this paragraph from 2666 that I want to do the girl-equivalent of getting it pregnant (“have its babies” I guess, but that sounds less devoted, although it takes a lot more work) and then, naturally, name them after it.
"What would Chuck Klosterman say about all of... →
theromp:
“A Long Way To Go With No Punch” -...
The Places We Live →
wolfandfox:
rach: I can’t stop looking at this.
Narcissus, circa 2009
I actually just stopped to look at my own reflection in my visa card hologram as I read the number out loud to the Chinese take-out lady.
You’d think it couldn’t get worse than the “stop at a car-window” or the “middle of the street iphone check-myself-out-on-my-dark-screen-and-pretend-i’m-reading-google-maps” trick. Turns out it can.
(only) English translation of Bolaño's... →
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via flavorwire
[perfect]
“Calm is the one thing that will never let us down. And Amalfitano said: everything else lets us down? And the voice: yes, that’s right, it’s hard to admit, I mean it’s hard to have to admit to you, but that’s the honest-to-God-truth. Ethics lets us down? The sense of duty lets us down? Honesty lets us down? Curiosity lets us down? Love lets us down? Bravery lets us...
“I knew Bolaño was a writer who played with reality, who cultivated ambiguities...”
– Word. The fact that he played around with the perception of his own history and the veracity of his experiences makes more sense than if he hadn’t. He was clearly obsessed with the myth surrounding writers, so why wouldn’t he live his own?
A Chilean Writers’ Fictions May Include...
bonerparty 1, everyone else 0 →
Benjamin Franklin = the original ALT BRO?
“Having emerg’d from the ‘Poverty’ & ‘Obscurity’ in which I was born & bred, to a State of ‘Affluence’ & some Degree of ‘Reputation’ in the World, and having gone so far thro’ Life with a considerable Share of ‘Felicity’, the conducing ‘Means’ I made use of, which, with the Blessing of...
nooooooooo →
"'Once' Couple Calls It Quits; True Love No Longer... →
No, seriously, Jim Newell is a genius →
[Sure, he once cut one of my paragraphs for sounding too preachy—but only one out of several! There’s hope for me yet.]
(see also)
via cajunboy
I hope that I wake up tomorrow to a really stellar...
Ideally also with $500+ in my bank account set aside for a trip to said desert music festival that I really miss going to every year and would be fun to fantasize about going to as a symptom of my senioritis.
I hope it's PMS
In the past thirty minutes, the following stuff has made me cry:
Star Trek Wife and Creator to Spend Eternity in Space
People I don’t know who seem to be having a lovely time in their college dorm, from my Tumblr dashboard
This song (and then, the Youtube version I found to post happened to be a Logan and Veronica tribute video. Imagine what happened next)
You’d think I was drunk...
zachlinder:
I was trying to pick my favorite...
'500 Days' Indie Deluxe Soundtrack Revealed // The... →
*DIES*
Ha, PSYCH! I’m all about the “Us” and “Boy With the Arab Strap” but that’s it, really. Does this mean I’m not indie-perfect enough?!?!?
“You can fairly decently judge a think tank’s...
worldholdon:
True dat— when I was at CFR we had some good lunches.
Libertarians are oddly hopeful about the Obama administration. - By Michael Newman - Slate Magazine
So I’m pretty sure this is just every new...
WatchI don’t give a hoot about Don Draper (ok, maybe a slight hoot, he’s very manly) but “Sorry I smell like frosting”!??? Word.
thedailywhat:
Sneak Peek of the Day: First look at the next episode of 30 Rock, featuring the first appearance of Jon Hamm as Liz’s neighbor Dr. Drew Baird.
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"How on earth do you relate that story in a way... →
“‘Luciana and I decided we wanted to go,” he admits. ‘But when I called my contacts from the campaign, they just started laughing: `We worked on the campaign for 2 ½ years, and we’re not going. Forget it.’ But then they called me back the next day and said, ‘Hey, we’ve got two tickets for you, in the bleachers, and you’ll actually be able to...
"Slumdog Squarepants" →
keep ‘em coming.
So this is a joke, right? A way for brilliant... →
Gossip Girl Spinoff To Center Around Pre-Knocked... →
“The new Gossip Girl spinoff will take place in the 1980’s, and follow the adventures of a coke-sniffing, Whitesnake worshipping party girl named Lily van der Woodsen.”
I bet Josh Schwartz would have preferred to have made “Kirsten and Sandy: The Early Years” and is making up for that by pushing for this one (he already wrote flashbacks into The OC, with young Sandy...
“This is a safe form of acclaim, a small-stakes version of selling out that...”
– Idolator on “Internet Success,” which is defined not by
the awareness of casual listeners, the monetary rewards of actual sales, and the cultural ubiquity afforded by a presence on television and in movies, but the warm glow of blogged concert pix, fan-made videos, and people having...
Coconut Records - “Drummer”
In this song, CR...
“I work around the house and I make classic pre-prohibition-era cocktails for my...”
– Rachel Maddow on what she does for fun.
As if you need more reminders of why Rachel Maddow... →
"one of the worst revivals I have ever, ever seen" →