December 2008
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“Oh, I’m actually really disappointed. I think Zooey is cool but this is...”
– Commenter on Zooey Deschanel and Ben Gibbard’s engagement, UsMagazine
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“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...”
– Jim Jarmusch (via hangmanblues) (via snowblind) (via isthisblood) (via sine-qua-non) (via maddieness) (via bitchville) (via srsly)
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"Go to back to school. Then you'll learn some...
A man said this to me the other day, with absolutely no provocation.
I’ve been spoiling for a fight ever since. Normally I can ignore the “Ni hao” and the “Can you speak Asian?” (I’m sorry, no, but do you speak Caucasian?) and the times my best friend’s boyfriend would call me flat-chested and say “I smell spring rolls— oh wait no, it’s...
(local) people I would like to befriend
- vegan cooks
- male knitters
- tarantella dancers
Imagine the parties we could have!
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nownownowboy:
dizzee rascal - that’s not my name...
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“You know what’s interesting about the homogenization of...”
– Commentor on Heartbreak No. 3: The Blogosphere As The New Status Quo [Idolator]. Social media platforms, label wars and hipster ‘tude; I am liking this post.
a list of nice smells
- rain on hot sidewalks
- warm newsprint
- baking (also: cinnamon toast)
- night air, after the alcoholic stickiness of gig venues
- sunburnt skin layered with sweat and sun-lotion and the sea
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“Nothing In The World Can Stop Me From...
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“I’m not sure that the benefit — as a writer and as a citizen —...”
– Sharon Olds in a Salon interview.
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I made tea. →
Telescopic text. (via morrisonfilm) (via implodr) (via spaceships)
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death from above 1979 // losing friends
‘if...
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sigur rós' icelandic pronounciation guide →
(spaceships: implodr)
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Things I have done in 2008
1. Founded a student paper 2. Resigned from a student paper 3. Featured in a national paper 4. Founded another student paper 5. Topped my writing course 6. Was asked to contribute to next year’s Scope (media department) magazine 7. Scored an internship 8. Went on three roadtrips 9. Lost friends, made new friends, lost them again 10. Got two things wrong, but one thing right. pretty modest as...
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“This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour cold critical water upon the...”
– Ray Bradbury (via afemme) (via buyhercandy)
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own....”
– Bob Moawad (via thresca) (via marjchun) (via tuesdayslove)
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buyhercandy:
Hercules and Love Affair - “Blind”
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García Márquez is writing new novel, says friend ... →
iainbroome:
Fears that Colombia’s Nobel prizewinning author, Gabriel García Márquez, had put down his pen forever were allayed today when a close friend confirmed that the master of magical realism was working on a new novel.
García Márquez’s next book will be a love story, though his friend and fellow writer Plinio Apuleyo Mendoza said today that the author was struggling to come up with a...
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“I do not regard advertising as entertainment or art form, but as a medium of...”
– David Ogilvy, Ogilvy on Advertising (via copyblogger). Cannot spell, what is wrong with me
“Some things you don’t know you miss until, out of nowhere, you have them back,...”
– Jerry Stahl, Perv—A Love Story (via nightmarebrunette) (via sleepanddream) (via finallyseeing) (via marjchun) (via littlemiss) (via srsly)
itwasapartynight:
tarts:
ninefruits:
No -...
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I was going to make a mixtape, and call it...
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“So, what about one place that has everything… Where you can get your...”
– Trespass Magazine: “smart gloss”. Recently launched and billed as a new intellectual pop culture site. It was recommended to me by a fellow student media hack whose judgement I usually trust, but I’ll wait for more content before I hold forth on it.
“I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal....”
– From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (via sycamore) (via spaceships)
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“Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;...”
– W.B. Yeats
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foreword
My only advantage as a reporter is that I am so physically small, so temperamentally unobtrusive, and so neurotically inarticulate that people tend to forget that my presence runs counter to their best interests. And it always does. That is the one last thing to remember: writers are always selling somebody out.
—Joan Didion