January 2012
20 posts
“I’ve read the post modernists with some interest, even admiration, but...”
– Waking Life (2001)
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“If we had a daughter, guess what ima call her? Brooklyn Carter”
– Jay Z, father and fucking liar (via cockenblog)
“New York
November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I...”
– John Steinbeck to his son Thom at boarding school (via rulesformyunbornson.tumblr.com)
Proselytism →
It kept on coming up in conversation and I couldn’t remember what the name of this “ism.”
My first bad Friday the 13th experience:
Handle of driver’s side door to my beloved car just broke off.
Good Mourning.
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“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:...”
– Carl Jung (via alittlemoorejackie)
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Whew.
Drove 40 mph from Robinson back home with a mattress strapped to my Volvo and it didn’t fall off.
God damn that was onea the most stressful things I’ve done.
If you ever feel like you have it bad...
…just read a couple quotes from poor women in third-world countries. I know it’s an old story but it just doesn’t change.
As if land shortage is not bad enough we live a life of tension
worrying about the rain: will it rain or not? There is nothing
about which we say, “this is for tomorrow.” We live hour
to hour.
—A woman, Kajima, Ethiopia
You can’t be sure that when you do...
December 2011
33 posts
Michael Buble Christmas Duets →
@Bean, with appearances by M.I.A. and Thom Yorke.
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying...
SMH
I vow to never get this far behind again. This is just ridiculous of me. My agitation levels are staggering. Self-loathing shall be the next step, methinks.
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“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with...”
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
The awkward moment when you make a reference to a... →
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On a more positive note...
I ran a sub eight-minute mile for the first time ever (roughly 7:40). Fat kids aren’t supposed to do that!
The Tigress of Forli: Caterina Sforza. →
The author of this book is the one of the top three best professors I have ever had. She somehow instilled me with interest in baroque art (though the city of Rome helped her cause). She even advised Ron Howard and Tom Hanks when they were filming Angels and Demons in Rome, for much of that story had to do with Bernini.
This book might be dry to some, but give Lev a chance to spark your...
Putz
(n): A stupid or worthless person.
Now that definition is awfully abrasive, but I still feel like one (maybe “is missing some worth here and there” as opposed to not having any worth, sheesh). Sitting in this economics class has made me realize that I could have easily gotten a grade above a C, yet my stubbornness and laziness halted my drive to study.* Now, it will almost definitely...
