May 2013
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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May 23rd
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“But as the centerpiece of our country’s gaudily ambitious space adventures, the...”
– Frank Bruni, In an Earthbound Era, Heaven Has to Wait
May 23rd
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May 21st
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“I always wanted to be on a sports team like that. I’m not exactly sure...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
May 21st
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May 21st
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May 20th
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May 20th
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May 17th
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May 17th
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The Thoreau Poison: Shane Carruth's 'Upstream... →
An awesome, deep, literary reading of Upstream Color, which I saw last night and cannot stop thinking about.
May 17th
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May 15th
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May 14th
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May 12th
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May 11th
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Every Every Every Generation Has Been the Me Me Me... →
Basically, it’s not that people born after 1980 are narcissists, it’s that young people are narcissists, and they get over themselves as they get older. It’s like doing a study of toddlers and declaring those born since 2010 are Generation Sociopath: Kids These Days Will Pull Your Hair, Pee On Walls, Throw Full Bowls of Cereal Without Even Thinking of the Consequences. In re:...
May 11th
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May 10th
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May 9th
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Film Crit Hulk Smash: HULK VS. SILVER LININGS... →
THE PROBLEM IS THAT APPEARS TO WORK. SINCE THE FILM IS WELL-REALIZED WITH STRONG CHARACTERIZATION THE FACT THAT THEY ARE GIVEN A NEEDED CATHARSIS WORKS ON US EMOTIONALLY. WE ARE PROPERLY RELIEVED FOR CHARACTERS WE WORRIED ABOUT. THE END RESULT IS ONE WALKING OUT OF THE FILM FEELING THE MOVIE “WORKS” FAR BETTER THAN IT SHOULD. HECK, YOU COULD EVEN ARGUE THAT THE USE OF GRIM REALITY...
May 8th
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“My ties and ballasts leave me … . I travel … . I sail … . my...”
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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May 8th
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'Loud, Desperate Need For Approval' Leads Tony... →
NEW YORK­­—With the announcement of the 67th Annual Tony Award nominations Tuesday morning, new Broadway musical Loud, Desperate Need For Approval is leading the pack with an impressive 13 nominations while chief rivalLook At Me, Look At Me, Please, God, Look At Me follows close behind with 11 nods in many of the same categories. “This has been an incredible year for Broadway; so competitive,...
May 7th
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May 7th
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May 7th
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May 7th
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“It all comes back. Perhaps it is difficult to see the value in having one’s self...”
– Joan Didion, “On Keeping a Notebook”
May 2nd
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“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Sensible Thing”
May 2nd
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“I know that I became for a while dark and bitter to myself, till I escaped that...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table
May 2nd
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May 2nd
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Listen“Dragon Ships” - Fruit Bats ...
May 1st
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May 1st
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April 2013
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“There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The Cat’s Table
Apr 30th
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Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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“Flabby low end dynamics join the dots between organically digitized chord...”
– (via musicdescriptions) This is the blog I’ve always wanted to make. So glad it exists.
Apr 25th
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Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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“We all agree it’s too big to keep up with, that we’re surrounded by...”
– Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
Apr 24th
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Apr 22nd
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“Nolan thinks home is somewhere else, nobody’s happy with what...”
– Jacob Clifton I tentatively quite like this Defiance show, and not just cause it stars the girl from MirrorMask.
Apr 21st
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Apr 21st
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Apr 20th
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“When I wake up just before dawn and hear the throbbing voices of birds as they...”
– Rachel Corrie, Let Me Stand Alone This book was a big deal for me.
Apr 20th
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Apr 19th
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