May 2013
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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
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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
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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.
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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:...
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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...
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My ties and ballasts leave me … . I travel … . I sail … . my...
– Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
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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,...
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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”
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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”
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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
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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
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Flabby low end dynamics join the dots between organically digitized chord...
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This is the blog I’ve always wanted to make. So glad it exists.
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We all agree it’s too big to keep up with, that we’re surrounded by...
– Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
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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.
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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.
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