January 2012
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I want to feel things. Really feel them.
– Frank Wheeler, Revolutionary Road
No, Frank. This is what’s unrealistic. It’s unrealistic for a man...
– April Wheeler, Revolutionary Road
Edith and Ronald took to frequenting Birmingham teashops, especially one which...
– JRR Tolkein meets Edith Mary Bratt at the age of 16 via Tolkien: A Biography.
a list of some of my favorite lines in All the Pretty Horses so far:
you got me, cousin
smoke em if you got em
aint it though
does a bear shit in the woods?
what in the putrified dogshit
I’m drunkern shit
pardner
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Everyone I’ve Had Sex With
Blatantly stolen from MEGAN BOYLE at muumuu house, even though mine is way less interesting and isn’t really just about sex anymore and is probably less objective too.
Levi
I was 16, he was 18. We had dated for two months, and then he broke up with me to date a girl named Molly who was in college. About a year later we became best friends. He pretended to be my...
Sawbones-
caught in a cattle guard outside of town
where the sons raise...
– from Me Because They’re Too Young by Tyler Cain Lacy
Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion....
– “Litany In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out,” Richard Siken
The truth is you already know what it’s like. You already know the...
– David Foster Wallace, Oblivion
The best summer of my life so far was the best...
I was in a play with my friend Lauryn as part of this show called Quickies at this place called Live Girls Theatre in a neighborhood named Ballard. I played a girl who gets smothered by her sisters as they explain the ins and outs of a wedding night. We all wore white dresses and no shoes, and our only prop was this giant stretchy white fabric that they wrapped me in. The plays were mostly pretty...
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Fifteen to eighteen percent of girls under twelve now wear mascara, eyeliner and...
– “How To Talk To Little Girls” by Lisa Bloom (via crookedindifference)
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these things are good:
my art history professor is everything I want to be in life. I want to have her babies and they will be born wearing thick rimmed glasses and understanding dadaism. (I don’t understand dadaism)
justin timberlake is my boyfriend.
sheet forts.
i’m good at college
nothing is going hugely wrong anymore
I invented a new dance and I call it: girl dancing alone...
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these things are good:
ashland, and people with cute dogs who let me pet their cute dogs
finally getting into printmaking 1
moving shenanigans and money shenanigans finally finally finally worked out
finding a ride home from deathford at the very last minute, via facebook status, whitney is so nice holy crap
awesome mail from arificus!! and from ian!!
hugging samwise again
my new toaster....
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Moody Mondays: Top 10 Favorite Albums of 2011 →
moodymondays:
I don’t know about you internet but I had a hard year. Something had to keep me going, besides burritos and microbrews. Making a top ten of albums that came out in 2011 is too difficult when you’re unhip. These are simply the background music that played along with my life and most importantly…
Meg is amazing, 2k11 sucked real hard, and this is the best top 10 albums list I...
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More proof that this coming year of the dragon will rock the casbah:
I just got my paws on justin timberlake’s entire discography, and meg and kyle’s new apartment is so so great and exciting. they are gunna turn their new town upside-down, and with the greatest and most mustache-infused home decor.
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When I was 16 and got my heart kinda broken for the first time, Litza gave me a good snuggling everyday backstage of Magic and pet my head and told me I was a great person. In 7 years my problems have not really evolved any, but Litza is still here petting my head and snuggling and telling me I am great, and there’s nothing in the universe better than that.
2k11, you were mean to me and a...
December 2011
63 posts
We’ve had six conversations. It’s pathetic. I know, but I’ve counted them....
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (via vizwrtsic)
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...
– Franz Kafka
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is that what she said?
Me: Hey dudes, is there any hot water left in the shower?
Ian and Julia: Yea
Julia: well it was kind of coming and going
Ian: It was coming strong while I was in there!
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where is the sugar bowl? there she blows! sugar sugar bowl. it takes a sugar...
– my roommate meg, singing to herself in the kitchen. this is why I love her. (via vizwrtsic)
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me: YOU'RE NOT MY DAD
tyler: grow up! BE YOUR OWN DAD
me: ....that's pretty good advice, just generally
tyler: that's why I'm a riot grrrl. because I say edgy stuff like that.
resolutions? resolutions!
in no particular order:
1) paint. a lot. get better at it. make several paintings based on the same idea.
2) dress better, take better care of cloths, pay attention to hair for once
3) learn how to cook and eat more
4) be more careful and pay attention to detail more
5) become lovable
6) start doing yoga again
7) be less grumpy
8) watch more movies
9) read more
10) be more responsible
...
"a kind of reverse" →
I made a mix of sorts. Enjoy!
1 chain of fools - aretha franklin
2 little black submarines - the black keys
3 it’s real - real estate
4 autumn sweater - yo la tango
5 17 - youth lagoon
6 daylight - matt & kim
7 new york, i love you but you’re bringing me down - lcd soundsystem
8 go outside - cults
9 come to the city - the war on drugs
10 under your spell - desire
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