February 2012
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January 2012
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Lana Del Rey: The Irony Lady →
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amyrebeccaklein:
I am saddened by the backlash against Lana Del Rey. I am sick of this kind of horror at a woman laid bare—and sick of the fear and disgust that arises when we discover a woman is less than perfect. This kind of thing has been going on for a long time. There’s a famous poem, “The Lady’s Dressing Room,” written in 1732, in which the satirist Jonathan Swift...
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This Is Water
“Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship—be it JC or Allah, be it YHWH or...
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marsbattyangel asked: Did not know that you were actually expecting/waiting for people to invade your ask box :P
Anonymous asked: 5 all time favorite books, ready? GO!
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I am by far the most terrible human being that has existed so far; this does not...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via oversets)
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blaineisapirate asked: it was great to be introduced to you yesterday. you're such a sweetheart! ps: the show was fucking killer.
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December 2011
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U.S. Sales Figures for Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums...
perpetua:
Eric Harvey put this together earlier this month, after he and I got the idea to put this together last year. I’m reblogging again because some people have asked me about it, and because his version is weirdly difficult to find on Google. Read More
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DailyCandy: DailyCandy Jams v.33 - Holiday 2011... →
In case you’re one of the few that have not already downloaded this…
dailycandy:
We have Kate Sland and Matt Sucich’s rendition of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” on repeat. <a href=”http://music.esmatteo.com/album/yule-a-holiday-ep”…
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November 2011
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October 2011
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German compound words are as strikingly direct as they are metaphysical. German...
– A Joyful & Malicious History Of ‘Schadenfreude’
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Ernest Hemingway - Paris Review
INTERVIEWER
What would you consider the best intellectual training for the would-be writer?
HEMINGWAY
Let’s say that he should go out and hang himself because he finds that writing well is impossibly difficult. Then he should be cut down without mercy and forced by his own self to write as well as he can for the rest of his life. At least he will have the story of the hanging to commence...
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Death was an attempt to communicate; people feeling the impossibility of...
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (via awritersruminations)
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September 2011
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Maxistentialism: Just Asking →
Obligatory DFW reblog.
maxistentialist:
David Foster Wallace:
Are some things still worth dying for? Is the American idea1 one such thing? Are you up for a thought experiment? What if we chose to regard the 2,973 innocents killed in the atrocities of 9/11 not as victims but as democratic martyrs, “sacrifices on the altar of…
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Don’t get in a relationship if you’re going to leave a man if he cheats on you....
– The-Dream keeps it really real. (via pitchfork)
This is absolute horseshit. Who are these men? How does a man pose under the guise of “realness” as the victim of some tyrannical monogamy? Why should any person accept any less a degree of commitment from a partner? Simply because one...
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July 2011
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I hear that a new order of Knighthood is on the tapis—O.M.G. (Oh! My...
– Quote from a letter by British Admiral John “Jacky” Fisher included in his book Memories, which was published in 1917. The Oxford English Dictionary just discovered the quote, which is the earliest known usage of the phrase.
Maybe the younger set (or anyone else who abbreviates everything under...