January 2011
Things I want to be doing:
Reading The Virgin Suicides
Lying on my floor listening to Regina Spektor
Things I should be doing:
Linguistics homework
Laundry
Reading Adrienne Rich
I have no motivation today.
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must...”
– Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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Oh man, Mark Whalberg. He’s realized how boring this show has been, so he’s just gonna get up there and say whatever the hell he wants. Screw teleprompters! “Go Boardwalk Empire!”
Movies I want to see right now:
The Fighter
The King’s Speech
pleaseeee
please?
Oh. This paper was due yesterday. Guess I don’t need to worry about writing it now.
There are six places I dream of visiting:
jetaimealafolie:
HOGWARTS:
AND NARNIA:
AND NEVERLAND:
AND MIDDLE EARTH:
AND OZ:
AND WONDERLAND:
Netflix has determined, after one week, that these...
Understaded foregin dramas
Visually-striking dark period pieces
I think they’ve done a pretty good job, particularly with the last one.
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The Julie Project →
“For the last 18 years I have photographed Julie Baird’s complex story of multiple homes, AIDS, drug abuse, abusive relationships, poverty, births, deaths, loss and reunion. Following Julie from the backstreets of San Francisco to the backwoods of Alaska.”
“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...”
– John Keating, Dead Poets Society (via notforthethrill)
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“Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the...”
– Paul Tillich
“If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more.”
– Emma, Jane Austen (via misswallflower)
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hitRECordJoe: The Social Network & My Generation... →
hitrecordjoe:
The Social Network & My Generation an open letter to my friend Peter Travers Peter, Hey man! So, I finally watched The Social Network the other night, and today I read your review of it, curious about your claim that this film defines my generation. First let me say, I agree that…
This describes exactly where my aversion to the film came from in the first place:
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