July 2010
Everything-ism →
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David Sedaris uses, not a real stove but, a stove metaphor to talk about work-life balance:
One burner represents your family, one is your friends, the third is your health, and the fourth is your work. The gist … was that in order to be successful you have to cut off one of your burners. And in order to be really successful you have to cut off two.
James Franco seems to defy burner-isms. A recent piece raises at least two questions: 1) Can he be for real? And 2) If so, then just how is all of this possible?
For instance:
[G]raduate school. As soon as Franco finished at UCLA, he moved to New York and enrolled in four of them: NYU for filmmaking, Columbia for fiction writing, Brooklyn College for fiction writing, and — just for good measure — a low-residency poetry program at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina. This fall, at 32, before he’s even done with all of these, he’ll be starting at Yale, for a Ph.D. in English, and also at the Rhode Island School of Design.
And this isn’t new:
See also:
Balanced people don’t change the worldAccording to his mother, Betsy, Franco has been this way since he was born. In kindergarten, he wouldn’t just build regular little block towers — he’d build structures that used every single block in the playroom. At night, he would organize his Star Wars toys before he slept. When Franco was 4 years old, a friend of the family died. Betsy gave him the standard Mortality Talk: no longer with us, just a part of life — yes, but hopefully not for a very long time. Little James burst into tears. He was inconsolable. Eventually, he managed to choke out, between sobs, “But I don’t want to die! I have so much to do!”
This is no two-burner strategy. This is everything-ism.
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“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall under the jurisdiction. I can decide how I spend my time, whom I interact with, whom I share my body and life and money and energy with. I can select what I can read and eat and study. I can choose how I’m going to regard unfortunate circumstances in my life — whether I will see them as curses or opportunities. I can choose my words and the tone of voice in which I speak to others. And most of all, I can choose my thoughts.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love (via julie911) (via happythings) (via rachelenna)
“Sometimes, walking away is harder than fighting, but that doesn’t make it the wrong decision. Sometimes, fighting is harder than walking away, but that too doesn’t make it the wrong decision. Just make sure that whatever the decision is, you don’t regret it.”
—Alfred (via ohcardigan, g33ky)
If somebody loves you, won't they always love you?
(via ohcardigan)
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Let’s get fucked up and die..
I’m speaking figuratively, of course..
Like the last time that I committed suicide.. social suicide..
Yeah, so I’m already dead on the inside,
But I can still pretend with my memories and photographs,
I have learned to love the lie.
I wanna know what it’s like to be awkward and innocent, not belligerent.
I wanna know how it feels to be useful and pertinent and have common sense.. yeah
Let me in, let me in to the club, cuz I wanna belong,
And I need to get strong, and if memory serves,
I’m addicted to words and they’re useless.
(In this department)
Let’s get fucked up and die..
I’m riding hard on the last lines of every lie,
And the BMX bike of my life is about to explode,
I’m about to explode.
I’m a mess, I’m a wreck.
I am perfect, and I have learned to accept all my problems and short comings,
Cause I am so visceral, yet deeply inept.
I want to thank you for being a part of my forget-me-nots and marigolds..
And all the things that don’t get old..
Is it legal to do this? I surely don’t know.
It’s the only way I have learned to express myself
through other peoples’ descriptions of life..
I’m afraid I’m alone and entirely useless…
(In this department)
Let’s get fucked up and die.
For the last time with feeling
we’ll try not to smile
As we cover our heads and drink heavily into the nights
That still shock and surprise.
I believe that I can, overcome this and beat everything in the end
But I choose to abuse for the time being,
maybe I’ll win, but for now I’ve decided to die.
Sister soldier
You’ve been such a positive influence on my mental frame
If I could ever repay you,
I would, but I’m hard up for cash
And my memory lacks initiative.
God damn the liquor store’s closed,
we were so close to scoring
it hurts, it destroys ‘til it kills..
I am tired and hungry and totally useless.
(In this department)
L.G. Faud, Motion City Soundtrack
Beautiful. Wonderful. Love.
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Go ahead and burn it down
I’m drunk and so is everyone else
In this devil town
They wont let me turn around
To get one last look at my baby
While she’s still around,
While she’s still around,
While she’s still around,
While she’s still around
Go ahead and build it up again
This cities just cemeteries enhanced
Forgotten men
My only hope’s to see you
And even if I never do
While she’s still around,
While she’s still around,
While she’s still around,
While she’s still around
And I know what you’re thinking
That won’t stop this drinking
It’s the least I can do
‘Cause this life is anything but certain
When they close the final curtain
You’ll get a glimpse of the truth
Cause you’re still around,
While she’s still around,
While she’s still around,
While she’s still around
Go ahead and burn it down
I’m drunk and so is everyone else
In this devil town
Still Around, 3OH!3
I know what you’re thinking. 3OH!3?! WHAT?! but this song, is wonderful.
Anonymous asked: You do realise what Lesbians spells out backwards then backwards again? Right?
Riana: Omg, you’re right.. It spells out, “I am Lord Voldemort.” :O
Hallie: Oh god…does this mean Tom Riddle was a lesbian
INSTANT STAR: SEASON FOUR
COMES OUT JULY 27TH, SAY WHAT?!?!?! AND FOR SIXTEEN BUCKS?!
I THINK I JUST DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN.
This season was like, never supposed to be released. Granted, it was never supposed to really air. This will be my fourth complete series so far on DVD. Life is FANTASTIC RIGHT NOW. Nothing. could. beat. this.
Yes, my life has become that sad. But I am TOTALLY okay with that.
xoxo
“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”
—Ann Patchett (via somewitty, awritersruminations)
you know you're a lesbian when...
after the first disc to season one in your buffy the vampire slayer boxset stops working, you pull out a spare because you own each season individually, too.
This is a fantastic win.
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A nameless figure at a peak
A state at which he cannot speak
Standing so far above it all
A man preparing for the fall
Floating along the urban sun
Shining upon the only one
His future hanging by a thread
Romantic thoughts within his head
And he waits
Though his friends arrive
No answers are in tow
He is young
And it’s hard for him to see
And he waits
For the feeling that he lost so long ago
To be loved, to be free
His mother calling from below
Telling him never to let go
He seems to stand there with such grace
A peaceful look upon his face
He holds a letter in his hand
His friends will never understand
Without a heart there’s just a hole
That shows the darkness of his soul
And he waits
Though his friends arrive
No answers are in tow
He is young
And it’s hard for him to see
And he waits
For the feeling that he lost so long ago
To be loved, to be free
PEAK, Dayplayer
Have I done this one yet? because I LOVE dayplayer.
16887.) I've never wanted to kiss someone so much in my life.
(via blogsecret)
16885.) I'd really like you to meet me today, and not about 3 years ago when I was a little 17 year old. I've been mean to you and you have been mean with me, but we love eachother. I want you to talk to me like you did on the day we met, and I'd like to talk to you like I used to do. I wish I could go back in time and start all over again.
(via blogsecret)
story of my life lately.
ASK TWO LESBIANS!! Anonymous asked: This may sounds stupid, but how do you know if you are really lesbian or bi? →
giantvaginas.tumblr.com
Hallie: Could you ever be happy in a mental and sexual relationship with a man?
Could you ever be happy in a mental and sexual relationship with a woman?
If you have answered “Yes” to both of these questions, you are bisexual, please seek help. If you have answered “Yes” to the second question…
16847.) I really want to be with you tonight. But I'm to afraid to ask if you want to hang out. It's making me crazy.
(via blogsecret)
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HORRIBLE
Any dolt with half a brain
Can see that humankind has gone insane
To the point where I don’t know
If I’ll upset the status quo
If I throw poison in the water main
Listen close to everybody’s heart
And hear that breaking sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart
And crashing to the ground
I cannot believe my eyes
How the world’s filled with filth and lies
But it’s plain to see
Evil inside of me is on the rise
PENNY
Look around
We’re living with the lost and found
Just when you feel you’ve almost drowned
You find yourself on solid ground
And you believe
There’s good in everybody’s heart
Keep it safe and sound
With hope, you can do your part
To turn a life around
I cannot believe my eyes
Is the world finally growing wise
‘Cause it seems to me
Some kind of harmony
Is on the rise
HORRIBLE (overlapping with Penny below)
Anyone with half a brain
Could spend their whole life howling in pain
‘Cause the dark is everywhere
And Penny doesn’t seem to care
That soon the dark in me is all that will remain
Listen close to everybody’s heart
And hear that breaking sound
Hopes and dreams are shattering apart
And crashing to the ground
I cannot believe my eyes
How the world’s filled with filth and lies
But it’s plain to see
Evil inside of me is on the rise
PENNY
Take it slow
He looks at me and seems to know
The things that I’m afraid to show
And suddenly I feel this glow
And I believe
There’s good in everybody’s heart
Keep it safe and sound
With hope, you can do your part
To turn a life around
I cannot believe my eyes
How the world’s finally growing wise
And it’s plain to see
Rapture inside of me is on the rise
“We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter into the lives of others.”
—Francine du Plessix Gray (via somewitty, ecouter-bien)
I dare you...
to leave someone a little love note. tucked away in a desk drawer. scribbled on a page in the middle of a book. etched in the condensation on a fogged-up mirror. you might be surprised at how such a simple gesture can mean so much.
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It started out as a feeling
Which then grew into hope
Which then turned into a quiet thought
Which then turned into a quiet word
And then that word grew louder and louder
Till it was a battle cry
I’ll come back when you call me
No need to say goodbye
Just because everything’s changing
Doesn’t mean it’s never been this way before
All you can do is try to know who your friends are
As you head off to war
Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light
You’ll come back when it’s over
No need to say goodbye
You’ll come back when it’s over
No need to say goodbye
Now we’re back to the beginning
It’s just a feeling and no one knows yet
But just because they can’t feel it, too
Doesn’t means that you have to forget
Let your memories grow stronger and stronger
Till they’re before your eyes
You’ll come back when they call you
No need to say goodbye
You’ll come back when they call you
No need to say goodbye
