January 2010
December 2009
lady gaga and the myth of the grotesque.
(via phuuuuu)
isabelthespy:
“The great thing about Gaga is she always want to push for the most extreme option,” Card said. “She’s brave enough to let herself be a canvas for a designer to go and really express themselves. Nothing is off limits! With Rihanna and Beyoncé there is an end result of desirability and unattainable sexiness, whereas Gaga is a really interesting bridge...
itslaurenpham:
“We became acquainted with starry skies the girls had gazed at while camping years before, and the boredom of summers traipsing from back yard to front and back again, and even a certain indefinable smell that arose from toliets on rainy nights, which girls called ‘sewery’. We knew the pain of winter wind rushing up your skirt, and the ache of keeping your knees together in class,...
Fireflies, Cecilia Woloch
And these are my vices: impatience, bad temper, wine, the more than occasional cigarette, an almost unquenchable thirst to be kissed, a hunger that isn’t hunger but something like fear, a staunching of dread and a taste for bitter gossip of those who’ve wronged me—for bitterness— and flirting with strangers and saying sweetheart to children whose names I don’t even know and driving too fast and...
“Always depend on a rogue for a beguiling manner.”
– The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1996)
Lost and Found Dept.: The Marble Faun →
One afternoon last year, a woman got into a taxi lugging a video camera and a tripod. The driver, a stocky middle-aged man with close-cropped hair and a goatee, asked her if she was in the film business and if she had ever seen the movie “Grey Gardens.” She said yes. “Well,” the driver said. “I’m the Marble Faun.” The woman gasped and told him, “Albert Maysles has been looking for you for years.”
...
blowing karen's mind
deus ex diana: i told you my mom had a wiccan phase for most of my childhood right
gingerbreadkaren: NO
deus ex diana: KAREN
gingerbreadkaren: I'M ABOUT TO HAVE IT
gingerbreadkaren: NOW SHES JEWISH
gingerbreadkaren: SHE'S ME
deus ex diana: i measure my life according to my mother's religion at the time!
gingerbreadkaren: OH MY GOD
gingerbreadkaren: I LOVE IT!
deus ex diana: i spent my childhood going to Luna circle meetings and lighting long candles and having my tarot cards read.
deus ex diana: i would go out into my backyard and commune with our redwoods.
deus ex diana: why do you think i go to uc santa cruz?
deus ex diana: frankly i don't know what your excuse is
gingerbreadkaren: WHAT
gingerbreadkaren: OH MY GOD
gingerbreadkaren: THAT SOUNDS AMAZING
gingerbreadkaren: i want to hear about this in greater detail when we're together
i can't wait to come back
galina: god ok u know what my cakewould be
galina: havi ng saomeone fetch me a pumpkn spice
galina: then me throwing it and saying i want a permint mocha
--- it's funny because I knew instantly the passage you're talking about here, and it's the passage that made me decide Murakami is a hack. I love you Galina, our belief systems are opposites.
“There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered:...”
– Miss Manners
karen asked me to do this
novels: lolita, del amor y otros demonios, persuasion, east of eden, a ring of endless light, housekeeping, my antonía nonfiction: the letters of vincent van gogh, the rise of theodore roosevelt, conquest of the useless, a carnival of revolution, the end of poverty
poetry: mary oliver, gary young, sarah manguso
movies: the secret of roan inish, eternal sunshine, shakespeare in love, le mépris,...
“There was a silence between them for a moment, and she wondered if all women,...”
“I might never be anything for men to lose their heads about, but I need never...”
– Elsie de Wolfe
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the...”
– Franz Kafka (via fatalistichues) (via goosebumpsfitsandmalaria)
(850): I’m gonna die fat and alone and all they will find is pizza crusts
“Modern industrial civilization has developed within a certain system of...”
– Noam Chomsky (via syntheticpubes)
TJ: how the fuck are we supposed to say that shit anyways?
TJ: "twenty ten"?
TJ: that's like good ass vision not a fucking year for chrissake
Diana: i am only surrounded by openly gay men and closeted gay men
Cameron: That is statiscially improbable
Diana: you haven't been to santa cruz
Non-Widescreen Version Of DVD Received As Hanukkah... →
bthny:
“Tyler’s got very specific tastes,” Bernie said. “He told us he likes those foreign films. What did he call it? The Criterion Collection. Well, Hannah and I tried to find those, but they didn’t have them at Target. We sure didn’t want what happened with the wizard movie to happen again.”
Bernie spoke in reference to last year, when the Greenbergs came close to finding a gift Rosenstein...
note to post-graduate self of the near future
Diana: i am forcing myself to move away once my lease is up - i'm not going to let myself try to stay
Thomas: to where?
Diana: i don't know yet
Thomas: it better be fucking hawaii or some shit
Thomas: and better come with a wheelchair with a wine IV
Thomas: and a guy following you around giving you head while you're being pushed and fanned all day
(must remember these qualifications in August!)
“Slow Life” - Grizzly Bear ft....
Barack Obama Wants to Be at Work Today Just as... →
skidder:
Barack Obama spent the day calling into local news-talk radio shows as “Barry from D.C.”
