July 2009
“There are a thousand, thousand reasons to live this life, every one of them...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead.
I finished this book on the way into work today; the simultaneous austerity and pathos blew me away. Guess this makes me 0 for 2 for crying on the subway this week.
“What is Joseph Gordon-Levitt supposed to do? Now he’s got straight-up Lloyd...”
– From a great piece by Almie Rose over at This Recording, found via the Fat Manatee. (via thebronzemedal)
This gal is my kinda gal.
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where i'm operating from today.
I had a bad dream last night, the kind where you (allow yourself to?) feel things much more intensely than you ever do in waking life. Ya know, like when you punch your mom in the face or throw temper tantrums in taxi cabs because you are going to miss your flight. No? Okay, anyway. So last night was a nice little nightmare called Losing The Kid You Nanny.
Lost the kid. If you haven’t ever...
“Her father, like you and so many other men in this town, did something...”
– Ted Thompson, “Some Things I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You”
im not gonna be able to sleep tonight (too excited...
<catholic>no, im not gonna be able to sleep bc im gonna be up all night worrying that tshirt maker is on tumblr.</catholic>
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things not to say to boys, ever:
“Well, I saw the one with jar jar binks?”
“He was a perfecter, a practicing fiend. He thought, “I am going to take off my...”
– Sasha-Frere Jones on you know who.
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Kicking and Screaming (1995)
This is my contribution to Chad’s baby, Filmosophy, which is, as some might say, a blog worth blogging about.
filmosophy:
I’M REMINISCING THIS RIGHT NOW
by Meaghan O’Connell
Kicking and Screaming is the kind of movie you tell your friends they have to see, and when they oblige, sit staring at the tv thinking, “Maybe this was a mistake.” 20 minutes in you start to look around...
mills:
Paul Simon - The Obvious Child.
One of...
“You don’t need to have a threesome to understand them. Stephen Hawking has...”
– Viceland Blog: The hotness of a threesome is determined by an equation
Nice try, Peter White.
my daily Peter :(
me: I feel like we're in high school and we're never going to get work done again.
Peter: Why, because we're friends or something-- I mean, because you think we're friends?
Oh hi, here’s your 5lights delivery sent a day late and a paragraph short, all courtesy of the Too Real But Cmon It’s Fiction Express:
5lights:
“I wonder what it would be like to be not particularly pretty. Passable, you know?” Halfway through my point, I realize it isn’t something you can say out loud, so I look out the window, bite the edge of my straw, wait. “Like me,” she says,...
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from the airport.
Our cabbie jumped in and then jumped out to join a group of other cabbies gathered around a woman, arguing with her. When he finally came back I asked what was going on and he said, “Oh, it is just that day of the month.”
“Hmph,” I giggled, thinking this a little profound— realizing I liked the idea of everyone deciding there was just one crazy day a month and we all...
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“Because only when you fuck is everything that you dislike in life and everything...”
– Philip Roth, The Dying Animal (via nightmarebrunette)
me: I'm so fucking tired.
lou: sleep!
lou: does the seat recline?
me: catholics can't recline their seats.
me: don't wanna impose.
“I read it at least once a year, every single year for the next five years, and...”
– sometimes a great notion
team JD.
If this heresy goes viral I’m going to post nothing but Catcher in the Rye quotes for the next month. Quotes first memorized in the back of a sweaty minivan when I was 14 and skipping Mass and discovering, for the first time, this thing, you may have heard of it, called Voice, and I don’t know, JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER 14 YEAR OLD THAT READ THIS BOOK, was filled with the exhilirating,...
:(
peter: Are you excited to go to lalaland?
me: yeah, i am. i'm gonna get to meet a lot of cool people and do a lot of cool shit.
peter: what if no one likes you when they meet you?
peter: what if your plane goes down?
“It was like one of those dreams where you’re filled with some extravagant...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead.
BOOM.
“I’ve chosen Tumblr as the blogging platform for Oddly Together. I’m impressed...”
– Joe Wilcox - Chronicle of Technology, Culture and Stupidity
I promise you, Mr. Wilcox, there is more to it than the babes.
(via jaredsblr)
But there are also the babes.
K, Mom you can read this one, but only because it’s in the third person and because you’re the cool mom.
PS: That stuff at the end, I don’t really know what it is, I just heard about it from the teevee.
5lights:
“Look how much better my legs look like this,” she slapped his forearm with the back of her hand, a gesture that was at once familiar and rebellious, the words,...
“I hope I can fall asleep tonight. Won’t be easy. Too excited re: clouds.”
– Jake Lodwick
These are maybe the best three sentences I’ve read today.
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Gabriel Kahane - LA
A few things:
This is from...
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Me: no she is like 4 inches taller than me.
Him: oh really? Hm i guess your personality is bigger.
Me: my boobs are bigger...
Him: yeah, that's what I meant.
Instructions for watching my apartment, with...
My friends really Get me
ingoodtaste:
M,
I’m blogging this because I can’t fit it all on a Post-It. Also, you’ll probably read it if it’s on your dashboard.
Don’t kill my cat. Don’t worry too much about this one—he’s pretty resilient.
Eat anything that you want. Except for my high fiber oatmeal. Just kidding, you can totally eat that, too. Sorry for the lack of edible things, but...
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Did the drunk man who sits outside of the deli on a milk crate feeding the birds pretend to throw bread at me when I walked up to buy a coffee this morning?
Yes, yes he did.
“She would not say of anyone in the world now that they were this or were that....”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
[panty-dropper]