June 2012
57 posts
“Chain Reaction” (via Video | Girl Walk // All Day)
you should watch the whole film/series from the beginning, but this is a really good one… (though, it’s missing my favorite character, The Creep)
this is the part where i close my eyes, and when i open them my life becomes everything i’ve imagined.
this is the part where we pack up the car and go to the places we wrote down in the backs of our notebooks like crushes.
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with Girl Talk at my side i will FUCK YOUR SHIT UP, work i have to do.
stress = RAGE.
life can suck my dick, or i’ll punch it in the face.
It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.
– Charles Bukowski (via goodgracesbadbadinfluence)
‘I am free,’ he said suddenly. And his joy changed, on the spot, to a crushing...
– Jean-Paul Sartre - The Reprieve (via alecshao)
… it is also true that in modern times the term “pornography”...
– - Vladimir Nabokov, in an afterword on Lolita
in other words, Nabokov would despise 50 Shades of Grey, but should have definitely read Anne Rice’s Sleeping Beauty trilogy. I think we would get along.
waitingforteaagain:
Words to keep inside your pocket:
Quiescent - a quiet, soft-spoken soul.
Chimerical - merely imaginary; fanciful.
Susurrus - a whispering or rustling sound.
Raconteur - one who excels in story-telling.
Clinquant - glittering; tinsel-like.
Aubade - a song greeting the dawn.
Ephemeral - lasting a very short time.
Sempiternal - everlasting; eternal.
Euphonious -...
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FYSR: Lolita →
fysr:
I finished Lolita about an hour ago, and while it might normally make sense to sit on a finished novel for a bit before writing about it, this is not such a novel. Nabokov, or perhaps Humbert Humbert, leaves me with a sense of restlessness, and I’m hoping discussing the book will calm that.
shameless plugging!! i just wrote a post over at FYSR, which is a super awesome blog and you...
You think I’m not a goddess? Try me. This is a torch song. Touch me and you’ll...
– From Margaret Atwood’s “Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing.”
(via kinkycasey)
I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via thatkindofwoman)
astrophe
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a hypothetical conversation that you compulsively play out in your head—a crisp analysis, a cathartic dialogue, a devastating comeback—which serves as a kind of psychological batting cage where you can connect more deeply with people than in the small ball of everyday life, which is a game of change-up pitches, sacrifice bunts, and intentional walks.
oh, the love letters i would write you, every day, every day
not long, maybe,...
– i can smell the ocean air… -
How do I start this day,
I who am unsure
of how my life has happened
or how...
– Albert Garcia, from “August Morning” (via eighthandocean)
i’ve been feeling lethargic and unmotivated since i got home and it sucks. a lot.
i want so bad to just accomplish something, do something, but all the old things aren’t exciting enough right now. and it’s bringing everything down.
so i’m looking for inspiration: please please please give me something to motivate me?