September 2010
30 posts
“He looked back at me. ‘You have to do your work,’ he said. ‘That’s your first...”
– Kathryn Chetkovich, “Envy”
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Fifteen Books
“The things I’ve seen, at just fifteen! The things I’ve seen, at just fifteen!”
Props to anyone who can guess what song that’s from…anyway…
Let’s get down to it, shall we? IN MLA! Before I die, or my laptop battery does. Whichever comes first!
1. Thompson, Kay. Eloise, illustrated by Hilary Knight. NY: Simon and Schuster. 1955.
The book...
Best Coast - “Up All Night”
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My Life According to of Montreal
Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, answer these questions.
You can’t use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title.
It’s a lot harder than you think! Repost as “my life according to (band name)”
Tag your music loving friends! I don’t wanna! I’m depressed!
Are you a male or female:Fun Loving Nun
Describe yourself: Id Engager
How do you...
“This all happened, more or less. Something happened here and something happened...”
– Frank Chimero, “The Back Side of Your Gullet is Decadent and Depraved, pt. 1”
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Fifteen Films
Bah. You know the drill.
Let me guess what’s next, 15 books? 15 dates? 15 teachers?
I just want to do the 15 albums thing again.
Singles (1992) R-r-r-r-rituaaaaaaal!!!
Before Sunrise (1995) This movie ruined me for other dates! This movies an ASSHOLE!
Amelie (2001) And thus she cultivated a taste for life’s simple pleasures…or something like that. Oh whatever, I think you...
“OK, listen up. Maybe I can help to calm your...
Excerpt from Frank Chimero’s “The Back Side of Your Gullet is Decadent and Depraved”
“…the thought of there being so much garbage out there! So much waste! And to try to make something that isn’t garbage? To make something profound seems so difficult.”
“It doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try, Frank. Here, I’ll let you in on something that might make you feel better....
There were endless conversations. No one’s...
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On the way home, with him in the driver’s seat, he asked if we were going to see each other tomorrow.
I shrugged. “I don’t know. I might be busy.”
He asked about the day after that.
“I think this week’s pretty packed.”
He bit his lip and looked the other way as he steered the car around the corner. With his eyes still averted, two almost completely...
mhight:
just for context, the aforementioned example A was quite a while ago.
in retrospect, I had projected onto him what I wanted him to be. because I was sick and tired of dating and just wanted to arrive at an answer. and when he failed to be that answer, I was deeply disappointed. which quite frankly, wasn’t fair to him or to me. just like don draper says and its true: people will show...
“As if intensity were a virtue we say
good and. Good and drunk. Good and dead....”
– Heather McHugh, “Intensive Care”, The Paris Review, Issue 80, 1981.
Geographer - “Kites”
“My brain...
тијана: Words That Don’t Exist in the English... →
Add Querencia and of course, Schaudenfreude.
theeuphoriapill:
tamburina:
L’esprit d’escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with soul, creativity, or love.
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Fifteen Albums
Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you. List the first fifteen you can recall in no more than fifteen minutes. Tag fifteen friends,including me, because I’m interested in seeing what albums my friends choose. (To do this, go to your Notes tab on your profile page, paste rules in a new note, cast your fifteen picks, and...
