steady as she goes

lotus09: Corey Crawford - Interview in French J’adore your...

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:44:55 -0400

Corey Crawford - Interview in French

J’adore your cheeks *pinch*

I don’t want to be your entire world, no. I would be happy just to be your morning coffee, your...

Thu, 23 May 2013 03:43:34 -0400

I don’t want to be
your entire world, no.
I would be happy
just to be your morning coffee,
your hanging car keys,
your wallet.

Something seemingly
insignificant,
but if lost throws off
your entire day.

"You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago."

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:55:07 -0400

“You’re under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.”

- (via fortyone)

"Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat."

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:39:21 -0400

“Women are afraid of meeting a serial killer. Men are afraid of meeting someone fat.”

-
When Strangers Click, a 2011 documentary about online dating.

It reminds me of that famous Margaret Atwood quote: “Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” It also reminds me of something written by one of the mods of Sex Worker Problems: “Misandry irritates. Misogyny kills.” (via tealeafprincess)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 04:47:39 -0400

disregardwomen: mintmeow: i’ve got 99 problems and being a decaying organism that’s born to die in...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:42:28 -0400

disregardwomen:

mintmeow:

i’ve got 99 problems and being a decaying organism that’s born to die in a society run by money that i can’t escape is one of them

g-erti: Every Series, Every Episode! StarTrek.com has made...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:40:56 -0400

g-erti:

Every Series, Every Episode!

StarTrek.com has made every episode available for streaming on their website! (and there doesn’t seem to be any indication that its only temporary!)

Have a series you’ve been meaning to watch? Can’t afford Netflix? No problem! Go forth; all of Star Trek is now at your disposal!

thesassylorax: This makes me happy and sad at the same time.

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:39:09 -0400

thesassylorax:

This makes me happy and sad at the same time.

simplymykayla: sometimes you just gotta take a step back and...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:38:40 -0400

simplymykayla:

sometimes you just gotta take a step back and look at this site

andysbrownies: You don’t need to bribe me with heels and diamond rings, just buy me hockey tickets...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:35:37 -0400

andysbrownies:

You don’t need to bribe me with heels and diamond rings, just buy me hockey tickets and hockey jerseys and I will love you forever

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Wed, 22 May 2013 04:34:55 -0400

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Wed, 22 May 2013 04:31:32 -0400

film-dot-com: THIS IS BULLSHIT: WHY THE INTERNET’S MOST POPULAR...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:21:21 -0400

film-dot-com:

THIS IS BULLSHIT: WHY THE INTERNET’S MOST POPULAR SHORT FILM IS SERIOUSLY PROBLEMATIC

(aka i skipped lunch and got cranky.)

Real talk: This short film is everything that’s wrong with movies, today. Actually, that’s not entirely fair. “This is Water” is actually emblematic of everything that’s wrong with our current regard for visual storytelling of any kind, a maddening testament to our impoverished and unrequited relationship with images. Don’t be fooled by the ease with which we can capture and produce images – once upon a time they were at our mercy and disposal, but “This is Water” reminds us that there was an uprising at some point, and we lost.

Now, I don’t want to be cruel about this, at least not more cruel than necessary. Judging by their taste in commencement speeches and the humility of their film’s YouTube description, the folks responsible for this hyper-literal illustration seem like kind and well-meaning people. Listening to the unabridged audio recording of David Foster Wallace’s address, I can certainly understand the impulse to share his profound sentiment, packaging it in such a way that as wide an audience as possible might get to enjoy the source material. In that last regard, the success of this attempt is both undeniable and astounding, as “This is Water” has amassed more than 5 million views since it was uploaded on May 6. Seriously impressive stuff, and untold numbers of people who otherwise might never have heard of David Foster Wallace have now been enlightened to his prevailing ethos.

And yet… everything about it makes me cringe. And, so far as I can understand my own antipathy, I think it’s primarily because the cinema can’t afford for people to think that this qualifies as cinema, at all. This isn’t filmmaking, this is transposition. This is, somehow, actually a step down from the process by which Zack Snyder adapted “300″ for the screen by essentially animating panels from a graphic novel. In so literally illustrating the words of David Foster Wallace’s speech, the filmmaker’s don’t make the sentiments of the speech more palpable or immediate, but reduce the universal to the generic. The beauty of the address is that Foster speaks to the collective narcissism of the human experience, using specific examples to express the extent to which each of us is at the mercy of our egocentrism, stuck in our own heads to the point where we struggle to appreciate the splendor of those around us and the world we share with them. Ultimately, as with most any good commencement speech, David Foster Wallace invites his listeners to make his words their own, to apply them to their own lives. Like a horoscope, the value of these sentiments hinges upon us meeting them halfway, hearing broad pronouncements like they’ve been whispered to us, the hot breath of a secret blushing around the hollows of our ears. “You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t.”

But with this film, you don’t. The presentation robs you of any choice whatsoever.

Here, in a speech about the inestimable value of awareness, your eye is so busied with lamely literal graphics (which are nevertheless clearly the work of a skilled designer) and relentless music that alternately sounds like outtakes from the “Secret World of Alex Mack” and Explosions in the Sky b-sides, that the video fundamentally defeats its own supposed message. Relying on blunt stimuli and Hallmark emotion to convey a commencement address that’s attuned to the perils of both, the video actively attempts to disarm your awareness, becoming nothing more than another example of the emotionally pornographic stuff that discourages us from remembering how to appreciate the wonder of our daily existence. These images don’t ask you to engage, they ask you to submit. These images illustrate the difference between seeing the water and drowning in it. If anything, the video speaks to the urgency of David Foster Wallace’s concerns, and I can only hope that the millions who took the time to watch it will give themselves the same opportunity to actually glean something from it that was offered to Kenyon College’s graduating class of 2005.

nicolasechs: I think the Blackhawks Twitter is just trolling us...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:10:26 -0400

nicolasechs:

I think the Blackhawks Twitter is just trolling us now.

"It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough;..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:09:05 -0400

“It is funny how you do not miss affection until it is given, but once it is, it can never be enough; you would drown in it if possible.”

- Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing (via larmoyante)

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Wed, 22 May 2013 04:08:11 -0400

bluevein: gossip girl finale is one of the best things i’ve ever seen on tumblr. bless the writers...

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:07:44 -0400

bluevein:

gossip girl finale is one of the best things i’ve ever seen on tumblr. bless the writers and their ~~talent~~, bless all of the amazing posts and long live the plot holes.

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eggzakery: gorillaz feel good inc laugh

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:02:46 -0400

eggzakery:

*gorillaz feel good inc laugh*

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Wed, 22 May 2013 03:57:20 -0400

french: my life all wrapped up into one photo

Wed, 22 May 2013 03:52:29 -0400

french:

my life all wrapped up into one photo