August 2009
“What you feel only matters to you. It’s what you do to the people you say...”
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-from The Last Kiss
movieoftheday:
Last Words by The Real Tuesday...
24, Osip Madelstam
sleepanddream:
poetry365:
Leaves scarcely breathing in the black breeze; the flickering swallow draws circles in the dusk.
In my loving dying heart a twilight is coming, a last ray, gently reproaching.
And over the evening forest the bronze moon climbs to its place. Why has the music stopped? Why is there such silence?
George Washington spent about 7% of his annual...
fuckyeahfacts:
(The World’s Best Book of Useless Information)
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition; Man is the only being...”
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-Octavio Paz (via brokenmachine)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-8-30) →
The Beatles (25)
Modest Mouse (13)
Wilco (13)
The Clash (8)
Rilo Kiley (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
unicornology:
...
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million...”
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-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via buttersideup) (via suzywire) (via fuckingwithdreams) (via cargohoo) (via morganmartinez)
“I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I’d...”
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-Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“Implicit to the drug companies’ messianic promises of health, happiness and economic productivity is a spurious parable of linear scientific progress: in spite of consistently inconclusive clinical trials, new psychotropic drugs are regularly marketed as improvements on old ones, ever more specific in their targeting of neurotransmitters, ever less productive of pernicious side effects. While...
“Saying that young people should just buy health care instead of buying an iPod...”
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-Squashed (via azspot)
Sometimes, Nikki Giovanni
sleepanddream:
poetry365:
sometimes when i wake up in the morning and see all the faces i just can’t breathe
“I don’t have to read it, or know what’s in it. I’m going to oppose it anyways.”
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-GOP Sen. Inhofe on health care reform (via robot-heart-politics)
notemily:
spaceships: kateoplis: Middle Cyclone-...
“The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last— the...”
– -F. Scott Fitzgerald
Theory: Time Doesn't Exist, and Space Isn't... →
asprettyasasong:
dalasverdugo: variation: mikehudack: spytap:
This article blew my mind, especially the part where it describes how a single particle spinning in space might not actually be said to be spinning at all. I felt like CJ right after they flipped the map.
“Words, mere words, how terrible they were, how clear, and vivid, and cruel, one...”
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-Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Rum Diary
whokilled:
by Hunter S. Thompson Not much of what he said was original. What made him unique was the fact that he had no sense of detachment at all…He saw life as the Big Game. The stakes were fantastic and every play was vital - and although he watched with a nearly obsessive interest, he was very much the fan, shouting unheard advice in a crowd of unheard advisors and knowing all the while that...
brokenmachine:
The Strokes - What Ever...
“Unless we explicitly restrict these items, I think we can fully expect that...”
– -Shakesville: USA: Beacon of Stupid - Bachmann’s At It Again (via robot-heart-politics)
This is freaking hilarious.
Dear America: Are You On Crack? →
i just want to write you out of my heart
