June 2009
17 posts
“I have learned something that is inherent whether we chose to live knowing it or...”
– Andrew McMahon
Lollapalooza 2009 Aftershows →
longlivethequeen:
digitalbath:
dashedlines:
digitalbath:
dashedlines:
Arctic Monkeys are playing an aftershow! I’m going to be there!
eeeek! i’m going to lollapalooza!
Who are you super excited to see??
manchester orchestra, kevin devine, passion pit, tool, tv on the radio, cold war kids and the decemberists….what about you?
OH MY GOSH, I cannot wait until August, I’ve got my...
“Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.”
– Natalie Portman (via anniesheart) (via coffeeandlipstick) (via honeyhands)
“(443): when she started arguing that Girl Talk was in fact a DJ, I knew I could...”
– Textsfromlastnight.com (originally texted by a hipster in eastern Maryland)
“I just find the communal experience of a rock concert, or any type of music...”
– Jeff Tweedy
longlivethequeen:
oldfilmsflicker:
Wilco -...
Oceans by The Format
Obama's speech in Cairo on June 4, 2009 →
May 2009
18 posts
grace-notes:
janettt:
Pitbull | You Know You...
Toni Morrison: The Nobel Prize in Literature,... →
Just read it.
"Dover Beach", Matthew Arnold
“The sea is calm to-night. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand; Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night-air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which the...
“I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph. I am a...”
– Kanye West, my idol
“But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague,...”
– Kate Chopin (via honeyhands)
The Awakening is always just what I need.
Five New Yorkers Who Wear Only One Color Every Day →
leavinghome:
aristobrat:
Commitment? Art project? OCD? Five New Yorkers who wear only one color all day, every day (and it’s not black).
oh lol, the second woman profiled designs Kevin Barnes’ costumes
grace-notes:
...
Poema XXI
Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche. Escribir, por ejemplo: “La noche está estrellada, y tiritan, azules, los astros, a lo lejos.”
El viento de la noche gira en el cielo y canta. Puedo escribir los versos más tristes esta noche. Yo la quise, y a veces ella también me quiso. En las noches como ésta la tuve entre mis brazos. La besé tantas veces bajo el cielo...
“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will...”
– Dave Matthews (via littlemiss) (via grace-notes)
“A girl wants Romeo, not Hamlet.”
– Blair Waldorf (via fuckyeahuppereastsiders) (via longlivethequeen)
April 2009
17 posts
“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get...”
– The Lorax by Dr. Seuss
My Mirror Speaks
With every sun that sets I am feeling more Like a stranger on a foreign shore With an eroding beach disappearing from underneath And when my mirror speaks it never minces words Because these eyes don’t shine half as bright As they used to do and they haven’t for quite a while Because I’m a man who hides from all that binds And a mess of fading lines And there’s a...
from "Elm"
I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root; It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there. Is it the sea you hear in me, Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?
- Sylvia Plath
“Impoverished parents in developing countries often try to keep their sons alive...”
– via http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/opinion/02kristof.html
I am so disgusted by those facts. The only job that would entice me to reconsider journalism again is if I could be assured that I’d get Nicholas D. Kristof’s job.
Obama’s Statement on North Korea Rocket Launching →
Following is the text of President Obama’s statement Sunday on North Korea’s rocket launching, as released by the White House.
(via www.NYTimes.com)
“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see,...”
– Arthur Miller
“Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
what she was wearing
this is my suicide dress she told him I only wear it on days when I’m afraid I might kill myself if I don’t wear it you’ve been wearing it every day since we met he said and these are my arson gloves so you don’t set fire to something? he asked exactly and this is my terrorism lipstick my assault and battery eyeliner my armed robbery boots I’d like to undress you he said but would that make me an...
We wear bright, tacky colors in order to identify...
indierawk:
-Anatomy of a Hipster #92.
I talk about Girl Talk more than any eighteen-year-old girl should.