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resolutewoman: …next up. Bid me run, and I will strive with...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 21:02:50 -0400

resolutewoman:

…next up.

Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible.

Let it be known throughout the land that this is The Summer...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:30:47 -0400

Let it be known throughout the land that this is The Summer Wherein Our Hero Gets A Dog.

(But not a golden retriever because No.)

(But seriously, who sleeps with socks on? This isn’t a thing, is it?)

(Also, two years ago I apparently predicted a great Velociraptor Attack of 2013 and now I’m scared that this thing’s just around the corner.)

nevver: Invitation to a Hanging They’re selling...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:41:00 -0400

nevver:

Invitation to a Hanging

They’re selling postcards of the hanging/They’re painting the passports brown.

Yes, please. Russian Ridge #77 [andertho]

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:29:56 -0400

Yes, please.

Russian Ridge #77 [andertho]

It is June. I am tired of being brave. Anne Sexton, The Truth The Dead Know (and when we touch/we...

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:30:02 -0400

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

Anne Sexton, The Truth The Dead Know

(and when we touch/we enter touch entirely)

Because if you’re still unsure how you feel about an...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:01:09 -0400

Because if you’re still unsure how you feel about an author after five books, read a sixth.

There’s this particular scene in the film About A Boy where...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:12:16 -0400

There’s this particular scene in the film About A Boy where Marcus & Will are talking about relationships—Will’s met a woman and he likes her. And for the first time he’s grappling with the feelings part behind all that. So they’re discussing what the difference is between a girl who is a friend and a girlfriend. Or, even really, the difference between a crush and something beyond.

Ultimately Will realizes that the key characteristic is what he calls “the less and the more,” that is less the touching and more the emotional component: Being around each other all the time, telling her the secrets you won’t tell anyone else.

I’ve been thinking about that a lot lately. I like to think that I’d be good at relationships, but I was recently told that I’m hard to take seriously as I have crushes all the time. And that stuck with me. Maybe it’s true. Maybe I have one foot out the door at all times, ready to jump to the next big thing. Maybe I’m good at the sweet words but not the real ones.

And the sucky thing is that I don’t think there are any answers here. No big moment of insight or grand reveal. It’s just in the doing. It’s in the near-daily saying “This matters enough to give it an honest shot. This is who I am, for better or for worse, and I’d really like to know who you are. And I like you enough to say that this is more than just about touching—I’d be prepared to take the less and the more because what I want, ultimately, is you.”

(But we can still touch, right?)

copycats: “Bette Davis Eyes” by Brandon Flowers Originally by...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:36:00 -0400

copycats:

“Bette Davis Eyes” by Brandon Flowers

Originally by Kim Carnes

Abbey Road Studios (2011)

Oh look. One of my all time favorite songs covered by one of my favorite bands.

She got Greta Garbo’s stand-off sighs, she’s got Bette Davis eyes

When I drink I get really happy. I hug a lot (a lot), I smile...

Fri, 14 Jun 2013 13:02:20 -0400

When I drink I get really happy. I hug a lot (a lot), I smile big, and I dance and sing. I also confess to liking disney things. (Which I guess I also do sober.)

30andbroke: Frank Ocean - Bad Romance Yup. This will do.

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 10:59:44 -0400

30andbroke:

Frank Ocean - Bad Romance

Yup. This will do.

And everyone pointing at the sky/Screaming “The end is nigh”

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 09:03:00 -0400

And everyone pointing at the sky/Screaming “The end is nigh”

How I imagine I’ll look now that I’m a card-carrying...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:00:08 -0400

How I imagine I’ll look now that I’m a card-carrying member of a yacht club.

Summer nights & crushes. A mixtape.

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:16:41 -0400

Summer nights & crushes. A mixtape.

I’ve got water and the beach on the brain. It’s all...

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:11:51 -0400

I’ve got water and the beach on the brain. It’s all I want.

Photo

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 12:11:15 -0400

Norman Parkinson, Visiting, 1941 [greeneyes55]

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 10:56:45 -0400

Norman Parkinson, Visiting, 1941

[greeneyes55]

"The old adage is true—writing is rewriting. But it takes a kind of courage to confront your own..."

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 12:33:42 -0400

“The old adage is true—writing is rewriting. But it takes a kind of courage to confront your own awfulness (and you will be awful) and realize that, if you sleep on it, you can come back and bang at the thing some more, and it will be less awful. And then you sleep again, and bang even more, and you have something middling. Then you sleep some more, and bang, and you get something that is actually coherent. Hopefully when you are done you have a piece that reasonably approximates the music in your head. And some day, having done that for years, perhaps you will get something that is even better than the music in your head. Becoming a better writer means becoming a re-writer. But that first phase is so awful that most people don’t want any part.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates (via theatlantic)

This syncs up well with the Ira Glass quote about the creativity gap—”But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot of people never get past this phase.”

Which is all to say: Keep pushing.

“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:36:05 -0400

“The cure for anything is salt water — sweat, tears, or the sea.”

—Karen Bixen

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Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:24:44 -0400

"You’re gonna meet the woman of your dreams once you create a [life] situation for yourself that..."

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:08:58 -0400

“You’re gonna meet the woman of your dreams once you create a [life] situation for yourself that she’ll ruin by arriving.”

- Dan Harmon

There is nothing more true than this, in the best way possible.

(via thenthathappened)

But also in the worst way possible. (But in the best way possible.)