October 2009
Conversations from last night
(my version of texts from last night)
SJ: The Victorian Era called, and they’d like ALL of their taffeta back!
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CT: I don’t need to be able to speak, I’m a writer!”
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The sand strangles the words from me before they sound.
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September 2009
People talk about thinking, but for my part I never think except when I sit down...
– Edgar Allen Poe (via jayneromney)
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My only fear is that I am a vision in some dreamer’s mind, and that he will soon wake, and the dream of myself will be over.
Essay - Why Good Writers Can Be Bad... →
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Sometimes
I stop everything I’m doing and ask myself why I’m not going to spend the rest of my life with music, and I worry and become anxious about not pursuing music as a major; then I console myself, thinking that just as music has been part of my life since 3rd grade, it will continue to be part of me. Even after Vassar, I’ll keep singing.
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Into myself, I fall.
I just received
my copy of The Three-Text Hamlet, an out-of-print book that juxtaposes the text of Q1, Q2, and F1 Hamlets, line by line, with original spellings and stage directions. I didn’t expect it to arrive this soon, so when I saw the post office email in my inbox, I was struck with glee comparable only to that of thousand little children tearing through the shrink wrap of their Christmas toys. I am...
Future Me →
Hm…
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I am of the philosophy that the mysteries above can be solved by the mysteries below; something underneath my skin informs my brain that this is so.
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[What is this?]
your birthday and corresponding tree →
jayneromney:
christielouwho:
acousticangel:
angelcondom:
samstutchy:
kaitlyn-hod:
thekirstengarciablog:
sammycasanova:
tothesoundsof:
coronitadarling:
December 23rd :)
APPLE TREE (the Love) - of slight build, lots of charm, appeal, and attraction, pleasant aura, flirtatious, adventurous, sensitive, always in love, wants to love and be loved, faithful and tender partner, very...
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What spirits may transform me, upon your alter and my grave?
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These hands are stone and tool: with one gesture they give, and by another they take, together they build and undo, cast into creation or damnation.
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[Post-Script: I may use this in my first full short story for my composition class this semester.]
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Music has the power to make the beloved feel lonely, and the lonely feel loved.
You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a...
– Wild Geese by Mary Oliver (via barbarousbee)
Wow.
I just returned from the Steve Turre Sextet jazz concert, where, for the first time, I was moved to tears by live music.
Now This is the Droid We're Looking For | Popular... →
This R2D2 is pimpin[sic]
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Thoughts without words are dreams; words without thoughts are rash.
Signs of Water Are Found on the Moon - NYTimes.com →
Surprise!
StarWars.com | The Offical Star Wars Soundboard -... →
iDarth.
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The easiest thing in the world is to say yes—yes I’ll do that, yes I can, yes I will—and the most difficult thing to say is no—no I didn’t, no I can’t, I need help.
Carl Jung and the Holy Grail of the Unconscious -... →
today is butter day at the ragbag
ragbag:
a b-list friend of mine just returned from paris where he took a two week haute cuisine cooking course (just for yucks). among other tricks that he taught me is a french technique for cooking steak—in a pan while constantly spooning melted butter over it. this is known in the trade as nourishing. thus, to nourish something is to bathe it in butter so as to increase succulence.
now if...
Infinite Kanye Parody
Kanye: Yo, Kanye Im really happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Kanye had one of the best celebrity gaffes of ALL TIME!
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I dreamt that I was handcuffed—to myself—and the handcuffs wouldn’t come off, until I squeezed out of them, but then I realized I had awoken—handcuffs still binding me—and didn’t feel the need to flee anymore.
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The earth engraved on my hands, an irreplaceable map as difficult to follow as it is to lose.
If only I had photoshop...or even paint
Yo Marlowe, I’m really happy for you, and I’mma let you finish, but Shakespeare wrote some of the best plays of ALL TIME!
Yo Sir Gawain, I’m really happy for you and I’mma let you finish, but Beowulf is the greatest hero of all time!