January 2012
40 posts
I HAVE BEEN LEARNING ABOUT FIRST LANGUAGE...
waitthoughreally:
and i’m not sure just how silly it is to put stock in someone’s first word as some sort of sign, but i do think it’s interesting that my funny, sunny, personable little sister’s first word was “hi!”
my beautiful, former ballerina older sister’s first word was “pretty.”
my first word was “no.”
supposedly my first word was “ball,” which i think we can all...
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You know you're an architecture student when...
amyforarchi:
archistudent:
…you’re surprised if you see daylight when you leave the studio.
a couple times a semester this happens, it is EXTREMELY disorienting. it also feels great.
i sort of feel like this would be more accurate if it said, “you’re not surprised if you see the sun rise when leaving studio” because more often than not, you stay in studio until 6 in the...
“I was at the movies yesterday and before the movie started they had this long ad...”
– Mindy Kaling (via avid, megalong)
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there are so many interesting-looking people in this coffee shop right now i need to break out my secret camera and wire-tapping devices and record them for future creative material.
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Just Because I’m a Girl Doesn’t Mean I Haven’t...
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Canonball - Say It Ain’t So: Girls Talk About Emo
so i read this article and had a lot of feelings about it and turned on “Your Favorite Weapon” and wrote some stuff. it sort of made me feel like Livejournal was a thing again… <!— /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:Arial; panose-1:2 11 6 4 2 2 2 2 2 4;...
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“Look at people on the street and in malls—jeans and sneakers remain the standard...”
– Kurt Andersen, From Fashion to Housewares, Are We in a Decades-Long Design Rut? (via alexbaca)
is it that the masses (yes, i’m a tool for using that term) are inherently incapable of broadening/changing/refining(?) their tastes, or is society responsible for conditioning the majority to...
“Afterward the candidates repaired to the drawing room for brandy and cigars for...”
– Yoni Brenner satirizes the GOP debates
(via newyorker)
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“What can I tell you about the screenwriting process as I know it? Just maybe...”
– Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich script introduction (via synecdoche)
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also,
i can’t decide if blasting Wu Tang as i drive around New Orleans is good or bad for my physical well-being.
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GUYS. there is an old man watching a Youtube video of a woman doing the Macarena at the table across from me. i feel like a peeping tom right now.
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so i meant to ask this a while ago, but now that ben g. got divorced from mrs. i-am-the-wetdream-of-alternative-bros deschanel, will he go back to producing sappy emo music that occasionally references D.C.? is this the resurrection of emo?
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“Boosted by a new generation of students eager to explore the state’s confluence...”
– Larry Gordon, Students sample the large shelf of California literature
Every time I read about an interesting American literature course, my resentment of UMD’s English program increases tenfold. (And said resentment is already out of control considering the fact that I finished my English degree a...
“Our teacher had merely fallen under the spell, like countless others before and...”
– Benjamin Anastas, The Foul Reign of Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”
I heard Anastas on On Point last night (listen here) and thoroughly enjoyed his feeding of Emerson into the woodchipper. I’ve always been leery of transcendentalism and thought that “Self-Reliance” was a rank, sniveling, selfish little...
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“I don’t wanna be that dude that takes pictures in a cemetery.”
– Yitzy. (via muppetpants)
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recipe for New Year's success
pretend you have friends
find impossible parking spot one
sit and observe aimlessly
contemplate spending quality alone time in concrete bath tub
pretend you have friends again
find impossible parking spot two
realize you don’t have friends
observe debauchery
overhear dramatic arguments
only exchange “happy new year” greetings with complete strangers
get on Internet
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wait, what do you do if you’re not in the EST for New Year’s? it doesn’t make sense to me to not “celebrate” (which really means doing nothing, so this conversation is pointless) when it’s midnight in New York…i mean, you can’t not do that, can you? the program is live and airs from New York, so how the hell do you even watch it without feeling...
December 2011
77 posts
alexbaca:
Semisonic - “Closing Time”
I thought...
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Questionable things I just Googled because I...
“sex with animals”
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when did “nerd” become a misused word in the English language? people (ie. the Internet) are always complaining about anyone with glasses, green hair, or an affinity for some commonplace superhero calling themselves “nerds,” and i’ve read several (really only one in recent memory, but go with the hyperbole here) articles mentioning “nerd-chic” in relation...
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“damn yous a sexy bitch”
– akon trying to describe a girl without being disrespectful (via wvnderbar)
this song makes the most sense of all songs.