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[Monday
December 14th, 2009 at 1:53pm] |
not that i've really exerted a considerable amount of energy towards finding them. i like my lucky strike blues just fine anyway.
'home' has been playin' on my mind in recent history, not because i'm sick for it but because the word doesn't really exist in french.
the concept, therefore, is not exactly universal, which is a peculiar notion.
this is my hometown ["Madtown, Dairyland"]:
this is where i'm crashing currently [Paris]:
and i like to think i nurse some sort of spiritual connection with this place [Berlin]:
where are you from (originally, currently and spiritually)?
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| laptop stickers |
[Saturday
December 12th, 2009 at 12:57pm] |
I was recently remembering my friend Sarah, who used to put stickers on practically *everything*. She had one of those huge see-through tabletop Mac's and it was *decked out* in awesome stickers she got at gigs, random New York stores, and what not (cool Azn friends...etc)
So show me your laptops (or cellys). (Hey, a nerd has to get her kicks! And I don't mean Nike's!)
 
PIC#1: I'm a minimalist, and this Rough Trade sticker, that I got from some cool lesbians in London ('cause I bought Crass's album "Penis Envy") is on my Burberryesque Nokia E63. Sadly, my laptop [a Toshiba sattelite series] is bare (but used to have a ninja turles -specifically Rafael- sticker).
PIC#2: random laptop that I googled
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| Winter travels & Mix CD's |
[Monday
December 14th, 2009 at 1:00pm] |
This January, I'm travelling to Stockholm, Oslo, Brussels and Bruges with a friend. In hindsight, it might've been a smarter move to book a trip to Scandinavia during warmer months, but you know what happens when opportunity knocks!
If you live in/have visited the aforementioned cities: Do you have any tips as to what types of clothing/accessories I must pack, amazing(ly cheap) places to eat and drink and other can't-miss things to do and see? This will be my, and my friend's, first time to these cities so our game plan is to arrive and just fly by the seat of our pants!
And so this post isn't simply a travel question, I leave you with a gift I mailed to a friend who is spending the year teaching in Korea:
( Shake it like you mean it )
Thanks for your help!
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| “… the color of the sky, I’m told.” * |
[Saturday
December 26th, 2009 at 2:40am] |
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“And it’s fine because it’s been this way with girls a while now, these random things, because I know I’m too much for anyone, that if I let myself I’d love them all, I’d think they could fix me. But I know they can’t, and it’s enough, because every so often when a girl kisses me, touches my hand, my face, I remember that the world has light.”
- Brad Land, Goat
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| Neil Gaiman, Coraline |
[Saturday
December 26th, 2009 at 1:25pm] |
“It wasn’t brave because he wasn’t scared: it was the only thing he could do. But going back again to get his glasses, when he knew the wasps were there, when he was really scared. That was brave.” …”And why was that?” asked the cat, although it sounded barely interested. “Because,” she said, “when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.”
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[Friday
December 25th, 2009 at 11:02pm] |
post
a) overused/overrated outfits from 2009/2010
b) outfits you wish you got to see more of
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| nail gaiman, the kindly ones |
[Friday
December 25th, 2009 at 9:03pm] |
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I can remember the title, author, and location of every book in this library, Matthew. Every book that's ever been dreamed. Every book that's ever been imagined. Every book that's ever been lost. Millions upon millions of them. That's what I remember. It's my job. Other things … I forget sometimes.
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| virginia woolf, mrs. dalloway |
[Friday
December 25th, 2009 at 8:59pm] |
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But to go deeper, beneath what people said (and these judgements, how superficial, how fragmentary they are!) in her own mind now, what did it mean to her, this thing she called life? Oh, it was very queer. Here was So-and-so in South Kensington; some one up in Bayswater; and somebody else, say, in Mayfair. And she felt quiet continuously a sense of their existence and she felt what a waste; and she felt what a pity; and she felt if only they could be brought together; so she did it. And it was an offering; to combine, to create; but to whom?
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| sylvia plath, mad girl's love song |
[Friday
December 25th, 2009 at 8:57pm] |
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
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| sylvia plath, the bell jar |
[Friday
December 25th, 2009 at 8:56pm] |
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"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
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| anais nin, children of the albatross |
[Friday
December 25th, 2009 at 8:56pm] |
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In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.
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| anais nin, house of incest |
[Friday
December 25th, 2009 at 8:55pm] |
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The morning I got up to begin this book I coughed. Something was coming out of my throat: it was strangling me. I broke the thread which held it and yanked it out. I went back to bed and said: I have just spat out my heart.
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| VICTORIA'S SECRET SPREE 15 [OPEN] |
[Friday
December 25th, 2009 at 11:53pm] |
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[Friday
December 25th, 2009 at 3:39pm] |
Just started reading this book. I looked through the tags and didn't see this posted, but apologies in advance if this is a repeat. I'm posting this b/c it puts into words one reason why I think reading is so fascinating.
“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.”
– The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield
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