January 2012
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WatchHappy New Years from New Orleans everyone! We’re sitting scarily close to some illegal fireworks that are incredible/terrifying.
December 2011
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“Shame” is rated NC-17 (No one 17 or under admitted). Younger viewers will have...”
– A.O. Scott (via parentsstronglycautioned)
It takes acting chops to make sex addiction look as awkward as Michael Fassbender was able to make it in “Shame.”
I’m also really loving, thanks to Lily (a different one from myself), this “New York Times Movie Ratings” tumblr...
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November 2011
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Is Empathy In Our Genes? (CNN) →
psychotherapy:
A large part of how we relate to people emotionally may be hardwired into our DNA. A new study suggests that character traits such as being open, caring, and trusting are so strongly linked to a certain gene variation that a total stranger, simply by watching us listen to another person, may be able to guess whether we have the variation with a high degree of accuracy.
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Promise
By next Sunday I will post an update about my life, a new outfit post, some posts about film, an answer to a question, and new posts in general. Because I am still alive. And I am not a robot.
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fucking sick →
I agree and also feel a little sick when I hear Penn State football fans claiming that Joe Paterno is a victim of all this. Certainly he’s gotten the the lion’s share of the media attention but anyone with as much knowledge of the situation should have gone to the proper authorities about this. Anyone who failed to do so should face the repercussions.
I fail to see how the fact that...
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October 2011
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Neurotics experience more immersion when watching... →
psychotherapy:
Descriptions of neurotics are typically unflattering: they’re fearful, tense people, prone to catastrophise and will often shy away from challenges. Well, here’s some more uplifting news for folk matching this personality description. A study of film immersion has found that people who score highly in neuroticism (as measured by agreement with statements like “I worry a lot”) tend...
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September 2011
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a bright wall in a dark room.: Reader's Request... →
This movie is still good. Do not imdb what the sequel is about- it will break your heart.
brightwalldarkroom:
DATING YOU IS LIKE DATING PUBLIC TELEVISION!
by Amanda McCleod
Allow me to make a confession: I had planned to avoid seeing 2 Days In Paris up until the moment I was asked to write about it for Bright Wall Dark Room’s wonderful Reader Request Week. When it debuted in 2007 I was...
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Perfectly Plausible Worlds
I’m not over-enthusing when I say that Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas is astounding with its fantastical leaps of creativity and that Black Swan Green is so vivid that it brings you back to the age of 13 (but as a young boy growing up during the Falklands War). Can’t speak for Number9Dream, which I haven’t read, but David Mitchell has put out some of the best fiction I’ve...
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Today, in making my day: UCBeast opens
The Upright Citizens Brigade’s second theater opened today! And without giving away my apartment’s exact coordinates, I will say that it’s just a few blocks away from the new theater. Not that the grimy first theater isn’t lovely, but this one is supposed to have more stand-up and storytelling and perhaps will diffuse some of the original theater’s line. Also, I must...
August 2011
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Hurricane Irene Playlist (literal)
Created by people in my office- I cannot claim this as my own creation. Also a bit late to the game since the hurricane has officially passed through Manhattan. Here’s lookin’ to you, people in Massachusetts.
Hurricane – Bob Dylan
Hurricane – The Roots
Have You Ever Seen the Rain – Creedence Clearwater Revival
Rider On the Storm – The Doors
No Rain – Blind Melon
The Rain – Missy...
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Dear Tumblr-verse,
I swear that I am still alive and kicking.
July 2011
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June 2011
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Accent Attitudes →
“The main significant effect found in this study was that people who’d lived at least three months outside the US rated the English accent significantly lower than people who’d only lived in the US. In fact, Americans who had not lived abroad considered the English-accented person to be much more intelligent than themselves, but the people who had lived abroad rated the...
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Glasgow Ice Cream Wars →
readmorewikipedia:
The Glasgow Ice Cream Wars were conflicts in the East End of Glasgow in Scotland in the 1980s between rival ice cream van operators, over lucrative territory and suggested use of ice cream vans as a cover for selling drugs.
The conflicts, in which vendors raided one another’s vans and fired shotguns into one another’s windscreens, were more violent than might typically be...
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“The prospect of pain generally, the pain of loss, of breakup, of death, is what...”
– Jonathan Franzen, adapted from the commencement speech he delivered at Kenyon College this year. (via NYT)
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the years teach much which the days never know:... →
gregorypecs:
Summer is officially here in Western Mass. Sam Adams Summer Ale is in the coolers at the package store next to my house. There’s a pitcher of iced tea in our fridge. Bikes are out. So are mosquitos. It hit 90 degrees yesterday. Swimming holes are packed. And my first summer mix is complete.
And of course, download Sebi’s summer mix because he has impeccable taste and...
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May 2011
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“Fuel Up” by Stornoway
Curled up in...
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My family now owns way too much commemorative wine
L: Here are the Smith College commencement wines if you'd like to buy two or three bottles for my graduation.
L's Father: Too hard to carry. We'll just get the full case of 12.
The New Inquiry: Fringe Feminists: Patti Smith →
thenewinquiry:
“Patti Smith: Horses” by Lester Banges.
Creem Magazine, February 1976:
Patti’s heroes may be gone, but she is both with us and for us, so strongly that her music is something, finally, to rally around. For one thing, she has certain qualities that can make her a hero to a whole generation of young girls; Patti has done more here for woman as aggressor than all the...