May 2011
40 posts
“We drink vodka from Russia, we get our chocolates from Belgium. We have our...”
– The Mountain Goats, “Fault Lines”
April 2011
60 posts
“Walking down the boardwalk,
act like we were married.
You always made it easy,...”
– Conor Oberst (via science-vs-romance)
our conversations are like minefields
no one’s found a safe way through one yet
“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (2000)
It's really stupid how people will tell you...
Like, if you just listen to them, especially in moments of vulnerability, but really pretty much all the time, they will tell you all of the things that are wrong with them and we will just ignore them because we want them to be who we want them to be which is never who they are. And then we are surprised when they are the person they are instead of the person we pretended they were. And yeah,...
tendingtotend asked: LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It's time for the Big Squeeze. All the
contradictions in your life are coming up for review. You will be asked to
deal more forthrightly with enigmas you've been avoiding, and you will be
invited to try, try again to unravel riddles you've been unable to solve.
Does all that sound a bit daunting? It could be. But the end result...
contradictions in your life are coming up for review. You will be asked to
deal more forthrightly with enigmas you've been avoiding, and you will be
invited to try, try again to unravel riddles you've been unable to solve.
Does all that sound a bit daunting? It could be. But the end result...
“My private life is an inside joke and no one will explain it to me.”
– Bright Eyes, “Shell Games” (New Single)
“With friends like you, who needs friends?”
– Dirk Calloway, “Rushmore”
““Oh Jake,” Brett said, “We could have had such a damned good...”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
“We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting...”
– Barack Obama (via aeraspais)
(via theoceanandthesky)
Whenever I feel shitty about myself, I just reread...
And then I remember that I am one funny, and sometimes awesome, motherfucker.
All of the legitimate hatred I've held onto for so...
I guess that’s what happens when time starts to outweigh rancor. I suppose I am okay with this. Although maybe I would’ve liked to hang onto it for a little longer.
I am pretty sure there's no Mountain Goats lyric...
…Is that even possible?
“People say friends don’t destroy one another, what do they know about...”
– The Mountain Goats, “Game Shows Touch Our Lives”
I'm finding conflict with everyone I interact with...
Which I guess means I should stay in bed all day and not answer the phone?
I just realized I'm stuck with myself for the rest...
Dang life is hard!
“Okay so look I am 17 years old and you’re the last best thing I got...”
– The Mountain Goats, “Dance Music”
wearing my fur coat...
…during the first decan of Taurus (that’s April 21st, 22nd) because it’s 34 degrees in New England today. Fuck you, weather.
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
Dear Angela, I know in the past I've caused you...
fuckyeahmscl:
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Brian Krakow, My So Called Life
(via youremyloveprizeinviewfinder)
1 tag
headache/heartache
it’s been raining for an entire week like the world is ending.
is it? i dunno.
“I wanna ask you, do you ever sit and wonder, it’s so strange how we could...”
– Ben Folds & Regina Spektor, “You Don’t Know Me”
I will never again let anyone tell me that Contemporary Critical Theory is a useless pursuit. Like, hello! No one knows how to fall in love like a Crit Theory kid.
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“In this twilit hypnogogic state he began to imagine—but it was stronger...”
– Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
my mom always used to say to me, when i was little and took a dramatic, decisive stand on something, “there’s no need to throw the baby out with the bath water.”
“The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s...”
– The Mountain Goats, “Going to Georgia”
“— it’s no use trying to pretend that mostpeople and
ourselves are...”
– e.e. cummings
i hope you die. i hope we both die.
i wish i didn’t always have to turn heartache and genuine pain into some act of theater and bull shit. i wish i was able to keep things within the boundaries of what they are, and to not bastardize every genuine emotion i feel by turning it into a joke. i really don’t know why i am this way. why messy, frenetic displays of grievance (as opposed to grief) attract me the way they do....
There will be a Full Moon in Libra on April 17th....
And then, my (ex???) boyfriend's equally uncanny...
Aquarius Frenetic cosmic activity all around Aquarius leaves your sign unscathed. The Full Moon, Monday, sees you retreating from a fraught work and social scene. Like a slow-motion figure in a ’90s music video where other characters move at break-neck speed: You take care of business, meditatively hitting your marks. In most cases, arriving late and leaving early goes blissfully...
With a full moon early in the week and Mercury...
Libra Either by choice or necessity, you make a break for it now. The Full Libran Moon, Monday, signals the end of a cycle. Perhaps even one dating back seven years. Many of you will take literal flight, decamping to favorite stomping grounds to lick wounds and otherwise soak up some much needed color. For others, it’s metaphoric: You know you must impose a new order, one that doesn’t include...
“Energy spent trying to believe you’re not worth it, you don’t...”
– Gregory & The Hawk, “The Bolder Thing To Do”
this is the kind of day that, if it were on the other side of the calendar—between summer and winter, instead of between winter and summer—would make me happy. it’s so delightfully cold and gloomy and disgusting. it really doesn’t get much more bleak than this. and that bleakness, on the other side, that we call autumn, has always been my favorite time of year because it...
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“During the Age of Glass, everyone believed some part of him or her to be...”
– Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
“The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended...”
– Michael Chabon, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (via latebloomerblooming) 