February 2012
50 posts
Documenting Life
I told you to document life
But it’s hard to take a picture of a coffee pots gurgle
and it’s hard to write this kind of comingdowntired
I guess that’s what we do though
Pour fingers into keyboards and try to come out with that sundog of true life
And we obfuscate
And we get high
And there are so many books to read
So I make another pot of coffee and wait for the girls to...
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I sing mountain goats in public because:
saltysonlyonfridays:
wheretheoleandergrows:
i secretly hope that a girl who loves the mountain goats will maybe take notice
Because if I’m taking a walk and I feel like it, why the fuck not? I’m never going to meet any of these people again. I don’t care if I look crazy, I want to do it. So I do.
One time I was just strolling down the street after a long day of house searching and a found...
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Book shelf
“I think you can tell a lot about people by there books shelves.”
“Yep.”
“…John Waters says that if you come to someone’s house and they don’t-”
“Have books don’t fuck them. My cousin tweeted that this morning.”
“Your cousin sounds smart.”
“I’ll set you up if this doesn’t work out. She’s a first year at U of T. Majoring in English, minor in Art...
“As the conversation continued in stilted commas, Anthony wondered that to him...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned
“Mrs. Lintott: Can you, for a moment, imagine how dispiriting it is to teach five...”
– The History Boys by Alan Bennett (via fuckyeahgreatplays)
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Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts set for August:... →
Bye, bye, privacy. Canada introduces online-spying... →
agovernmentman:
diarrheaheartfailure:
oceanmaster:
diarrheaheartfailure:
rtamerica:
Move over, SOPA and say your prayers, PIPA. There’s a new bill in the works that, if passed, will pull the plug on how the Internet is used in Canada.
LITERALLY THE CANADIAN PATRIOT ACT
The Investigative Powers for the 21st Century Act (Bill C-51) is legislation that isn’t new to Canadian Parliament,...
“Even now I curse the day—and yet, I think,
Few come within the compass of my...”
– William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus
I love Shakespeare’s villans, some of them are just so gleefully diabolical. I may have blogged this before but it’s featured in a song by one of my favourite bands so it gets stuck in my head a lot.
(via playsplay-by-play)
I blogged this in my...
I may have just discovered the greatest word ever:
Kummerspeck (German): Excess weight gained from emotional overeating. Literally, grief bacon.
What happens if you fall in love with a writer
The isn’t mine but I like it:
Lots of things might happen. That’s the thing about writers. They’re unpredictable. They might bring you eggs in bed for breakfast, or they might all but ignore you for days. They might bring you eggs in bed at three in the morning. Or they might wake you up for sex at three in the morning. Or make love at four in the afternoon. They might not sleep at all. Or...
“Are you sure you aren’t a pine marten?”
– My Brother Let’s play guess the context
“Proposition 8 served no purpose, and had no effect, other than to lessen the...”
– 9th Circuit Court, 2-7-2012 (via postmodernmarvel)
Watchangry-poet:
this is a song from my band “We’re From out West. a new version is being recorded with accordion, bass, and a second guitar! “all my dearest friends have the blues”
This is a song where I wrote the lyrics and Jess wrote the music. It’s about how all of my friends are depressed.
Tallahassee Turns Ten: Final Track List →
Can’t. Fucking. Wait.
tallahasseeturnsten:
1. Tallahassee - Youngest Son 2. First Few Desperate Hours - Your Heart Breaks 3. Southwood Plantation Road - Mooner 4. Game Shows Touch Our Lives - Kimya Dawson 5. The House That Dripped Blood - Hallelujah the Hills 6. Idylls of the King - Miracles of Modern Science 7. No…
Watchlesparapluiesrouges:
glossylalia:
-bobella-:
bookling-stormborn:
The Dark Secret Behind Quirky Romantic Comedies
I died when they went out to dance in the rain and The Shins started playing.
PERFECTION.
“I PAID THE CAB DRIVER IN BUTTONS”
”WE GOT MARRIED IN A FUCKIN’ BOUNCY CASTLE”
oh my god.
“The growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned
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The dumbest or most beautiful thing I've ever said
We were waking past Christie Pits Park, the park always smelled like sewage. We had been eating Korean or shopping for books, general bumming around. We walked with our shoulders hunched and kept running into our breath frozen in the cold. A couple approached, the man wasn’t memorable but the woman had Anne Hathaway eyes, a cascade of brown hair and a black cotton coat. She was resplendent....
“The Sunday Times, scattered about his feet, proclaimed by rotogravure and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and the Damned
