Delphine.

Sunday funday.

Sun, 19 May 2013 17:29:55 -0400

Sunday funday.

"I’ll save you the rant about e-readers, but honestly—what can compare with these..."

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:32:00 -0400

“I’ll save you the rant about e-readers, but honestly—what can compare with these glorious, clunky, physical objects? Death to convenience. Fill up my coffin with books, books, books.”

- Siri Thorson, truth teller.

This Office retrospective is killing me.

Thu, 16 May 2013 20:58:30 -0400

This Office retrospective is killing me.

"Why do they even try? my 7-year-old self would wonder as I watched Alan Alda flounder helplessly..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:06:58 -0400

“Why do they even try? my 7-year-old self would wonder as I watched Alan Alda flounder helplessly through yet another failed rerun of M*A*S*H. Why is every single Korean-lady extra so much funnier than he is?”

- Ellie Kemper: Can Men Be Funny?: Humor: GQ (via booksinthekitchen)
This is everything.

"Our culture deliberately socializes women to be taken in. We condition girls (explicitly! Not even..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:03:00 -0400

“Our culture deliberately socializes women to be taken in. We condition girls (explicitly! Not even covertly!) to believe that if they’re not sexually attractive, they’re nothing. They’re garbage. They might as well not exist. We reinforce, over and over, that their attractiveness has an expiration date, so the only thing they can do is desperately leverage that attractiveness while they can. If they resist that conditioning, we sexualize them against their will, and if they give in to that conditioning—or worse, if they are raped by a predator—we reveal the trap: Now you’re a slut, and it’s your fault. Now you’re tainted. Now you’re worse than nothing. Now you might as well not even cry out when your rapist takes you to the gas station in a wig and sunglasses.”

- Lindy West is tired of your mess.

Richard Linklater's Nine-Year Itch: The Before Midnight Director on Revisiting (and Revising) the Past

Sat, 11 May 2013 13:45:00 -0400

Richard Linklater's Nine-Year Itch: The Before Midnight Director on Revisiting (and Revising) the Past:

“The major, major thing that Rick was onto with these movies was: ‘We don’t need anything except what it feels like to connect with another human being,’ ” says Hawke. “ ‘What that feels like. That feels magical.’ I remember Julie saying when we made the first one, ‘I think the movie needs to be funnier, you need to write more jokes.’ And Rick said to her, ‘I’ve been working with you for nine weeks. I find you absolutely and completely intriguing, beguiling, and hypnotic. If we can get the real essence of you in front of a camera and they can’t give a shit for two hours, then I’m not interested in them as an audience.’ She was like, ‘Okay, but it’s going to be bor-ing.’ ”

I doubt I’ll ever find a film - or set of films - that better grasp the intricacies of a relationship. None of that paper character bullshit. Here are a man and woman in 3D, with veins and hearts and lives.

Give me another “Before” in nine years’ time, please.

Music Mix: Claiming The Weekend

Sat, 11 May 2013 01:23:00 -0400

Let Me Clear My Throat by DJ Cool ft. Biz Markie & Doug E. Fresh

From The Drop by MJ Cole & Wiley

All The Wine by The National

Bitch Don’t Kill My Vibe by Kendrick Lamar

Fuck The People by The Kills

Give It To Me by Timbaland ft. Nelly Furtado & Justin Timberlake

Make it happen.

"I wonder what would have happened if blackgirl pretty wasn’t culturally defined by hair..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:44:25 -0400

“I wonder what would have happened if blackgirl pretty wasn’t culturally defined by hair length/color/texture.”

- Baby Hair: For Gabby, Blue Ivy & Me | The Crunk Feminist Collective

Just chattin’ with Tom Cavanagh. No big deal.

Fri, 10 May 2013 20:46:00 -0400

Just chattin’ with Tom Cavanagh. No big deal.

thewildmagazine: “Every time I look back to this photo, I feel...

Fri, 10 May 2013 13:48:58 -0400

thewildmagazine:

“Every time I look back to this photo, I feel uncomfortable — it haunts me. It’s as if they are saying to me, we are not a number — not only cheap labor and cheap lives. We are human beings like you. Our life is precious like yours, and our dreams are precious too.”

High sun means High Line livin’.

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:54:55 -0400

High sun means High Line livin’.

Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu [Official Video] - YouTube

Sun, 05 May 2013 14:48:00 -0400

Janelle Monáe - Q.U.E.E.N. feat. Erykah Badu [Official Video] - YouTube:

Anthem!*

*Project Q.U.E.E.N.? Yes. Janelle & Erykah, together? Yes. The redhead (you beautiful, beautiful stranger)? Yes. Every.single.item of clothing? TWERK. The last :50? Preach.

…And of course, because the booty don’t lie.

annfriedman: I don’t shine if you don’t shine, aka SHINE...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:10:10 -0400

annfriedman:

I don’t shine if you don’t shine, aka SHINE THEORY, courtesy of my shiniest #core boo.

Shine Theory 4 life.

Love is gonna make me a hungry man. - Devendra Banhart. New...

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 23:05:00 -0400

Love is gonna make me a hungry man. - Devendra Banhart. New tunes.

"His hands are so big and warm…I want to fall asleep in them like Thumbelina."

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 21:47:00 -0500

“His hands are so big and warm…I want to fall asleep in them like Thumbelina.”

- Nick Miller, my crotchety soulmate.

The Art of Browsing

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:00:00 -0500

newyorker:

“Is it possible that book browsing is already strange and unusual enough to be considered material for art?”

Claire Barliant on new art shows that focus on books: http://nyr.kr/Z7Jn5e

“Everyone agrees that the future of publishing is electronic, with words beamed to us instantaneously. But in that case, what will happen to all of the books beside the book—and the places that store them? When they’re gone, where will we randomly stumble on the knowledge we didn’t even know we wanted to know?”

Who knows? But wherever the stumble happens, I can already attest to not being about that life.

Such a true story.

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 22:49:18 -0500

Such a true story.

"The door to the future will open. Slowly. Unrelentingly. I am on the threshold. There is only this..."

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:41:00 -0500

“

The door to the future will open. Slowly. Unrelentingly. I am on the threshold. There is only this door and what is watching behind it. I am afraid. And I cannot call anyone for help.

I am afraid.

”

- The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir

This slays me.

themindofskank: Stream Rhye: Woman on Pitchfork Advance Jams.

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:56:26 -0500

themindofskank:

Stream Rhye: Woman on Pitchfork Advance

Jams.

Photo

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 13:50:13 -0500