May 2013
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First Listen: Music From Baz Luhrmann's Film 'The... →
The soundtrack to The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann’s latest high-end refurbishing of a lived-in classic, doesn’t try to re-imagine Jazz Age tunes in a modern context. Instead, it attempts to transplant the sensibility of the 1920s to the hip-hop era, with genre-busting collaborations overseen by Jay-Z.
Honestly, this just made me 50000x even more excited for this movie (which is...
April 2013
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March 2013
17 posts
I went this place called Dat Donut it is literally the best donut I’ve eaten in my life and by donut (singular) I mean donuts (plural) I feel like a manatee help
Wax and Wire — Loch Lomond
(More study...
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“Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.”
– Ali ibn abi Talib [as] (via antieverythingism)
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“Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the kind of world you...”
– A quote from an email my dad sent the family. (via lettertonowhere)
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Kindergarden Student of the Month
Mrs. B: Dylan, you're student of the month this month. Answer these questions for me so we can write them up and put them on the board. First, say what you love.
Dylan: I love... to read?
Mrs. B: "I like...?"
Dylan: I like, uh, I like to play video games.
Mrs. B: What about, "I wish...?"
Dylan: I wish that... um... I can go to college.
February 2013
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15. William Faulkner on Ernest Hemingway
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.”
14. Ernest Hemingway on William Faulkner
“Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”
http://flavorwire.com/188138/the-30-harshest-author-on-author-insults-in-history
watch post #2
Today I walked to a local jewelry store to get a few links removed from the wristband of my watch, and while I was there a woman was talking to one of the workers (evidently a friend of her’s), asking her to sign a petition.
She said it was a petition to keep one of the local schools open, so I glanced over and sure enough, it said “Jackie Robinson” at the top of the petition.
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I bought myself a watch for my birthday
It has a smaller dial on its face for displaying the progression of the day (numbered 1-24)
It makes me so, so much more conscious of time wasted
(and the fact that a normal human’s day begins in the morning and ends at/before midnight)
Cheers to productivity
twelvejammiedodgers-andafez:
on a scale of one to invade russia in the winter
how bad is your idea
Honestly why did Napoleon think he was going to be ~sooo different~
What a fool
January 2013
31 posts
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“California-based mega-retailer Amoeba Music, the last big record store on the...”
– Currently there are about 1,000 digitized vinyl titles available, including some rare Louis Armstrong 78s and 144 Sun Ra records.The cost for the ripped tracks: 78 cents per track for MP3s, 80 cents for Lossless M4As and $1.50 for WAVs. — Heidi (via Variety)
Watchmymotherkillstheblackbird:
“A queen loses her crown when she loses her virginity. And a queen becomes the bitch when she likes it.”
Holy shit.
Do watch this, it is amazing
It’s literally treacherous to walk outside because the sidewalk is so icy
teach me how to winter, teach me teach me how to winter
