January 2010
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Stephen Fry's letter
…kind of inspired me to write a letter to my 16-year-old self when I first read it last year, stupid as that sounds, because I strongly felt I’d changed enormously in so many ways, despite the fact that it’d only been a year. But once I started I realised I didn’t make sense at all. I’m even more confused and disoriented about where I am and where I’m going now...
Dear Me (Steven Fry's letter to his 16yr old self)
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departmentstore:
I hope you are well. I know you are not. As it happens you wrote in 1973 a letter to your future self and it is high time that your future self had the decency to write back. You declared in that letter (reproduced in your 1997 autobiography Moab Is My Washpot) that “everything I feel now as an adolescent is true”. You went on to affirm that if ever you dared in...
Bunch Of Phonies Mourn J.D. Salinger →
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castoffcrown:
mattgcn:
CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud.
Click through for more, via The Onion
Andrew Bird - Oh No oh arm and arm we are the...
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r.i.p JD Salinger
I’ve been terribly busy the past couple of days and I never found out until a few minutes back. :/
Very often I used to wonder what he would be thinking (wherever he was) of modern life, of what the world has become, and I’d wonder if it still deepened his already intense disillusionment with people. Catcher in the Rye is not one of my favourite novels, but it does make a number of...
“It’s true. I will love you even if your infinitives split, your apostrophes...”
– Neil Gaiman to Amanda Palmer, on Twitter (via fuckyeahgaiman) This reminds me why he’s one of my favourite writers.
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“The only advice I can give you is to read others, get what you can out of a...”
– J.D. Salinger (via bohemea)
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time to glee away.
normanerva:
goodnight. little kiss big hug.
ah andrew bird why not tell people you’re coming to s’pore. ESH.
I’m sure he’ll come back sometime :) maybe even to Malaysia. He’s supposed to be on his first Asian tour but it’s basically just Singapore, China, HK, and Japan, I think. Which isn’t really *Asia* which makes me think(hope) he’ll come back in the...
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so I met Andrew Bird a couple of hours ago
my week/month/year is made. (though the actual signing took like. 10 seconds. and was so awkward due of course to my wonderfully smooth ability to interact supremely well with brilliant musicians I admire) now to finish up what’s due tomorrow (i hate coming back to reality after feeling really alive for once) and…die sleep peacefully
Sorry for the spam.
normanerva:
isthatyou:
But I am just. So. Thrilled. that I’m going to be hearing the folk singer-songwriter-whistler-multi-instrumentalist tomorrow. I wasn’t even this excited before I went to see Green Day one and a half weeks back, but of course that’s a whole different kind of music, and I wasn’t as huge a fan… I hope Andrew Bird’s going to be lovely and folksy-ly intimate and I am going to...
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Sorry for the spam.
But I am just. So. Thrilled. that I’m going to be hearing the folk singer-songwriter-whistler-multi-instrumentalist tomorrow. I wasn’t even this excited before I went to see Green Day one and a half weeks back, but of course that’s a whole different kind of music, and I wasn’t as huge a fan… I hope Andrew Bird’s going to be lovely and folksy-ly intimate and I am...
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When Insults had Class
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ehwha:verymuch:bookmole:
“He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” – Winston Churchill
“I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” – Clarence Darrow
“He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.” – William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)
”I’ve had a perfectly wonderful evening....
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Franz Ferdinand - The Fallen I remember I first...
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“With heavy music you should have heavy lyrics. Not just, ‘Hey baby, let’s drink...”
– Kirk Hammett (via paperairplanehair) (via sadiemaeglutz) (via rogertheshrubber)
=most of mainstream today
(via normanerva)
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“I couldn’t shake the feeling that there was something else I should be...”
– Brock Clarke, An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England
(how I feel this)
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“The past comes back once and then it keeps coming back and coming back, not just...”
– Brock Clarke (An Arsonist’s Guide to Writers’ Homes in New England)
You know how on Last.fm,
hallospacegirl:
it always says how you’re listening to music? Like “Listening now using iTunes + Last.fm scrobbler” or whatever? I was just looking at that and I thought about how The Scrobbler would be a sweet wrestling name. Yeah.
I just snorted on a bit of juice. HAHAHA!
15 Interesting Facts about Dreams
-hangthedj-:
electricstringtheory:
somethingintellectual:
1. You forget 90% of your dreams. Within 5 minutes of waking, half of your dream is forgotten. Within 10, 90% is gone.
2. Blind people also dream. People who became blind after birth can see images in their dreams. People who are born blind do not see any images, but have dreams equally vivid involving their other senses of sound,...
“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they...”
– (via iwannotowidigdo) I got this very extract for my Literature final exam last year o_o One of those passionate, I-actually-Feel-for-this-passage essays I’ve managed to write.
Sense Challenge →
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A quiz designed to trick your senses so you answer the questions wrong.
I did quite badly. Pretty interesting though… :/
14/20. I’ve seen some of the questions before, though, from books/websites on optical illusion. I think I’d have done awfully worse if there weren’t any familiar questions. :|
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“Writing can be a haunting, I said, and you said that was a cliché. I protested....”
– Rebecca Stott (via cassket)
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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they...”
– Henry David Thoreau
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How Schools Kill Creativity →
-hangthedj-:
A very interesting talk by Ken Robinson (who is also very funny, as it turns out).
My mum showed me this a few months back. It intensified my already deep long-time resentment towards school, as much as I’ve gained from it.
