September 2009
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People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell...
– Imelda Marcos (via simko)
while i understand what alcoholics call “a moment of clarity” and i don’t deny that there’s a universiality between all people, this was spoken by a person that raped the dough out of a nation in order to stockpile over three thousand pairs of...
innate behaviors of human beings
the ONLY behaviors ever proven to be innate from birth in human beings, regardless of intellegence or race or birth trauma, are the fear of falling and the need to suckle.
what deity in the realms of dementia, what rabid god decocted out of the smoking...
– rereading suttree the last few nights.
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scan me!
It's called transference I think.
henryeatspeople:
My married friend asked for suggestions for sex music. We discussed music she could do a stripdance to. Then she asked about music she could play after the dance whilst they’re getting it on. I immediately said Portishead, no hesitation.
Now all she talks about is how amazing Portishead is.
Now whenever we talk I think of sex.
troof.
pretty hate machine and...
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as per the last post, my dad once ripped the wings...
the ntsb report is here.
seldom do people walk away from an airplane crash. let alone those that occur in a small, single-engine aircraft that weighs about 1/3 of a toyota corolla.
pops was having his biennial (that word means it happens every two years) review and the carb iced up (it’s not like cessna will ever do anything about the fact that their planes do that with regularity. to do...
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Despite the old saying “opposites attract,” scholars have found that in almost...
– NYT Zero Introspective Accuracy (via Darklamb:asie)
and to quote john cleese’s character on an episode of cheers i saw back in 1987 (regarding the theory that opposites attract):
“ahhhh … the song of the truly desperate.”
[after doing a little research on this episode it...
I think Steve Jobs’ choice of a minimalist aesthetic comes from his fear of...
– Alan Deutschman, via Minima. ICE BURN (via inky)
now where can i pick up a computer that was designed by peter paul rubens…
this list, a couple years ago, was 4-8 pages long... →
this is the weekly (paying/legit/no scammers) film-jobs list as put out by the new york city mayor’s office.
see also:
mandy.com (still somewhat viable), craigslist.org crew section (lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch’intrate), and crewedup.com (mostly obscure support positions and for people that move from hbo to disney to mtv and back again).
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car shopping
florajasmine:
superdoofus-stratodrive:
florajasmine:
is annoying.
i’m trying not to spend a billion dollars. i’m just trying to find a non-jalopy to drive north and tool around in for a while. this is a taxing ordeal, for which i have little patience/attention/heat tolerance.
i used to want a really nice car but now i don’t really care that much. i just need to get from point a to point b...
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