“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.” - Charles Bukowski
My goal in life is basically to be a prolific collector of both extended foreign residencies and ex husbands. Things are going according to schedule.
Miles Davis improvising his incredible score to Louis Malle’s ELEVATOR TO THE GALLOWS:
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Voxtrot - The Start of Something
sounds like a mix between Belle & Sebastian and the Smiths
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Coconut Records - Summer Day
I can smell it out my bedroom window
“In my hypotheses, it is the loneliness quality in particular, physically and intellectually inherent to the act of reading, that lays the bedrock for the powerful social bonding achieved through literature. The limitlessness is critical too, as it promises a bounty of fertile avenues for conversation, but it’s the loneliness of the reader — or, as Rainer Maria Rilke might say, it’s how “two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other” — that assigns to a very special category those friendships formed over books.”
-Bryan Basamanowicz, “From the Library of Your Soul-Mate: The Unique Social Bond of Literature.”Image is a still from the film La Chinoise.
And this one is a picture of me not getting even an interview for the open position i held before dropping 15k on a really expensive piece of paper.
Krystal’s couple hundred step plan for a more enjoyable society (Step 29):
Everytime a teenage girl picks up a seventeen magazine this song should descend from the heavens to fart on that kind of nonsense. Then, dance party.
Vatican Concedes God’s Ambivalence Following New Van Halen Album
VATICAN CITY. The Vatican announced today that after a long period of deliberation it has revised its dogma on God’s benevolence in light of Van Halen’s release of their 2012 album A Different Kind of Truth. ”We’re just left with asking why,” said a bishop who wished to remain nameless. “Why now? Why after all these years choose again to abuse musical instruments in such a way? All this suffering and it’s just so— so senseless,” he said shaking his head. “I mean yes, the Church can be hard-headed sometimes, but how could the Vatican possibly continue to maintain that God is a benevolent God given the glaring evidence to the contrary?” Added the Bishop “Well, I guess I can take off this stupid hat now.”
Trees do not show didain, and they demand no toilsome wooing;
Fain would I now consort with them as my companions.
Fain I would dwell in a deserted sanctuary, beneath a tree […]
Fain I would dwell in spacious regions owned by no one,
And there, a homeless wanderer, follow my own mind.
Practices of a Bodhisattva - Shantideva
I’ve been pretending not to be an introvert for so long that for a good while I actually convinced myself it was true.
Tim Burton with Vincent Price and Johnny Depp during the filming of Edward Scissorhands in 1990
Good ol’ days.
This picture calls to mind how quickly time gets the better of us and just generally made me fixate on death, but then again the same goes for almost everything. #needtoquitthepotdrugs
A must-read in general. One fantastic response:I think that it’s important to consider the implications that all of this unpaid (and likely stemming from the upper-class) labor has on society as well, especially within the industries that largely require entire chunks of time and resources from those aspiring to join them. Particularly within the public sector, one glaring example of this is the field of legislative aide job opportunities that are often only handed out to those who have toiled away for months (and indeed sometimes years) on end as campaign volunteers.
This creates a setup where an entire profession (any job offering Congressional support) effectively shuts out the very large proportion of the college-aged population who do not have parents (or some other richer benefactor) that can afford to subsidize living costs for however long they need to gain the extensive and unpaid experience necessary to enter the good graces of a Congressman or Senator. The implications of this are far-reaching and structural; and reinforce the culture of privilege already rampant in Washington D.C. where not only do federal lawmakers themselves often lack valuable perspective on the issues plaguing lower- and middle class Americans that constitute the majority of the nation’s citizenry, but also with the advisors and assistants working for them, who by virtue of being able to land their jobs in the first place already were fortunate enough to have been born into the nation’s wealthy economic minority. This creates a cycle of dissonance between the real world economic reality that Americans face and what the legislative class in Washington understands the proper solutions are to those very problems.
