Sweetness and Light

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11/24
2009

  • RILKE!

    From Wiki:

    Gaga has six known tattoos, among them a peace symbol which was inspired by the late John Lennon who The Guardian stated was Gaga’s “hero,” and a curling German script on her left arm which quotes the poet Rainer Maria Rilke:

    In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? —Rainer Maria Rilke
    Gaga described Rilke as her “favorite philosopher,” commenting that his “philosophy of solitude” spoke to her.

    I want to die. This woman. I love her.

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  • "Well, I don’t know what of our culture is going to survive, or if we survive. If you look at the Greek plays, they’re really good. And there’s just a handful of them. Well, how good would they be if there were 2,500 of them? But that’s the future looking back at us. Anything you can think of, there’s going to be millions of them. Just the sheer number of things will devalue them. I don’t care whether it’s art, literature, poetry or drama, whatever. The sheer volume of it will wash it out. I mean, if you had thousands of Greek plays to read, would they be that good? I don’t think so."
    - Cormac McCarthy, in an interview with the WSJ. You’ll want to read all of it, trust me.
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    • breakupsong:

      Idiot Wind — Bob Dylan

      We’ve been kind of neglecting Bob around here. When you disappoint Bob, he says things like this about you:

      One day you’ll be in the ditch, flies buzzing around your eyes

      Blood on your saddle

      I would not want to have dated Bob Dylan.

      Trufax. You date Bob Dylan, he writes a mean, kind of crazy song about you, and everyone in the world loves it except you (and maybe you too! how can you help it?). Not a good deal.

    • Has been played 41 times.
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  • The Russian feminist group Femen put on a protest against the sexual harassment and grades-for-sex unwritten policy going on at Russian universities. Click through for more pictures.

  • The Russian feminist group Femen put on a protest against the sexual harassment and grades-for-sex unwritten policy going on at Russian universities. Click through for more pictures.

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  • nerdshares:

    Lady Gaga “Bad Romance” Parody (featuring LORD Gaga).

    The stuffed shark on a leash…can’t stop laughing.

    Oh girl. Thanks for this.

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  • yosamanthrax: My friend Steve and I decided that we’re going to wear our matching Lady Gaga shirts and we will speak only in Gaga, even (especially) if someone else tries to talk to us. Example: Mutual Friend:  Hey guys!  How’s it going? Steve:  Eh… romah. Sam:  Uh huh, rahmah ma. MF:  Uhhh… Steve:  Gaga! Sam:  Ooh la la? (Yes, this is stupid.  No, we don’t care.)

  • yosamanthrax:

    My friend Steve and I decided that we’re going to wear our matching Lady Gaga shirts and we will speak only in Gaga, even (especially) if someone else tries to talk to us.

    Example:

    Mutual Friend:  Hey guys!  How’s it going?

    Steve:  Eh… romah.

    Sam:  Uh huh, rahmah ma.

    MF:  Uhhh…

    Steve:  Gaga!

    Sam:  Ooh la la?

    (Yes, this is stupid.  No, we don’t care.)

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  • I am a Coke bottle! I can live with this. (click through for quiz.)

  • I am a Coke bottle! I can live with this. (click through for quiz.)

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11/23
2009

    • [Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]

    • Memphis — Chuck Berry

      This song gives me the warm fuzzies.

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  • (via synecdoche) Can we talk? The new trailer for this makes me cry even more than the old one. What a mess I’m going to be come the release date.

  • (via synecdoche)

    Can we talk? The new trailer for this makes me cry even more than the old one. What a mess I’m going to be come the release date.

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  • hoarr: Hoarr Sunday Monday Night Dinner Post - Cheddar Potato Soup with Bacon and Cheddar Bay Biscuits Look at this potato cheddar soup and bay biscuit. Damn. Oh my god! Creepy! So creepy!

  • hoarr:

    Hoarr Sunday Monday Night Dinner Post - Cheddar Potato Soup with Bacon and Cheddar Bay Biscuits

    Look at this potato cheddar soup and bay biscuit. Damn.

    Oh my god! Creepy! So creepy!

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  • "Well, Betty knew he cheated on her last season, so that can't be why she left him."

    Right, so. She forgives 5% of his infidelities and this puts them off the table for potential divorcing? Also, apparently she’s not doing it because of the 10 years of lying either, because what Don lied about was before Betty even met him!
    Also, my mother called Betty a hussy when she kissed Henry Francis.

    Watching Mad Men in my household! It’s a barrel of laughs!

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  • The Trudy problem.

    lenorebeadsman:

    sarahmc:

    I think one could probably write a book about men’s feelings towards certain Mad Men characters.

    I’d burst into tears two pages into the Betty chapter.

    I have to try to refrain from doing this every time my father talks about Betty. His latest way to dismiss her is to theorize that the reason she decided to leave him was because she found out he was poor once. And he does that fun thing men sometimes do when you mention how blatantly absurd any of his points are: smile indulgently and tell you that you don’t understand, in this case, that you don’t understand Don and that “everyone” finds her unsympathetic. Also she’s a bad mother and grabbing her/shoving her/shaming her are not abuse.

    What.

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