un coeur et une tête

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I love mankind—it’s people I can’t stand.

—
Charles M. Schulz (via okmabelle)

Growing up in California, it was illegal for Asians to marry whites. How times have changed. I married a white DUDE. And an adorable one, too!

—
George Takei on his FB page

May 10

I’m afraid that many of my peers are afraid to move from the comfort zones that were graciously created for them by years of coddling from both their parents and educational institutions. They did everything people told them to do and expected that things would work out alright. They had no reason to think that what they were being told would be inapplicable by the time their undergraduate studies were completed.

It seems that no one taught my struggling peers that the key to success later on would be to keep their vibrant idealism locked in a jar for safety while strategizing ways to make themselves competitive in a world that’s largely apathetic to their existence. The same world that would gladly tell them it’s a good idea to study liberal arts and accrue six figures of debt. The same world that says “do what you love and the money will come” while smiling in devilish glee at the idea of collecting money from them for the next 30 years.

—
Nick Johnson, “Defying Odds’ (via aestheticscuration)

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March 13

An excellent piece of polemic, My Name is Rachel Corrie is a powerful slap at the state of Israel. Weighing the show simply on its merits as left-wing agitprop, this is a compelling production. The play asks us to condemn Israel’s heavy-handed treatment of Palestinians, and does so with compelling intelligence. It closes with a particularly powerful piece of video, showing an adolescent Rachel Corrie speaking with youthful enthusiasm about helping shape a better world. Fine. Okay. But can we please see a companion piece of theatre about a certain desert-kingdom royal family and its deep complicity in fomenting terrorism against, among many others, Israel and the world’s Jewish communities? Let’s call it My Name is Osama bin Laden

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Peter Birnie of the Vancouver Sun January 29, 2008

January 15

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January 5

Honor your vomit.

“All of the songs on the album, to be completely candid [were written quickly]. The creative process is approximately 15 minutes of vomiting my creative ideas, in the forms of melodies, usually, or chord progressions and melodies and some sort of a theme lyric idea. It all happens in approximately 15 minutes of this giant regurgitation of my thoughts and feelings. And then I spend days, weeks, months, years fine tuning. But the idea is that you honor your vomit. You have to honor your vomit. You have to honor those 15 minutes.”

—Lady Gaga

you know what’s funny? this entire last half of the semester, i’ve found myself paralleling going onstage and performing to vomit. it started in voice lessons. my teacher would always be, “vivian that sounded great what’d you do.” ”uhhh, i felt like i kinda just vomited and threw up some sound from my body.”

and then eventually, i started using the term to describe what being in the moment when i was acting was like.

i got to the place where i became comfortable with letting my work be more messy and not apologizing or being scared of the messiness and not dwelling on it. because at the end of the day, it was the most honest.

and describing it as vomiting just helped. ”you ready?” ”not really, but i’m just gonna go vomit onstage” became my new thing.

…and i find out today that gaga calls it the same thing. kinda cool feeling to know we kinda think in the same way about art. it’s vomit that’s been cultivated and structured that we can share with others. :)

December 17

Husband-and-wife photography team Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin sat down with Style.com on set for a revealing interview about their process, their partnership, and their decades-long career. This month, Taschen publishes Pretty Much Everything ($700, www.taschen.com), a retrospective of their greatest work to date (and a project prescribed by no less than Karl Lagerfeld himself). Here, van Lamsweerde and Matadin reflect on 15 of their most iconic shots, from their favorite portrait of Kate Moss to the shot they say changed their lives.

Husband-and-wife photography team Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin sat down with Style.com on set for a revealing interview about their process, their partnership, and their decades-long career. This month, Taschen publishes Pretty Much Everything ($700, www.taschen.com), a retrospective of their greatest work to date (and a project prescribed by no less than Karl Lagerfeld himself). Here, van Lamsweerde and Matadin reflect on 15 of their most iconic shots, from their favorite portrait of Kate Moss to the shot they say changed their lives.

November 26

O for a life of sensations rather than of thoughts.

—
John Keats

August 28

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August 15

o zelda.

i’ve noticed, however, that each time i’m “bored” it’s more like my insides are screaming to be inspired by something.

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July 11

true words of an actor.

what a woman.

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June 30

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don’t need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

—
Audrey Hepburn

June 25

It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each one had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear. He felt in the grip of a fit, as if he would fall to the ground. It was too much: the foreignness around him, the different language, his failure, and the fact that Dickie hated him. He felt surrounded by strangeness, by hostility.

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The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

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