January 2010
45 posts
December 2009
46 posts
“We would never be sure about the sequence of events. We argue about it still.”
– The Virgin Suicides
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to...”
– G.K. Chesterton.
After dreaming up an impromptu trip to New Zealand I’m feeling the pang of being away from it. I never knew I could miss a place so much.
WatchMason Jennings - Tourist
Rally on in your raybans and skinny shorts;...
“Equality is not in regarding different things the same, but different things differently.”
You probably hate that people judge you for being gay. But their speculations about your behavior go beyond general judging. They are insulting a lifestyle. A lifestyle that you haven’t chosen to live, but merely have been born into, believe me I understand. And you aim to...
Stand by the choices you make. You’ll come to believe them as correct. Give it time.
“You never said a word to me about what passed between us, so now I’m...”
“What is the feeling when you’re driving away from people, and they recede...”
– Jack Kerouac
Comforter.
How did that night end up? You changed as we tossed and turned, so how could I stay the same? You made it too easy for me to attach myself to you. Cold turned warm, and you were always both. The fan whirred above us and I cradled your body in mine, but it wasn’t enough, it wouldn’t be enough. So our feet were intertwined, and for the first time I felt self-conscious and aware of who we...
“The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
Time to go home to Naples.
Björk and Radiohead - I’ve Seen It All
“I’m never gonna know you now, but I’m gonna love you anyhow.”
– Elliott Smith
“The boardroom meetings in our subconscious never really make sense. But they...”
Story of Stuff →
“Faith isn’t faith until its all we’re holding on to.”
Ok Go - Shooting the Moon
“I just like knowing that things are going to happen to me. I don’t have to...”
– HRD
It was just who I was. And for the first time in my life I was being completely honest with every person in every room I walked into.
The Lift Scene
Professor: According to Plato, what surrounds us is not reality but the appearance of reality. Imagine this lift is a cave and we're chained together, and its dark, and there's just a small fire throwing shadows onto the walls. Now you've never been outside of the caves. Suppose one of us escapes.
Poppy: Yeah I've heard about that, one of the men escapes from the cave and sees the world outside, right?
Professor: That's right, now if he returned to the cave to tell his brothers about that reality outside, he would be the objects of ridicule, of disbelief, of hostility.
Poppy: They'd say he was mad.
Professor: Exactly.
Wicked Blood - Sea Wolf
Stealing Tomorrow - Great Lake Swimmers
This...
“At one time, the earth was supposed to be flat. Well, so it is, even today, from...”
– Vincent Van Gogh believed that life was endless.
“you hold your future in your own hands. never waver in this belief. don’t...”
– sir frederick treves
I'd rather my life be interesting than anything...
Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cat: That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
Alice: I don't much care where.
The Cat: Then it doesn't much matter which way you go.
Alice: …so long as I get somewhere.
The Cat: Oh, you're sure to do that, if only you walk long enough.
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Cialdini & Social Proof; a sad and devastating... →
Social Proof: “A psychological phenomenon that occurs in ambiguous social situations when people are unable to determine the appropriate mode of behavior. Making the assumption that surrounding people possess more knowledge about the situation, they will deem the behavior of others as appropriate or better informed … it can cause people to converge too quickly upon a single choice, so...
“By all outward appearances our life is a spark of light between one eternal...”
– Alan W. Watts