July 2010
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I Know Why We Sleep!
To get rest. We’re more alert after the proper amount of ‘good’, and by that I mean deep according to the REM cycle, sleep. Therefor we are better able to handle tasks, our emotions are more stable, etc. Sleeping also helps our brains process - hence why studying before bed has been proven to help you learn and memorize better.
Everyone knows this. Those are just a few, obvious...
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June 2010
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The Top Gets Higher The More That I Climb
One of my guilty pleasure songs is “Drop the World” by Li’l Wayne feat. Eminem. It’s so full of the F-bomb that bleeping it essentially renders the chorus a string of disjointed articles and pronouns.
But something about it (chord progressions, perchance) makes me emotional. I know - seriously I get pumped up and my chest pounds and my head nods and I wish I was on a stage...
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Writer's Rooms →
Came across this today.
Personally, I write curled up on the couch in kind of an uncomfortable position for my legs that puts the laptop at the proper height for me to type. I like writing longhand but my brain moves too quickly so I don’t write for too long that way. Every now and then I go to a cafe.
I wish I had a gorgeous room filled with sentimental trinkets and reference books. Some...
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Two Little Asian Girls in Pink Floral Dresses at...
Older Asian Girl (with a hint of defiance & offense): I don't believe in God.
Younger Asian Girl (with a blithe, matter-of-fact tone): Oh. Well, I do.
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“You can’t be wise and in love at the same time.”
– Bob Dylan (via quote-book)
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“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus (via quote-book)
Yay for the Tumblr iPhone app update with native reblogging. I would just not reblog things because it was such a giant pain. Ephemeral lost before its time.
“In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a...”
– Brian Tracy (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
Tell this to the customers who look at me like I’ve walked in on them in the bathroom for the third time when I greet them and tell them about our sale. YOU came in HERE!
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I haven’t had much legitimately big news as of late, which is disheartening. Especially when so many people around me are doing so well and I want to join the party.
But now I have some fairly big, definitely exciting news but I can’t say anything about it yet. In fact, I don’t even know when I can say anything.
This is slowly killing me.
Like, I may die before I can tell...
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I Want to Dress Like This Every Day - The Row →
I need more cigarette pants and a long blazer. Just saying. Thought when I put out that plea for the sunhat I got no response. I guess I have to pay my own way in this life. :(
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“For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact,...”
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird > Shitty First Drafts.
Thank you.
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The Meaning of Snafu →
I looked up the proper spelling of this word to use in an email and was surprised to find the origin. I was also surprised to find that one of the example sentences is literally something that happens in my apartment….It’s fubar, to keep with the military, f-bomb-related slang.
What a snafu! All the power went off when you turned on the coffeepot.
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Versace Resort 2011 →
Yes, please.
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“There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
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Christopher Morley (via quote-book
Just found my literary tattoo.
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How am I supposed to move on when images of Olympic Flame Diner and loitering around Amsterdam and 60th just pop into my head out of nowhere?
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“That’s what you do when you’ve found something special: you grab...”
– Buster Bluth’s Dating Advice.
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“If that’s a veiled criticism of me; I won’t hear it and I...”
– Lucille Bluth, Arrested Development
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Laughing Bride →
It gets better and better.
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Arrested Development "Top Banana"
George Sr: I haven't had a vacation in years. This is my vacation: I'm exercising. I'm sleeping well.
Michael: You're doing time.
George Sr: I'm doing the time...of my LIFE!
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A Pathetic Poem Written on the Back of Receipt...
“Honestly, I Do Work Here. Just Not Here.”
management turnover & walkouts
baptisms & opinionated mothers
marked down mark-ups
irrelevant sale signs
unreadable fine print
on selected merchandise
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Where Are the Soul-Mates by Me, Just Now, with...
Where are the soul-mates,
The dreamers of dreams?
Where are the hand-in-handers
swimming upstream?
Where are your signposts,
your hair to the wind?
Where is how we’re here
from how did we begin?
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“the hours rise up putting off stars and it is
dawn
into the street of the sky...”
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thanks to red-in-the-hague for alerting me to this! Go check out her tumblr to see photos of the wall on which she found this poem. yes, on a wall. (via eecummings)
Yes.
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Imagined Monologues →
I’ve only read the Comic Sans one but I have a feeling I’m going to be bathing in these soon. Amazing.
via
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The Edward Lighthart Case
Here is a really well-written, coherent run down of The Case of Edward Lighthart - an educated man who woke up in Discovery Park, Seattle with no ID and $600 in his sock. Oh, and no memory of who he was or how he got there.
Absolutely fascinating. Props to the Internet for solving the case. I’m dying to know where he is RIGHT NOW. Why doesn’t this man have a blog? Or a movie deal?
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Staying Safe At Home
Gabe: You know how people get guns to protect their houses? I wanna get a battle axe.
Taylor: Dude. Make sure you get a real one.
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Memory & Identity
So I’m working on this feature-length comedy about memory, identity and destiny. Sounds like pretty light fair, right?
Anywho, I’m researching amnesia right now and I thought this was interesting: when you blackout from alcohol or drugs and you have blank spots in your memory (drunk texting is going to start a war one day, I tell you) it’s not that you forgot. The event...
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cannonball101:
I was going to make a post about some news I just found out about success a screenwriter friend of mine is having, but I refrained because I thought, what if somehow that company stumbles upon my blog, sees what I’ve written and then doesn’t buy my friend’s screenplay because he was already talking about it with his friends and they are blogging about it??
Is there some kind of...
alexanderfairchild:
High Fidelity Vows (War),...