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"You’re beautiful and sad. Just like your eyes. You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little..."

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:18:09 -0500

““You’re beautiful and sad. Just like your eyes. You’re like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.””

- Maggie Stiefvater, Shiver (via 4mbivalent)

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Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:48:06 -0500

"25 Things To Do Before You Turn 25 1. Make peace with your parents. Whether you finally recognize..."

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 00:31:09 -0500

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25 Things To Do Before You Turn 25

1. Make peace with your parents. Whether you finally recognize that they actually have your best interests in mind or you forgive them for being flawed human beings, you can’t happily enter adulthood with that familial brand of resentment.

2. Kiss someone you think is out of your league; kiss models and med students and entrepreneurs with part-time lives in Dubai and don’t worry about if they’re going to call you afterward.

3. Minimize your passivity.

4. Work a service job to gain some understanding of how tipping works, how to keep your cool around assholes, how a few kind words can change someone’s day.

5. Recognize freedom as a 5:30 a.m. trip to the diner with a bunch of strangers you’ve just met.

6. Try not to beat yourself up over having obtained a ‘useless’ Bachelor’s Degree. Debt is hell, and things didn’t pan out quite like you expected, but you did get to go to college, and having a degree isn’t the worst thing in the world to have. We will figure this mess out, I think, probably; the point is you’re not worth less just because there hasn’t been an immediate pay off for going to school. Be patient, work with what you have, and remember that a lot of us are in this together.

7. If you’re employed in any capacity, open a savings account. You never know when you might be unemployed or in desperate need of getting away for a few days. Even $10 a week is $520 more a year than you would’ve had otherwise.

8. Make a habit of going outside, enjoying the light, relearning your friends, forgetting the internet.

9. Go on a 4-day, brunch-fueled bender.

10. Start a relationship with your crush by telling them that you want them. Directly. Like, look them in the face and say it to them. Say, I want you. I want to be with you.

11. Learn to say ‘no’ — to yourself. Don’t keep wearing high heels if you hate them; don’t keep smoking if you’re disgusted by the way you smell the morning after; stop wasting entire days on your couch if you’re going to complain about missing the sun.

12. Take time to revisit the places that made you who you are: the apartment you grew up in, your middle school, your hometown. These places may or may not be here forever; you definitely won’t be.

13. Find a hobby that makes being alone feel lovely and empowering and like something to look forward to.

14. Think you know yourself until you meet someone better than you.

15. Forget who you are, what your priorities are, and how a person should be.

16. Identify your fears and instead of letting them dictate your every move, find and talk to people who have overcome them. Don’t settle for experiencing .000002% of what the world has to offer because you’re afraid of getting on a plane.

17. Make a habit of cleaning up and letting go. Just because it fit at one point doesn’t mean you need to keep it forever — whether ‘it’ is your favorite pair of pants or your ex.

18. Stop hating yourself.

19. Go out and watch that movie, read that book, listen to that band you already lied about watching, reading, listening to.

20. Take advantage of health insurance while you have it.

21. Make a habit of telling people how you feel, whether it means writing a gushing fan-girl email to someone whose work you love or telling your boss why you deserve a raise.

22. Date someone who says, “I love you” first.

23. Leave the country under the premise of “finding yourself.” This will be unsuccessful. Places do not change people. Instead, do a lot of solo drinking, read a lot of books, have sex in dirty hostels, and come home when you start to miss it.

24. Suck it up and buy a Macbook Pro.

25. Quit that job that’s making you miserable, end the relationship that makes you act like a lunatic, lose the friend whose sole purpose in life is making you feel like you’re perpetually on the verge of vomiting. You’re young, you’re resilient, there are other jobs and relationships and friends if you’re patient and open.

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- (via shakenstirredandsouthern)

Owl City Blog: Trying to Catch a Glimpse

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 02:44:46 -0500

Owl City Blog: Trying to Catch a Glimpse:

owlcityblog:

Should a man see only popularity, he becomes a mirror, reflecting whatever needs to be reflected to gain acceptance. He is everyone and no one.

Should a man see only power, he becomes a wolf — prowling, hunting and stalking the elusive game. Recognition is his prey and people are his prizes. His…

"How does one avoid being drowned in dumbness? An inner conviction — a deep-dwelling knowledge akin..."

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:20:28 -0500

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How does one avoid being drowned in dumbness?

An inner conviction — a deep-dwelling knowledge akin to grace exists within — when your opinion on a matter aligns with the realities at hand. Often, one must stand against rising currents of worldly, wrongheaded opinion — a cacophonous flood of stupid; a raging torrent of collective pathology.

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- The Great Dismal by Phil Rockstroh

The Lost History of Money

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:16:25 -0500

The Lost History of Money

How I’m feeling tonight.

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:42:21 -0500

How I’m feeling tonight.

Back in Fall 2007.

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:40:09 -0500

Back in Fall 2007.

"But we get busy. Too busy scrolling our phone screens, watching TV, catching up with all the mundane..."

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:16:36 -0500

“But we get busy. Too busy scrolling our phone screens, watching TV, catching up with all the mundane shit in life and we forget about our dreams. We say things like “I don’t have time,” and when we get frustrated that we don’t have enough time, we assuage that feeling of impotence by buying shit we don’t need, which we think will make us feel better. Granite countertops, leather sofas, sometimes skis, climbing gear or bikes we never use. Maybe that’s because we’re scared of whatever it is we’ve been thinking about for so long, or maybe it’s easier to buy something instead of doing something. Or maybe something we saw told us our dream was something different, and we bought into that.”

- Brendan Leonard; semi-rad (via petalligators)

This may help clarify the Greek debt situation:It is a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:55:44 -0500

This may help clarify the Greek debt situation:

It is a slow day in a little Greek Village. The rain is beating down and the streets are deserted. Times are tough, everybody is in debt, and everybody lives on credit.

On this particular day a rich German tourist is driving through the village, stops at the local hotel and lays a 100 Euro note on the desk, telling the hotel owner he wants to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one to spend the night.

The owner gives him some keys and as soon as the visitor has walked upstairs, the hotelier grabs the 100 Euro note and runs next door to pay his debt to the butcher.

The butcher takes the 100 Euro note and runs down the street to repay his debt to the pig farmer.

The pig farmer takes the 100 Euro note and heads off to pay his bill at the supplier of feed and fuel.

The guy at the Farmers’ Co-op takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his drinks bill at the tavern.

The publican slips the money along to the local prostitute drinking at the bar, who has also been facing hard times and has had to offer him “services” on credit.

The hooker then rushes to the hotel and pays off her room bill to the hotel owner with the 100 Euro note.

The hotel proprietor then places the 100 Euro note back on the counter so the rich traveller will not suspect anything.

At that moment the traveller comes down the stairs, picks up the 100 Euro note, states that the rooms are not satisfactory, pockets the money, and leaves town.

No one produced anything.
No one earned anything.
However, the whole village is now out of debt and looking to the future with a lot more optimism.

And that Ladies and Gentlemen, is how the bailout package works
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source: goldringtravel.blogspot.sg/2011/12/euro-and-greek-bailout-plan-jokereally.html

What does that even mean, love? Do you know? Do you? Anybody?...

Mon, 12 Nov 2012 08:53:03 -0500

What does that even mean, love? Do you know? Do you? Anybody? If somebody gave me this card Mr. Vance, I’d eat it. It’s these cards, and the movies and the pop songs, they’re to blame for all the lies and the heartache, everything. We’re responsible. I’M responsible. I think we do a bad thing here. People should be able to say how they feel, how they really feel, not ya know, some words that some stranger put in their mouth. Words like love, that don’t mean anything.”

“What a beautiful wedding!What a beautiful wedding, says a...

Mon, 05 Nov 2012 05:57:00 -0500

“What a beautiful wedding!
What a beautiful wedding, says a bridesmaid to a waiter
“And yes, but what a shame, what a shame
The poor groom’s bride is a w****”

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Sat, 03 Nov 2012 06:21:52 -0400

It’s scary how life is so full of distractions, that when you finally have enough time to...

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 22:21:00 -0400

It’s scary how life is so full of distractions, that when you finally have enough time to stare at it face-to-face, you freak out because you don’t know how to face yourself.

My life is like an untidy room. And I head out as much as I can to avoid it, coming home to it only when I’m too exhausted to care about the mess inside. The next morning, I’ll hastily leave the room, to repeat the cycle once more.

“I’m living on shortwave streams...

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 05:09:34 -0400

“I’m living on shortwave streams tonight.”

Lucid Dreams - Franz Ferdinand

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Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:25:38 -0400

"Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different."

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 02:22:11 -0400

“Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.”

- C.S. Lewis

Eight Ways You're Wasting Your Life

Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:54:43 -0400

Eight Ways You're Wasting Your Life

Muse - Feeling Good I guess I’m back to Muse mania this...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:07:18 -0400

Muse - Feeling Good

I guess I’m back to Muse mania this month.

Muse - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You My favorite version of...

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 13:02:49 -0400

Muse - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You

My favorite version of this song <3