February 2012
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via Jezebel: Interview with Community's awesome... →
Yvette Nicole Brown, on her character Shirley: “Female friends that are in my tribe, black girls, we all have stories about that. We find interesting ways to make [directors] tell us to be sassy because they know that it’s racist. I say, “Can you show me how to do that?” They don’t want to do a black version of sassy, so then they move on.”
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“Each contact with a human being is so rare, so precious, one should preserve it.”
– Anaïs Nin (via postures)
“Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
– Leo Tolstoy (via misswallflower)
video: iamamiwhoami - drops
disconaivete:
iamamiwhoami are spoiling us. Less than 2 weeks ago she graced the internet with a new song and accompanying video sever, today they unveil another new song and video drops. It kind of sounds like Röyksopp, don’t you think? There’s two more songs dropping soon - Good Worker and Play - which are all taken from the “mystery act’s” forthcoming audiovisual debut album kin (which is...
“Toska - noun /ˈtō-skə/ - Russian word roughly translated as sadness,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita Introduction to Aleksandr Pushkin, Eugene Onegin translation (1990) (via oneforthesoul)
(sorry dudes I had to fix the citation. There isn’t a single Russian word in Lolita so I did a bit of research and found the original source. Whoever thinks “Lolita”...
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This is probably a good opportunity to let folks... →
sassyfrasscircus:
We are seeking submissions with a central theme of the cross sections of Jewish and queer and or feminist identity, and how those identities might inform an anti-Zionist or Palestinian-solidarity politic. Some organizing frames include the concept of “doykeit” or “hereness,” diaspora, assimilation, the rhetoric of “self-hate,” decolonization of Judaism, and experiences of queer...
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FUCK DA OSCARS
All awards to Michael Fassbender!
Next year I’m just going to do a video/podcast where I have my own little miniature Oscars ceremony, with nominations that I’ve hand-picked. Maybe I’ll have little tchotckes from around the apartment serve as Award nominees. (Imagine a huge stuffed Totoro as Meryl Streep, or a devil rubber duck as Woody Allen). Then I’m going to have...
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Stefon's Illustrated Guide to New York's Hottest... →
“If you want your mom to have a day filled with fun, look no further. New York’s hottest club is UHHNNNH. Located in the middle of the West Side Highway, this bi-curious beach party is the creation of Italian club owner Bologna Danza, and this place has everything: split kicks, pachucos, pile after pile of expired Lunchables, a Hawaiian cleaning lady that looks like Smokey...
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“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks...”
– M.I.A. (via viking-sunrise)
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“Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an...”
– John Steinbeck (via itoldyouiwasill)