August 2009
Gotta Travel On—Bob Dylan
Watchcirclegame:
This does look really good.
sydneyesque:
insidethebox:sade:First official trailer for Youth In Revolt, Miguel Arteta big-screen adaptation of C. D. Payne’s acclaimed novel of the same name. [via.]
Oh, fuck this movie. I give up.
Maybe it’s because I haven’t finished reading this book, or maybe it’s because I find anything Michael Cera does to be nothing short of great (please...
Items Found in My Messenger Bag
train ticket from Bayeux, France to Caen, France, dated Feb 21st
train ticket from Pontorson, France to Bayeux (return), dated Feb 20th
admission ticket for the exhibition Altermodern, Tate Britain, dated April 21st
check-in slip for Kinlay House Hostel, Galway, Ireland, dated March 4th
tourist pamphlet for Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland
Google map of the location for the CAPA...
How to Write a Paper in College
circlegame:
szotzee:
1. Sit in a straight, comfortable chair in a well lit place in front of your computer. 2. Log onto Facebook and IChat (be sure to go on away!). Check tumblr. 3. Read over the assignment carefully, to make certain you understand it. 4. Walk down to the vending machines and buy some chocolate to help you concentrate. 5. Check tumblr dashboard. 6. Call up a friend and ask...
It Shouldn't Be so Expensive to Get Such a...
How am I going to pay for graduate school?
Novels I Will Be Reading this Semester
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells The Time Machine by H.G. Wells Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope Middlemarch by George Elliot The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Dracula by Bram Stoker...
“Travel only with your equals or your betters; if there are none, travel alone”
– The Dhammapada, c. 100 (via travelhighlights)
Amen.
An interesting editorial on how/why our generation... →
“Be optimistic. These times will pass.”
– This quote was on a sign outside of a local business in Fenton, MI, a small town next to the smaller town where I went to high school. Everything in MI feels depressed.
DNA as Building Material. →
DNA is so awesome. Of course, I can understand why the scientific community is still largely skeptical about this branch of nanotechnology—it’ll probably be decades before anything truly useful and revolutionary comes out of this. But even if they are just playing around right now, it’s still pretty sweet.
Averted Vision - NYTimes.com →
travelhighlights:
“The fresh heartbreak was, in a sense, like being in a foreign country; everything seemed alien, brilliant and glinting. It was as if I’d been flayed, so that even the air hurt. When you’re that unhappy, any glimmer of beauty or consolation feels like running into an old friend abroad, or seeing mountaintops through smog. Maybe we mistakenly think we want “happiness,” which we...
I love Sufjan Stevens, particularly the Michigan...
