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Name: Au Bar Du Petit Bac
Artist: Miles Davis
Album: Ascenseur Pour L'Ãchafaud
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Miles Davis - Au Bar Du Petit Bac (Elevator to the Gallows/Ascenseur pour l’Échafaud: Original Soundtrack Recording)
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”I would vote for Bach, all of Bach, streamed out into space, over and over again. We would be bragging of course, but it is surely excusable to put the best possible face on at the beginning of such an acquaintance. We can tell the harder truths later” - Lewis Thomas on CETI’s 1974 experiment (rather nice, I think).
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Name: Theme From Love Story (Love Story: OST)
Artist: Henry Mancini/Francis Lai
Album: Love Story: OST
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Henry Mancini — Theme from Love Story - 1970
My mom had this spinning lacquer dish that held little snacks and dried fruit for parties. It would play this song when guests spun it, looking for pistachios and dried dates.
Love means never having say you’re hungry.
(Source: oldhollywood, via kang-sohyoung)
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Any reliable, clean, employed, non-crazy grad students/young professionals looking for a place in Atlanta (Grant Park area) in Mid-March? Must love well-behaved dogs and the sound of traffic in the morning (it’ll sound like the ocean after a few weeks ;)). Obligatory question mark?
A definite dream! Joy and her dog (named after character in beloved Harper Lee novel) are so great.
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"Things are sweeter when they’re lost. I know—because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly…And when I got it it turned to dust in my hands."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via sorakeem)(Source: awritersruminations, via sorakeem)
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(Source: savannahlloyd)
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Name: How Deep Is the Ocean
Artist: Etta James
Album: Mystery Lady (Songs of Billie Holiday)
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How Deep Is the Ocean? - Etta James
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That Kind Of Woman: Kindred Spirits 2012
Finally, after several months of not updating, and not being able to access my old Kindred Spirit list, here she be. In no particular order these are my tumblr kindred spirits, separated into helpful categories.
Ladies:
Awesome list of people, compiled by an awesome lady.
(hem hem I may or may not be biased)
But all kidding aside, hello and welcome!
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Embrace your insignificance and wallow in beautiful aspiration.
(via sorakeem)
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(via Let’s Focus on the Unattainable « ,)
Marc Johns cracks me up.
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High ResolutionThe Sand Cat – Desert Cat Extraordinaire ~ The Ark In Space
One of the least known cat species, the sand cat can survive months without water in the desert and participates in time-sharing burrows. Yadda yadda yadda, LOOK HOW CUTE.
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High ResolutionSchematics: A Love Story in Geometric Diagrams | Brain Pickings
“I remember a French girl with an English name.
‘Leave me now, return tonight,’ she told me every morning, and I did.”
Favorite Things
Twenty-something.
Atlanta.
Hedonist.
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