April 2011
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WatchHerman Dune “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” from Jon Hamm
This is an incredible music video for Herman Dune’s “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” featuring Jon Hamm and a really adorable young runaway yeti. Directed by Toben Seymour. It’s over 6 minutes, but it’s so simple and sweet.
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“When we enjoy ourselves we forget ourselves, forget that we exist.”
– Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations (via human-voices)
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“When William called Harry to tell him he would soon have a sister, there was a...”
– Katie Nicholl for Vanity Fair (via yurmanandbourbon)
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30 Day Challenge - Day 6
Your views on mainstream music.
I don’t have any qualms with mainstream music, per se. There are a lot of great songs with well-written lyrics, killer hooks, and small nuances that seem to draw movement from your body like they’re attached to marionette strings.
My issue with some mainstream music is this auto-tuned shit. A lot of decent voices have been shredded beyond recognition...
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30 Day Challenge - Day 5
Things you want to say to an ex.
I don’t think we had anything in common to begin with.
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“The creative adult is the child who survived.”
– Ursula LeGuin (via devincastro)
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breakfastatbarneys:
Health:
Drink plenty ofwater.
Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
Live with the 3 E’s - Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
Play more games.
Read more books than you did...
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“Hilary tells me that women say that they need three husbands in their lifetimes....”
– Paul Wexler, married 40 years to Hilary. (Esquire Magazine, May 2011)
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“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus (via thatkindofwoman)
“Having the right enemies is as important as having the right friends. It shows...”
– Glenn O’Brien on enemies (via gaws)
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“Know what’s weird? Day by day nothing seems to change but pretty soon,...”
– Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes (via thoughtsdetained)
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“Attacking femaleness, deriding ‘girly stuff’ and rolling your eyes at ‘women’s...”
– Ariel Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture (2006 ed.)
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30 Day Challenge - Day 4
Bullet your whole day.
9:00a Wake up
9:15a Finally ascend from bed
Shower, put face on, do hair
10:00a Breakfast, watch the news
Get irritated at the circus that happens to be called the news
11:00a Leave for work at the museum
11:30a Arrive at work
6:00p Get off work to sit in traffic
Buy balloons for final project presentation tomorrow
Dinner/Catch up on emails/Bullet day on Tumblr
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For anyone who worked in I.T., a time for simultaneous guffaw and groan.
clientsfromhell:
Me: “How can I help you today, ma’am?” Client: “Is e-mail internet”? Me: “I beg your pardon?” Client: “Is e-mail on the internet? I have no internet, can I still read my e-mail?” Me: “Well yes, you must be able to get online to view your e-mail.” Client: “Oh, dear. I can’t see my e-mail.” Me: “Well, let’s...
Productivity tastes better when peppered with...
Ask me a question.
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“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via misswallflower)
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30 Day Challenge - Day 3
A book you love.
J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey.
One of Salinger’s works that feature less petulant characters. I love it for Salinger’s omniscient, careful attention to details. I love it because I relate to Franny’s existential quarter-life crisis. I love it because its a cautionary tale of what happens when you devote yourself to intellect and hubris so much, you...
