August 2009
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S&M Songs
SP: You know that song by Selena? 'Dreaming of You'?
SP: Late at night when all the world is sleeping, I stay up and think of you. And I wish on a star, that somewhere you are thinking of me too
Me: Stop torturing yourself
Me: My song is 'I Wanna Be With You' by Mandy Moore
Me: I wanna be with you. If only for a night. To be the one who's in your arms, who holds you tight
Me: God we're saps
SP: No
SP: If you really want to torture yourself, you listen to REM's 'Everybody Hurts'
Me: Woah. We haven't got into that territory yet
“You are remembered for the rules you break.”
– Douglas MacArthur
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The New Literacy →
“I think we’re in the midst of a literacy revolution the likes of which we haven’t seen since Greek civilization.”
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Short & Sweet
When 2009 began, I had a few resolutions in mind.
I wanted to journal more frequently. I wanted to turn more strangers into friends. And I wanted to try acting.
The last one was the scariest, and the most uncertain. I’ve always harboured this secret desire since I was a teen to act, to tell stories, to play the part of hero or villain. That it took me a good 29 years to give it a shot...
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The Boy Who Heard Too Much →
“Like a comic-book villain transformed by a tragic accident, Weigman discovered at an early age that his acute hearing gave him superpowers on the telephone. He could impersonate any voice, memorize phone numbers by the sound of the buttons and decipher the inner workings of a phone system by the frequencies and clicks on a call, which he refers to as “songs.”“
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“Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.”
– Thomas Carlyle (via justbesplendid)
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indierawk:
The Moldy Peaches - Anyone Else But...
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“Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via justbesplendid)
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Life Lessons..
justbesplendid:
If what you’re doing feels perfectly safe, there is probably a better course of action.
The greatest innovation in the history of humankind is language.
Blame is the favorite pastime of those who dislike responsibility.
Everyone you meet is better than you at something.
Proof is nothing but a collection of opinions that match one’s own.
Knowledge is belief, nothing more.
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“What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via justbesplendid)
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George Orwell’s 5 rules for effective writing →
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“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Could changes in advertising kill television? →
“A vicious cycle in which television audiences fragment, so advertisers stop paying big bucks to run commercials on TV shows, so the funding for the shows dries up, so the quality of the shows declines, so the audience begins to flee even faster.”
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“Give expression to the noble desires that lie in your heart.”
– Gordon B. Hinckley (via justbesplendid)
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Kid Cannabis →
“How a chubby pizza-delivery boy from Idaho became a drug kingpin.” Entrepreneurship 101.
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“Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.”
– Benjamin Disraeli (via theimpossiblecool)
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