Sufjan Stevens
—We Need A Little Christmas
Sufjan Stevens - We Need A Little Christmas
Greta knows that for me there are no good parties. I’m okay with one or two people, but more than that and I turn into a naked mole rat. That’s what being shy feels like. Like my skin is too thin, the light too bright. Like the best place I could possibly be is in a tunnel far under the cool, dark earth. Someone asks me a question and I stare at them, empty-faced, my brain jammed up with how hard I’m trying to find something interesting to say. And in the end, all I can do is nod or shrug, because the light of their eyes looking at me, waiting for me, is just too much to take. And then it’s over and there’s one more person in the world who thinks I’m a complete and total waste of space.
The worst thing is the stupid hopefulness. Every new party, every new bunch of people, and I start thinking that maybe this is my chance. That I’m going to be normal this time. A new leaf. A fresh start. But then I find myself at the party, thinking, Oh, yeah. This again.
So I stand on the edge of things, crossing my fingers, praying nobody will try to look me in the eye. And the good thing is, they usually don’t.
—Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
Watching people is a good hobby, but you have to be careful about it. You can’t let people catch you staring at them. If people catch you, they treat you like a first-class criminal. And maybe they’re right to do that. Maybe it should be a crime to try to see things about people they don’t want you to see.
—Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
The primary difference between North and South Korea
fun.
—Sleigh Ride
fun. - Sleigh Ride
the first teenagers of the 00s are coming soon
I’ve been working with kids in speech therapy whose moms were born in the 90s. Moms with 2-3 kids all above 3 years of age. UGH.
(Source: baelor, via killthetraitor-deactivated20130)
Listen to your own speech. Ask yourself: Do I communicate primarily through inside jokes and pop culture references? What percentage of my speech is meaningful? How much hyperbolic language do I use? Do I feign indifference? Look at your clothes. What parts of your wardrobe could be described as costume-like, derivative or reminiscent of some specific style archetype (the secretary, the hobo, the flapper, yourself as a child)? In other words, do your clothes refer to something else or only to themselves? Do you attempt to look intentionally nerdy, awkward or ugly? In other words, is your style an anti-style?
Efterklang
—The Ghost
Efterklang - The Ghost
5) GREAT TRUTHS OF SOCIALISM: WHY IT CANNOT LAST LONG.
Enjoy the ride young mutualists/ socialists/ liberals/ thieves, it will be over before you know it
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.”
Theft is still theft no matter the title you give it.The moral ~ you reap what you sow.
(via talkstraight)
Missed this cake opportunity for my wedding like a goon.
Chad Valley
—Manimals (ft. Active Child)
Chad Valley - Manimals (ft. Active Child)
