Mix Metaphors

thegorgeoushussy: Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:18:05 -0500

thegorgeoushussy:

Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg

yourcatwasdelicious: john cage w/ cat

Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:08:48 -0600

yourcatwasdelicious:

john cage

w/ cat

Texas

Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:05:25 -0500

Texas

“Did you want to start out with an appetizer? I...

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:55:22 -0500

“Did you want to start out with an appetizer? I didn’t think so.”

celebritycloseup: lana del rey luv u gurl

Sun, 19 Aug 2012 22:59:47 -0500

celebritycloseup:

lana del rey

luv u gurl

My fruit bowl runneth over alright cya

Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:38:02 -0500

My fruit bowl runneth over alright cya

26th October 1956: Henry Behrens, the smallest man in the...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:53:15 -0500

26th October 1956: Henry Behrens, the smallest man in the world, dances with his pet cat in the doorway of his Worthing home.

AMoYA, Prague

Sun, 05 Aug 2012 12:24:00 -0500

AMoYA, Prague

Well, okay.

Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:35:01 -0500

Well, okay.

I guess I’ve just been thinking about mushrooms and why...

Thu, 19 Jul 2012 11:56:25 -0500

I guess I’ve just been thinking about mushrooms and why they’re awesome. They have all these bizarre benefits that basically no other food or plant can offer, so I probably want to eat them more often.

I like what this lady is doing art-wise, but it might also be...

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 09:33:50 -0500

I like what this lady is doing art-wise, but it might also be because I can admit to having liked the Hills (sorry I’m not sorry).

Stately Sandwiches. Also, this person is a genius.

Tue, 12 Jun 2012 09:58:00 -0500

Stately Sandwiches. Also, this person is a genius.

The Donner Party

Wed, 30 May 2012 08:01:01 -0500

Forsaken, fucking in the cold

eating each other, lost, runny noses,

complaining all the time like so

many people that we know.

—Richard Brautigan

Hey guys. I just found this weird “review” of Franzen’s Freedom in my unpublished...

Thu, 24 May 2012 12:58:05 -0500

Hey guys. I just found this weird “review” of Franzen’s Freedom in my unpublished drafts. It’s pretty funny. I didn’t edit it at all, which probably explains why the 3rd paragraph makes little to no sense. Great! I must’ve written it just as I finished, which was sometime in the Fall of 2010. And I have, by the way, read Strong Motion since this, which might have changed my feelings a little bit but ANYWAY.

Ok. Jonathan Franzen. Get outta town. I was criminally addicted to Freedom. I started ignoring my basic needs so that I could keep with this book. What I like about Jonathan Franzen’s novels (i.e., Freedom and The Corrections… Strong Motion is my next book on deck after I finish The Broom of the System, but I digress) is that they almost read like gossip rags. He has a very delicate way of addressing mundane stuff— the things we all feel and experience— but it manages to be so totally captivating. As a writer, Franzen gives me hope that people still want to read about things that are not always whimsical and poetic. Or whimsical and poetic at all. As a reader (and like many readers, or human beings in general, I think), I am so positively trashy that I lurch towards parts of the book wherein base things are discussed. Such as phone-sex fantasies of pooping in someone’s mouth. Franzen, you dog! But seriously, we are Americans, and we love to look at car crashes and porn, so he is totally nailing it.

The other thing that’s so winning about Franzen is the way his books make you feel. Every time I put down the book I felt like I needed two gin and tonics, a new tattoo, and a self-help book about how to not feel disaffected. This mood created by Freedom really seeds itself within you. You find yourself (er, I find myself) reading along totally absorbed with the emotional underpinnings of the characters; suddenly and immediately (though not so often that it was distracting), the book would provoke these cumbersome self-actualizations where I went, “Ugh, this is uncomfortable to read because it hits unbearably close to home and I feel really psychologically burdened right alongside this character.”

Franzen doesn’t prey on your emotions in the overt and facile way that books like, say, The Lovely Bones do. His emotional manipulation is sort of clever. You register a little squirmy feeling that grows as you turn pages, until you feel at once exhausted and empathetic. What I’m trying to say here is that the magic lies in the fact that the “dramatic” content is overt, hanging all out, but the weight of the content is so, so, so not obvious. And you carry it with you.

Plus! Jonathan Franzen is so totally hip enough to toss in a dollop of pop culture and current events. You feel like a part of the novel’s world when he mentions Tina Fey and NPR and population control and having a roommate in a college dorm. Because yes! Those tidbits are a part of my life, too! Franzen, you are writing about my world, and with grace. Props, dude.

Grew up in Southern California, can’t help but be really...

Fri, 18 May 2012 13:25:47 -0500

Grew up in Southern California, can’t help but be really into this.

imagineeringdisney:

A behind-the-scenes look at pirate animatronic figure-finishing.

AWESOME, SOPHISTICATED, ETC.

Wed, 16 May 2012 11:37:01 -0500

AWESOME, SOPHISTICATED, ETC.

The only kind of Bacon I like.

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:01:21 -0500

The only kind of Bacon I like.

"…if she persevered, she might do something special — and part of persevering meant..."

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 15:52:27 -0500

““…if she persevered, she might do something special — and part of persevering meant getting past moments like this one, when people made you feel small, unlovable, and took away your confidence.””

- The Marriage Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides, p. 104

I can’t explain what appeals to me about this video, but...

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 18:18:04 -0600

I can’t explain what appeals to me about this video, but I’m pretty sure it has something to do with Lana Del Rey’s nose.

Beautiful

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:04:40 -0600

Beautiful