December 2010
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11 Things
1. Check my email less 2. Care less about stuff that doesn’t matter 3. Figure out what matters 4. Do interesting things I’ve always wanted to do and haven’t up to now 5. Use my passport 6. Get accepted to the MFA program 7. Worry less about things I can’t control 8. Worry less about things I can control 9. Execute interesting, creative ideas 10. Spend more time being...
Dec 31st
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Purging
I took my own challenge of weeding my Facebook friends list down to 150 people aka Dunbar Number or whatever. Well, I didn’t actually delete everyone. Instead, I just created a friend list for that number and it turned out to be less than 150 people and shrinking daily. So then I decided to go further and create a separate list of just 25 people. That’s a lot more interesting and...
Dec 31st
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Hey, You Should Read This Book...: The Hunger... →
heyreadthisbook: Similar To: The Giver There is a lot of hype given to this book currently, and as long as it doesn’t become like Twilight I agree with it. The plot is astounding; it is set in post-USA North America in a country called Panem. There are 12 districts and due to a rebellion by the 13th district (who was later obliterated) each district is required to give 2 tributes to the Hunger...
Dec 30th
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Hey, You Should Watch This Movie: They Came To... →
heywatchthismovie: This documentary is about the Fifth International Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs in Ft. Worth, Texas by the Van Cliburn Foundation. It’s chock full of people who for one reason or another, stopped pursuing music before becoming professionals, went on in many cases to have great careers before returning to their first love. It’s a bit of a slow burn, but it picks...
Dec 30th
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ListenBlack Mountain - Radiant Hearts
Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“Only one thing astonishes me more than the stupidity with which most people live...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Dec 27th
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True Grit (2010)
heywatchthismovie: Hailee Steinfeld may never make a movie like this one again in her life. And that might be just fine by me, as her debut in the Coen Brothers western remake of the 1969 John Wayne swan song was epic. First, it’s almost hard to suspend reality when you have a western featuring Matt freaking Damon, but Jeff Bridges brings his “A” game and so does Damon.  But the showstopper...
Dec 27th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Working on my chess game. 
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 24th
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Flipped (2010)
heywatchthismovie: Love is like a cup of soup. I don’t really know how to explain why that metaphor came to mind. But you get an idea in your head, you believe in something and sometimes, it makes no sense to anyone else but you. Someone can tell you about how good something else, but until you experience it for yourself you’ll never really know. It’s about a kind of synergy. Sometimes, it...
Dec 24th
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With each passing day, it becomes more apparent that the times are changing. People have come, others have gone. This cycle brings me closer to a place where I want to be, to an existence that feels more like home. It’s hardly done. Hell, we’re just beginning. But reflecting on the past to where I am now, I feel now more than ever that the steps I’ve taken to reach this place in...
Dec 24th
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“If they’re your friends, they won’t care. If they’re not,...”
– ALM
Dec 23rd
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I never knew you could party to Fiona Apple...
..until the summer of 2003 when I spent the summer in Boston. I had an internship at The Boston Globe and I literally waited until the day before my week-long residency in Philadelphia en route to Boston to find an apartment. I managed to find this place on craigslist needing a sublet with three other roommates. I’ve never lived in a place with that many people before, so it was a bit...
Dec 23rd
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i am sam (2001)
heywatchthismovie: Never saw this until now. I don’t have to tell you about the touching story of a autistic father raising his daughter as a single parent. He creates a support system for himself and touches others along the way. It was just a really heartfelt story from start to finish and I’m sort of amazed I hadn’t seen it until now, but what a beautifully rendered story by all of the...
Dec 23rd
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i am sam (2001)
heywatchthismovie: Never saw this until now. I don’t have to tell you about the touching story of a autistic father raising his daughter as a single parent. He creates a support system for himself and touches others along the way. It was just a really heartfelt story from start to finish and I’m sort of amazed I hadn’t seen it until now, but what a beautifully rendered story by all of the...
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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I’m sitting on a bunch of words, but I feel like magnets on the refrigerator. Like, I’m not really sure where to start. I could probably get an ending, if there was a start. But there’s no starting point yet and I struggle where to begin.
Dec 21st
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ListenAvi Buffalo - Distaste and Interest
Dec 21st
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What's on Holden Caufield's iPod
Here is a hypothetical playlist from Flavorwire that I replicated on Grooveshark, because why not? My playlist won’t show up in dashboard, you’ll have to read the actual post.
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Magnolia Electric Co. (23) Hilary Hahn (21) Circa Survive (15) The Jealous Girlfriends (12) Bright Eyes (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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“It’s time to give up the search for the invisible. On the best of days...”
– Stephen Dunn, Sixty (from the anthology Different Hours)
Dec 20th
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Can You Hear Me Now?
Communication is such a big part of what we do. But I’m thinking about the mediums we use to do it. If anything, this year has been an exercise of saying what you mean and meaning what you say. It’s the idea that you can know someone for years and never really know them at all or know someone for moments and start to give them keys to the farm, before you really understand what...
Dec 19th
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The Kite Runner (2007)
heywatchthismovie: This movie was extremely well done. It tactfully shows the conflict between class and ethnic differences, and friendship in pre-communist Afghanistan. Amir and Hassan seem to have mastered this relationship, so that as parters they have one the kiting competition. Then Amir cannot gather up the courage to protect Hassan from the bigger boys destroying their friendship. Amir...
Dec 19th
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