Keane on Life: Archive

Re: the passing of James Gandolfini

Yes, it’s sad; he was a repected actor, and while I wasn’t a regular viewer of The Sopranos, he was a powerhouse in that show.

However, some wiseacres on Twitter have made the tactless joke that “he’ll come back as Gandolfini the White, hurr hurr” - really? That’s your contribution to the cultural conversation: a shitty LOTR joke? A local TV presenter made the same joke at Supanova Expo last year; when I chided him about it a week or so later on Twitter, he admitted it wasn’t the best gag.

It’s certainly not the most appropiate of jokes now. A man has died; surely a modicum of respect is the least we can ask for?

Jun 19, 2013

#James Gandolfini #celebs #RIP

Jun 18, 201322 notes

#Barbarella #Jane Fonda #Gwyneth Paltrow #Liz Hurley #Kate Moss #celebs #film #fashion #photography

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Jun 18, 2013

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#music #youtube

“Do She Got a Booty? (She Do)” is an expression that is often paired with images of peeping animals and cartoon characters on the microblogging site Tumblr.

Of course it came from Tumblr. Of course.

Jun 18, 2013

Jun 17, 2013116,892 notes

#ke$ha #music

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#Superman #youtube

Jun 11, 2013

#this is my jam #music

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#Star Trek #Star Trek Into Darkness

Jun 9, 2013116 notes

#RIP #lit

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#The X Files #Gillian Anderson

Play

Jun 9, 20132 notes

#music #youtube #Icehouse

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#comics #Harley Quinn #instagram

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White Wedding Rowland S. Howard

Rowland S. Howard “White Wedding” (Billy Idol cover) (via
suicidewatch)

Jun 7, 201352 notes

#music #this is my jam #rowland s. howard

Jun 7, 201341,584 notes

#Game Of Thrones

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person: are you athletic?
me: i run
person: oh sweet
me: *whispers* a blog

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“Just because two people are capable of deeply hurting each other over and over again does not make them passionate, star-crossed lovers. It makes them two people who keep doing terrible things to each other. Someone’s ability to make you completely and utterly soul-crushingly miserable does not mean they are a soul mate with some deep insight into your psyche. They are just someone who is really good at making you unhappy.” —Andrea Greb, You Are Not Blair Waldorf (via a-lionsheart)

Jun 5, 201330,804 notes

doglets:

“Pew pew pew” -church interior designer

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“And this is part of being a Doctor Who fan. You are absolutely guaranteed to see the show die in front of you, and then get replaced with a strange, different show using the same name. Eventually, everything that Doctor Who is comes to a crashing halt and something new happens instead. Sometimes it’s wonderful. Sometimes it’s heartbreaking. But it’s inevitable. It’s why one of the few sections of fandom I get actively angry at are the “bring back David Tennant” crowd. Because, frankly, you only got David Tennant because nine previous versions of the show got cancelled. You knew your turn would come. You don’t get to pull a version of the show other people enjoy away from them and replace it with your own. If you did, we’d bring Ian, Barbara, and the Doctor back.” —

Philip Sandifer, TARDIS Eruditorum (via wackd)

This is a beautiful thing.

(via ceebee-eebee)

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“Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will him about mine ears; and sometime voices,
That if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again, and then in dreaming
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked
I cried to dream again.” —Caliban, ‘The Tempest’, 3.2 by William Shakespeare (via harlequinfairy)

Jun 4, 2013

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“I’m absolutely down for defending the first-class status of genre fiction that boldly goes where no or few stories have gone before. But if you think that working science fiction and fantasy relieves you of your obligations to coherent plotting and character behavior, or if it’s an engine to deliver free naked ladies, then you can stay in your mom’s basement, and off my bandwagon.” —

Alyssa Rosenberg, in Damon Lindelof’s Blithe Treatment Of ‘Star Trek’ Sexism And Why Genre Fiction Gets No Respect (via themarysue)

Jun 4, 20131,537 notes

Arya Stark Tells It As It Is

superparaphernalia:

June 4, 2013

Maisie Williams gives some insight on The Red Wedding.

You can literally see her spell out W-T-F.

Jun 4, 20131 note

#Game of Throne #lol

horussebooks:

mr-egbutt:

lurkerpi:

please stop adding ‘there are two kinds of people’ and ‘that escalated quickly’ to text posts

there are two kinds of rapid escalation

well that peopled twicely

Jun 4, 201366,205 notes

monsterpussy:

asunburntcountry:

lyall:

Sad news. Like far too many Aboriginal men he died too young and had kidney disease.

Curious that his first name is left out…. (edited) Yunupingu.. He was never just known by his last name. RIP.

That’s what his family requested, in accordance with tradition. They’ve said it’s deeply offensive for his first name to be published and I think that ought to be respected.

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#film #gif

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#Lord of the Rings #Rule 63 #film

'Game of Thrones' author George R.R. Martin: Why he wrote The Red Wedding

EW: What do you say to readers who are upset about the scene?
GRRM: It depends on what they say. What can you say to someone who says they’ll never read your book again? People read books for different reasons. I respect that. Some read for comfort. And some of my former readers have said their life is hard, their mother is sick, their dog died, and they read fiction to escape. They don’t want to get hit in the mouth with something horrible. And you read that certain kind of fiction where the guy will always get the girl and the good guys win and it reaffirms to you that life is fair. We all want that at times. There’s a certain vicarious release to that. So I’m not dismissive of people who want that. But that’s not the kind of fiction I write, in most cases. It’s certainly not what Ice and Fire is. It tries to be more realistic about what life is. It has joy, but it also had pain and fear. I think the best fiction captures life in all its light and darkness.

Jun 3, 201324 notes

#Game of Thrones #George R.R. Martin #lit #television