December 2010
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These are the days that must happen to you.
– Walt Whitman - “Song of the Open Road” (from “Leaves Of Grass”)
One last thought for 2010.
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2010 in summation
Favourite movies of the past year:
Inception
The Social Network
TRON: Legacy
Up In The Air
Scott Pilgrim vs the World
Honorable mentions: Iron Man 2, The Losers, Easy A, The Runaways, Batman - Under The Red Hood
Dishonorable mentions: Kick-Ass, Greenberg
Favourite TV shows of the past year:
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Doctor Who
Spicks and Specks
Honorable mentions: The Big Bang...
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That awkward moment where A Major Music Label...
And it wasn’t even one of my good ones. Eh, I’m kinda over the whole mashup thing anyway (DJ Earworm’s latest year-end summation was just kinda, y’know, there…like much of 2010’s pop music, TBH), so I’m chucking the whole enterprise. In the bin it goes!
The funny thing was, I started this Tumblr as a venue to promote the mashups I was making, but this...
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I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via vomitsoup)
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So you were ROFL at KOFL. More vitriol, please; what did you hate about Kings of...
– Music Critic of the Year: @Discographies
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He discovered the cruel paradox by which we always deceive ourselves twice about...
– Albert Camus (via glowering)
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No one can really tell you what love is. No one can. I can’t tell you what love...
– — Joseph Gordon-Levitt (via estefaniaortiz)
Now I have the image of JGL singing WHAT IS LOVE? BABY DON’T HURT ME. DON”T HURT ME. NO MORE?
Thanks
(via albertinho)
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There’s a common misunderstanding among all the human beings who have ever been...
– Pema Chodron (via psychotherapy)
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Machine translations (a review of TRON: LEGACY)
Admittedly, I never was a huge fan of the the original TRON. I’d seen it once or twice on the teev on a Sunday afternoon, and found it diverting, but still a Disney film (which, throughout my youth, was a synonym for ‘bland and unchallenging’). Nostalgia for a film that had come out when I was all of five years didn’t enter into the equation. If anything, TRON had become...
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We are not idealized wild things.
We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that...
– The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion (via suicideblonde)
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Find Your Kryptonian Name! →
ambitionsfail:
spandexandsportsbras:
jacquelineofalltrades:
Mine is Kirana Van!
Just great. I get home from work so the Kryptonian Name Generator isn’t blocked and I get a veiled insult about my wieght!
My Kryptonian Name: DA TON
Spandex, yours sounds like a bad rapper. HAHAHAHAHA
Eh, I got Bur Van, which sounds like a sports liniment!
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