May 2013
14 posts
The Serious Superficiality of The Great Gatsby →
Baz Luhrmann’s “The Great Gatsby” is lurid, shallow, glamorous, trashy, tasteless, seductive, sentimental, aloof, and artificial. It’s an excellent adaptation, in other words, of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s melodramatic American classic. Luhrmann, as expected, has turned “Gatsby” into a theme-park…
Nailed it.
atianafiorella asked: So, The Killers were amazing, right?!
April 2013
12 posts
“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
– David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
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kideas:
Drink up baby, stay up all night With...
“I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same...”
– Roger Ebert. (via nedhepburn)
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye, that was the trouble—I wanted to kiss you...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via xahhx)
March 2013
42 posts
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“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise (via veinsofnostalgia)
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“once
we were young
at this
machine…”
– “Luck”
Charles Bukowski died on this day 19 years ago. Have a whiskey and a beer in his honor today.
(via notnadia) 