February 2012
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My Dinner with Andre
Andre: I mean, we live in a world in which fathers or single people or artists are all trying to live up to someone's fantasy of how a father or a single person or an artist should look and behave. They all act as if they know exactly how they ought to conduct themselves at every single moment. And they all seem totally self-confident. Of course, privately, people are very mixed up about themselves. They don't know what they should be doing with their lives. They're reading all these self-help books.
Wally: Oh god, I mean, those books are just so touching because they show how desperately curious we all are to know how all the others are really getting on in life, even though by performing these roles all the time we are just hiding the reality of ourselves from everybody else. I mean, we live in such ludicrous ignorance of each other. I mean, we usually don't know the things we'd like to know about our supposedly closest friends. I mean, you know, suppose you're going through some kind of hell in your own life. Well, you would love to know if your friends have experienced similar things. But we just don't dare to ask each other.
Andre: No. It would be like asking your friend to drop his role.
Wally: I mean, we just put no value at all on perceiving reality. I mean, on the contrary, this incredible emphasis that we all place now on our so-called careers automatically makes perceiving reality a very low priority. Because if your life is organized around trying to be successful in a career, well, it just doesn't matter what you perceive or what you experience. You can really sort of shut your mind off for years ahead, in a way. You can sort of turn on the automatic pilot.
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JESSE EISENBERG: People on the street say mean things to me.
INTERVIEWER: Like what?
JESSE EISENBERG: I get called Napoleon Dynamite because I have curly hair. I live in New York City and I ride a bicycle. I always bike down 9th Avenue and there’s this kid who goes to school there named Abraham. Every time I pass him, he calls me Napoleon Dynamite. He screams it out and his friends laugh. That was a fine movie but I wasn’t in it.
INTERVIEWER: What do you say back?
JESSE EISENBERG: I say, “Please Abraham, I’m not that man.”
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do not type ‘gaping’ into the tumblr search…don’t.
this is not a suggestion, really. don’t do it. what do you expect to find?
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movies to watch:
never let me go, animal kingdom, the messenger, biutiful, take shelter, meek’s cutoff, fish tank, the exploding girl, monogamy, i am love, adam’s apples, valhalla rising, creation, the puffy chair, dear zachary, cave of forgotten dreams.
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i’m out of my mind, think you can wait?...
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“There is no death;
Lifelessness is only a disguise,
Behind which hide,
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– This poem, written on a small card, was handed to Jack Torrance by Delbert Grady at the end of the originally filmed version of the scene in the red bathroom. The moment was subsequently omitted, and does not appear in the finished film. The original printed cards (in multiple languages) can be...
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“Nobody’s really loved for themselves are they? I mean, all love is projection....”
– George Christopher (via roadmovies)
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famouseaglescouts asked: This page is in German. Would you like to translate it?
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you know you got me waiting in vain, how come...
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when i still thought there was time, i’d...