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James
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James
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- This is so intimate I would think about him every day for the rest of my life
- Baseball is the only sport with enough downtime to support the melancholic soul. As a kid, I would block the sun with my glove and imagine it as a meteor coming down. In my final moments, would I run to my father in the dugout? Or my mother in the stands? I let a lot of runs in
- Saying “fergalicious” when I mean “Kafkaesque”
- Ten thousand dissertations all called “the American novel since 1945” reduced to a single sentenceWhen I’m in the suburbs for too long I start to think about dying
- Park Chan-wook does shit like this a dozen times per film. One of the last guys who seems aware that movies are a visual medium and not just a narrative delivery systemJust found the greatest transition of all time in Stoker (2013) dir. Park Chan-wook
00:00 - To me, this tumblr post about The Front Bottoms is one of the century’s most important pieces of art criticism
- Thank god democrats secured the Dick Cheney endorsement during an election year marked by some of the largest anti-war demonstrations in history
- Honestly feel like the banana taped to the wall is art, but stuff like this isn’tFrameless exhibition London ‘The storm on the Sea of Galilee’
- We laughed at this, but now it’s just how everyone under 25 dressesIf I type a K into the search bar, it autofills "Kevin Smith Huge Jorts" because of how often I revisit this image:
- Before she was the Barefoot Contessa, Ina Garten wrote nuclear policy for two different presidential administrations (ford/carter) and just once I want an interviewer to abruptly pivot and ask questions about like, the long term environmental impacts of uranium mining
