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New Boy, Irish short film based on the Roddy Doyle story

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:20:00 -0500

New Boy, Irish short film based on the Roddy Doyle story

from "The Daily Show", 12/16/09

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:33:31 -0500

Jon: If we do beat you [at the World Cup], it really does, in some respects, put the final nail in the Empire. Your move.
Hugh Grant: I agree with that, I mean you know the Empire is gone, and it's very sad, it's very sad for a lot of the world, now having to govern themselves I believe.
Jon: Well I believe we're helping to take care of that, so...

"He’s… from Connecticut, a state where people don’t even allow their genitals to..."

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:11:00 -0500

“He’s… from Connecticut, a state where people don’t even allow their genitals to touch when they dance.”

- Jon Stewart on Joe Lieberman, 12/16/09

"We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:14:50 -0500

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

- Albert Einstein (via mnmal) (via proofmathisbeautiful) (via fuckyeahtheorists)

"[D]esire is neither the appetite for satisfaction nor the demand for love, but the difference that..."

Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:21:00 -0500

“[D]esire is neither the appetite for satisfaction nor the demand for love, but the difference that results from the subtraction of the first from the second…. [D]esire begins to take shape in the margin in which demand becomes separated from need.”

- Jacques Lacan

Also: “[D]esire’s raison d’être is not to realize its goal, to find full satisfaction, but to reproduce itself as desire.” —Slavoj Žižek

"[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the..."

Sat, 12 Dec 2009 21:45:52 -0500

““[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.””

- Ben Elton, The First Casualty

"No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand at all,..."

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:41:22 -0500

“

No one gets angry at a mathematician or a physicist whom he or she doesn’t understand at all, or at someone who speaks a foreign language, but rather at someone who tampers with your own language, with this “relation” precisely, which is yours….

I assure you that I never give in to the temptation to be difficult just for the sake of being difficult. That would be too ridiculous. it’s just that I believe in the necessity of taking time or, if you prefer, of letting time, of not erasing the folds….

In truth—here is another complication—I believe that it is always a “writer” who is accused of being “unreadable,” as you put it, that is, someone who is engaged in an explanation with language, the economy of language, the codes and the channels of what is the most receivable. The accused is thus someone who re-establishes contact between the corpora and the ceremonies of several dialects. If he or she is a philosopher, then it’s because he or she speaks neither in a purely academic milieu, with the language, rhetoric, and customs that are in force there, nor in that “language of everyone” which we all know does not exist.

”

- Presidential Lectures: Jacques Derrida: Interviews

mmmmHOTHOTHOTHOTHOT Northern Exposure - Joel and Maggie - Spring...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:43:00 -0500

mmmmHOTHOTHOTHOTHOT

Northern Exposure - Joel and Maggie - Spring Break (via crunchyfrog63)

"Only 24 more shopping days to accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior."

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:31:21 -0500

“Only 24 more shopping days to accept Jesus Christ as your lord and savior.”

- Stephen Colbert, 12/1/09

Bodie, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 09:34:00 -0500

Bodie, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cevin Soling | November 30, 2009 | ColbertNation.com - Cevin...

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:52:24 -0500

Cevin Soling | November 30, 2009 | ColbertNation.com - Cevin Soling says public schools have been transformed into prisons because of an overdependence on security. - Interesting stuff on how schools were created and how they were eventually modeled on factories in the Industrial age.

"One of the hardest things for me in dealing with my mental health condition is my very strong theory..."

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:42:04 -0500

“One of the hardest things for me in dealing with my mental health condition is my very strong theory that everyone else is having exactly the same problems that I am, but they’re just 8 million times better at dealing with them, and hiding them from everyone else. And thus, I don’t talk about my mental health, much, because everyone else is obviously coping with the same thing, and I’m just a big whiner who can’t cope and fails at everything and is useless and should just run away and everyone will be better…”

- FWD/Forward » I don’t have a “real” mental health condition, I’m just weak, and other bad self-talk (via notemily) (via therandomnessofyes)

"[W]e merge our myths with our facts according to our feelings, we tell ourselves our own story. And..."

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:38:55 -0500

“[W]e merge our myths with our facts according to our feelings, we tell ourselves our own story. And no matter what we are told, we choose what we believe. All ‘truths’ are only our truths, because we bring to the ‘facts’ our feelings, our experiences, our wishes. Thus, storytelling—from wherever it comes—forms a layer in the foundation of the world; and glinting in it we see the trace elements of every tribe on earth.”

- Frank Delaney

from "American Gothic" (the TV show)

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:42:18 -0500

Ben: It says here that civet cat season is 12 hours long.
Lucas: That's right.
Ben: What the hell is a civet cat?
Lucas: They kill them for the perfume.
Ben: Who does?
Lucas: Whoever comes in and applies for a license.
Ben: Not one single civet cat hunter has ever asked me for a license.
Lucas: I believe they're extinct, that's why.
Ben: Then do I need to keep the forms?

This morning, I found a pearl in an oyster.Odds: 1 in 12,000.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:50:00 -0500

This morning, I found a pearl in an oyster.
Odds: 1 in 12,000.

"Oedipa sat on the earth, ass getting cold, wondering whether, as Driblette had suggested that night..."

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:14:00 -0500

“Oedipa sat on the earth, ass getting cold, wondering whether, as Driblette had suggested that night from the shower, some version of herself hadn’t vanished with him. Perhaps her mind would go on flexing psychic muscles that no longer existed; would be betrayed and mocked by a phantom self as the amputee is by a phantom limb. Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.”

- Thomas Pynchon, The Crying Of Lot 49

"There’s an awful lot of extremists and fundamentalists, and you would agree, that’s..."

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:40:00 -0500

“There’s an awful lot of extremists and fundamentalists, and you would agree, that’s really what’s gone wrong with the planet right now. It’s the fundamentalists-whether they’re right, left, or center, whatever they are—if they’re fundamentalists, they’re dangerous.”

- Jane Goodall on “The Daily Show”, 11/12

Diamanda Galas

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:28:00 -0500

Diamanda Galas

Zachary Richard - official site

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:22:00 -0500

Zachary Richard - official site

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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:13:00 -0500