January 2012
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Last time I bash yet surprisingly bring film...
Finding out what you truly want to do in life after receiving your degree in a completely unrelated field (although I could make the case that the two are wholly related, but then again can’t you do that with a lot of things in life?) is an admittedly scary and daunting task. But if I truly want it, I believe I can pursue it. Yeah, it may be late in the game but if I feel so strongly about...
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I need to take some meditation classes or something. This is too unhealthy.
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Biologist Michael Soule on the Seven Deadly Sins →
Some of the intriguing bits of this interview:
LWON: We’re all really good at justifying our sins, right?
Soule: Yes. And that gets back to your other question about modern sins, whether there are any sins that are left out of the old typology. I think there are a lot of them, but my favorite is denial, which in a way is a form of mental sloth.
Denial is really an example of an immature mind....
The Joy of Quiet →
By PICO IYER
NY Times Published: December 29, 2011
ABOUT a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most...
December 2011
47 posts
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the...”
– Ian McEwan (via misswallflower)
Damn, well if you put it that way…
“You can’t have ‘wisdom’ without emphasizing ‘dumb’”
– Wise words gathered from my misspent youth
…and my excuse to continuously do dumb shit.
Self-restraint and self-control is one of the most difficult things for me to accomplish. I’m ruled by impulse and the idea that if I don’t do it now then it won’t ever get done. But that’s not always true. Sometimes wanting to know so badly and being so curious can be a detriment. But I won’t let myself go and falsely reason with myself to be the “bigger...
Changes in 2012
I looked (more like pored) over at job listings in new areas, realized the potential for me to land a job there, contemplated the possibilities, started thinking to myself this is all part of “character building” and I’ll be a better person for it, and all the while wondered what’s in store for the next chapter in my life. 2011 was quite a fucking trip in itself.
But you...
WatchCH Video - Lou Nasti
This guy’s name screams ‘pornstar’ or ‘really great rapper/MC name’ but he chose a different path.
“There’s nothing wrong with being happy. There’s nothing wrong with enjoying...”
– Todd VanDerWerff (via cleversimon)
“A man who tells secrets or stories must think of who is hearing or reading, for...”
– John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent (via bookoasis)
The mind is a tricky and selective thing.
