Moo!
There are moments when no one else gets it. Here's hoping you do.
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"He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on. And he was angry at himself, that he could not change that for them."
- Lois Lowry, The Giver
1 month ago
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Holiday gift idea!
My aunt is a bowler and loves to bake. So naturally…*chuckles*
3 months ago
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"No, I didn’t win; but at least I didn’t make any new friendships."
- April, Parks and Recreation, “Beauty Pageant”
3 months ago
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"—The attempt to impose upon man, a creature of growth and capable of sweetness, to ooze juicily at the last round the bearded lips of God, to attempt to impose, I say, laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen—"
- Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (1962)
9 months ago
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In my low periods, I wondered what was the point of creating art. For whom? Are we animating God? Are we talking to ourselves? And what was the ultimate goal? To have one’s work caged in art’s great zoos—the Modern, the Met, the Louvre?
I craved honesty, yet found dishonesty in myself. Why commit to art? For self-realization, or for itself? It seemed indulgent to add to the glut unless one offered illumination.
Often I’d sit and try to write or draw, but all of the manic activity in the streets, coupled with the Vietnam War, made my efforts seem meaningless. I could not identify with political movements. In trying to join them I felt overwhelmed by yet another form of bureaucracy. I wondered if anything I did mattered.
"- Patti Smith, Just Kids (2010)
11 months ago
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Discovered this song at a makeshift karaoke bar inside of a bowling alley (I know, bowling AND karaoke!). The “MC” of the night chose to sing his own rendition of ^this song and blew everyone away with his Randy Newman vocals.
