I want this enlarged, framed, and mounted above my fireplace.
I got straight bangs today and the first thing I thought when I looked in the mirror was, “I am Matilda.”
But I really like the things former child actress Mara Wilson writes on the Internet these days, so maybe that’s OK.
(Source: sleepingthroughsirens, via chromathegreat)
May’s Artist in Residence at MPLS.TV is David Paul Seymour, a self-described “proud low-brow” creator whose work is influenced by street art, skateboarding culture, cartoons, and other pop culture. Read the interview to learn more about his background, his methods, and why he’s in Minneapolis to stay.
“…I immediately fell in love with how clean, energetic, smart and creative Minneapolis was. I’ll literally never leave now. You’re stuck with me. I also love that despite it’s a metropolis and all, it’s also a really small town. I’m starting to see how I’m running into the ‘so-and-so told me about you,’ or the ‘I’ve already heard of you. Yeah.’”
I quite enjoyed putting together and reading this month’s Artist in Residence interview for MPLS.TV—check it out.
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Miss Congeniality (via imdbtrivia)
Every once in a while I look at the list of tumblrz I’ve created and find one that I completely forgot existed (usually related to the twin towers or Mark McGrath?) because I was probably drunk when I thought it was a good idea. I’m pretty sure this one happened while high at someone’s apartment, reading up on Last Comic Standing winners, and annoyingly reciting trivia out loud to the room. Although I’m not exactly sure how that led me to Miss Congeniality.
(via synecdoche)
Hey, I had the idea to create an IMDb trivia Tumblr once, too! The post I was going to start with was from the X-Men: First Class trivia: “This is the second time that January Jones has been cast in 1962 opposite an actor with a pork based name.”
(via synecdoche)
Whenever Girls comes up, I try to make an assertion based on the one episode I’ve seen and the others I’ve read about, and I always end up doing so incoherently. Here’s what I’m trying to articulate.
Girls reminds me how terrible people can be to each other, and how terrible I can be to others. And that both interests me and makes me want to flee in the other direction. I felt the same way about Adrienne Eisen’s Making Scenes, last month’s pick by Emily Books. There’s an icy flatness to the way Eisen’s narrator describes her cheating and lying and self-destruction that made me almost physically uncomfortable. I was so uneasy while reading the book that I didn’t want to continue. Both Eisen and Girls writer/director Lena Dunham make the decision to lay out their characters’ selfish, petty, narcissistic decisions and motivations without turning it into a morality play, and I think that’s a worthy choice. The violent, unfaithful, and/or iconoclastic male anti-hero has become a staple of contemporary movies and TV shows: Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White. But there’s something both fascinating and repulsive about exposing the manipulative and cruel acts young urban bourgeois people, specifically women, commit against one another. That’s valid, and I’m glad a show that does that exists. But I don’t enjoy consuming it.
The guy I’m seeing has said that he doesn’t like media that hews too close to his own experience—it just feels like a continuation of his daily life, it’s not enough of an escape. I was skeptical when he first said that, but I can see his point. I haven’t been seeing him for very long, and I don’t know if it will work out, because most things don’t. But I want it to work out. I want to believe that it can work out. I don’t want to watch a TV show about people my age hurting each other and be reminded of all the ways I’ve been hurt and have hurt people and all the ways I can still yet hurt and be hurt. Maybe shying away from Girls makes me willfully ignorant, but—just let me pretend for a little longer that people in relationships can be kind.
Good lord, a mixed-race person who is president of the United States just endorsed gay marriage several years after passing health care reform. Do you know how many of those things were inconceivable 5 years ago? You can be happy about this without having to be happy about everything else the man…
My favorite story. -Lauren R.“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”
Maurice Sendak, rest in peace.
Best.
Tim and Keith and I drank too many Tecates a couple weeks ago and decided that these are the best state mottos, in no particular order:
- Arkansas, “The people rule”
- West Virginia, “Mountaineers are always free”
- New Hampshire, “Live free or die”
- North Dakota, “One sows for the benefit of another age”
- New Mexico, “It grows as it goes”
- North Carolina, “To be, rather than to seem”
NEVER FORGET.
Kent State University, May 4, 1970
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
Most of the historical events that really resonate with me are from the ’70s, for whatever reason, and few hit me in the gut like Kent State. I can never wrap my head around how fucking terrifying it must have been to be 20 years old and have your fellow students gunned down by your own country’s National Guard. Shit, man.
(via utnereader)
In last month’s All This Is Ours (read it if you haven’t yet!), Sarah Brumble and Ben LaFond visited Northeast weapons maker Arms & Armor—and Sarah got to try on some of the goods.
All photos by Ben LaFond.
I can’t get over how great these photos are, not to mention the story that goes with them.
Minneapolis resident. Writer/editor. Lover of hip-hop, progressive politics, libraries, and dancing.
