“Sometimes I imagine my own autopsy. Disappointment in myself: right kidney. Disappointment of others in me: left kidney. Personal failures: kishkes… When the clocks are turned back and the dark falls before I’m ready, this, for reasons I can’t explain, I feel it in my wrists. And when I wake up and my fingers are stiff, almost certainly I was dreaming of my childhood… Yesterday I saw a man kicking a dog and I felt it behind my eyes. I don’t know what to call this, a place before tears. The pain of forgetting: spine. The pain of remembering: spine. All the times I have suddenly realized that my parents are dead, even know, it surprises me, to exist in the world while that which made me has ceased to exist: my knees. To everything a season, to every time I’ve woken only to make the mistake of believing for a moment that someone was sleeping beside me: a hemorrhoid. Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.” — The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
Season 2 of Project Runway is my favorite for so many reasons (including Santino).
WHAT HAPPENED TO ANDRE?
BITCHES GET STUFF DONE.
I can’t even handle this level of hilarity. I would say it’s awesome, but we all know it’s beyond that. It’s armoirsome.
Because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. We don’t have to be like, ‘Oh yeah that purse is okay’ or like, ‘Yeah, I like that band’s early stuff.’ Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself-love it. Hank, when people call people nerds, mostly what they are saying is, ‘You like stuff’, which is just not a good insult at all, like ‘You are too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness’.
Every time I read this or watch this video, I can’t help but smile. If being too enthusiastic about the miracle of human consciousness makes me nerdy, then nerdy I am and shall forever be ‘til…well, forever. DFTBA!
Rivers and Roads by The Head and the Heart
I’ve been listening to this entire record densely for the past few months or so and this performance is just beautiful. The idea that they can stroll into a tunnel and make sounds like this so naturally blows my mind. To put it simply: “if you don’t know what to make of this then we will not relate.”
She catches the bad guys, bakes snickerdoodles, hops into moving cars and can belt out a mean karaoke session.
And who am I? Oh just your friendly neighborhood professional procrastinator enamored with reading, moviegoing, quoting, laughing and the occasional awkward run-in...whoops. What I meant to say is, "that's one secret I'll never tell". XOXO.
