Read More Books.
Something E.B. White Said
“In real life, a spider doesn’t spin words in her web. In real life, a swan doesn’t blow a trumpet. But real life is only one kind of life—there is also the life of the imagination.”
149OH NO
The last six times Kentucky won the NCAA men’s basketball title, the Yankees went on to win that year’s World Series.
(via @MLB)
This gal knows what’s up: The Film Is Fucked Up (And Why Everyone Should See It): A Review of The Hunger Games
There are few instances in which I would say that a film is better than the book it adapts; The Hunger Games is one of them. While it’s true that many of the nuances of the novel are lost in translation, a visual medium gets to the heart of the Collin’s story in a way that books cannot. With books, the story is in your control. You may read too fast, skipping over parts, filling in details with your imagination. You may read too slowly, missing a larger narrative arc or theme. Your own experiences may alter the tale to give it a more personally pertinent bent. (Are The Hunger Games about a violent dystopia, a teen love triangle, a dysfunctional family? All of the above— but, depending on your past, more than likely one in particular over the others.) Film, on the other hand, traps you in someone else’s thoughts. This is especially true when you’re in a theater. You cannot move. You cannot speak. You cannot turn on the lights. And short of closing your eyes, you cannot stop watching and you certainly cannot stop listening. It is the limitations of film, the weight of someone else’s decisions forcing themselves on you, that give a story like this its power.
my newest conjecture on men
regardless of the quality of said men or quality of interactions with said men, the outcome is all the same for me - wanting cupcakes.
it’s either the age old emotional eating (or dying avoiding it, as was the story of my day) or the newest form of emotional eating - celebratory eating.
either way, i’m pretty sure i lose.
Interpretive Readings of Pop Songs
watch this, really. the best of its kind I’ve seen. skip to a minute in or so.
John Tyler’s Grandsons Are Still Alive!
Born in 1790, John Tyler was our 10th President. He took office in 1841 after William Henry Harrison died. And he has two living grandchildren!
Not great-great-great-grandchildren. Their dad was Tyler’s son.
How is this possible? The Tyler men have a habit of having kids very late in life. Lyon Gardiner Tyler, one President Tyler’s 15 kids, was born in 1853. He fathered Lyon Gardiner Tyler Jr. in 1924, and Harrison Ruffin Tyler in 1928.
[Source: Genealogy of John Tyler]
dance party in the 16-1. stress out.
four months from thursday,
I have exactly four months to accomplish everything I expected to accomplish in college. nearly blinding, but vibrating with excitement (or stress).
