March 2009
The Art of Sanity
Don’t Change Your Plans by Ben Folds Five
mamihlapinatapai
planes:
wordjournal:
noun • a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.
The word is from the Yaghan language, and its morphological structure is as follows: mam- (reflexive/passive morph.) + -ihlapi- ‘to be at a loss as to what to do next’ + -n- (stative aspect affix) + -ata- (achievement affix) +...
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances;...”
– Carl Jung (via shoulderdays) (via iwalkedandithought) (via redballoon) (via breathsoftruth)
From the band that brings you Malu Malu Monster →
rocknrollempire:
thinair:
rocknrollempire:
thinair:
Oh Gosh. Sarah Natasha Raziff. I have no idea what you are doing to me anymore. It even took me some time to realise it was in bahasa.
Malu Malu Monster & Cheeseburger are friggin cool names. And I wonder if I’ve ever seen them with coffee at fullerton. HAHAHA it’s so cute I’m hyperventilating.
..wat teh shit? HAHAH
Wait Ning, why...
From the band that brings you Malu Malu Monster →
rocknrollempire:
thinair:
Oh Gosh. Sarah Natasha Raziff. I have no idea what you are doing to me anymore. It even took me some time to realise it was in bahasa.
Malu Malu Monster & Cheeseburger are friggin cool names. And I wonder if I’ve ever seen them with coffee at fullerton. HAHAHA it’s so cute I’m hyperventilating.
..wat teh shit? HAHAH
Wait Ning, why are you hyperventilating...
From the band that brings you Malu Malu Monster →
Oh Gosh. Sarah Natasha Raziff. I have no idea what you are doing to me anymore. It even took me some time to realise it was in bahasa.
Malu Malu Monster & Cheeseburger are friggin cool names. And I wonder if I’ve ever seen them with coffee at fullerton. HAHAHA it’s so cute I’m hyperventilating.
The fewer the words, the more exhilarating - Let's...
FLML →
“To cut off your hair after a breakup is a feminine reaction. It was a way to...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
New Math by Craig Damrauer →
Besides Edith,
other names I’d name my daughters:
Siobhan
Bridget
Delia
Eleanor
Dear future sons, your time will come. Mom’s just not so much a guy-name person.
I am currently marking...
How to Develop Film Using Coffee and Vitamin C!... →
(via planes)
Egggziting.
Number 1 thing I’d do given the equipment. And the last time I used a dark room on my own was 6 years ago D:
“Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to restrain.”
– William Blake (via fsbnotkgb)
Art Of The Title →
Blog dedicated to film title sequences. Treasure chest, I’d call it.
Now it made me want to watch Lolita. I don’t remember who has my book D:
#1: The Aristotle illusion →
psychotherapy:
One of the oldest tactile illusions is the Aristotle illusion. It is easy to perform. Cross your fingers, then touch a small spherical object such as a dried pea, and it feels like you are touching two peas. This also works if you touch your nose.
This one is my new favorite…I’d never even heard of it until today, let alone tried it myself, but now I can’t stop doing it over...
“Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because...”
– Andy Warhol (via quote-book) (via breathsoftruth)
Scarily, this thought had crossed my mind - and I didn’t think anyone would think like that. It carries such huge impact. (Though Andy Warhol is way overrated)
Wonderwall - Oasis
Heard this while in Bangkok,...
Art Imitates Life →
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
Drug discovered to erase bad memories →
What the hell.
My anger right now is in a shade of black, hollow...
I muse, sometimes.
It feels strange, to have yourself become such close friends with people who fall in love (madly, deeply in love) with guys who have the same personality as you do. Who thinks the same way, who behaves the same way.
They look to you for answers sometimes, and you are scarily right all the time.
You say the same things as the guy says, echoing them as if haunting her, unintentionally. You...
Brighter Discontent - The Submarines
But love is...
Bird-brained
Reading about neuroscience and all suddenly brought up a memory of the teacher who played a huge role in me falling in love with literature.
Ms Shanthi was the most hilarious teacher ever, easily passing off as a stand-up comedian. Besides her overused descriptive prose of stool and urine samples, another thing she likes is bringing up the debate motion - the English language’s injustice...
“One of the most interesting and counterintuitive things I learned in my training...”
– Daniel Levitin, via Discover Magazine 