Here is a picture of Simone de Beauvoir fixing her hair after a bath during her trip to Chicago. Poor Sartre.
As an aside, I got a gold fish. My gf is named Sartre. I don’t have a picture.
"simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance"
Gabrielle Bonheur “Coco“ Chanel (via othershitetc)
funny man
i find myself exceedingly funny. just as i wrote exceedingly, i said exceedingly in my head. but, i said it with a smugness reminiscent of john cleese. and, as i type to people on chat i say things that are curt and smug with the intention of them reading the obvious tonal inflection - vital to comedy and letting people know that you are not serious - that is resounding in my head. the thing is, i don’t think this works.
"In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when
there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
Saint Exupery (via othershitetc)
Now That's What I Call New Pop!
New pop, the UK post-post-punk movement, is too porous to be rigidly defined. It contains everything from ABC’s Arcadian soul-disco, to Orange Juice’s Byrds/Buzzcocks jangle, to the Human League’s supersonic Abba update. Much of it could also be called post-punk…
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 – September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in 1947 during the committee’s investigation of Communist influences in the motion picture industry.
via wikipedia
“De Palma has sprung to the place that Robert Altman achieved with films such as McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Nashville and that Francis Ford Coppola reached with the two Godfather films—that is, to the place where genre is transcended and what we’re moved by is an artist’s vision…. It’s a great movie.”
(via othershitetc)
gymnast
- Alex: hey did casy make it to work this morning...he flipped off the porch last night and i wanted to make sure he was alright
- Michael: like fell? or gave everyone the finger
- Alex: hah...like fell...like did a complete backwards somersault of the porch
- Michael: no shit
- Alex: yes...like entirely...360 backwards...off the porch
(via othershitetc)
the list
1st off fuck what everyone else is doing
2nd off beat everyone at what they do
3rd off get a shit ton of press
4th off make a fuck ton of connections in nyc
5th off always be on the hunt, always be hungry
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31)
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