Sometimes, when the light strikes at odd angles
and pulls you back into childhood
and you are passing a crumbling mansion
completely hidden behind old willows
or an empty convent guarded by hemlocks
and giant firs standing hip to hip,
you know again that behind that wall,
under the uncut hair of the willows
something secret is going on,
so marvelous and dangerous
that if you crawled through and saw,
you would die, or be happy forever.— Sometimes, When the Light, by Lisel Mueller
Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.
Anneli Rufus (via alfsaga)
(via journalofanobody)
[This I have done with my life, and am content.]
I wish I could tell you how it is in that dark,
standing in the huge singing and the alien world.
Jack Gilbert, from “Don Giovanni on His Way to Hell (II)” (via the-final-sentence)
She likes to shoot big guns.
On the other hand, Rihanna is actually quite fun as a weapons officer who just really enjoys shooting things. That’s her whole character: She likes to shoot big guns. And with that one characteristic, she feels more real and alive than the other characters, whom we get endless development of. Maybe because this is a movie about shooting things, so Rihanna’s desires and the audience’s are perfectly aligned. In any case, if they make the sequel, it should star Rihanna and the main character conflict should be over her wanting to shoot things, and other people perhaps not wanting her to shoot them.
http://io9.com/5911030/battleship-proves-alien-invasion-movies-are-just-as-contrived-as-romantic-comedies
…where can I buy tickets for this movie?
1 week ago on May 19, 2012 at 03:16am
Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup
They slither wildly as they slip away across the universe
Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my open mind
Possessing and caressing me
(via bookalicious)
Arrival by R.S. Thomas
Not conscious
that you have been seeking
suddenly
you come upon it
the village in the Welsh hills
dust free
with no road out
but the one you came in by.
A bird chimes
from a green tree
the hour that is no hour
you know. The river dawdles
to hold a mirror for you
where you may see yourself
as you are, a traveller
with the moon’s halo
above him, who has arrived
after long journeying where he
began, catching this
one truth by surprise
that there is everything to look forward to.
From Later Poems, 1983
Trafalgar Square
London, 1953
From Wolf Suschitzky: Photos
(via milk-and-belladonna)
Just In Time
As I go about my day I am
Reminded
How much I like living
Tunnels end
Fog dissipates and
I come to the surface
Once again
Flowers
Fragrances and the
Greening of trees has been
Strong medicine
Today my friend is the
Sun
Tonight the moon and
Stars
I will look and open my
Heart letting the
Orbital
Arrangement keep
Me wound and ticking and
Keeping TimeMichelle Dent
This is me.: The downside of a modern adaption ›
So while I do really like the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, it’s also frustrating because I realize how things are going to go. The same way they always go in the story. It’s sad, but I want Lizzie to do other things with her life and not end up with Darcy because this IS now and she doesn’t have to…
Yeah, I wrote Hey Jude. Deal with it.
