It was the best of times it was the worst of times

Ask me anything   I will constitute the field.

"I once went to report on a village in Russia, a community of artists who were forced to flee the cities! I heard that paintings hung everywhere! I heard you couldn’t see the walls through all of the paintings! They’d painted the ceilings, the plates, the windows, the lampshades! Was it an act of rebellion! An act of expression! Were the paintings good, or was that beside the point! I needed to see it for myself, and I needed to tell the world about it! I used to live for reporting like that! Stalin found out about the community and sent his thugs in, just a few days before I got there, to break all of their arms! That was worse than killing them! It was a horrible sight, Oskar: their arms in crude splints, straight in front of them like zombies! They couldn’t feed themselves, because they couldn’t get their hands to their mouths! So you know what they did? They fed each other! That’s the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven, we feed each other!"
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer
— 2 months ago with 1 note
life:

Was Elvis Presley worried as he waited backstage before a 1956 concert in Jacksonville, Fla.? During a performance the summer before, frenzied fans in the Florida city had torn his clothes off, and many in Jacksonville railed at his return. City officials were ready with a warrant to arrest the hip-swiveling singer for impairing the morals of minors. At local churches, preachers denounced him in sermons and congregants prayed for his salvation. But the 21-year-old King toned down his act, and the show went off without incident.
See what they were really like beneath the gloss: LIFE Behind the Scenes of Showbiz

life:

Was Elvis Presley worried as he waited backstage before a 1956 concert in Jacksonville, Fla.? 

During a performance the summer before, frenzied fans in the Florida city had torn his clothes off, and many in Jacksonville railed at his return. City officials were ready with a warrant to arrest the hip-swiveling singer for impairing the morals of minors. At local churches, preachers denounced him in sermons and congregants prayed for his salvation. 

But the 21-year-old King toned down his act, and the show went off without incident.

See what they were really like beneath the gloss: LIFE Behind the Scenes of Showbiz

— 5 months ago with 1138 notes
#elvis presley 

I decided to go out with my brothers last night and of course the one friend I reconnect with at the bar ends up making out with both of them by the end of the night. I mean, what a cliche amirite?! 

— 5 months ago with 2 notes
#ew gross  #weird 
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Merry Christmas Baby (Please Dont Die) - Crocodiles and Dum Dum Girls 

(Source: afterthegramophone)

— 5 months ago with 3 notes
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Trigger Warning: Insults, misogyny, harassment!

Some fat slag on news.com.au has already branded it a disaster. You can tell by reading the article that she just hates us and has always hated us,” he said.

What a fat bitter thing you are. You’re deputy editor of an online thing. Youve got a nothing job anyway. You’re a piece of shit. This low thing, Alison Stephenson, deputy editor of news.com.au online. You’re supposed to be impartial, you little troll.

You’re a bullshit artist, girl. You should be fired from your job. Your hair’s very ’90s. And your blouse. You haven’t got that much titty to be having that low cut a blouse. Watch your mouth or I’ll hunt you down.

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Kyle faces backlash over on air attack on journalist

This nauseating diatribe was by an Australian (as much as I loathe to claim him for my own nation) radio broadcaster. He was angry about a bad review given by a journalist of his (absolutely downright awful) new television show, but if you’ll notice very few of the comments are about her actual reporting.

Please help us Australian women, and indeed women everywhere, by reblogging this post, and going to the 2Day FM comments page, scroll down and then click on the link to make a complaint. Thank you!

(via fuckyeahfeminists)

— 6 months ago with 92 notes
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Blood-The Middle East

I just watched Crazy Stupid Love and the film managed to be good. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a film that is actually uplifting and honest. It didn’t have the typical cliche themes romantic comedies usually have, and no cheesy characters either. Check plus.

(via iheartmashedpotatos-deactivated)

— 6 months ago with 404 notes
#blood  #the middle east  #crazy stupid love 
"College debt shows up a lot in these stories, actually. It’s more insistently present than housing debt, or even unemployment. That might speak to the fact that the protests tilt towards the young. But it also speaks, I think, to the fact that college debt represents a special sort of betrayal. We told you that the way to get ahead in America was to get educated. You did it. And now you find yourself in the same place, but buried under debt. You were lied to."
Who are the 99 percent?,” Ezra Klein, The Washington Post (via hold-a-wolfs-ears)

(via pocketdonut)

— 7 months ago with 3796 notes
#college  #debt  #education 

kristincupoftea:

She’s a simple girl
and she’s got simple emotions.
She wont ever let you in, 
but she wants to keep you in her corner.

I’m always looking for some kind of sadness,
something more than this. 

She’s a simple girl
and she’s got simple feelings.
No one ever let her know that she could get it out her heart, now. 

— 8 months ago with 2 notes
#Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.  #Simple Girl  #Lyrics  #Video  #Love