January 2011
December 2010
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newsflash: happiness is attainable →
When people start out on adult life, they are, on average, pretty cheerful. Things go downhill from youth to middle age until they reach a nadir commonly known as the mid-life crisis. So far, so familiar. The surprising part happens after that. Although as people move towards old age they lose things they treasure—vitality, mental sharpness and looks—they also gain what people spend their lives...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-19) →
Sufjan Stevens (63)
Gorillaz (31)
The Dodos (19)
Local Natives (7)
Pinback (6)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
chrithmuth morning, rolled out of bed at 11 to uzzbuzzbuzzb xmas texts, hella bailey’s in my coffee, no presents, just luv, hitting the beach soon with the fambly!
How to Live in New York City →
Encounter a lot of people crying in public. Watch an NYU student cry in Think Coffee, a business woman in midtown sob into her cellphone, an old man whimper on a stoop in Greenpoint. At first, it will feel very jarring but, like everything else, it will become normal. Have your first public cry in front of a Bank of America. Cry so hard and don’t care if people are watching you. You pay good...
Procrastination, Netflix, and Psychology (via You... →
psychotherapy:
Netflix reveals something about your own behavior you should have noticed by now, something which keeps getting between you and the things you want to accomplish.
If you have Netflix, especially if you stream it to your TV, you tend to gradually accumulate a cache of hundreds of films you think you’ll watch one day. This is a bigger deal than you think.
Take a look at your...
Watchvertebrates
Click to make circles…then listen!
Space Bar clears the screen
Playing the circle is the new playing the triangle.
“Your own nature will triumph. We are all born with our natures…And I think back...”
– Douglas Coupland (via suzywire)
if words were people, these would be total babes
canthus (n): either of the angles formed by the meeting of the eye’s upper and lower eyelids
callipgyian (adj): having shapely buttocks
crapulous (adj): “shitfaced”
glabella (n): the smooth prominence between the eyebrows
houghmandy (n): fornication (meaning literally “lively or cheerful ankles”)
leporine (adj): of or relating to hares
vagitus (n): the cry of a...
