August 2010
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Tired of Forms
I used to write in stanzas, trying to find a form for words using carefully constructed rhyme schemes. I don’t know when I stopped caring about formulas or form— the confines of a perfect pattern— when my thoughts started becoming giant blocks of text instead of something more (for lack of a better way to put this) aesthetically pleasing.
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Pride
The mirror never lied. It reflected every infraction, every flaw. The way her lips pouted a little. The tiny glimmer in her eye. Her volumous hair. The way her smile came across more as a smirk. She was to die for, but it was nothing new. As she stood there, she closed her eyes. She didn’t want to see herself. No, not today. Not again.
She was the spitting image of her father.
Was that something...
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Unraveled.
I am falling apart, dried up, and rolling along sidewalks like leaves in the wind. I forgot to tie up all loose ends, and now they’re caught in barren winter branches far and wide. I am stitched up, stitched up poorly. I am unraveled, unraveling.
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Possible "Golden Ratios" Discovered For Female... →
jtotheizzoe:
It’s not very romantic to to distill beauty down to the mathematics of facial ratios, but Toronto researchers have assigned certain ratios between eyes and mouth and distance between eyes as key determinants of what many people qualify as “beauty”.
However, this would certainly differ between cultures and backgrounds. I mean, in some places, this is beautiful, right?
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“The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply...”
– Unknown
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My privacy is just about the only thing I need back.
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If Music Be The Food Of Love, Play On →
Stop complaining that music is dead. If really think it is, there is a plethora of artists out there. Music is endless. Get off your ass and look. Stop complaining or go find them. Oh, you are pretentious and keep saying that you know it, so why don’t you actually contribute something to music and make some good music. Oh, wait, what’s that? You’re lazy just like the people you make fun of in...
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Monotoneee
It’s hard for me to talk to people that don’t have much to say or have such generic, monotone conversation. If I ask you what you’re doing and all you say is nothing. That response gets it’s exact meaning, nothing.
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“In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a...”
– Don Draper
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Ever wonder why you have a certain eye color?
fuckyeahdevelopmentalbiology:
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Technically, blue is your default eye color. But increased volume of melanocytes create pigment cause your iris to be a darker color.
In fact, 10,000 years ago no one had blue eyes. It wasn’t until a mutation occurred in a population near the Black Sea that the mechanism stimulating melanocytes was turned off.
So if you’re blue eyed like me, smile...
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On Life's Frustrations
Lying is interesting. The whole concept. We say we hate liars, but we lie all of the time. We lie to make life easier, but when the truth arises more problems are formed. What greatness…
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Happiness and Sadness Spread Just Like Disease →
fuckyeahchemistry:
Wired:
There may be a literal truth underlying the common-sense intuition that happiness and sadness are contagious.
A new study on the spread of emotions through social networks shows that these feelings circulate in patterns analogous to what’s seen from epidemiological models of disease.
Earlier studies raised the possibility, but had not mapped social networks against...
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Things I'll Tell My Children (Pt. 1)
You will come across music that not many people are into. Like what you like. Take the time to understand what you hear. Music makes the world go round. Listen to everything in the song. The beat, the melody, the harmony, the voice, the lyrics, the meaning. Take it all in. Lyrics may make you emotional. But that just means that you can relate. And being able to know that there is someone out...
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“That same night, I wrote my first short story. It took me thirty minutes. It was...”
– Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner
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SciAm: How Can You Control Your Dreams? →
fuckyeahchemistry:
Scientific American:
The ability to manipulate our dream worlds goes beyond the science fiction plot of the movie Inception. A dream expert from Harvard University explains how it works.
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Concept Albums
Concept albums are starting to become more of a sales tactic than anything. Months before an album’s supposed to drop, you hear about some concept that’s supposed to be out of this world, when it’s actually recycled or just more odd than creative. Then the album comes out and it’s this half-assed album with half of the songs being somewhat conceptual and the others having nothing to do with...
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Ploys
Everyone is a little hypocritical. People change their minds or find themselves in situations that widen or alter their perspective. One minute you are saying you’ll never wear jeans and the next minute you find yourself madly in love with Forever 21 skinny jeans. I think it’s normal, I think it’s healthy. Innocent hypocrisy.
However, I do have an issue with someone that preaches all the time...
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Song
Music is not an accessory or a title I hang upon my chest- it’s something and everything and it’s inside of the palms of my hands and the pit of my stomach and behind my eyes as well. Find a song and time your heartbeat by it. Lay your hands on a speaker and let your fingertips read the Braille of vibrations. Find a song- not just any song, but one you want to laugh to, cry to, live by, love by....
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The Sixth Day
Me: I don't like it here.
You: Why? Where would you rather be?
Me: With you. Isn't that obvious?
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Non-Comparable
I love how we came alive with every action, every embarrassing tale, every joke.
Nothing compares to that.
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“Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier...”
– “The Iliad”
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