May 2013
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND : contra costa | contra mundum:... →
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via Digital Spy
Rostam Batmanglij, who co-produced Vampire Weekend’s new album Modern Vampires of the City alongside Ariel Rechtshaid, also teased to DS that the band have plans to turn ‘Step’ into a collaborative project with other artists. Batmanglij added: “We have plans to do…
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postmodernism:
pretty sure i could eat some sort of variation on chicken with rice forever and never get tired of it
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lizlemonism:
the office finale
bill and sethly leaving snl
mulaney not getting picked up
the fact that 30 rock isn’t on the air anymore
i just
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“Poor men. You hear them at the office, in restaurants, in bars, their brains...”
– Paul Feig: Why Men Aren’t Funny (Guest Column) - The Hollywood Reporter (via fritfilter)
“This is a truly magnificent record, and I think it’s going to end up being the...”
– via absolutepunk.net (via teamvampireweekend)
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winebitch:
amy
your kid isn’t even in the shot anymore
why are you still playing with the sand
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“Modern Vampires is not a musical comedy of manners. It’s an expertly executed...”
– via Stereogum (via teamvampireweekend)
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postmodernism:
Always keep 5 dollars in your wallet when you live in LA because you never know when you’ll need to buy a burrito/tacos from a taco truck.
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Alan Partridge Dancing To 'Get Lucky'. You're... →
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April 2013
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VAMPIRE WEEKEND : contra costa | contra mundum:... →
teamvampireweekend:
Morning’s come; you watch the red sun rise,
The LED still flickers in your eyes,
Oh you oughta spare your face the razor,
Because no one’s gonna spare the time for you.
No one’s gonna watch you as you go,
From a house you didn’t build and can’t control,
Oh, you oughta spare your face…
Junot Diaz on Men Who Write About Women
The Atlantic: It sounds like you're saying that literary "talent" doesn't inoculate a writer—especially a male writer—from making gross, false misjudgments about gender. You'd think being a great writer would give you empathy and the ability to understand people who are unlike you—whether we're talking about gender or another category. But that doesn't seem to be the case.
Junot Diaz: I think that unless you are actively, consciously working against the gravitational pull of the culture, you will predictably, thematically, create these sort of fucked-up representations. Without fail. The only way not to do them is to admit to yourself [that] you're fucked up, admit to yourself that you're not good at this shit, and to be conscious in the way that you create these characters. It's so funny what people call inspiration. I have so many young writers who're like, "Well I was inspired. This was my story." And I'm like, "OK. Sir, your inspiration for your stories is like every other male's inspiration for their stories: that the female is only in there to provide sexual service." There comes a time when this mythical inspiration is exposed for doing exactly what it's truthfully doing: to underscore and reinforce cultural structures, or I'd say, cultural asymmetry.
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