February 2010
@ashes-to-ashes
first of all, new tumblr name, not used to it
second of all, i totes found a cd labeled “Romeo and Juliet Soundtrack” while cleaning/rearranging my room. I put it in, thinking Hey, this is totes from the movie. And it starts playing Josh Groban. I realized it was from the soundtrack we made in grade 10. I listened to it a million times over because it had Goodbye My Lover, and I miss that song.
thirdly, I look like a trashy 80s whore right now. Thanks to Jessica.
Chels is currently being skanked up
It's 80s day in the Jesscave.
Vaginaland has got two more visitors!
January 2010
Strangers →
benoitpaille.deviantart.com
I’ve posted about this man countless times, but I truly believe what he is doing is great.
Benoit Paille, from Montreal, Canada, takes his camera with him and photographs complete strangers. His approach to photography is simple: “Questioning the modern world in which we are living and trying to break this individualism and the anonymity of the big city.” His gallery is steadily growing, showing the diversity and beauty of a city and it’s people, and taking back a social aspect that we’ve lost over the years out of fear - the ability to hold a conversation with a complete stranger.
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
k.d. lang
kd lang - Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen cover)
Out of all the cover verisons of this song, this is my absolute favorite. The lyrics that have always had the most resonance for me are:
You say I took the name in vain
I don’t even know the name
But if I did, well really, what’s it to you?
There’s a blaze of light
In every word
It doesn’t matter which you heard
The holy or the broken Hallelujah
kd lang performed this live at the 2005 Juno’s for the release of her latest album, “Hymns of the 49ths Parallel”. Her performance was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen. It brought the audience to its feet for a two-minute ovation. No heart, no soul was left untouched.
Reblog with how long it took you to actually read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
For me it was a while (two years 8O) even though I got it the day it came out. Mostly because I was at that point where I was just “D8 It’s going to end!!!!”
i got it at 6pm (after work) then went home read all night then went to school got home at 4pm then read til..8/9pm so around 16/17 hours
It took me around 17 hours as well I think. I bought it in the city and took the train straight home, that was around 10 in the morning and I didn’t sleep that night because I couldn’t put it down and I finished around 3pm-ish.
the first time?
my mommy came home with it around…ten or eleven in the morning.
I was done by ten that night.
so around eleven, twelve hours. I’m a suuuuper fast reader though.
but last summer I reread it in about five hours one day.
I had started the sixth one a few weeks before and had about 1/2 of it left on a car trip so I took them both along and just went through them like an addict. xD
14 hours, with a 2 hour break in the middle-ish. I started at midnight, had to take a stop for a friend’s wedding (i don’t remember anything from the wedding, but whatever.) and then finished at about 2 in the afternoon.
I think it took me about a week or so.
I was in summer school at the time, and decided that it was in my better interest to pass my class first, and then reward myself with Harry Potter when I finished my homework. A girl in my class almost spewed the entire ending if I hadn’t of stopped her… by covering my ears and yelling rather loudly.
Fuck Her Gently
Tenacious D
Fuck Her Gently — Tenacious D
And then I’m gonna love you completely
And then I’ll fucking fuck you discreetly
And then I’ll fucking bone you completely
But then I’m gonna fuck you hard
We sings this way too much. It’s too hard not to imitate Jack Black.
Goal for this summer: make/own more sundresses.
You can never have enough sundresses.
“It only takes a moment to be love a whole life longed.”
—Cornelius Hackl, Hello Dolly!
Best comeback of all time.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to to teach these young boys when they visit your base?
GENERAL COSGROVE: We’re going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and
shooting.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Shooting! That’s a bit irresponsible, isn’t it?
GENERAL COSGROVE: I don’t see why, they’ll be properly supervised on the
rifle range.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: Don’t you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
GENERAL COSGROVE: I don’t see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle
discipline before they even touch a firearm.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER: But you’re equipping them to become violent killers.
GENERAL COSGROVE: Well, Ma’am, you’re equipped to be a prostitute, but you’re not one, are you?
