03 12 / 2012
if you didnt ship the queen and joe as a child you need to rethink your life choices
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01 11 / 2012
Oh, this movie. This beautiful, beautiful movie. It’s a shame that the word “breathtaking” has been so fucked out by hack movie critics, because it actually applies to Cloud Atlas. Sure, it was three hours long, and I probably shouldn’t have seen it for the first time stoned out of my gourd, but damn — this movie rocked my fucking world.
Structurally, Cloud Atlas is a challenge. There is no way to absorb everything in one viewing. The film’s layers aren’t just stacked on top of one another — they extend outward and through time in an exploding fractal of visual, textual, and cultural motifs. It’s fun when you catch one of the echoing references, but don’t get greedy and try to catch them all. You will only frustrate yourself. Just sit back, let it flow over you, and trust that more will be revealed when you see it again.
It’s not all work, though. Emotionally, Cloud Atlas is as easy as it gets. The narrative may be complicated, but it is still very traditional. People who compare this film to Malick’s Tree of Life are off the mark. Both films are deeply philosophical, but the Wachowskis aren’t writing a poem. They’re telling a story, and they’re damn good at telling stories. You may not know what to think at any given moment, but you’ll know exactly how to feel in every scene of the movie.
Intellectually, Cloud Atlas is a fucking masterpiece. Anyone who says otherwise is either incapable or unwilling to deconstruct a film with so many moving parts, the sum of which aren’t meant to be as great as the whole. If you didn’t enjoy it, that’s fine. If you didn’t connect with it, that’s fine too. You don’t have to love it, but you sure as hell have to respect it. It reaches further and achieves more than the very best films from any of the genres it encompasses.
If you haven’t already, go see it. If you have, by all means, go see it again.
11 10 / 2012
The best of The Mayhem Guy from the Allstate commercials
okay, but where is, “I’M THE SMARTEST RACCOON I KNOW”
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18 9 / 2012
Gelsey Kirkland and Anthony Dowell, Romeo and Juliet pas de deux
Love this. LOVE THIS. First of all because I am obsessed with Prokofiev and second of all because I am freakishly aroused by Anthony Dowell at any age (but mostly when he was in his late 50s/early 60s). Gelsey Kirkland is just wonderful, though it’s a little hard to watch her at this point in her life when she’s painfully anorexic and full of lip implants.
08 9 / 2012
timetravelwithcamelotsdetective:
toriandrelativedimensionsinspace:
EXAGGERATED REACTION IN CAPITALS
GIF OF SOMEONE CRYING AND A KEYSMASH FOLLOWED BY OTP NAME AND “FEELS”
an unnecessarily harsh explanation of why the above bloggers are wrong and why this ship is stupid and probably offensive and omg what even.
EXAGGERATED REACTION IN CAPITALS REPEATED IN BOLD FOR NO REASON
EXAGGERATED REACTION IN CAPITALS REPEATED IN BOLD ITALICS FOR NO REASON
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06 9 / 2012
This video of Mitt Romney, from December 12th 2011, might change the entire election.
I love the almost imperceptible look of deer-in-the-headlights terror on Romney’s smug fuck face when he realizes he’s totally misjudged this crafty old codger.
Dear man, I KNOW what you wanted to say is “He can take that ‘No way, Jose’ and shove it up his ass.” Go ahead. You can say it. I’ll support you.
28 8 / 2012
THIS!!!!! TAKE NOTES EVERY FUCKING “GAY RIGHTS ORGANIZATION” WE EXIST. AND MAYBE A LITTLE BIT OF EXPOSURE WOULD BE NICE. I’M SO TIRED OF BLACK GAY MEN ONLY BEING IN ADVERTIZEMENTS FOR HIV MEDS. this has been a post.
FUCKING THIS! GET WITH IT MAINSTREAM GAY RIGHTS MOVEMENT!
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23 8 / 2012
do you ever stop and realize that people probably discuss you from time to time when you aren’t around to witness it
not even in a specifically positive or negative way just like
people mention you, or think of you, you occur to people sometimes
thats the most unnerving thing that i can think of, thats so weird, that i exist to people when im not even interacting with them
Okay but, what bothers me far more is that other people exist when I’m not with them. And even when I’m not thinking about them. They’re out there DOING THINGS while I’m over here.
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