the enigma machine

theparisreview:

“In an album of disparities and disjointedness, ‘Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes’ is a model of coherence and qualified, tempered hope—slow, sad, suspect and nebulous, off-balance but redemptive nonetheless. You know why you feel the miracle and wonder of it all. The song may not have the dancing of the rest of the album, but what it has is something else.”
Adam Plunkett on Paul Simon’s Graceland.

oh yes. this album is everything.

My friend Isaac has the most gorgeous hands I have ever seen, and I am completely enamored of them. The day I met him he promised to let me draw them, and I finally got to last weekend.

I have been head over heels over a pair of beautiful hands more than once in my life

strawberry-kiwi-extravaganza:

dear christ

yesssssssssss

"
the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.

there’s no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.

nobody ever finds
the one.

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

nothing else
fills.
"
― Charles Bukowski (via delenadance)

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ha ha it looks like i just got a C on my final german paper and successfully ruined my relationship with my german professor… also i spent last night in such violent pain from period cramps that i actually vomited, and all this after the shittiest most emotionally awful end to the semester i could have imagined

happy summer everyone

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"I asked all of the gay male students in the room to raise their hand if in the past week they touched a woman’s body without her consent. After a moment of hesitation, all of the hands of the gay men in the room went up. I then asked the same gay men to raise their hand if in the past week they offered a woman unsolicited advice about how to “improve” her body or her fashion. Once again, after a moment of hesitation, all of the hands in the room went up.

These questions came after a brief exploration of gay men’s relationship to American fashion and women’s bodies. That dialogue included recognizing that gay men in the United States are often hailed as the experts of women’s fashion and by proxy women’s bodies. In addition to this there is a dominant logic that suggests that because gay men have no conscious desire to be sexually intimate with women, our uninvited touching and groping (physical assault) is benign."
―Gay Men’s Sexism and Women’s Bodies by Yolo Akili (via plightofthepretty)

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teen-heat:

headed to goodwill to pick up some abercrombie and fitch clothes and then i’m gonna stop by an impoverished neighborhood and force the clothes upon homeless people who don’t want them. if you wanna come, please wear your KONY 2012 shirts, TOMS shoes, and save the boobies wristbands so people know that were serious about activism.

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"the year of letting go
of understanding loss, grace of the word ‘no’
and also being able to say ‘you are not kind’
the year of humanity/humility
when the whole world couldn’t get out of bed
everyone i’ve met this year says the same thing
‘you are so easy to be around, how do you do that?’
the year i broke open and dug out all the rot with own hands
the year i learnt small talk
and how to smile at strangers
the year i understood that i am my best when i reach out and ask ‘do you want to be my friend?’
the year of sugar, everywhere
softness. sweetness. honey honey.
the year of being alone
and learning how much i like it
the year of hugging people i don’t know because i want to know them
the year i made peace and love
right here"
―Warsan Shire (via commovente)

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hotparade:

Leonard Freed - “Made in Germany”