“Behavior is not concrete.”
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Invisibility
If you’re interested in the living heart of what you do, focus on building things rather than talking about them.
- Ryan Freitas
Haha nothing like spending a night at Leavey and waking up to an incoherent jumble of words…
Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones are set to star together in the dramedy “Celeste and Jesse Forever”. Written by Jones and her writing partner Will McCormick, Celeste and Jesse Forever follows a couple who attempt to remain friends while undergoing a divorce. Lee Toland Krieger will direct.
In an interview with 24 Frames, Jones compared the film to Blue Valentine and When Harry Met Sally -
“Our movie is about two people who love each other a ton but they don’t know what to do with that love, and how do you let that person go. It’s very different from: ‘I like having sex with this person because I’m so modern but then, ooh, maybe I like them.’ I’m less interested in that story. It’s the version of When Harry Met Sally 20 years later, or Blue Valentine. It’s really about how you break up with someone.”
Count. Me. In.
Reasons why I must see this:
1. Andy Samberg
2. Rashida Jones (second tier girl crush)
3. When Harry Met Sally reference
4. Seemingly a more complicated spin on love than ‘I like having sex with this person because I’m so modern but then, ooh, maybe I like them’ and not as a heavy, drowning-in-sorrow themed as Blue Valentine. Hopefully strikes a balanced, realistic (well, as realistic as Hollywood can get) view on love…
5. Andy Samberg wearing argyle
Well, okay just kidding about the last one. But if the movie’s as Rashida Jones describes it, then count me in too!
(Source: amyohconnor, via fuckyeahandysamberg)
I remember that my roommate freshman year said something once about not believing in having favorite quotes because it’s taking other people’s words, identities, and trying to make them your own. While I understand that, and I see that defining yourself in another person’s words may be half-assing the way you tell the world who you are, I also think that when we resonate with what someone says, it pulls something out of us that might lie buried deep.
Sure, identifying your favorite quotes may be a lazy way to put yourself into words because the words aren’t even your own. But at the same time, a quotation we attach ourselves to, align ourselves with—it can say a whole lot about the way we see life, the standards we hold ourselves to, and the aspirations and ideals we strive to reach or become or emulate.
And maybe it’s true—maybe as good ol’ John says, our favorite quotes say more about US than they do about the narratives and people we’re quoting. It also makes us realize that while there are things that set us apart as individuals, there are also things that ring true for everyone. Things that perhaps we thought we were alone on cease to be because we find that someone else in this world of convolution and uncertainty has our same thought, our same dream, our same outlook. The universality of the human condition is brought to light, which is truly a beautiful thing in and of itself.
So now I’ll share with you one of my own favorite quotes—words written from the pen of a certain Jack Kerouac.
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted… I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.”
Yes, we’re all different. But really, there are a lot of things that make us fundamentally the same at our core.
…bah, agreed. Introducing my articulate, insightful roommate. Sometimes it’s incredibly hard to express oneself and so when a quote does exactly that, it’s like finding a gem. And even more so with personal essays and pieces –– I was thinking the other day that someday, when I have my own place, I’ll print out my favorite short works and frame them in my bedroom. Since words can constitute the ultimate work of art, why not treat it like they can? Although I will say our favorite quotes right now might be from Rebecca Black and Charlie Sheen, those two certainly have a way with words…
“The woman who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been.”
— Albert Einstein
(Source: breakfastatbarneys)
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Sperry and J. Crew give it two thumbs up.
LOL my goodness
