January 2012
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“Now I yell at my TV when movies like American Beauty take top prize, because...”
– I ask myself such questions every single day.
Canon Fodder: Sam Mendes’s American Beauty: Movies TV: GQ
“It may all prove to be better for those who came before us and those who will be...”
– Does this not remind you of the film that will win best picture this year? The Descendents? Though 2011 was the year that gave us Martha Marcy May Marlene, Shame, Drive, Take Shelter, Melancholia, and of course the Artist.
Canon Fodder: Sam Mendes’s American Beauty: Movies TV: GQ
“Even if it’s said in a joking way, a jibe about your looks, your job, your...”
– You can also add “You hiss at each other, you have nothing in common, you can barely converse unless in mockery, you hate each other’s friends, you never want to live together.”
You know who you are.
10 Signs It’s Time to Leave Your Relationship | EcoSalon | Conscious...
Kill Your Facebook/Save Your Soul
Tonight I am deleting my facebook account. In preparation I’ve routinely invited what friends I have left on there to reach out, so that we may not lose touch forever. Several have, like this person who left this comment, the first interaction I’ve had with him in years. He has left me in tears:
Before you go, I wanted to recommend reading ‘You are not a Gadget’ by Jaron...
“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that...”
– - Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
Brave New World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
December 2011
105 posts
Do you think this list accurate?
Yep.
natashavc:
Not spiritually, obvi, because then ‘Planet of the Apes’ and ‘Melancholia’ would be on the list, but here’s the way I think the nominees for best picture will go:
The Descendants
The Artist
Hugo
Moneyball
The Help
Ides of March
Midnight in Paris
Tin Tin
Incredibly Loud and Extremely Close
War Horse
UPDATE: How did I miss this CRUCIAL Oscar rule change (movies need...
eject: Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying →
kellyoxford:
From Arise India Forum:
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with their own…
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Things "Miracle on 34th St." is About
1 - Santa Claus may be real.
2 - Santa Claus is obviously fake and a marketing ploy.
3 - Kids control the world b/c they control their parents. Actually just the Baby Boomers.
4 - The American court system process is a joke.
5 - Santa Claus can get you anything you ask for - even if it means going on trial.
6 - Santa is just a metaphor for the force that controls parents’ minds and...
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“It is a film before which words fall silent.”
– Find which one:
The Best Films of 2011 - Roger Ebert’s Journal
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