Out Of The Chaos Would Come Bliss

"You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:30:19 -0700

“You’re not really an adult at all. You’re just a tall child holding a beer, having a conversation you don’t understand.”

- Dylan Moran (via bonlver)

foxxxynegrodamus: I THINK YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS SUCK

Thu, 23 May 2013 21:00:22 -0700

foxxxynegrodamus:

I THINK YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS SUCK

redvelvetteacake: When it comes to matters of love, it’s often...

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:30:16 -0700

redvelvetteacake:

When it comes to matters of love, it’s often platonic devotion that proves the most intimate and carries the most weight in one’s life. It’s the love stories of friendship, the decades-spanning, unbreakable connection to someone that stays around as lovers come and go. Yes, romantic love is an all-encompassing illness of the heart, but without a best friend to guide you, life becomes less tolerable. Cinema has long been awash in tales of romantic love, of course, but it’s rare to see a tale of love between two female best friends, especially one that genuinely shows what it is like to have that kind of soul mate, without whom everything else would be askew. But with Noah Baumbach’s latest film, Frances Ha, we see one woman’s journey of self-discovery, ignited by a fractured friendship.

Greta Gerwig & Mickey Sumner on Exploring Female Friendship in Noah Baumbach’s ‘Frances Ha’

Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter Offers College Scholarship for Underserved Students

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:00:16 -0700

Shawn (Jay-Z) Carter Offers College Scholarship for Underserved Students:

The Shawn Carter Scholarship Foundation is unique in that it offers scholarships to single mothers, children who attend alternative schools, students who have earned a GED, students with grade point averages of 2.0 and students who have previously been incarcerated, etc., but desire a higher educational opportunity.

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laurenzuni: Hi Friends. I just want to say thank you to...

Thu, 23 May 2013 01:21:58 -0700

laurenzuni:

Hi Friends. I just want to say thank you to everyone who has called, texted and emailed checking on me and my family. We are doing great and are insanely grateful to be alive and home-full. It’s been incredible to see the outpouring of love on Oklahoma. It reminds me of how gorgeous and generous people can be.

It has taken a couple days to find the emotional space to figure out how to help. Here is my post from the night of the tornado. It was a scary and exhausting for the entire region, I can’t even imagine how it must be for families directly effected by the aftermath. Yesterday, I went to Moore to find a way to help as Red Cross has been turning away volunteers because they are too overwhelmed to deal with them all. The neighborhoods are all blocked off by National Guard so I had to enter by foot. I walked for miles picking up trash and talking to people. The neighborhoods that are not as devastated still have tons of debris and damage to deal with. Here are some pictures. It is hard to get the resources needed to the people who need it when the devastation is this huge. I talked to an elderly woman who just didn’t have the strength to clean debris off her house because she was so worried about her neighbors and family. I’ve connected with some local teams and organizations and figured out the best ways that we can directly help. Some friends in California and local Oklahoma poets have organized a supply drive to collect easy bags of supplies for workers and families: here is the link to that. I have also set up a donation page on my website and here through WePay. Donations will be used to purchase necessary supplies such as suncreen, neosporin, bugspray, trashbags, tools for cleanup, gasoline for getting to and from location and to local resources that are working directly with families. If you would like to bypass RedCross, you can donate here:

Donate

If you would like to ship supplies, please email heartyolk@gmail.com for the shipping address.

I am so grateful for all of the folks who want to support. It just dawned on me today that I might be in a position to help people do that.

Heartyolk and Gratitude Ships,

Lauren

"You know what, I hope that your nights are haunted by the sound of teenagers ripping your posters..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 00:20:53 -0700

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You know what, I hope that your nights are haunted by the sound of teenagers ripping your posters from their walls. I hope that your mattress feels like it’s made out of broken CDs. I hope that your pillow files a restraining order against your dreams. I hope this is your last public apology and the next woman brave enough to love you will not know what it’s like to have her face redesigned by the lack of control you have over your knuckles. Chris, I hope you found a lesson somewhere in all of this. I’m just sorry that Rihanna had to be your fortune cookie: broken, so that you can learn something you already should have known. Chris, when you said that you were sorry, I hope that you meant it.

Sincerely,
A man who grew up with domestic violence in his household.

”

- Rudy Francisco, A Letter to Chris Brown (via talkaboutourbigplans)

laurenzuni: inothernews: During an interview with CBS News,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:50:00 -0700

laurenzuni:

inothernews:

During an interview with CBS News, Moore, OK resident Barbara Garcia talked about her dog possibly being alive underneath the debris caused by Monday’s tornado. And sure enough, moments later, as the cameras rolled… the dog was found.

You may have seen this but I need to keep it in my When You Want To Give Up file. I love that the “game plan” was to sit on a stool in the bathroom with her dog and even though she was thrown into a pile of rubble, the plan worked.

I cried when I saw this for the first time. And then cried again just now.

"DIY GUIDE TO KILLING OFF ALL BOREDOM Go outside. Scream your name into The Void. Sit in the sun and..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:30:22 -0700

“DIY GUIDE TO KILLING OFF ALL BOREDOM
Go outside. Scream your name into The Void. Sit in the sun and feel godlike. Go swim somewhere illegal. Cook a nine-course meal for your friends. Get drunk and cry. Throw up on public property and shout about Tolstoy. Ride a train. Ride a bus. Tell someone off. Smash something important. Climb a tree and read a book. WRITE a book. Be sweet to a baby and let them know that all big people aren’t a) dead inside, b) bored, or c) afraid of adventure. Make your own everything. Stay up all night and walk around the city alone. Learn that you can be a patriot for the land while still hating the government (be a patriot for the deserts, the plains, the mountains, the buffalo, for Woody Guthrie and Frederick Douglass, for 250 years of good books). Find the best genius, which is the genius that speaks plainly. Grow something from a seed. Talk to a dog. Go visit a friend and throw your knife into a river. Sing. Sleep in. Quit your job. Make a zine. Start a war within yourself. Break a law. Destroy all uncandid thought. Open your heart to the sky. Live.”

- Adam Gnade, from The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad

Do yourself a favor and buy this zine.

(via rustbeltjessie)

titlefightclub: Oh Comely by Neutral Milk Hotel “Oh comely, I...

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:00:27 -0700

titlefightclub:

Oh Comely by Neutral Milk Hotel

“Oh comely, I will be with you when you loose your breath chasing the only meaningful memory you thought you had left.”

"Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood."

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:30:20 -0700

“Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood.”

- Mary Rakow (via benedictsmith)

sphinxterr: from what i’ve learned on the internet, being punk is all about crying and doing weird...

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:00:26 -0700

sphinxterr:

from what i’ve learned on the internet, being punk is all about crying and doing weird shit to your hair and if that’s true then at this point i’m a studded vest and a stolen can of spray paint

"Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a..."

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:30:23 -0700

“Be of service. You are taking your degree into a society dominated by concentrated poverty and a vulnerable middle class, a society where it is harder to pay for education, harder to find a job, harder to buy a house and harder to hold onto those things even if you manage to get them. You are entering adulthood during a period of mass incarceration and near constant war. There is a lot for you to do. Service is the rent you pay for the space you take up on the earth, and as a relatively privileged American you take up a lot of space. We are the most consuming, polluting, wasteful nation on earth. So your rent is steep. Pay it with service.”

- Dr. Melissa Harris-Perry’s advice to Class of 2013 (via bitchwhoisyou)

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"Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it,..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 21:00:38 -0700

“Why do you live in your body like you will be given another? As if it were temporary. You starve it, you let anyone touch it, you berate it. Tell it that should be completely different. You tug at your soft flesh, wish it thinner, wish it gone. You fall in love with those who praise the way it sighs under their hands, but who praises the way it holds up your weight, even when you are falling apart?””

- Warsan Shire (via veiasconvergentes)

"the year of letting go of understanding loss, grace of the word ‘no’ and also being able to say..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:30:33 -0700

“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)

"We can stick anything into the fog and make it look like a ghost but tonight let us not become..."

Tue, 21 May 2013 20:00:39 -0700

“We can stick anything into the fog
and make it look like a ghost
but tonight
let us not become tragedies.
We are not funeral homes
with propane tanks in our windows,
lookin’ like cemeteries.
Cemeteries are just the Earth’s way of not letting go.
Let go.
Tonight
let’s turn our silly wrists so far backwards
the razor blades in our pencil tips
can’t get a good angle on all that beauty inside.
Step into this
with your airplane parts.
Move forward
and repeat after me with your heart:
“I no longer need you to fuck me as hard as I hated myself.”
Make love to me
like you know I am better
than the worst thing I ever did.
Go slow.
I’m new to this.
But I have seen nearly every city from a rooftop
without jumping.
I have realized
that the moon
did not have to be full for us to love it,
that we are not tragedies
stranded here beneath it,
that if my heart
really broke
every time I fell from love
I’d be able to offer you confetti by now.
But hearts don’t break,
y’all,
they bruise and get better.
We were never tragedies.
We were emergencies.
You call 9 – 1 – 1.
Tell them I’m having a fantastic time.”

- We Were Emergencies, Buddy Wakefield (via knotyrsweetheart)

destructs: No Pain Like This Body by Lani Maestro | photo...

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:30:35 -0700

destructs:

No Pain Like This Body by Lani Maestro | photo by Lynlea Combot

commovente: when i die, just put ‘boys boys boys boys boys’ on my tombstone

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:37:47 -0700

commovente:

when i die, just put ‘boys boys boys boys boys’ on my tombstone