March 2011
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February 2011
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WatchBringing you tomorrow’s later today’s news today early.
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“I went to [NYU drama school] Tisch to do exactly what you are doing on this...”
– Macartney Lady Gaga. Turns out she was also at American Idiot last night, which explains the insanely large amass of crowds, police and metal sidewalk barriers (Billie Joe Armstrong is really this famous?! we wondered). If the cheesier-and-more-offensive-than-Rent heroin tie-off love ballet coupled...
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stephenrettger:
“In Thomas May’s indispensible John Adams Reader, May asks Sellars about the label “CNN Opera,” as it was applied to his and Adams’ Death of Klinghoffer specifically and to their history operas in general. Sellars responds:
One of the most important reasons to do these operas was to say precisely that we aren’t getting the actual history of our times. We are used to the media...
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“A romantic encounter between a pair of ______ can take up to seven hours from...”
– Elizabeth Tova Bailey, The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating
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“Like the eye roll, the wink is a gesture of complicity. Between friends, it...”
– Lorin Stein, giving some great advice
thatitmoves:
I think I’ve had my first “fellow tumblr-er sighting” this evening. I was in a car going up to Lincoln Center, precisely on 62nd st., turning left to Columbus. Then somebody looking vaguely familliar walks by the car and crosses the avenue. I’ve lost him amid people soon enough, while I was dealing with the driver about the next destination. But I was pretty sure I saw him. Was that...
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Watcholiverogden:
ORGÁNICA by Oliver Ogden
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WatchThe word “motherfucker” is in the title of your play, so who do you get to narrate the commercial? I’ll give you one guess. (via)
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O miseri o codardi/ Figliuoli avrai. Miseri...
If literal approximation remains your main objective, you will deliberately suppress certain aspects of [Giacomo] Leopardi’s poems for the sake of clarity. For example, Leopardi often stages an intricate dance between syntax and semantics in his poems. By conspicuously distancing subjects from verbs and modifiers from nouns—which rhetoricians call hyperbaton—he introduces syntactical capers,...
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“Sitting side by side in the front seat of the little car, we began to talk about...”
– David Plante, The Catholic
Chapter 6 is the hottest, most intense, most realistic/unrealistic sex scene ever put to the pages. It’s alternatively inspiring and daunting. It’s sex as religion, in the most metaphysical way possible.
Regardless, the best/hottest ever.
Chapter 6 is so...
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Elaine Stritch, Thank You So Much, 2010
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Pre-show of Elaine Stritch… Singing...
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