you always fall for the rascal

Becky I obsess for a bit and then move on, but retain a few interests: food, music, books, films, the occasional TV show. So those will be here, along with whatever else crosses my cluttered mind. Tags you might be interested in: Politics | Tom Hardy | graphics/photography

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#oh you’re handsome?? #I’M HANDSOME!

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Tom Smile ♥ at the venice Film Festival 

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Tom Hardy at Venice Film Festival

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Shocked, Shocked: The Senate Exploits Unpaid Interns

If you walk into any of the 100 Senate offices spread across Capitol Hill, there is one consistent element. Marco Rubio’s furniture won’t be the same as Elizabeth Warren’s and Mark Udall’s landscape photographs won’t match Lindsey Graham’s wall hangings. The ubiquitous fixture of every Senate (and House) office is livelier: the young, sometimes bright-eyed, cohorts of interns that flood the Capitol in the summer.

Across the spectrum of industries, internships have been commonplace for decades, but the unpaid variety has come under close scrutiny only recently, following a number of high-profile incidents challenging the legitimacy of the practice — long bemoaned by many interns themselves. In June, a federal judge ruled for the first time that Fox Searchlight broke employment laws by not paying interns. Two days later, former interns at Condé Nast, who had been paid at a rate less than $1 an hour, filed suit against the magazine group. Condé Nast has recently revealed it has stopped paying interns altogether. Seeking a more conciliatory approach, interns at The Nation wrote a letter to their editors at the end of July instead of taking legal action, and were later rewarded by a promise of minimum wage. As the case of the unpaid intern garnered national attention, it wouldn’t be long before the national legislature would get its turn. That happened when Jessica Padron, who’s been offered an internship in the office of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, took to Indiegogo to crowdfund her otherwise-unpaid internship.

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"He have any last words?" "He said I'd killed him." Raylan paused. "I told him I was sorry, but he had called it." Art was frowning now. "You're sorry you killed him?" "I thought I'd explained it to you," Raylan said in his quiet voice. "Boyd and I dug coal together."

"Fire in the Hole" by Elmore Leonard (via aclutteredmind)

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I will stare and stare and never get anything done. (x)

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Nobody else is being honest about it, but the real reason folks are manufacturing outrage over this Rolling Stone cover is because Tsarnaev is looking kinda fuckable.

According to the traditional narratives, we’re supposed to be dehumanizing this swarthy foreign terrorist. Monsters are meant to be grotesque, and here he is looking like some sensitive singer/songwriter. How dare Rolling Stone allow him into a cultural space reserved exclusively for rock stars?

Please. It’s no accident they used a photo of the kid where he vaguely resembles that one-night-stand every sorority girl screwed on a foam mattress in some youth hostel that summer she backpacked through Europe.

The editors knew exactly what they were doing. It’s deliberately provocative. It was intended to illicit an uncomfortable reaction, and it seems to be working.

This is mainstream media trolling at its finest. 

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"i wish there was a netflix for broadway shows"

literally the whole point of theatre is that it’s live

i just 

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but not everyone has the resources to see professional theatre…? 

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listen when did i say it had to be professional theatre there are hundreds of community theatres and regional theatres and avant garde theatres out there like

i’m sorry but theatre is meant to be experienced live otherwise it would be a fucking movie 

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i’m using “professional" to mean equity, so that also includes regional and maybe even some community theatres.

here’s the thing about theatre being at its best live: it’s a double-edged sword. that makes it special, but it also makes it very, very insular. and that’s great if you’re able to attend productions at those theatres, but what about people who are geographically or monetarily unable to see their favorite broadway/regional shows or actors? why should they just suck it up and accept that the ~sanctity of the medium ought not to be comprised~ when, rights issues notwithstanding, a video recording of the show could be the only way to experience them?

and even people who live in the vicinity of professional theatres often can’t afford ticket prices. i would not begrudge ANYONE the wish to simply watch a filmed version of pippin, for example, rather than shell out $75+ for a ticket or get up at 5 AM to rush the show. even regional theatres are exorbitantly priced nowadays. 

look, i’ve seen many, many professional shows in my short lifetime, and even i would jump at the chance to watch a filmed production of practically anything. i really don’t see why this is such a heinous and outrageous idea. theatre is already a grossly overcommercialized and elitist industry when it ought to be inclusive and populist, so why should we deny people outside the circle exposure to shows and actors they’ve always wanted to see?

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This is one of the reasons why I respect the British theatre so much.  Not only is there a real effort to make theatre more affordable to more of the public, the major theatres film everything and even if it’s not released via NT live or on DVD, you can go to an archival library and watch it there.  We don’t have that system in the US.  We treat Broadway like it’s the only theatre in this country.  Not only is that patently false, most of the best theatre in America is not happening on Broadway (especially after this insipid clusterfuck of a season. Seriously, never in my life have I seen such aggressively mediocre theatre).  Innovative, exciting, accessible theatre is happening everywhere.  That being said, it often is too expensive, and all theatres need to explore alternative methods of getting what they do to people who want to see it.

Because the bottom line is this: theatre is storytelling. Storytellers should want their stories to reach as many people as possible.  I run a theatre company.  I want to be able to pay the people who work with me and I know that means that we will eventually have to raise the cost of our tickets.  But, we will always film our productions and make them available online or on DVD.  Everyone who wants to see live theatre should be able to see it, one way or another.

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I adore my $25, any-seat-is-a-good-seat local theatre but they don't do everything I want to see and sometimes I want to see the original actors.  Broadway should do a video series, especially when they know there will never be a motion picture version.

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“No life is trivial in God’s eyes. The fact is — who are we to say that children born into the worst of circumstances can’t live successful lives?”

That’s Texas Governor — and former presidential hopeful — Rick Perry, explaining how valuable every life is. He went on to say:

In fact, even the woman who filibustered the Senate the other day was born into difficult circumstances. She was the daughter of as single woman; she was a teenage mother herself. She managed to eventually graduate from Harvard Law School and serve in the Texas senate. It is just unfortunate that she hasn’t learned from her own example that every life must be given a chance to realize its full potential and that every life matters.

After declaring how much value he (and God) place on every single human life, he presided over the 261st execution of his tenure as governor (more than half of the 500 executions carried out by Texas since 1976). Perry thinks every life matters, except the lives of the people he’s condemned to death … because he’s convinced (without really looking into it) that all of those people are guilty of murder (which means their lives aren’t valuable at all).

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Kate Winslet by Alexi Lubomirski [2013]

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The last Talk of the Nation broadcast.

Photos: Kainaz Amaria/NPR

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What I Have Lived For Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a great ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.  I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy - ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy. I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness—that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss. I have sought it finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined. This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what--at last--I have found. With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine. And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux. A little of this, but not much, I have achieved. Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth. Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart. Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be. I long to alleviate this evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer. This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

The Prologue to Bertrand Russell’s Autobiography (via stephen-fry-me)

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Today in things that make my day: Colin Firth and Ben Barnes act out the scene from Eddie Izzard’s bit about British film on the set of a movie (I believe Easy Virtue). 

If you’re an Izzard fan this is a must-watch. 

“I’m always in here. Moving books slightly to the left.”