I just want to remember People, Places, and Things

Denyse Alog Blog Clog

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Typo: spelling error

Trypo: when you try your best but you don’t succeed

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Of course I stalk myself. If I don't, who will?

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Unlikely collaborations

Everyone knows a famous featured artist on a less than average track can make or break a song (see: Halsey literally breathing life to The Chainsmokers’ music career), but few stop to think about how this idea of “collab”-ing can also change mindsets when applied to other entities and things. When we think about collaborations in this new light, we can have Instant Noodles feat. Cheese, or My Face feat. Mei Tu Xiu Xiu, or even POTUS feat. Donald Trump. The possibilities are endless, and almost always glorious (or at least incredible, as in the latter example).

But to make things more fun, what if collabs are created because it sounds good? As in, entirely de-pun-dent on wordplay or just hey-these-two-words-link-because-they-share-the-same-word-or-phonemes good. I mean, I’ve already been doing this with my friends’ names, so I guess this is the obvious next step. 

We could have Times New Roman Holiday, where they change every ostensible typography in the Audrey Hepburn classic to this classic font.

Green Days of Our Lives, an early 2000s emo-punk rock take on that drama that has been going on since Singapore gained her independence - how is it still going on!!? I expect the Green Day influence to be seen not just in their clothing and aesthetic, but also in the storyline.

Mathemagician, because we all know that some form of sorcery is always involved when finding x.

Taxi-dermy - taxis should be preserved even after their useful life.

Or even tank topless, inspired by that Hans Christian Andersen fable about a sartorial Emperor.

And the list can go on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on

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un dos tres cuatro

bí bí bí bí bí bí bí bí bí bí

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Fargo (1996) Dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen

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Fargo (1996) Dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen

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Idea:

Sunscreen with anti-mosquito spray - maintain your flawless skin without that flaky red tan or mozzie bites! Why hasn't anyone made this yet my skin is so slippery from the spf that the mosquito repellant doesn't stick and now I have about 10 bites on both my arms help

[angelclark]

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mom: how u today

me: 

Edvard Munch

Despair, 1829.

Oil on canvas

36 1/4 x 26 1/2” (92 x 67 cm)

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Sometimes I think we underestimate ants because they’re so small and you can pinch them and oh they’re dead but what if one day all the ants in the world come together in a giant ant colony and say ‘we never forget what you did’ and start eating us alive I mean if they can carry up to 50x their weight that has to mean something

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you've heard of harrison ford, get ready for

BaldDad Toyota

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room service

Cleaning my room now, and the anticipation leading to this moment since, well those arduous times before As where I couldn’t be more irritated with the clutter everywhere, has apparently died down after the realisation of how I am effectively throwing a huge chunk of my life away. I look at my notes and feel a tinge of almost reluctance to clear them because this literally symbolises the closure of this crucial period closures a I’m not sure if I’m ready for that. Or for any progress in my life, actually. I call now, literally now, as in this brief catchment of lackadaisical nothing, a standstill. Stagnation has this very elusive appeal of living in the past and the present. It’s like having the best of both worlds without Hannah Montana’s double-life facade. 

and I kinda like it.

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69th CFF

Alternative title: the time I missed my flight and had to camp outside the Cannes train station for a night in the frigid cold

This festival made me realise how insignificant I am and how desperate people really are in life. There were throngs of people lining up even before the movie started (and ended) all vying for a piece of entertainment royalty, and on the other side of the commoner spectrum there were people dressed to the nines holding scruffy pieces of paper often with “INVITATIONS? PLEASE” written on it. They were referring, of course, to unwanted invitations to the festival screenings. Some signs said “PERSONAL SHOPPER,” which was really misleading because I thought they were selling their time and fashion expertise in exchange for money or to rub shoulders with the rich and famous, but it turns out “Personal Shopper” was actually the title of a movie (the Kristen Stewart one that got booed). That explained a lot because their own styles weren’t really persuasive - there was a girl of probably 20 or younger who was wearing a (tacky) dress that she probably wore two years back in her junior high prom - do her parents even know that she’s here?

And the next day was no different, with placards and “INVITATIONS SVP” written on them, but of course at this hour, and also being the morning after a very talked about film (the Kristen Stewart one that got booed), there weren’t many “celebrities” to impress; I saw a boy in his late teens wearing a striped polo tee and white berms holding a piece of paper on one hand, scrolling through his phone on the other. How enthusiastic.

And then there are the press, who seem to take these screenings very seriously - well some do anyway. This made waking up at 5am more interesting: you not only see the sunrise, but also the early go-getters - I saw a lady dressed very nicely heading towards the centre of town at about 6am, like she had a breakfast date with her just-married husband with whom she was on honeymoon with. Turns out she was just a press member who was really early for the 830am movie.

Cannes was very eventful to the point of going overboard, but highly memorable. This has probably been one of my favourite trips so far. 

[vickicore]

mants. pants for men. dont be stuck wearing girly """pants""". MANTS™

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Politeness

Today my friend asked me to hold her bag for her while she tied her shoelaces and when she was done I said, “thank you.”

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They lead tourists to the deck. Your chair wobbles under your weight. You fear the floor might give way - wondering if I put on weight after eating too many carbs - but the view from up here is worth it, it has to be, you tell yourself. You gaze over the clay coloured town, listening to the blasting horns of vehicles intermittently making you jump. The balcony grills intercept a clear shot of the view from the top - cornered by the prison bars of touristic capitalism.

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Assessing my maternal instinct

I JUST DROPPED MY MAC AGAIN CAN I KILL MYSELF THIS IS LIKE THE THIRD TIME OMG HOW AM I GOING TO BE A GOOD MOTHER I’D PROBABLY END UP DROPPING MY BABIES