Someday

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[isuckatlife93]

I’d trade a million tomorrows for a single yesterday... -Janis Joplin

[mindpalacestudy]

Classic Literature

Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer

Macbeth - Shakespeare

Jane Eyre - Charlotte Brontë

Bleak House - Charles Dickens

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

Foreign Language Literature

The Iliad - Homer

Bonjour Tristesse - Françoise Sagan

Die Blechtrommel - Günter Grass

Cien años de soledad - Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Biology & Medicine

Life Ascending - Nick Lane

The Emperor of all Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee

Do no Harm - Henry Marsh

The Double Helix - James D Watson

Physics

A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking

Packing for Mars - Mary Roach

The Elegant Universe - Brian Greene

The Emperor’s New Mind - Roger Penrose

Chemistry

The Disappearing Spoon - Sam Kean

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre

Gunpowder - Jack Kelly

Uranium - Thomas Zoellner

Psychology

Blink - Malcolm Gladwell

The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks

Opening Skinner’s Box - Lauren Slater

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker

Geography & Anthropology

Global Shift - Peter Dicken

Blood and Earth - Kevin Bales

Structural Anthropology - Claude Levi Strauss

Earth: an Intimate History - Richard Fortey

Volcanism - Hans Ulrich Schminke

Economics & Politics

Freakonomics - Steven D Levitt

This Changes Everything - Naomi Klein

Buyology - Martin Lindstrom

Other People’s Money - John Kay

Inequality: What can be done? - Anthony B Atkinson

Maths

Fermat’s Last Theroem - Simon Singh

The Golden Ratio - Mario Livio

The Infinite Book - John D Barrow

An Imaginary Tale - Paul J Nahin

In Pursuit of the Unknown - Ian Stewart

History

Victorian London -  Liza Picard

Salt: a World History - Mark Kurlansky

The History of the Ancient World - Susan Wise Bauer

Destiny Disrupted - Tamim Ansary

The German Genius - Peter Watson

Philosophy & Theology

Thus Spoke  Zarathustra - Friedrich Nietzsche

What is Called Thinking? - Martin Heidegger

The Stranger - Albert Camus

A History of God - Karen Armstrong

Religion for Atheists - Alain de Botton

Art & Art History

Ways of Seeing - John Berger

The Age of Insight - Eric R Kandel

Art Through the Ages - Helen Gardner

The Yellow House - Martin Gayford

The Power of Art - Simon Schama

Music

How Music Works - David Byrne

The Rest is Noise - Alex Ross

The Joy of Music - Leonard Bernstein

The Classical Style - Charles Rosen

[This is by no means a perfect list and I had real trouble finding books written by female authors, specifically in more scientific areas, so if you have any recommendations then send them to me and I’ll update this list]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[kittehkats]

     “Cats are cold, detached & unloving.”

     “Cats are not loyal.”

     “A cat will not greet you at the door.”

     “You can not train a cat”

     “Cats aren’t that smart.”

     “Cats aren’t that good with children.”

     “Cats don’t miss you when you’re gone.”

     “Cats don’t comfort you when you’re feeling down.”

What a load of crap !!!  One thing for certain… cats don’t give a rat’s ass what B.S. you tell about them. They refuse to care less, either about what you think of them, or about the people they love.

[mystisnykoto]

“Cats don’t miss you when you’re gone” is a ton of bs. Whenever I leave to go anywhere, I can hear my cats meowing at the door within moments trying to find me. They sit in the window watching for me to come home and they are at the door to greet me almost every single time.

[keelime-art]

Cats also grieve. This cat watches a video of their owner who had passed away and he tries to cuddle up with the phone. The look on his face when they zoom in on him brings me to tears every time.

[bettsplendens]

One of our cats comes and sleeps next to me when he sees that I’m not feeling well. If he’s in the kitchen when I come down for food with cramps or with a cold, he’ll follow me back upstairs and lay down on me and purr.

Cats are aloof animals who don’t put up with nonsense, will defend their boundaries with claws, and sometimes like to push things down to see what happens, but they aren’t jerks.

[mar64ds]

[bl3randomfandoms]

I’VE ALWAYS LOVED DAFFY

[capacity]

me watching everyone on earth date and fall in love

[oldaccount2000]

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Sherri Stoner and Joshua Finkel’s live-action reference for The Little Mermaid

[pureimagineering]

Ursula was wrong!

Every Disney nerd knows who performed Ariel’s voice, but almost none of us know who performed her body language!

Sherri Stoner seems cool AF, by the way! She also modeled for Belle, and she wrote for Tiny Toons, Animaniacs, and the Casper movie with Christina Ricci!

[6xthsense]

no way no fucking way....

NO fuckifn way

[books-n-quotes]

“Sometimes you are going to miss a person who was an almost to you. And feel sad because there is no name for that feeling. You just feel it in a way that makes you tired to your very bones.”

— Nikita Gill, Almost Feelings (via books-n-quotes)

[taylorswift]

For years I asked, pleaded for a chance to own my work. Instead I was given an opportunity to sign back up to Big Machine Records and ‘earn’ one album back at a time, one for every new one I turned in. I walked away because I knew once I signed that contract, Scott Borchetta would sell the label, thereby selling me and my future. I had to make the excruciating choice to leave behind my past. Music I wrote on my bedroom floor and videos I dreamed up and paid for from the money I earned playing in bars, then clubs, then arenas, then stadiums. 

Some fun facts about today’s news: I learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world. All I could think about was the incessant, manipulative bullying I’ve received at his hands for years. 

Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.

This is my worst case scenario. This is what happens when you sign a deal at fifteen to someone for whom the term ‘loyalty’ is clearly just a contractual concept. And when that man says ‘Music has value’, he means its value is beholden to men who had no part in creating it. 

When I left my masters in Scott’s hands, I made peace with the fact that eventually he would sell them. Never in my worst nightmares did I imagine the buyer would be Scooter. Any time Scott Borchetta has heard the words ‘Scooter Braun’ escape my lips, it was when I was either crying or trying not to. He knew what he was doing; they both did. Controlling a woman who didn’t want to be associated with them. In perpetuity. That means forever. 

Thankfully, I am now signed to a label that believes I should own anything I create. Thankfully, I left my past in Scott’s hands and not my future. And hopefully, young artists or kids with musical dreams will read this and learn about how to better protect themselves in a negotiation. You deserve to own the art you make.

I will always be proud of my past work. But for a healthier option, Lover will be out August 23. 

Sad and grossed out,

💔

Taylor

[metaphorformetaphor]

“I wage war with myself and I will destroy myself, or I will be reborn, that is all.”

— Albert Camus, from Notebooks 1951-1959 (Ivan R. Dee Publisher, 2008; first published 1989)

[pinkmoonpuppy-deactivated202010]

Albert Camus: kendimi yengeç gibi hissediyorum Simone.

Simone Beauvoir: sebebi nedir?

Albert Camus: yengeçler denizde yaşar ama yüzemez. bende nefes alabiliyorum ama dünyaya bir türlü ayak uyduramadım sanırım.

[thats-absurd]

[mesogeios]

“Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

[quotemadness]

“Yes, be patient with me. My heart is heavy.”

— Albert Camus

[liberal-memes]

[princessnijireiki]

This is Adam Erickson, pastor at the Clackamas United Church of Christ in Milwaukee, Oregon!

[westafricanbaby]

Now THIS is a pastor 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾. God bless him and his congregation. This is what a true Christian looks like.