we are stars

'In order to see the world and grasp it as paradoxical, we must break with our familiar acceptance of it.' - Maurice Merleau-Ponty

[aurelle]

[jasmine-mei]

aurelle:  Charles Bridge, Prague 

[feral-thoughts]

To what extent are you living your life and to what extent are you performing your life to other people? Pictures on Facebook streams of people looking happy at parties, out in nightclubs… But surely if you’re having that good of a time, you’re not posing for photos? I increasingly get the sense that that’s why people go to places, to photograph something. I don’t understand who people are trying to impress because everyone they’re trying to impress are trying to impress other people as well. So it becomes a strange world of exaggerated service. But maybe I’m just talking out my arse

Charlie Brooker discusses his series Black Mirror, a poignant and unpretentious meditation on the future of technology and social media, which I’m still thinking about, 7 months after watching it for the first time | Wired UK

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He was surprised to find how little he had documented their relationship compared to some of the other things in his life, like bowls of ramen he’d eaten, or the sun hitting the buildings a certain way. And wasn’t that odd—that his most striking memories were also the ones least captured; ones he’d been so wrapped up in that he’d forgotten to capture in the first place.

— Jack Cheng, These Days

(via bakedpi)

[jasmine-mei]

update: watched all episodes of both series of black mirror in under two days. life changed.

[stunningpicture]

It’s not a model. Actual image of floodwaters in the village of Jeram Perdas, Malaysia.

[fuckyeahexistentialism]

Every sentence

       turns into a lost line, sign of a time.

—Milo De Angelis, from “The Siege’s Ending,” Theme of Farewell and After-Poems, trans. Susan Stewart and Patrizio Ceccagnoli (University of Chicago Press, 2013)

[thepiercesmusic]

[jasmine-mei]

My summer in seven photos

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[larmoyante]

I am overwhelmed with things I ought to have written about and never found the proper words.

Virginia Woolf, Diaries Volume One 1915-1919 (via larmoyante)

[songzinmyhead]

The Pierces - Team (Lorde cover) / Live at RAK Studio

[jasmine-mei]

OBSESSED.

[sarahcliffordillustration]

Final quotes book image "The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.” - Dolly Parton

[theparisreview]

[jasmine-mei]

Stanley Kubrick’s annotated copy of Stephen King’s The Shining.

[drapernation]

Visit Original Link

Bastimental Rehearsal 2014 (x)

[jasmine-mei]

I've been living as a vegan for the past two days now and have to keep doing it until next Thursday because of a bet I'm having with a friend. So far I have been living off dry bagels, cereal with no milk, fruit and vegetables and 'rice milk' (it's one of the strangest things I've ever drunk in my life). Does anyone have any more creative hints or recipes that they feel like passing on to a very hungry, very malnourished student right now?

[silentdesert]

North Bend, WA  Rattlesnake Ledge

[thepiercesmusic]

The Pierces - Kings

Everyone, I am overjoyed and beyond excited to present to you the first new single and music video off the new album, this is Kings.

[jasmine-mei]

Y'all have no idea how long I've waited for this and wow, I'm blown away. Hearing this just reminds me how much I love them and I'm actually so impressed by how much their sound has matured and developed, making me unbelievably excited to hear the rest of the album.

[winedarkseas-deactivated2021080]

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Jack Kerouac, the Dharma Bums  (via evocative-eloquence)

[dorkdweeb-deactivated20140630]

Art has to be a kind of confession. I don’t mean a true confession in the sense of that dreary magazine. The effort it seems to me, is: if you can examine and face your life, you can discover the terms with which you are connected to other lives, and they can discover them, too — the terms with which they are connected to other people. This has happened to every one of us, I’m sure. You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discovered it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that they are alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important. Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the dark. Nobody knows what is going to happen to them from one moment to the next, or how one will bear it. This is irreducible. And it’s true for everybody. Now, it is true that the nature of society is to create, among its citizens, an illusion of safety; but it is also absolutely true that the safety is always necessarily an illusion. Artists are here to disturb the peace. They have to disturb the peace. Otherwise, chaos.

James Baldwin in an interview in 1961 (via paradoxicalsentiments)