liz went everywhere

lizwenttoworklizwenttoagallerylizwenttothewaterlizwenttothemoon

[general-eclectic]

the only way i ever want to deal with an awkward situation from now on

(from broad city, comedy central’s newest show on wednesdays at 10:30p)

[lizwenteverywhere]

new poem after long absence (apologies for how personal it is)

if i had known

this was all the time we’d have

i would have played hooky

from work on some days so

we could cuddle in bed and talk about

hopes and fears and trace the shapes

of our palms on each other’s.

i would have walked home from work

much faster every day so that i had

more time to cook with you,

and hear about your day and

your theories on politics.

if i had known this

was all the time we’d have i

would have asked you to dance

more in the kitchen; i would have

made you dance with me in the

kitchen.  or in the shower with me.

i would have demanded

that you shower with me.

i would have tried to see every meal, every bottle of

gatorade a tiny offering, an apology for the knowledge

that you wouldn't be able to stay longer. 

[hwayangyeonhwaa]

Choir!Choir!Choir! sings Last Christmas! It’s available on iTunes, all proceeds go to Médecins Sans Frontières / Doctors Without Borders. 99 cents! SO GET IT.

[darnyill]

[amymichellesmith]

Everything.

[lizwenteverywhere]

joseph kosuth must be pissed.  

[lizwenteverywhere]

hai, koo! aka 'when i thought i was going to lose somebody'

fear of forgetting

the colour of someone's eyes

amid daylight blue. 

[theparisreview]

“A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page. Writing has always had that tactile quality for me. It’s a physical experience.”

Paul Auster (via theparisreview)

[theparisreview]

“The most important thing I’ve learned about writing is never write too much at a time,” Hemingway said, tapping my arm with his finger. “Never pump yourself dry. Leave a little for the next day. The main thing is to know when to stop. Don’t wait till you’ve written yourself out. When you’re still going good and you come to an interesting place and you know what’s going to happen next, that’s the time to stop. Then leave it alone and don’t think about it; let your subconscious mind do the work. The next morning, when you’ve had a good sleep and you’re feeling fresh, rewrite what you wrote the day before. When you come to the interesting place and you know what is going to happen next, go on from there and stop at another high point of interest. That way, when you get through, your stuff is full of interesting places and when you write a novel you never get stuck and you make it interesting as you go along.”

A reading list Ernest Hemingway created for a young writer in 1934.

The reading list:

The Blue Hotel by Stephen Crane

The Open Boat by Stephen Crane

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Dubliners by James Joyce

The Red and the Black by Stendhal

Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Hail and Farewell by George Moore

The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Oxford Book of English Verse

The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Far Away and Long Ago by W. H. Hudson

The American by Henry James

i am a young writer in 2013.  this probably all still applies?  i've only read the cummings....boo.

[lizwenteverywhere]

Allie Brosh came back and perfectly explained what it's like to start to come out the other end of crippling depression.  

The moment, for me, was less awesome (no shrivelled corn contorting my brain into a giggle-land): I just woke up one morning and said, 'hmm, I don't seem to hate today nearly as much as usual.'  Then i proceeded to actually GET OUT OF BED and MAKE MYSELF BREAKFAST instead of just lying completely still in hopes that my mattress would somehow swallow me up and I'd end up in Narnia or wherever people who get eaten by mattresses go.  

[discourseontheotter-blog]

~Massimo De Angelis 

[lizwenteverywhere]

YUSS FOREVER!!

[rosalindrobertson]

A while ago, I penned a fairly angry response to something circulating on the internet – the 21 Habits of Happy People. It pissed me off beyond belief, that there was an inference that if you weren’t Happy, you simply weren’t doing the right things.

I’ve had depression for as long as I can...

[lizwenteverywhere]

This is so good.  I wish I'd read this two years ago, but at least I can share it now?

[lucaspsi-deactivated20150617]

Probably the best thing I have ever seen.

[deliverybooty]

I ship it

[lizwenteverywhere]

Oh man, this is beautiful.  

[popculturebrain]

I have a degree from UCLA. I’m an amateur historian who has written books about World War II, the Harlem Renaissance, and African-American inventors. I read a lot of fiction as well as non-fiction. I watch TV and movies. I have acted in both. I have been a political activist and an advocate for children’s education. How should an aging, black jock like myself know anything about pop culture? Man, I am a living part of pop culture and have been for nearly 50 years. Beyond that, I think pop culture expresses our needs, fears, hopes and whole zeitgeist better than some of the more esoteric and obscure forms of art.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar responds to the response to his response to ‘Girls’ | Huff Post Ent (via popculturebrain)

“Some questioned why a man my age would watch a show about girls in their twenties, as if they’d just discovered me hanging around a school playground with a shopping bag full of candy in one hand a fluffy puppy in the other. Of course, these critics are right. When I read Moby Dick I first had to convince the bookseller that I was a former whaler named Queequeg. When I read the poetry of Sylvia Plath, I had to pretend I was a depressed white woman with daddy issues. Don’t worry, I used a fake ID.”

(via flannery-culp)

I was just waiting for Kareem to “have to” justify why he was possibly qualified to write about “Girls.” Thanks for not disappointing, white America.

(via utternutter)

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA hall of famer, renaissance man, public intellectual.

(via zuky)

He went all the way in.

(via notime4yourshit)

Yasssssss.

(via harrietsdaughter)

Beyond that, I think pop culture expresses our needs, fears, hopes and whole zeitgeist better than some of the more esoteric and obscure forms of art

#ummp.

(via newmodelminority)

I love this.

[brimalandro]

[lizwenteverywhere]

yes forever.

"I forgot my mantra."

[77-27-photo-blog]

Swedish Countryside

[lizwenteverywhere]

beauty!

[onyellowpaper]

How stripping off to play Helen of Troy on the London stage changed the way I feel about my body

It’s October. It’s dusk. It’s the second week of rehearsals for The Trojan Women, a modern version of Euripides’ tragedy in which I’m greedily playing three different roles: Cassandra, the...

[lizwenteverywhere]

this is a great article.  everyone ever should read it.

[lizwenteverywhere]

'She Turns,' Larry Poons, 2012.  Photo by Jason Andrew.  

Read all about Poons' new work at http://hyperallergic.com/65270/the-painterly-cravings-of-larry-poons/  amazing.

[phoebemakesstuff-blog]

“false”. watercolour and ink on paper. art by phoebe Todd-Parrish.

[lizwenteverywhere]

whatta talented lady.  i want to buy this and put it in my house.