Xanthe

You are full of worth, you are loved, and I am glad you are alive

[remediesoftinourselves]

Memento Mori

[weallfallfromgrace2]

[extinctioninthemorningrays]

[howcanthestoneremain]

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And one day we will die, 

and our ashes will fly from the aeroplane over the sea.

But for now we are young, 

Let us lay in the sun,

And count all the beautiful things we can see. 

[theoszczepanski]

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[yayitssunny]

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[remediesoftinourselves]

Prithee,

Who could’ve foreseen this absurd grandeur life? 

O! We are blessed to bathe in its waters

And sleep beneath its soft shade.

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Adèle Haenel photographed by Julien T. Hamon.

[newkidsonmycock20]

[rockymountaingothic]

I really miss going to the thrift shop and touching everything and coming out wearing a terrible new jacket

[makeuphall]

[spiroandthelacktones]

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At the 1998 Grammy Awards, Pavarotti was too ill to sing Nessun Dorma. Aretha Franklin filled in on 20 minutes notice.  This is the result.

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Not only was the performance done on 20 minutes notice, she had no rehearsal and simply heard Pavarotti’s rehearsal once on a goddamn tape player and just listened, nodded and said she could do it. the most famous opera song in the world, on one of the biggest nights for music in the world, no rehearsal, and she just went out and did it.

that’s talent

[hrefnasenna]

WHERE IS THE REST I NEED IT.

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More backstory: she’d performed Nessun Dorma at another event two days before, but got asked to take Pavarotti’s slot and basically instantly accepted— WHICH HAPPENED AFTER THE SHOW HAD ALREADY STARTED. (The producer didn’t hear he wasn’t coming until about 1:50 before he was supposed to be onstage.) She got a recording of Pavarotti practicing, and got to sit with his conductor and rehearse until it was time for her performance (the originally scheduled one) and for a bit of time afterwards. She didn’t know that there was a 30-strong backing choir or 50-piece orchestra till she saw it on her way down. What a queen.

Link: An interview with the producer of the show.

And the rest of the performance: https://youtube.com/watch?v=aArVxjh_s7I

[hilariousgrindr]

You were closer the first time

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I’m a professional overthinker

[my-darling-boy]

I was going to rewatch 1931 Dracula again tonight and just as I turned it on a BAT started flying around at my window and wouldn’t go away and I’ve never seen a bat at my house before and let me tell you I’ve been so gay touched starved this quarantine I was about ready to risk letting a wild bat in my room if it meant it could possibly be one tall, Sexy vampire

[my-darling-boy]

Ah rabies

[s0irenic]

May  -  1979  -  Alex Colville