Unwashed & Somewhat Slightly Dazed

I was born to hustle roses down the avenues of the dead

[gronalund]

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The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser - Dir. Werner Herzog

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Julie Newmar and Tina Louise

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Greta Garbo in The Painted Veil (1934)

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Garbo, in turn, reportedly said she wanted to meet him and try to convince him to stop the war. She felt the power of her personality could alter the course of history, but “if not – I could shoot him”.  Who would dare to search Greta Garbo on a special invitation from the Führer?

The romantic idea that Garbo was willing to martyr herself by assassinating Hitler sounds apocryphal, but her friend Sam Green confirms it: “Once she said, ‘Mr Hitler was big on me. He kept writing and inviting me to come to Germany, and if the war hadn't started when it did, I would have gone and I would have taken a gun out of my purse and shot him, because I'm the only person who would not have been searched.'

That's a direct quote. She said it to me over dinner, and it was so out of character. It wasn't her habit to make up such a story to stop a dinner party. Or maybe not so out of character. As a child, she had had fantasies that ‘I might shorten the life of a cruel king and replace him by a romantic knight'”.

Considering her abhorrence of brutality of any kind, the scheme was uncharacteristically bold – especially from a woman who fretted that nothing she might do could possibly make a difference.

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Daylight turns to moonlight And I'm at my best Praising the way it all works Gazing at the rest

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'I Enjoy Being a Girl!" - 1965 episode of The Entertainers w/ Chita Rivera, Carol Burnette and Caterina Valente + Boris Karloff.

Song originally performed in the 1958 musical Flower Drum Song (Rodgers and Hammerstein)

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Gweedore Core

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“It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm – this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the “why” arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement.”

— Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus

[aimlessme]

[endilletante]

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Slide Show : The Color Photographs of Helen Levitt Photographs by Helen Levitt, Introduction by John Szarkowski  Hardcover: 118 pages  Publisher: powerHouse Books 2005

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““I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.””

— - George Orwell, Why I Write 

[silfarione]

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What does it mean to feel? Millions of dreams come real A feelin' in my soul i'd never felt before... mmm... And you always told me. No matter how long it holds me if it falls apart Or makes us millionaires. you'll be right here forever. We'll go thru this thing together

And on heaven’s golden shore we’ll lay our heads

[screenshotingmonstertv]

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It was Shelley Duvall’s destiny to become most widely known for a single film or maybe for a single poster image from it, shockingly and cartoonishly explicit. The image certainly did justice to her intensity and capacity for utterly unselfconscious performance, but said nothing about the subtlety, strength, wit and unfakable superstar quality that otherwise marked her work.

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[jacobwren]

"We live in an anti-relational, vulnerability-despising culture. One that not only fails to nurture the skills of connection, but actively fears them. We are all victimized by the violence of disassociation and disconnection." - bell hooks, All About Love

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[jtmportland]

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“The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full, in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.”― Henri J.M. Nouwen

[kirsanof]

Bois ton café, Éric Rohmer

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