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Just… yeah, needed to bring this back to my dash. XD
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Hello everyone! My name is Adam, 23 and from Chicago. I like cats, comedy, Doctor Who, sweaters, feminism, and pop songs your new boyfriend is too stupid to know about . Can I lick your face?
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January302012
8AM
To Do List for the week of 1/30/12 to 2/5/12
For Comedy Studies:
- Finish sketch for Andy’s class on Wednesday
- Have Laughter on the 23rd Floor monologue completely mapped out (location of all the beats, figuring out movement, crosses, and environment work) and fully memorized by Wednesday
- Watch everything on the Burlesque and Silent film lists for History & Analysis of Comedy by Thursday
- Write essay on Paradigm Lost for Andy’s class on Wednesday
- come up with at least 25 sketch ideas based around the 2012 elections, the 99% vs the 1%, Occupy & Anonymous, and anything else that deals with the current climate of politics and social justice.
- Buy a movement-appropriate pair of pants today.
For life outside of Second City
- Finish the Best Day Ever (absolutely tenative title) mixtape, 60 to 90 minutes
- Put together my Valentine’s Day mix
- put together my Buddy Holly’s Maltshop Punx mixtape
- write my essay on teeth & the comfort of physical/emoitional/mental imperfection for Bear Book
- write my essay on Inflated/Deflated and how the deflated balloon of snark represents the conflict between our nostalgia for symbols of our childhood (that which represents the person all of us promised at an early age we wouldn’t let down as we grew up) and the actuality of what happens to those symbols (and how their relation to ourselves is altered as we get hurt, become cynical, et cetera) over time, and pondering if Inflated/Deflated is an expression of finding a happy medium between the two via creating art from that very conflict.
- Write my On Love and Death essay that I started (and by started, mean, wrote that title down on a sheet of paper)
- do more brainstorming and outline making for my pseudo-memoir
- Write my short essay for Chelsea’s thing at Columbia on how Tina Fey is a ‘radical/revolutionary’ when it comes to the (never true and horribly outdated) ‘argument’ that women aren’t funny/have no place in comedy (fuck anyone that actually believes that for a second in both ears at once)
- At least figure out what I want to actually attempt to say about creating a pro-equality culture through altering the ways the we, as a generation, speak to and about each other. Maybe start writing it?
- Convince someone at the columbia library to wipe my $100+ worth of late fines so I can start reading theory for my capstone again
- Write to Angela
- Email Emily to see if she’d like to meet about my capstone, and where it’s headed thanks to the Second City program, and to make sure that she’ll stick around as one of my outside readers for next semester
- Clean my room and do my laundry.
- Get at least one night of solid sleep
8AM
All the buzz, but none of the sting: Lana Del Rey, Born To Die (Pseudo-Review)
Okay, so I’m listening to this Lana Del Rey album, and holy shit is it boring. Hmm, maybe that’s not the best way to start this pseudo-review, but to hell with it, I’ll stick to my honest reaction. Don’t get me wrong, she has a great voice, but these songs are incredibly tedious and boring, and that’s coming from someone who has a perpetual hard-on for the sort of lounge act style of singing/crooning from the 1920s - 1950s that Rey is appropriating here. What really just cements me not being able to really enjoy this album at all is the clumsy hip-hip lingo and annoying, bad-mixtape-dj sound effects that occasionally pop up, usually when I’ve finally managed to suspend my boredom for just long enough to actually start getting into this whole postmodern electric cigarette vapor filled lounge atmosphere they’re trying to pull off here, and suck me right out of actually being able to be entranced by Rey. This isn’t to say that Lana Del Rey is absolute shit, there is legitimate potential and talent here, but this persona that Lizzy Grant has cultivated (supposedly along with her multi-millionaire father and her somewhat aware of what’s currently going on in the ‘hip’ culture that her creative staff is trying to tap into, judging from the line “Pabst Blue Ribbon on ice”) just does not deliver the goods. Maybe for her follow up, she should take the pen into her own hands a bit more often. However, this is a debut album, and while most bands with far less money, direction, and support manage to put their best foot forward, Born To Die just feels like another lukewarm attempt to co-opt youth culture while not paying attention to the actual talents and potential of the performer. At the end of the day, Born to Die is yet another disappointing showing from yet another over-hyped buzz act. Don’t waste your money just yet. Let Lizzy Grant/Lana Del Rey cultivate this persona, as well as her already evident vocal skills, over the next year of touring and writing, and then let’s see what she can do with a firmer grasp of what she’s doing.
2AM
(Source: witchchoir, via aristocratcat)
2AM
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This is what I hear when I think about Bérénice Bejo. Seriously, her face just kills me.
(3,499 plays)
2AM
(Source: angela-darmody)
2AM
file under: people I would love to take out for coffee mainly so I could bask in the glory of their perfect face.
(Source: constancelangdon)
2AM
shesaidfollowme replied to your photoset: yep, we’re just being adorable and listening to…
Cute Boys With Cats! Adam edition.
Aww shucks Hillary, cut it out.
12AM
The 11 Doctors line up and this purrrfect set of illustrations by artist Jenny Parks. I love that these hilarious felines actually look a lot like the Doctor Who individuals that they were drawn to portray.
11”x 17” poster prints and button sets are now on sale at her online store!
Doctor Mew by Jenny Parks (Facebook) (Twitter)
Via: Nerd Approved | Forbidden Planet
(via roombarumba)
12AM
yep, we’re just being adorable and listening to M83. Don’t mind us :)
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