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it is almost certainly impossible to spin male masturbation as cool.
32. His face in repose was somber; it comes from th solitude that was his interior environment, and um I don't know where it comes from. I mean you know it would probably take a kind of psychological profile, a lot of investigation to reveal it. Um it may come from--it may be part of what happens to everybody who leaves home and never goes back, really. Um but in Warren it was visible. And um that's part of his power as a screen presence.
31. Wood-Grilled Burger w/ Vermont Cheddar ($12): 12-ounce chuck on a sweet potato roll, sour pickle, smoked tomato ketchup, and malted fries @
Rustico in Alexandria--barring further evidence, best burger in existence, makes Five Guys taste like a veggie burger
30. An upskirt picture of a well-known young lady exiting or entering an automobile wearing a plain black party dress and partially see-through undergarment, revealing neatly-trimmed upper pubic region, her head turned demurely to her right, and this all appears really to be an accident, as if no camera were present, except that you're in a public library
29. From: Ozan
5:18pm 30-JUN-06
I just passed a guy on the highway who was watching porn on a tv strapped to his dashboard
28. ... [T]he team's star cornerback, Lawyer Milloy, pulled him aside and gave him the best advice of his life: as long as he was teaching the players, making them better, they would listen.
The moment it appeared he was talking just to hear himself speak, they would tune him out.
27. "Obama."
"It's not going to happen."
"Really, you don't think?"
"Well, are you talking about the general election or just the Democratic nomination?"
"Th whole thing."
"He's running a smart campaign, no doubt. If it happens, that means my belief in the American people--in our political system--would be restored."
"And clearly thet cain't happen."
"The other thing is, if he did win, and I hate to be so negative, but he would get ..."
"What."
"He would get assassinated."
"Hmm hmm ah hadn't even thought of thet?"
"Sad to say, but it's true."
"Well, he is black. And there are a lot of crazies out there."
"A lot."
"Mebbe he should invest in a Popemobile?"
26. A song by Martina Topley-Bird whose existence I found out a couple days ago: "
I Only Have Eyes for You"--it doesn't belong to her, either, everything's fine (5.3 MB)
25. Th way we sometimes like things primarily because someone we like likes them, and it's not insincere, we sincerely like these things, we just didn't arrive @ them through th usual scientific means
24. It's hard to think of Oates playing an unqualified optimist; there's something in his face, th way he looks @ things, that suggests a readiness for failure or darkness.
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22. Warren Oates seemed @ first sight grubby, balding, and unshaven. You could smell whiskey and sweat on him, along w/ a mixture of bad beds and fallen women. He's toothy, and he's small, and he has a face like prison bread, w/ eyes that have known too much solitary confinement. But th eyes bulge and shrink in a sweet game of fear and courage, and for some of us Oates is th only human being in pictures.
21. "Bill was always fearless. We would walk along the streets of New York, and he was totally unknown, but he had the same confidence in himself that he had after his success. He'd yell to strangers, 'Watch out, there's a lobster loose ... Anybody got hot butter?' at the top of his lungs. People would laugh, and they were not sure what they were seeing, although it was clearly some kind of force of nature ... He has a way of being both sarcastic and wonderfully warm and personal all in one sentence. He's terribly fearful of appearing maudlin and will go to extreme lengths to hide and disguise the sweetness that is in a deep part of him. But it's always there."
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A drawing of an elephant from a story about th beginning of time19. th early career of Hall & Oates
18. Reviewers, moreover, participate necessarily in the game by which everyone in the "book world" (academics included) pretends that this year's work must hold more interest, show us more about human life, than work from 1850 or from 1961. (That's why few kinds of writing seem so dated, so clearly wrong, as old book reviews.)
17. For instance, why do I like Anthony Bourdain so much? It can't be all because of his pretty face. (My BFF recommended his books to me, of course!)
16. There's this point in th process of falling in love w/ somebody, and before you reach that point you're tallying all th things you like about them, and it could be romantic love, or it could be friendship love, it doesn't matter--you're adding up all th positive qualities they have, and that list of positive qualities is why you like them. But den you hit th point. And after that point you're no longer keeping score. You just know you love them, and th script flips: you don't love them because of TH THINGS, you love TH THINGS because you love them.
15. I forget that I have a body. Or at least the one I see now. Things like that make you realize how fortunate you are to have a body. Imagine all the unhoused souls wandering aimless through the universe, waiting for some sort of temporary rest stop such as I have. The realization of my blessing inspires me to put my body to full use.
14. How can somebody sing "I only have eyes for you" and release it as a single and have it become a hit single that zuh-hillions of people hear and find believable? It's like a miracle.
13. Is it UNLUCKY to find yrself in a position of not knowing why you like th things you like?
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11. And is that really a sign of weakness of personality, that kind of love?
10. As Falsone drives, Yao sits in the front passenger seat, one enormous leg crossed over the other. Falsone puts on a U2 CD and cranks it up. Yao asks him to skip forward one track, then one more.
"This one?" says Falsone.
"Yes," says Yao.
The opening chords of Desire rumble through the car, Bono's opening exhalation followed by that staccato guitar riff.
"I can't listen to this song and drive," proclaims Yao, slowly moving his head. "I begin to drive too fast."
09. To find yrself being not absolutely certain where yr mind ends and another person's begins? What if that's not that bad or not bad @ all
08. A desire to sleep
07. "Nobody should experience anything they don't need to," Frank O'Hara quipped. "If they don't need poetry, bully for them." Yet poetry lets us imagine that certain arrangements of words, and nothing else--no camera, no lights, not much action--can tell us what it's like to be other people, and (in another sense) what it's like to be ourselves.
06. A sofa
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My favourite dog04. Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine ("my" cat)
03. My own thoughts
02. When we think of leading actors what we think about is someone who we can identify w/ and watch th story through. But it basically means that we always see them in a positive way because we always wanna see ourselves in a positive way, so ... Some of us have to be willing to play th guy that you can see in a very negative way. But it's a special gift when you can play that negative guy and you can still have a human being there so the person that's watching you can say, "Yeah that guy's a loser, but pwuhhh I've been there."
01. "Remember, Bob, no fear, no envy, no meanness."