I have something that just can’t wait;
you got something to contemplate.
Now I’m leaving for my house;
you got something to smile about.
How do you reign in the character’s eccentricity ? Well, I had to be prepared to let people dislike her at times because she’s a bit of a bitch, but at the same time, she’s gorgeous and she’s funny and she’s silly and you sort of feel for her. You kind of sense her confusion about who she is and her life. She’s very, very vulnerable, I think, underneath all of that stuff. I just had to work very, very hard. Sometimes I would say to Michel, “Let me know if I’m not going enough. Let me know if I’m going too far.” And more often than not, he would be pushing me further. I was so terrified of being over the top and he would just say, “No, no, no. More, more, more.” And I’d be like, “Really ?” He’d go, “Yeah, it doesn’t matter. Just do it, just try it.” That was fantastically liberating. When you do classical period films, you don’t get the opportunity to do that. It’s a more subtle approach.
(Source: kawaicandy, via bbook)
The Obama campaign has released a video on how horrible Romney would be for American women. I certainly don’t need convincing - but if I did, this would likely do it.
(via barackobama)
I cannot help loving President Barack Obama.
(Source: patricialeesmith)
I was lost in a valley of pleasure.
I was lost in the infinite sea.
I was lost, and measure for measure,
love spewed from the heart of me.
I was lost, and the cost,
and the cost didn’t matter to me.
I was lost, and the cost
was to be outside society.
Everywhere there’s statues with their open arms wide surrounded by fences that you can’t get inside.
"Nothing else has emerged since to confront sexism with a fraction of Riot Grrrl’s fire and prophetic drive. The self righteous absolutism of adolescence eventually softens its edges, as it must. But we never stop needing that idealism and energy, that courage to name things as political if they are political and unacceptable if they are unacceptable, that dedication to crafting our lives and our communities on our own terms. Telling stories is just the beginning."
— Sara Marcus, “I was going to be one of them.” Girls to the Front (p. 11). (via riotgrrrlfemrock)
The word ‘butback’ isn’t in the monologue.
