May 8, 2013

powells:

Wednesday pick-me-up: David Foster Wallace’s 2005 Kenyon commencement speech “This Is Water” as a short film.

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May 7, 2013

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May 7, 2013

holdyourstage:

what’s happening?

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May 6, 2013
"

Orson Welles was always embarrassed by Rosebud. “It’s a gimmick, really,” he told interviewers, “and rather dollar book Freud.” The mystery of “the great man’s last words” was, like the reporter Thompson charged with solving it, “a piece of machinery” designed to lead the audience through the fragmented plot.

The solution to the mystery is supposed to be that we, like Kane’s friends, lovers, and confidantes, discover that “the great man” is actually hollow inside. There is nothing there — no lost love, no moral truths, no imparted wisdom. “Rosebud” is just a missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle. It has no special value other than that it is missing. Kane the man, like Kane the film, is what Borges called it: a labyrinth without a center.

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— Tim Carmody (via ayjay)

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May 2, 2013

thoughtsandthemesongs:

STOP. THE. PRESS.

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April 29, 2013

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April 29, 2013

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April 27, 2013
volarconmigo83: California Blue

volarconmigo83:

California Blue

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Filed under: roy orbison 
April 25, 2013
Dialogue

                                                MARY-ANNE

What do you want, anyway? 

                                                MITCH

Are you kidding? 

                                                MARY-ANNE

I don’t owe you anything.

                                                MITCH

Well, I have to make it right.

                                                MARY-ANNE

Thought you’d finished with me. Poison, right? That’s what I am. For such a— sensitive boy.

She turns on the faucet which apparently only has two settings; off and full choking blast. She soaks her hands and then runs the water through her hair.

                                                MITCH

I didn’t say that about you.

                                                MARY-ANNE

Can’t blame you for feeling that way I guess. I’d kill you eventually. It’d just be slow. Death in your sleep by 30 or so.

                                               MITCH

Will you stop sayin’ that stuff?

Mary-Anne, angry now, forces her fingers through her hair so roughly that she pulls a few strays out.

                                               MARY-ANNE

What do you rather I say?

                                               MITCH

I love you.

                                               MARY-ANNE

I know you do, Mitch.

                                               MITCH

Say it.

                                               MARY-ANNE

I never lie.

                                               MITCH

You lie all the time.

Mary-Anne turns to look at him, her nasty tone dissipating.

                                               MARY-ANNE

Not if it makes you feel good.

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Filed under: writing screenwriting rusty dialogue copyright katrina barnett 
April 25, 2013
"I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody."

— J.D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey (via crosstuned)

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