June 2011
25 posts
“I expect only the best from life. Everything sub-best is training for the best. I train to eat Jeni’s ice cream, and when I eat it, I feel justified. We make ourselves Right in order to deserve heaven, and heaven for each is individual and complex. I adore Marlon Brando, and his journey, but could never get down with his ulcerating ice cream binges. With Jeni’s flavors I understand being on top of the world…in my mouth. I feel Brando’s pain and it hurts so darn good.”
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Will “Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy” Oldham on Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, only the most amazing ice cream in the world, based in my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, USA
via Jeni’s blog
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Wilhelm's Fucking Best
James Drake
James Drake
“Wilhelm’s Fucking Best”Sizable tip of the hat to Pitchfork.
The mash up is a pretty straightforward version of alchemy. The process is simplified radically, though, when you take two components that are basically Au + Au (gold and gold), and put that shit through like Logic or whatever it is these nerds do. Because James Blake plus Drake is fucking awesome. I don’t care. (Drake is really great.)
“Best I Ever Had” is the best in whatever form anyone chooses to put it.
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autostraddle.com tumblr presence: what is the james baldwin quote you mentioned re: Riese's article? →
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i think i found it, it’s in douglas field’s “a historical guide to james baldwin”:
“I think the trick is to say yes to life… It is only we of the twentieth century who are so obsessed with the particular details of anybody’s sex life. I don’t think those details make a difference. And I will…
I will never not reblog a Baldwin quote.
