valuable teen movie lesson

"Look, in my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person is still going to think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with."

Its not a princess, its a robot.

pic of the day

little pink pills on the counter...

For the record: I am not depressed. I just liked the article.

quote of the day

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes ‘Awww!’

Jack Kerouac, of course

quote of the day

"Everyone has the power for greatness - not for fame, necessarily, but greatness - because greatness is determined by our individual creativity."

quote of the day

“I’ve always been a worrier,” says Penelope Cruz. “Since I was a little girl I’ve always felt that if I had a moment of peace I’d wonder: Are you sure you can afford to feel like this?”

blame it on mad men

Marilyn Monroe died on Mad Men



I'm through with love
I'll never fall again
Said adieu to love
Don't ever call again
For I must love you or no one
And so I'm through with love
I've locked my heart
I'll keep my feelings there
I've stocked my heart
With icy,frigid air
And I mean to care for no one
Because I'm through with love
Why did you lead me
To think you could care?
You didn't need me
For you had your share
Of slaves around you
To hound you and swear
With deep emotion and devotion to you
Goodbye to spring and all it meant to me
It can never bring the thing that used to be
For I must have you or no one
And so I'm through with love
I'm through with love
Baby I'm through with love

she is fine

Did you know that the theme and mood of Lesley's "It's My Party" hit can be found also in her other songs? Not that you care, but here is the proof





On a positive note, here is how the Party ended ;)

kickstart my 60' heart

why do you write?

WHY WE WRITE is a series of essays by prominent – and not so prominent – TV and Film writers.

almost there

brb

Monthly Update

I will be back with my spam soon. In the meantime, listen to the music:

Getting into the groove

WWMW?!

WWMW = What Would Madonna Wear:

Absolut Must-Have

The New Absolut Vodka Rock Edition

True Cuteness

Hoyt is just adorable beyond words.

Shakabuku

Debi: You know what you need?
Marty: What?
Debi: Shakabuku.
Marty: You wanna tell me what that means?
Debi: It's a swift, spiritual kick to the head that alters your reality forever.
Marty: Oh, that'd be good. I think.

-grosse pointe blank-

Isn't she lovely

xx

...като бълхи

Хей,

Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.
Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.
Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.
Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.

Хей,

Седя аз така, на пейка една,
обесил нос, провесил глава.
Почесвам се бавно и тъжно си мисля
как отлетя времето и колко съм стар.

Четох аз Сартр, Камю и Бодлер,
с Кафка си лягах и, и ставах с Волтер.
Ницше даже попитах, но не разбрах
Защо от смъртта така ме е страх.

А спомени - Камю и Бодлер,
прескачат се - ставах с Волтер,
в главата ми, в главата ми,
като бълхи - така ме е страх.

Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.
Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.
Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.
Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.

Седя аз така, обесил глава,
седя и си чопля носа.
Три неща обичам на този свят -
кашкавала, приятелите и това, че съм инат.

Приятелите са приятели тук, нали, йе
кашкавалът е все още с пари,
ината ми, ината ми обаче е същия,
затова и правя същите грешки.

А спомени - все още с пари,
прескачат се - обаче е същия,
в главата ми, в главата ми,
като бълхи - да, същите грешки.

Уик-, уик-, уик-, уик-, уик-, уик-,
Уикеда, уикеда уикеда.

Хей,
Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.
Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.
Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.
Джа-, джа-, джа-, Джамейка, Джамейка.

Объркан съм, обърках си живота -
това го вижда всеки от вас.
Дрънкам си само, дрънкам и пея,
а живота е туршия и всички сме в нея.

Може да съм беден, наведен и среден,
но затова пък съм волнонаемен -
ако искам работя, ако искам лежа.
Това което съм - сам го избрах.

А спомени - наведен и среден,
прескачат се - волнонаемен,
в главата ми, в главата ми,
като бълхи - да, сам го избрах.

Уик-, уик-, уик-, уик-, уик-, уик-,
Уикеда, уикеда уикеда.

Emergency Contact

OMFG!?!

Monday Wake-Up

...

"your hands are white like the front
of a penguin sunbathing on an iceberg"

Thesis Blues

The Reader

...
just bought them...yes, i know i have thesis to write

little boxes

outside the box from joseph Pelling on Vimeo.

work atmosphere

With all the builds and tests going on at work currently, everytime a test works out fine, strangely enough, this is the song that starts humming at the back of my brain:



I am sure it has to do with the excitement of success, that is so close to xmas euphoria:

Important Lessons

Keep Computing

Drunk People Yoga Positions

I think we have all mastered Savasana
xx

dancing phalanges

a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a diamond tiara lasts forever.

Catching up with some old movies:

The king is dead, long live the queen

Honestly, I have a longer memory on MJ videos and music... As a child I was fascinated by the "Leave Me Alone" video. And Madonna, I remember her sitting on this bench. But those facts are not that important. Bottomline is that both MJ and Madonna are Stars and the following article says it best on how I felt when I read that MJ passed away:

If you think about it, after yesterday’s shocking death of Michael Jackson, Madonna may be the most famous living person in the world. There are only a handful of stars left in that stratosphere. You can name presidents, Popes, Oprah. But for sheer celebrity power, it was really only Michael and Madonna atop a mountain of fame so universal it transcended borders and languages and possibly time itself. As we all know, the spectacular, strange and ultimately sad life of Michael Jackson ended yesterday. After the news broke, I couldn’t help wondering if Madonna felt lonely, if only for a moment, standing by herself on top of the world.

Their lives were intricately intertwined, yet followed sharply different paths. They were both born in the middle of America, only 13 days apart. They both rose to fame in the 80s, pioneering the age of wanting your MTV. They both sang and danced and entertained in a way no one had seen before. They both thrived on reinvention, even if one’s was less calculated and more pathological. They were both icons, in the truest sense of the word. But from there, their lives forked. The details of Michael’s spiral from fairy tale to cautionary tale don’t need to be rehashed. Whereas Madonna has been able to remain both relevant and relatively (dare I say it) normal. Well, as normal as anyone known globally by a single name who has sold 200 million albums and starred in more than a dozen major motion pictures can be.

Through her smarts, strength and savvy, Madonna has built a career that is both impressive and unparalleled. No one succeeds at that level and for that long by accident. She is unquestionably talented, but it is her staying power that truly dazzles. Quite simple, she has something that so many others lack: the will and the might to shape her own destiny.

xx

In Our Darkest Hour
In My Deepest Despair
Will You Still Care?
Will You Be There?
In My Trials
And My Tripulations
Through Our Doubts
And Frustrations
In My Violence
In My Turbulence
Through My Fear
And My Confessions
In My Anguish And My Pain
Through My Joy And My Sorrow
In The Promise Of Another Tomorrow
I'll Never Let You Part
For You're Always In My Heart.

Baby 1000HE

Class of 2009

Graduation is a time when people you don't know will step forward and give you slightly embarrassing inspirational advice. When I graduated, 10 years ago, the world told the kids of my generation to wear sunscreen.

It's good advice, really: you should wear sunscreen. You should also probably follow a lot of the directions in that now-legendary editorial/Baz Luhrmann song adaptation: if you can get through the Oprahisms like "dance, even if you have nowhere to do it," there's some pretty solid advice in there. You're going to hear a lot of "words of wisdom" from people who barely remember the good things they've done but can recall their mistakes with crystal clear detail, you're going to be told to avoid living your life like they did, or maybe you'll be told to live your life exactly as they did, as if their youth and the adventures they had were the ultimate in living and something that everyone should go though. Basically, everyone on earth who wishes they had a chance to perhaps go back and give the years 18-22 another spin will be giving you not so much advice as a play-by-play on how their daydreams have unfolded over the past 15-20 years. I'm pretty sure this happens because it's hard to even put into words how fast the world moves once you leave high school, and how different things can be, even after only 10 years.

On the day of my high school graduation, in June of 1999, Bill Clinton was the President of the United States, Britney Spears was dating Justin Timberlake, half of my graduating class had signed up for the Marines because it was an easy way to get money to pay for college and nobody thought we had a shot in hell of going to war, gas was 99 cents a gallon, people were all excited about this new music sharing thing called Napster, the first iBook had just come out, and half the world was pretty convinced that the apocalypse was coming in approximately 6 months due to the y2k bug. I went off to college thinking I'd leave with a job just handed to me, unless the world exploded on December 31. Good times.

That quickly changed however: since my graduation there were the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, many of those Marines I went to school with have since done several tours of duty in Iraq or Afghanistan, gas was up to 4.40 a gallon around here last summer, the economy has tanked, unemployment levels are up, and George W. Bush was elected president—twice. There have been highlights as well: I don't think anyone would have predicted the election of President Barack Obama when I was in my cap and gown. Technology has rapidly evolved (for good or bad): cell phones are essential, wireless is everywhere, social networking has exploded, Napster fell and iTunes rose, iPods have replaced Discmans, etc. The point is this: a lot can happen in 10 years, kid.

I don't really have any advice for you, because I'm not great at advice, and because your 18 is, in many ways, quite different from my 18, and I'm not sure what you're facing. However I can tell you that the world you think is concrete and easily grasped is not, that the reality you accept at this moment will rapidly change and force you to rethink your views on nearly everything, and that the person you are at this moment may not be the person you are even six months from now. The world is fast and relentless and hard and cruel and often enough it doesn't give a shit about you. That does not mean, however, that you should stop giving a shit about the world.

There are practical things I guess I can tell you: don't be stupid about your student loans and fall into the "Oh, I owe $50,000 anyway, I guess I'll just charge these way out of my price range jeans" trap. Don't leave your drink unattended at a party. And I'll stick with a line from that Wear Sunscreen song: "Don't read beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly." And perhaps the best thing you can do, I think, is to surround yourself with good people. It might be hard to find them, but they're out there. These are the people who will make you laugh, who will call you on your bullshit, and who will keep you sane in a world that seems to be inching ever closer to total madness.

Above all, I think it's important to remember that you're going to fuck up and you're going to regret things, and there will be times when you start falling into the mode that people who are giving you advice have already fallen into: "If I could go back," "If I could do it all again," "If I had only." You can't, you won't, you didn't. The world only moves in one direction. To get all Gandalf on you: "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us." You'll make good decisions, and you'll make not-so-good decisions. But the point is that you'll make them, in spite of everything the world throws at you, and the results will be wonderful, frustrating, disappointing, amazing, and will help you figure out who you are. Welcome to the adult world. We're all terrified, too. Pull up a life raft and we'll try to ride these waves out together. If we're lucky, we might just have a little fun along the way. And we'll be sure to wear sunscreen.

Quote of the day

"In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on."

Robert Frost

Lessons

1. If you’re smiling right now, you’re doing something right.
2. It’s not so much what you say that counts, it’ how you make people feel.
3. The biggest mistake you can make is doing nothing because you’re scared to make a mistake.
4. No matter how it turns out, it always ends up just the way it should be. Either you succeed or you learn something. Win-Win.
5. Freedom is the greatest gift. Self-sufficiency is the greatest freedom.
6. If you catch yourself working hard and loving every minute of it, don’t stop. You’re on to something big. Because hard work ain’t hard when you concentrate on your passions.
7. It’s not about getting a chance, it’s about taking a chance. You’ll rarely be 100% sure it will work. But you can always be 100% sure doing nothing won’t work. Sometimes you just have to go for it!
8. Complaining is like slapping yourself for slapping yourself. It doesn’t solve the problem, it just hurts you more.
9. The one with nothing to hide is always the one left standing tall.
10. You can press forward long after you can’t. It’s just a matter of wanting it bad enough.
11. There’s a big difference between knowing and doing. Knowledge is basically useless without action.
12. In work and business, when they need you more than you need them, you have succeeded.
13. Everything that happens in life is neither good nor bad. It just depends on your perspective.
14. We are all weird. And life is weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we call it love.
15. True friendship and true love do sustain the tests of distance and time.
16. You can’t change who you are. You can only change what you know and how you apply this knowledge.
17. It is okay to be angry. It is never okay to be cruel.
18. Even when you feel like you have nothing, someone else likely has far less. Find them and help them. You’ll see why.
19. Having a thousand credentials on the wall will not make you a decent human being. But genuinely helping one person everyday will.
20. Remember, change happens for a reason. Roll with it. It won’t be easy, but it will be worth it.

(via marcandangel)

Faboosh!

Внимавай в картинката!

Marple's Wisdom

LEARN TO ACCEPT YOUR REALITY, SO YOU CAN LIVE THE DREAMS.

when "wicked game" meets "cherish"

Literally Great!

Are You There Menta with Sprite? It's me...

"There are two kinds of people I don't trust: people who don't drink and people who collect stickers."
— Chelsea Handler (My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands)

"Are you there vodka? It's me, Chelsea. Please get me out of jail and I promise I will never drink again. Drink and drive. I will never drink and drive again. I may even start my own group fashioned after MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, but I'll call it AWLTDASH, Alcoholics Who Like to Drink and Stay Home."
— Chelsea Handler

"Obviously, if I was serious about having a relationship with some one long-term, the last people I would introduce him to would be my family."
— Chelsea Handler (Are You There Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea)


""I rolled over and picked up Us Weekly magazine off the floor. The cover had a picture of Angelina, Brad, and their little Eskimo son, Maddox. I saw staring at the photo, wondering why this little boy looks so pissed off in every picture. At first I thought he was just pissed about his Mohawk, but then I realized he’s probably furious. Maddox must have thought he hit the jackpot when some A-list celebrity rescued him from third-world Cambodia, only to discover that she was going to shuffle him back and for the to EVERY other third-world country in the universe. He’s probably like, “When the fuck are we gonna get to Malibu, bitch?”
— Chelsea Handler


"I think we can all agree that sleeping around is a great way to meet people."
— Chelsea Handler

It'll all work out.

Click here.

Smells Like Miss Dior Cherie L'eau Spirit

Should this be my fragrance for the summer?

1, 2, 3, 4....

loaded

Here’s to the crazy ones.
The misfits. The rebels.
The troublemakers. The round
pegs in the square holes - the
ones who see things differently.
They’re not fond of rules and
they have no respect for
the status quo. You can praise
them, disagree with them,
quote them, disbelieve them,
glorify or vilify them.
About the only thing that you
can’t do is ignore them.
Because they change things.

Jack Kerouac

In the Mood for Cinema

au•teur

-n. [ō-tûr', ō-tœr']

the creative visionary behind a film.

the•au•teurs

-n. [thē ō-tûrs', thē ō-tœrs']

1. an online movie theater where
you watch, discover, and discuss
auteur cinema.

2. a new social experience.

The End of Television as We Know It

From the creative end, developing a television show these days is sort of like giving birth to a daughter, your work, a daughter that you raise and nurture with tremendous care, and then one day you bring her, beautiful, statuesque, perfect in your eyes, to the church to walk her down the aisle, where a dashing groom, the American television viewership, is waiting to embrace her on the other end of the aisle. But just before the organist plays that "Here Comes the Bride" song so she can begin her walk down the aisle, out pops a herd of groomsmen, television executives, who proceed to throw your daughter down and violently gang-bang her in the back of the church, and by the time they're done with her she's bloody, beaten, and battered, almost completely unrecognizable to you, the person who raised her. Both of her eyes are swollen completely shut, one of her legs is broken, she can barely function at all, and then the very groomsmen, the television executives, who just finished violently raping her turn to you and say, "Okay, now make her walk down the aisle," and you, the person who conceived her, nurtured her and cared for her for all those years, has to walk with her as she hopelessly flounders her way down, and all the while you're hoping beyond hope that she a) makes it all the way down before completely collapsing and b) that her groom, the American television viewer, isn't so freaked out by her when he sees how hideous she now looks that he turns and bolts out of the church.

(link behind the pic)

strike a pose

From today's FaceBook blog release:

Every month, more than 850 million photos are uploaded on Facebook—making it the largest photo-sharing site. With photos being so popular, we're constantly working to improve your experience in sharing them. We noticed that many of you wanted to create larger photo albums to display all the images from a trip or event in one place. So we've now expanded the number of photos an album can hold from 60 to 200.

Run fast, fast, faster to your digital/web/phone cameras and take a lot of self-portrait pictures. The first one to have at least 3 albums, "Me", "Me (part 1)", "Me (part 2)", with 200 pictures each will win...Honestly, no idea. First, I am sure I will (am) have someone from my facebook friends accomplishing this task. Second, that's sad (or could be very sexy depending on who is on those 600 self-portraits)

My Life is a G(r)eek Tragedy 2008-2009

I don't need to write something more. This article sums it up exactly.

Rest in Rice: My Poor, Dead iPhone (2008 to 2009)

Here are some of the best suggestions what can one do with a dead iPhone:
1. Target practice
2. Replacement puck for air hockey table
3. Network w/ other dead iPhone owners and build replica of Apple HQ in Cuppertino
4. Use shiny surface to blind owner of working iPhone & swap after ‘accidentally’ bumping into them and dropping your phones
5. Put on “Apple History” shelf next to your original, non-working Apple II GS, Macintosh, Macbook and Newton
6. Use a really cruel gag gift in next office “Secret Santa”

...a bit of self-irony:


...a bit of friends' consolidation:

"И квооо, малката кучка на Steve Jobbs се гътна най-накрая, а?"

the end of the iFone era

;-(

such as

drift in time

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

— Kurt Vonnegut, “Sirens of Titan”

why so serious

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion.
I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Never Give a Sucker a Happy Ending

A very objective article on NY times about House MD season finale: here

I did my desk research and below is the video mentioned in the article.



And you are calling Me TV-show obsessed....

What Women Want

Seth: He's got good abs. Women like abs. I got a six-pack myself. I know.

Summer: Cohen, those are your ribs.
Seth: Oh, Mother Chucker

a male horse name* music

I could hold your beautiful hands
And kiss your beautiful eyelids
Throw open your beautiful doors
And phone your beautiful friends

But it’s all over.


*вихрогон

Finale Fever

This year, season finales were nothing outstanding or shocking. The SNL one was kind of sweet, though, with all the cast singing.

“Goodbye Saigon” will be in your head FOREVER ….FOREVER ….FOREVER

You know me...they got me with the singing part and Amy's surprise appearance.



Only Tina Fey was missing...



And she was the one who said it best:

Liz: We sure had quite a year.
Jack: What are you talking about? It's May.

M is for Biatch

My beloved Marple has been very creative this past month(s) for which I am extremely proud. Way to go girl! Show them (me) how it is done!

P.S. In the process M, please, do not forget to write your thesis. (just teasing you)

let it roll

three times for your tears to go by

Berlin Du Bist So Wunderbar

party like nobody

Did you take the time?

I know it is cheezy. I just love the charachter of Cristina and the way her face changes right before she says: "I am gonna hug you", is just priceless. This season was nothing special, but this scene made it for all episodes and ghosts.

xx

The habits and needs of a little-understood group

You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush.

500 Days of Summer

The movie:



The music:





























...
well, this is just some of the selection...google for more :)

the lord of the pandas

"I don't want friends. I want followers", said a while ago one of my favourite comedians trying to explain her new passion the twitter postings.

This post is for followers. For a particular one. A true and dedicated follower that I also like to spy on from time to time. Funny thing is with all this shared "following" activity one would expect that we would also regularly meet. Not the case. Even in the online forest, only the traces of our momentum existence could be found. Destiny proclaimed for us to watch one after another. And as a good follower, it is my obligation to guide back to Harlequin Forest, its confused keepers.

Happy Bday, Shan'do ;-) Keep following! Cheers!

a childhood dream reminder.

LOL
I could have totally been this guy...If only I have strated with those drums lessons I have always wanted.
And now that I live alone....nothing can actually stop me :P