December 2009
141 posts
Adaptation
Charlie Kaufman: There was this time in high school. I was watching you out the library window. You were talking to Sarah Marsh.
Donald Kaufman: Oh, God. I was so in love with her.
Charlie Kaufman: I know. And you were flirting with her. And she was being really sweet to you.
Donald Kaufman: I remember that.
Charlie Kaufman: Then, when you walked away, she started making fun of you with Kim Canetti. And it was like they were laughing at *me*. You didn't know at all. You seemed so happy.
Donald Kaufman: I knew. I heard them.
Charlie Kaufman: How come you looked so happy?
Donald Kaufman: I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn't have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want.
Charlie Kaufman: But she thought you were pathetic.
Donald Kaufman: That was her business, not mine. You are what you love, not what loves you. That's what I decided a long time ago.
Donald Kaufman: Whats up?
Charlie Kaufman: Thank you.
Donald Kaufman: For what?
“Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. “I’m okay” we say. “I’m...”
– The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (via thechocolatebrigade)
death from above 1979 make sex music
whenever i listen to death from above 1979 it makes me really want to fuck somebody. like it doesnt actually make me horny or turned on - just that this bands music makes me feel like right now i should go get wasted at a sleazy bar and have a rough, violent, passionate (but loveless) one-night stand with a hot stranger in a dark back alley.
which, in reality, is pretty much the opposite of what...
“There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself To Live (via thinkinphotographs)
“I believe I can see the future, because I repeat the same routine. I think I...”
– Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails), Every Day is Exactly the Same
Oh, my tongue's the only muscle in my body that...
Jersey Girl
Gertrude Steiney: [very pregnant Gertrude is getting ready for the VMAs] You try getting ready quickly when you look like this! I'm so fat and there's gonna be nothing but beautiful skinny girls there!
Ollie: That's because they're all coked-out whores, honey.
Gertrude Steiney: [sobbing] I wanna' be a coked-out whore!
Ollie: Okay. You can be a coked-out whore. You can be a coked-out, coked-out whore.
Useless (but somewhat interesting) fact #3: I...
jxd:
In fact, these past 2 days I’ve been watching an abnormal amount of horror/action/adventure films. Darn HBO & Max Cinema channels!
wow i didn’t even know there was a Psycho IV (or III or II) but Hitchcock’s original is a tense masterpiece
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It...”
– Neil Gaiman (The Sandman Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones)
I plan to read all of his books.
(via jxd)
My sister and my brother are both big fans - I haven’t read anything by him except his children’s book, Coraline.
I can lend you some of his novels, but if you plan to read all of his works -...
Princess Bride
Inigo Montoya: Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.
Count Rugen: Stop saying that!
A couple of months ago, I was giving my sister’s boyfriend’s little 7 year old cousin a piggyback, and she tried to jump up higher on my back, and accidentally jumped over my head and fell onto the ground! She wasn’t really hurt, but being a little kid that would have been kind of scary.
I saw her today for the first time since then and she said, “I don’t like...
Chasing Amy
Alyssa: Why are we stopping?
Holden: 'Cause I can't take this.
Alyssa: Can't take what?
Holden: I love you.
Alyssa: You love me?
Holden: I love you. And not, not in a friendly way, although I think we're great friends. And not in a misplaced affection, puppy-dog way, although I'm sure that's what you'll call it. I love you. Very, very simple, very truly. You are the-the epitome of everything I have ever looked for in another human being. And I know that you think of me as just a friend, and crossing that line is-is-is the furthest thing from an option you would ever consider. But I had to say it. I just, I can't take this anymore. I can't stand next to you without wanting to hold you. I can't-I can't look into your eyes without feeling that-that longing you only read about in trashy romance novels. I can't talk to you without wanting to express my love for everything you are. And I know this will probably queer our friendship - no pun intended - but I had to say it, 'cause I've never felt this way before, and I-I don't care. I like who I am because of it. And if bringing this to light means we can't hang out anymore, then that hurts me. But God, I just, I couldn't allow another day to go by without just getting it out there, regardless of the outcome, which by the look on your face is to be the inevitable shoot-down. And, you know, I'll accept that. But I know, I know that some part of you is hesitating for a moment, and if there's a moment of hesitation, then that means you feel something too. And all I ask, please, is that you just - you just not dismiss that, and try to dwell in it for just ten seconds. Alyssa, there isn't another soul on this fucking planet who has ever made me half the person I am when I'm with you, and I would risk this friendship for the chance to take it to the next plateau. Because it is there between you and me. You can't deny that. Even if, you know, even if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I am forever changed because of who you are and what you've meant to me, which - while I do appreciate it - I'd never need a painting of birds bought at a diner to remind me of.
I ONLY LIKE YOU WHEN YOU FREAK OUT.
FREAK OUT! FREAK OUT!
“Now, a staple of the superhero mythology is, there’s the superhero and...”
– Bill, Kill Bill Vol. 2
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Joel: I can’t see anything that I don’t like about you.
Clementine: But you will! But you will. You know, you will think of things. And I’ll get bored with you and feel trapped because that’s what happens with me.
Joel: Okay.
Clementine: [pauses] Okay?
Joel: Okay.
“I have never understood the song ‘Infatuation,’ just as I have never understood...”
– Killing Yourself to Live by Chuck Klosterman (via thechocolatebrigade)
i am not your friend, i'm not your lover, i'm not...
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
there you are, resting in my hands: looking so fragile, small, calculated - like a little glass doll - and beautiful, to the point where it gives me a headache to look at you. if it was the opposite, and you were ugly, the headache you’d cause would be even worse, but at least i’d have the choice to turn away. when something’s so beautiful that it’s intoxicating, you...
“Do you know the Tristan Rêveur quote about bad art? It’s “bad art is...”
– Stay
“Of the many imprisonments possible in our world, one of the worst must be to be...”
– Roger Ebert, Review of “Heat”
onomatomania:
bibliotheque:
Postal...
and chasing amy haha i know a guy just like banky
Banky Edwards: Alright, now see this? This is a four-way road, okay? And dead in the center is a crisp, new, hundred dollar bill. Now, at the end of each of these streets are four people, okay? You following?
Holden: Yeah.
Banky Edwards: Good. Over here, we have a male-affectionate, easy to get along with, non-political agenda lesbian. Down here, we have a man-hating, angry as fuck, agenda of rage, bitter dyke. Over here, we got Santa Claus, and up here the Easter Bunny. Which one is going to get to the hundred dollar bill first?
Holden: What is this supposed to prove?
Banky Edwards: No, I'm serious. This is a serious exercise. It's like an SAT question. Which one is going to get to the hundred dollar bill first? The male-friendly lesbian, the man-hating dyke, Santa Claus, or the Easter bunny?
Holden: The man-hating dyke.
Banky Edwards: Good. Why?
Holden: I don't know.
Banky Edwards: [shouting] Because the other three are figments of your fucking imagination!
clerks owns and so does kevin smith
Dante Hicks: You know what the real tragedy about all this is? I'm not even supposed to be here today!
Randal Graves: Oh, fuck you! Fuck you, pal! Jesus, there you go trying to pass the buck. I'm the source of all your misery. Who closed the store to play hockey? Who closed the store to go to a wake? Who tried to win back his ex girlfriend without even discussing how he felt with his present one? You wanna blame somebody? Blame yourself. "I'm not even supposed to be here today."
[throws stuff at Dante]
Randal Graves: You sound like an asshole! Jesus, nobody twisted your arm to be here. You're here of your own volition. You like to think the weight of the world rests on your shoulder. Like this place would fall apart if Dante wasn't here. Jesus, you overcompensate for having what's basically a monkey's job. You push fucking buttons. Anybody can waltz in here and do our jobs. You-You're so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic, so much more important than it really is. Christ, you work in a convenience store, Dante! And badly, I might add! I work in a shitty video store, badly as well. You know, that guy Jay's got it right, man. He has no delusions about what he does. Us, we like to make ourselves seem so much more important than the people that come in here to buy a paper, or, god forbid, cigarettes. We look down on them as if we're so advanced. Well, if we're so fucking advanced, what are we doing working here?
I'm not alone, 'cause the TVs on, yeah. I'm not...
“But she left anyway, and he was left alone in his room, searching out anagrams...”
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Aah fuck you Dexter!
I think the Dexter Season 4 finale is the closest I’ve come to crying over a show in a while. :(
I think you kind of take the Dexter character for granted. You accept that he’s a serial killer and that thats what he does in the first episode - you need to, for the show to work. And since he’s the main character, you empathize with him the most, feeling what he’s feeling,...
“Perhaps if we saw what was ahead of us, and glimpsed the crimes, follies, and...”
– Lemony Snicket, The End
“After they had explored all the suns in the universe, and all the planets of all...”
– Lanford Wilson, Fifth of July
“This is love, to sit with someone you’ve known forever in a place...”
– Daniel Handler
“This is how it works. You’re young until you’re not. You love until you don’t....”
– ~ Regina Spektor (via gatekeeper) (via caralynrose)
This song is amazing. This album is amazing. This woman is amazing.
“It’s sad when people you know become people you knew; when you can walk right...”
– Henry Rollins (via thechocolatebrigade)
“This is your one opportunity to do something that no one has ever done before...”
– Garden State | Submitted by sinnersandsaints (via quote-book)
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no one has posted this exact message on tumblr before :D im making history!
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to...”
– Alain de Botton, Essays in Love
“The more familiar two people become, the more the language they speak together...”
– Alain de Botton, Essays in Love
onomatomania:
I’ve never associated the word ‘twinkle’ with stars. It just never made sense - maybe because it is a two syllable word and stars don’t really ‘twinkle’, they don’t sparkle, they don’t brighten and fade instantly and repeatedly. They shine. That’s a much better word, much more representative of the constant light given out by these little bright dots in the sky. Twinkling is too...
“Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by...”
– William J. H. Boetcker (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)