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deschutesbrewery: Oregon Beer

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:48:08 -0700

deschutesbrewery:

Oregon Beer

AHEM ALSO

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:14:33 -0700

AHEM ALSO

boiledleather: Maisie Williams, Liam Cunningham, Carice Van...

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:36:35 -0700

boiledleather:

Maisie Williams, Liam Cunningham, Carice Van Houten

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"We still really want this idea of good and bad and good and evil and it’s really, I think, hard to..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:24:23 -0700

“We still really want this idea of good and bad and good and evil and it’s really, I think, hard to let go of that. Ambiguity gets interpreted and misinterpreted and people have to feel like there’s someone in a movie to either side with or despise, and my favorite documentary filmmaker, Allan King, used to say ‘It’s not just bad for movies to pick a hero and a villain or try to paint a portrait of good or evil; you’re actually doing active harm in the world by perpetrating that notion. Just indulging the idea that there is such a thing as good or bad people as opposed to a whole spectrum of ambiguity.’ So I feel very conscious about that when I make a film, that nobody’s a hero and nobody’s a villain. My experience of human beings is that… that we’re complicated people.”

- Sarah Polley on the moralizing that goes on in films

(Courtesy of this great piece by hitfix)

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#tbt Memorial Day Weekeend 2006. My first time seeing a...

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:44:14 -0700

#tbt Memorial Day Weekeend 2006. My first time seeing a lighthouse in person. Writing up a little something about this for Monday.

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Thu, 23 May 2013 10:12:22 -0700

A 75-year-old Pakistani Muslim man killed by a white man with a machete in Birmingham 2 weeks ago.Any media coverage?

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:58:51 -0700

A 75-year-old Pakistani Muslim man killed by a white man with a machete in Birmingham 2 weeks ago.Any media coverage? :

Detectives appeal for witnesses after Mohammed Saleem, 75, was stabbed to death as he returned home from local mosque

claytoncubitt: Click image for my new Music Video: Nicky Da B...

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:48:20 -0700

claytoncubitt:

Click image for my new Music Video: Nicky Da B “Go Loko” (NSFW, Seizure Warning)
It’s with great pride that I debut “Go Loko,” the insanely fun new music video I directed for Nicky Da B. Prepare yourself for machine-gun New Orleans Bounce, twerking latex-clad bunnies, intergalactic booty constellations that would make Carl Sagan cry tears of joy, an asstronaut, a possibly demonic hairless cat, and perhaps my greatest invention yet: The Asscam™.

Turn your volume up and get down! If you love it, click over to the Vimeo page and drop something in the tip jar!

(Directed by: Clayton Cubitt / Edited by: Bob Weisz / Makeup and hair: Katie Wedlund / Wardrobe styling: James Rosenthal / Dancers: Ro and Quack / Contortionist: Amanda Whip / Metallic mesh masks and jewelry: Arielle de Pinto / Leg jewelry on contortionist: Lizz Jardim / Production assistance: Rusty Lazer, Yumna Al-Arashi, Julia Pogodina.

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Wed, 22 May 2013 16:36:18 -0700

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Wed, 22 May 2013 13:24:12 -0700

drawagainsthumanity: In the new Disney Channel Original Movie,...

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:59:48 -0700

drawagainsthumanity:

In the new Disney Channel Original Movie, Hannah Montana struggles with dick fingers for the first time.

It’s Jon’s birthday today!

Wed, 22 May 2013 11:03:29 -0700

It’s Jon’s birthday today!

felinezegers: ‘Jacket’Feline Zegers, 2012 Some practice, just...

Wed, 22 May 2013 10:12:15 -0700

felinezegers:

‘Jacket’
Feline Zegers, 2012

Some practice, just for fun :-)

Goodbye, Dunder Mifflin: how I grew up with The Office and Tumblr

Wed, 22 May 2013 06:59:56 -0700

nudewave:

There’s a lot of beauty in ordinary things. Isn’t that kind of the point?

I watched The Office for the first time with my old friend Heidi who told me she had started watching a show that made her think of me. This was right at the time the second season DVDs had been released and were on one of those really good sales at Target. She got the first two seasons and persuaded me to come over after lunch. We smoked a bit, out of a hookah with peach-flavored tobacco since we were 19 or so, and put on the first disc.

“It starts a little slow,” she said. “Give it a few episodes.”

She wasn’t wrong but it had me from the start and not just because I was a little bit stoned. We watched for the next day and a half, ordering pizza when we were hungry and climbing into bed and couch respectively when we were tired. We called another good friend of ours to join us and she jumped in where we were. I can’t tell you when it grabbed me, maybe it was something desperate that Michael said or the simple joy of seeing Dwight’s stapler in jello but I was in. I still have never laughed as hard as I did watching “The Injury” for the first time and I’m not sure I ever will. We watched the next two seasons together every Thursday and when I moved away, I introduced my BFF to the show and kept watching.

I haven’t watched The Office since the end of season 7, a season which was already testing my patience with a show that I loved so much. I cry about most things because I have all the feelings and because I went to therapy and dealt with the things that kept everything I felt inside. This show was one of the few things to make me cry before I could cry at the things going on in my actual life. I cared about these people, these fictional but regular people, in a way I couldn’t really let myself care about people in my life. It became a conduit for this while I continued to grow. I stopped watching after season 7 because things had changed, because I had changed, but it never made me mad that it had changed; it was a weird, forever home for me in a way.

I feel this way about Tumblr. It started off as a place for me to put writing from a workshop I was taking, an archive of sorts and it became this passage to the rest of my life. I put myself out there for the first time in a long time, in just a small way, but it was enough to start something. It made me start really writing, it made me be ok with people reading the things I write, it gave me the opportunity to write for places I never would have considered beforehand. It helped me deal with things until I couldn’t do it alone and then it helped me go to therapy. It led me to meet some of my dearest friends, including my best friend. It led me to my husband, for Christ’s sake. It led me to explore art and culture and feminism and so many things that have made me a better person, the person I am today.

It wasn’t all great, of course. It also introduced me to awful people, rude people, clamoring people who made lots of things feel worse than they had to. Tumblr changed and fluctuated and we changed and fluctuated along with it. It has been a place that has documented the best parts and the worst parts and the most random, drawn from mindlessness parts of all of us. I don’t use it the way I did in the past and I have a different relationship to it now but I can’t deny that it’s a huge catalyst in how I grew into who I am now. It’s not really good or bad, it sort of just is. And this is how I feel about The Office, after all is said and done about its progress or lack thereof; it’s pretty consistently inconsistent because it’s primarily about people. It lives and breathes and fucks up and changes like we all do.

I watched the last few episodes of The Office because I had to. Of course, I had to! I fell in easily with the people I grew to know so well and caught up with them at the end of their documentary journey. I cried, more easily and with less conflicted feelings than I used to cry when watching TV and movies, and I watched as these characters, these people, that I’ve watched for years became whoever it is they were going to be; I cannot tell you how much I cried at finding out that Michael finally got the big family he always wanted, that Jim and Pam were going to take this big chance together. My heart felt so strangely full at seeing where these people are now: in better places for some, in the same cycles for others. It was so good to see all of it and I couldn’t feel anything but love for it despite the fact that it’s not the show it used to be. It changed but then so did I.

I didn’t expect to react as strongly as I did to the finale because I’d been removed from The Office for a while. It wasn’t until I was presented with this evidence of not only how far this show has come that I could really fathom where I’ve been and gotten to in the past several years as well. I feel so much the same but I know that I’m not, that I’ve changed in ways that you can only look back and realize after the fact. It’s why Tumblr changing doesn’t matter or why The Office ending doesn’t feel like something being over; what counts, the time you’ve spent and the way you’ve grown as a result of something, never really ends in the ways that matter.

Everything I have I owe to this ~~job~~ ~~blog~~ ~~show~~…this stupid, wonderful, boring, amazing ~~job~~ ~~blog~~ ~~show~~.

So, thanks to a TV show and a blogging platform for helping me get to wherever it is I’ve gotten to; I like it (and me) a lot.

That’s what she said.

amoraliste: Transpacificism (by Valle.)

Tue, 21 May 2013 19:48:32 -0700

amoraliste:

Transpacificism (by Valle.)

PDXers

Tue, 21 May 2013 17:53:46 -0700

I’m getting all-kinds-of-ditched this Memorial Day Weekend and will be bumming about in Portland alone. Send me an Ask if you’d like to get together and do something.

Indiewire: A Dozen New Photos Of Brit Marling, Ellen Page &...

Tue, 21 May 2013 16:36:33 -0700

Indiewire: A Dozen New Photos Of Brit Marling, Ellen Page & Alexander Skarsgard In ‘The East’ [x]

Brit Marling has been a constant presence in my brain ever since Sound of My Voice. I’m really looking forward to seeing her career blossom over the next couple of years.

araelia: AWWW YES FUCK THASYSTEM I’m not even a...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:48:11 -0700

araelia:

AWWW YES FUCK THASYSTEM

I’m not even a homestuck and I love the shit out of this.

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Tue, 21 May 2013 13:24:56 -0700

btchflcks: “Red, Blue, and Giallo: Dario Argento’s Suspiria” by...

Tue, 21 May 2013 13:10:22 -0700

btchflcks:

“Red, Blue, and Giallo: Dario Argento’s Suspiria” by Max Thornton

And yet Suzy retains a sense of childlike innocence and vulnerability throughout, relating to her friends and teachers like the little girl she was originally written to be. It’s a very weird juxtaposition, and I think it crystallizes the strange combination of female empowerment and ingrained misogyny that characterizes classic European horror. What, in the end, are we to make of stories where women are both the brutally murdered corpses and the proactive investigators of the mystery; both the pure childlike heroine and the monstrous villain; both desexed and penetrated by sharp objects; both agents and victims?

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