mar 30 2010 ∞
mar 30 2010 +
  • a mari usque ad mare, from sea to sea
  • ad astra, to the stars
  • ad astra per aspera, to the stars through difficulty
  • alis volat propriis, she flies with her own wings
  • disce aut discede, learn or leave
  • dum spiro spero, while i breathe i hope
  • fiat lux, let there be light
  • fluctuat nec mergitur, it is tossed by the waves but does not sink
  • invicta, unconquered
  • memento mori, remember you must die
  • nescit cedere, he d...
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dec 30 2009 ∞
feb 8 2010 +

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here

  • romola garai → my cassandra.
  • kate winslet → I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode. & I do believe in God. Well, actually, I suppose I don't, really. If there is a God for me, it's in the elements — the fresh air, trees... some sort of elemental God. & Loving someone is setting them free, letting t...
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aug 12 2009 ∞
dec 10 2009 +
  • asparagus
  • saffron
  • brass
  • cinnabar
  • turquoise
  • azure
  • periwinkle
  • burgundy
  • copper
  • teal
  • ochre
  • vermilion
  • mauve
  • ruby
  • coral
  • aubergine
  • viridian
  • wheat
  • champagne
  • persimmon
  • amaranth
  • cornflower
  • russet
  • taupe
  • charcoal
  • byzantium
  • carmine
  • cerulean
  • ecru
  • chestnut
  • cinnamon
  • salmon
  • mint
  • navy
  • plum
  • mulberry
  • robin egg
  • thistle
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apr 3 2009 ∞
aug 21 2009 +

series one

  • lucy thinks ricky is trying to murder her → after reading a murder mystery and listening to ethel's fortune-telling, lucy concludes that ricky is trying to do away with her.
  • lucy fakes illness → lucy fears that if ricky keeps refusing to hire her as part of his night club act, she may just have a nervous breakdown. she suffers from the "three stages" of one— amnesia, delusions of be...
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mar 29 2009 ∞
aug 20 2009 +

admittedly bisexual

  • billie joe armstrong
  • djuna barnes
  • helmut berger
  • david bowie
  • marlon brando
  • kurt cobain
  • margaret cho
  • alan cumming
  • sia
  • miranda july
  • jack kerouac
  • frida kahlo
  • iyari limón
  • ma rainey
  • peaches
  • natalie portman, sort of ('I think it’s much more the person that you fall in love with—and why would you close yourself off to fifty percent of the people?' Rolling Stone, June 2002)
  • anthony rapp
  • pete shelley...
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mar 29 2009 ∞
aug 12 2009 +
  • pedro almodóvar
  • simon amstell
  • w.h. auden
  • john barrowman
  • truman capote
  • willa cather
  • graham chapman
  • michael cunningham
  • angela davis
  • brian epstein
  • stephen fry
  • e.m. forster
  • federico garcía lorca
  • tim gunn
  • neil patrick harris
  • langston hughes
  • tab hunter
  • james ivory
  • marc jacobs
  • john maynard keynes
  • david lachapelle
  • yves st. laurent
  • annie leibovitz
  • tom lenk
  • audre lorde
  • heather matarazzo
  • ian mckellen
  • ismail merchant
  • harvey milk
  • john c...
nov 7 2008 ∞
nov 15 2008 +
  • glossolalia: english, n. repetitive nonmeaningful speech, especially that associated with a trance state or religious fervour
  • saudade: portuguese, n. a feeling of longing for something of which one is fond, which is gone but might return in a distant future
  • dépaysement: french, n. someone is taken out of her own familiar world into a new one
  • namasté: sanskrit, 'i honour the place in you in which th...
nov 10 2008 ∞
nov 15 2008 +
  • antonio vivaldi (1678-1741)
  • johann sebastian bach (1685-1750)
  • george frideric händel (1685-1759)
  • wolfgang amadeus mozart (1756-1791)
  • ludwig van beethoven (1770-1827)
  • niccolò paganini (1782-1840)
  • frédéric chopin (1810-1849)
  • richard wagner (1813-1883)
  • giuseppe verdi (1813-1901)
  • johannes brahms (1833–1897)
  • camille saint-saëns (1835–1921)
  • pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky (1840–1893)
  • antonín dvořák (1841–1...
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jun 16 2008 ∞
feb 8 2010 +

inside

  • wooden floors
  • the only clutter is books, old books, holding up lamps and glasses of water
  • chipped tile
  • peeling printed wallpaper from the previous owner; too nostalgic and delicate to remove
  • mint green painted walls, faded
  • claw foot tub, heavy flawed porcelain
  • mason jars as drinking glasses
  • rescued cast iron skillets
  • some turquoise
  • muddy wellies by the door
  • spice cabinet stuffed with saffron and ging...
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nov 7 2008 ∞
mar 24 2009 +
  • stephen fry
  • alan rickman
  • joanna newsom
  • romola garai
  • nina simone
  • tom waits
  • the janitor on scrubs
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jan 4 2007 ∞
jul 25 2009 +
  • primate ethologist
  • street poet
  • hobo
  • eastern european/russian spy
  • stand up comedienne
  • osteologist (anthropologist of bone studies)
  • archer & bowyer
  • organic farmer
  • film director
  • cinematographer
  • screenwriter
  • language teacher
  • architect
  • interior designer
  • children's librarian
  • (sexy) librarian
  • art therapist
  • astrophysicist
  • quantum physicist
  • bandit
  • egyptologist
  • paleolithic archaeologist
  • anthrozoologist (human-animal connections)...
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nov 7 2008 ∞
nov 10 2008 +
  • marc-andré fleury
  • jarkko ruutu
  • ruslan fedotenko
  • zdeno chára
  • henrik lundqvist
  • jean-sébastien giguère
  • krzysztof oliwa
  • guillaume latendresse
  • pavel datsyuk
  • oleg kvasha
  • michal rozsíval
  • wojtek wolski
  • valtteri filppula
  • olli malmivaara
  • florian iberer
  • orest kindrachuk
  • jiří tlustý
  • mikael tellqvist
  • roman hamrlik
  • börje salming
  • vesa toskala
  • vincent damphousse
  • tuukka rask
  • pekka rinne
  • antoine vermette
  • jocelyn thibault
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aug 30 2008 ∞
feb 8 2010 +

explored

  • james joyce centre
  • national museum of ireland
  • museum of childhood (edinburgh)
  • metropolitan museum of art
  • carnegie museum of natural history
  • carnegie museum of art
  • musée du louvre
  • andy warhol museum
  • everson museum of art
  • erie canal museum
  • carnegie science center
  • smithsonian air and space museum
  • smithsonian museum of natural history
  • phipps conservatory
  • hershey museum
  • whitaker center for the arts
  • american c...
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jun 16 2008 ∞
feb 8 2010 +
  • paperbacks
  • ink
  • press rooms
  • attics
  • trains and electricity
  • cloves
  • dust
  • russian bread
  • mountain air
  • green
  • sun-heated hair
  • blueberries in the morning
  • wet machines
  • petrichor
  • driving closer to the sea
  • sap
  • window screens on stormy days
  • bedclothes
  • mexico at sunrise
  • cinnamon and nutmeg
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jun 16 2008 ∞
jun 16 2008 +

All bibles or sacred codes have been the causes of the following errors:

  • that man has two real existing principles: viz: a body & a soul
  • that energy call'd evil is alone from the body,& that reason, call'd good, is alone from the soul.
  • that God will torment man in eternity for following his energies.

But following contraries to these are true:

  • man has no body distinct from his soul; for that call'd bod...
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dec 31 2006 ∞
sep 10 2009 +
  • charles
  • chapter
  • colm
  • etienne
  • finlay
  • fionn
  • gabriel
  • henry
  • noel
  • oliver
  • pekka
  • percival
  • ruruk
  • sebastian
  • théo
  • theodore
  • tomas
  • tristan
  • william
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dec 31 2006 ∞
sep 10 2009 +
  • álmos
  • apolena
  • clothilde
  • csilla
  • dorottya
  • eleanor
  • erin
  • etelka
  • ethel
  • felicity
  • georgiana
  • henrietta
  • ilka
  • isla
  • klotild
  • lisel
  • marta
  • natalia
  • natascha
  • svenja
  • svetlana
  • theodora
  • vera
  • winifred
  • zsófia
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nov 7 2008 ∞
aug 18 2009 +
  • pumpernickel
  • wrinkle
  • crepuscular
  • chrysanthemum
  • narcolepsy
  • mallard
  • ornithology
  • nacre
  • thrush
  • oyster
  • twine
  • silk
  • olive
  • humming
  • lust
  • sorrow
  • yellow
  • mellow
  • sallow
  • superfluous
  • tome
  • wistful
  • whimsy
  • chamomile
  • ennui
  • clavicle
  • rubella
  • harpsichord
  • husband
  • subtle
  • plethora
  • arabesque
  • storm
  • sullen
  • thistledown
  • yarrow
  • chime
  • fusty
  • macabre
  • milk
  • russet
  • slender
  • pulchritude
  • lamp
  • plum
  • lithe
  • loathe
  • cumulus
  • cirrus
  • twenty
  • traipse
  • tumble
  • brume
  • lattice
  • druthers
  • thimble
  • glum
  • twill
  • tweed...