You're right. I really preferred your inaugural performance to hers. Because you were selected to give one. Because you're really talented and not just some goon with a llama profile picture savoring the bitter taste of the proverbial haterade in lieu of celebrating the fact that two nobodies: one, a bulldog-faced kid from the Bedford-Stuyvesant projects, the other, the daughter of a Texan medical equipment salesman, managed to become prominent in their respective artistic fields, change the cultural landscape, and find eachother —all in a way that seems to say, "and you might too, if you try."

I don't really listen to Beyonce's music. I prefer many rappers to Jay-Z. But when I weigh their missteps against their contributions, their virtues against their shortcomings, I have to leave them at a net positive.

• what I lost ≠ what was gained
• I can't remember what they were... do I even deserve to feel this way?
• It was important to me.
• Where do I go from here?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWKgHFFKA...

• Into the Wild
• Source Code
• Donnie Darko
• Brokeback Mountain
• Zodiac
• Pride & Prejudice
• We Need To Talk About Kevin

"You guys are still stressing about it," he told reporters just days before. "I have times that I want to hit and things I want to do. That's why I'm here. Obviously, we always want to be faster."

“I’ve not been an angel in my life, either—do you know what I’m saying? So to a certain extent, what goes around comes around. But for me in the future, I’m about being comfortable. That’s it.”

What does that mean?

“Now that I’ve achieved some of the things that I’ve wanted to achieve, I’m not going to be a slave to it all of a sudden. I respect the artist that lives that way. The people that just go, ‘You’re going to hate me for what I just did, or you’re not going to understand why I made that film or that record or whatever, but what you are watching is someone that’s living their life.’ You know: I’m not watching you; you’re watching me.”

• 11-12/11
• The Noonday Demon

I admired her in some ways, although things between us were never easy. She expected too much from me, I felt. She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she'd made. I didn't want to live my life on her terms. I am not your justification for existence, I said to her once. I want her back. I want everything back, the way it was.

"And it's pictures of him walking around and he looks like he's in a photo shoot, like he just came off the runway. There's ones of me, and I literally look like the neighbour who never really comes out of his house, and when he does, you're, like, 'Maybe you should just stay in.'"

• Zeno's Conscience- Italo Svevo
• My Ex-Lover Is Dead- Stars
• Rules of Attraction- Bret Easton Ellis
• American Psycho
• Angels- The xx
• The Da Vinci Code
• The Alchemist
• Fast Cars- Tracy Chapman
• Serial Killer- LDR

A feeling's just a feeling till you let it get the best of who you are

"There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things. This year it's fantasy football, which means Rosie has to listen to me talking 24 hours a day about this team. 'Should I take this player out, do you think, darling?' And she listens to it, and she loves me for my oddness, my awkwardness, all of those things that I hate about myself. She finds them cute. I guess that's love."

"Don't let anyone ever make you feel that you don't deserve what you want."

• Less Than Zero
• you are a little bit happier than i am
• Dreams From My Father
• Eeeee Eee Eeee
• During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present
• Sometimes My Heart Pushes My Ribs
• Prozac Nation

• Infinity scarf, rings
• 16 GB usb

Don’t ever assume someone likes you because 10/10 times they don’t