“STEVE HOLT”

—Steve Holt (via warpedtourlouis)

(Source: fuckedontheinside)

“Let it be known that the unsatiable media monster will have their
day with Elliott one way or another. Let us just hope that as he
continues his steady climb to post indie success - that another
Seattle tragedy does not occur — I am most likely just being
apocalyptic and delusional — something that appeases the lack of
stimulating experience in our march toward the millennium. Perhaps
I am just a jaded negative, but I feel a necessity to worry as
Elliott is amongst the greatest new talents our genre and generation
has to offer the next.”

—

mpriss17

September 8, 1997

(via andrepeat)

“I love Sara’s music and there’s no one else i’d rather share a face with and I try to remember that I actually enjoy being around her.”

—Tegan Quin (via compootlegleetch)

“I’ve read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.”

—Lynn Abbey (via writingquotes)

“I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn’t a documentary or a cartoon — you can’t. You cannot. There are not any. You cannot take yourself to one, take your friend to one, take your daughter to one.

There are not any.

By far your best shot, numbers-wise, at finding one that’s at least even-handedly featuring a man and a woman is Before Midnight (on 891 screens) so I hope you like it. Because it’s pretty much that or a solid, impenetrable wall of movies about dudes.

Dudes in capes, dudes in cars, dudes in space, dudes drinking, dudes smoking, dudes doing magic tricks, dudes being funny, dudes being dramatic, dudes flying through the air, dudes blowing up, dudes getting killed, dudes saving and kissing women and children, and dudes glowering at each other.

Somebody asked me this morning what “the women” are going to do about this. I don’t know. I honestly am at the point where I have no idea what to do about it. Stop going to the movies? Boycott everything?

They put up Bridesmaids, we went. They put up Pitch Perfect, we went. They put up The Devil Wears Prada, which was in two-thousand-meryl-streeping-oh-six, and we went (and by “we,” I do not just mean women; I mean we, the humans), and all of it has led right here, right to this place. Right to the land of zippedy-doo-dah. You can apparently make an endless collection of high-priced action flops and everybody says “win some, lose some” and nobody decides that They Are Poison, but it feels like every “surprise success” about women is an anomaly and every failure is an abject lesson about how we really ought to just leave it all to The Rock.”

—At The Movies, The Women Are Gone : Monkey See : NPR (via kdhart)

“I don’t give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am … You are a shit.”

—Frida Kahlo, from an unsent letter to Diego Rivera (via stoneyxochi)

(Source: violentwavesofemotion)

“When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark 28 days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”
It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions? How often had I sped past them as I learned of male achievement and men’s place in the history books? Then I read Rosalind Miles’s book “The Women’s History of the World” (recently republished as “Who Cooked the Last Supper?”) and I knew I needed to look again. History is full of fabulous females who have been systematically ignored, forgotten or simply written out of the records. They’re not all saints, they’re not all geniuses, but they do deserve remembering.”

—Sandi Toksvig, ‘Top 10 unsung heroines’ (via manced)

(Source: ninestories)