extracting brain

ross told me today to stop thinking. BEST ADVICE OF THE CENTURY

true, true

from this pitchfork article:

Cross-gender identification is harder, I think, for boys, in part because media present the perspective as the “normal” or default point of view. Only in the last year did I become aware of the Bechdel Test, which searches for films that meet three criteria:

1. It has to have at least two [named] women in it
2. Who talk to each other
3. About something besides a man

There are far fewer than you might think. And if this is the world you grow up in, seeing “life” reflected back at you with movies that don’t have these three qualities, boys and girls alike internalize the idea that men are the actors in art and creativity, and women are tangential. If you grow up with this reality, I think it’s fair to assume that women will have an easier time identifying with male singers than vice versa.

karen dalton part deux

take a cue from the french

“Take a cue from the French and wear the blouses unbuttoned, with the sleeves nonchalantly rolled up, half tucked in.”

GONNA

PATTERNS

Courtesy of MSGM

restlessness

“Being alive is a challenge, isn’t it.”

– Tom Petty in a Fresh Air interview from 2008

struggling with love, human hearts, life paths, restlessness, wandering, searching.

who loves anyone forever anymore.

BESIDES THIS LADY!!!!!!!! LUV 4EVER YALL

pretty close

from boris johnson’s proust questionnaire in vanity fair:

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
A beach, a bottle, a swim, a bed.

grain elevators

Russell Lee, Grain elevators, Caldwell, Idaho (1941). Photographed while on assignment for the Farm Security Administration in July 1941. From the Library of Congress’s photostream on Flickr (!).

summer (for d.f.)

John Zurier, Summer (For D.F.), 2011, Oil on linen mounted on wood, 24 x 31 inches, JZU1101. Courtesy of Lawrence Markey.

but actually this is the jerry jeff song i can’t stop hearin