Shake it out - Florence + the machine
The best thing to wake up to.
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… My generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, “Memories Of My Melancholy Whores” (via nedhepburn)
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Don’t Ask, Don’tTELLWith the formal end of DADT less than a month away, GQ’s Chris Heath spent six months assembling an oral-history-of-sorts about what it was like to be a gay man serving in the U.S. military. The resulting piece, which appears in our Sept 2011 issue and runs a bit longer at GQ.com, is funny, sad, horrifying and, above all, surprising. Life under DADT is both everything—and nothing—like one might expect. A brief sample below, from a heartbreaking section of the piece titled “Invisible Partners”:
Air Force #4 (senior airman, four years): “Right now our relationships don’t exist.”
Air Force #3: “I’ve had three deployments [while] with the same person. Every time it’s been ‘All right, see you later.’ All the spouses get together, do stuff. He’s just there by himself, fending for himself.”
Marines #2: “The relationship lasted for about four years, but I always felt like I was disrespecting him, to have to pretend he didn’t exist when I went to work. When I got deployed, he was there with my family when I left. It kind of sucked—to shake his hand and a little pat on the back and ‘I’ll see you when I see you’ kind of thing. And when you’re getting ready to come back, the spouses were getting classes—here’s how you welcome your Marine back into the family—and my boyfriend didn’t get any of that. I had a really hard time adjusting to being home. We tried to make it work for a year but he was getting more and more paranoid about people finding out about us. It killed me that he felt that way because of me. I don’t think we ever really had a chance, ultimately.”
Air Force #3: “When I was deployed, every Sunday we would sit down on opposite sides of the world and we would each order a pizza and we would watch a movie together over Skype. We weren’t doing anything bad except trying to spend some time together. But there was no ‘I love you.’ Certainly nothing sexual, or anything like what some straight guys do over Skype.”
Navy #2 (captain, twenty years): “Personally, I haven’t had a lot of struggles. The hardest thing that I faced was about eight years ago. I was dating somebody for about two years who had gotten out of the army. He was HIV positive, and I didn’t know that, and he ended up dying—it just happened very quickly. I am not positive, luckily. So I had a lot of difficulties grasping with that personally, dealing with his death, and I had to take time off work, but still not tell them. I couldn’t go to the doctor or the psychologist. There wasn’t really anybody to talk to.”
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You cannot work too hard at poetry. People are bad at it not because they have tin ears, but because they simply don’t have the faintest idea how much work goes into it. It’s not as if you’re ordering a pizza or doing something that requires direct communication in a very banal way. But it seems these days the only people who spend time over things are retired people and prisoners. We bolt things, untasted. It’s so easy to say, ‘That’ll do.’ Everyone’s in a hurry. People are intellectually lazy, morally lazy, ethically lazy…All the time. When people get angry with a traffic warden they don’t stop and think what it would be like to be a traffic warden or how annoying it would be if people could park wherever they liked. People talk lazily about how hypocritical politicians are. But everyone is. On the one hand we hate that petrol is expensive and on the other we go on about global warming. We abrogate the responsibility for thought and moral decisions onto others and then have the luxury of saying it’s not good enough.
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If I found out these two are married I will die of adorableness.
This bad a$$ right here. Salon asks, “Why aren’t these actors famous?”
Ken Leung is best known for playing Miles Straume, a spiritualist who could extract information from corpses, on ABC’s “Lost.” He was brilliant on that show, but if you’d been following his career, you weren’t the least bit surprised. Leung is a thrilling actor, reminiscent of great superstar antiheroes of ’70s American cinema, but with a unique energy and intensity. When I wrote about Spike Lee’s 2004 made-for-Showtime movie “Sucker Free City,” arguably the best Lee film that almost no one saw, for the Star-Ledger, I spent half my review raving about Leung, who played an ambitious young criminal rising through the ranks of San Francisco’s Chinese American mob. I compared him to the young Al Pacino because he had Pacino’s mix of live-wire intensity, street smarts and verbal facility.
Food + Reality competition = I’m so freakin’ there! Check out Korilla BBQ and the 7 other contestants on Season 2 of the Food Network’s The Great Food Truck Race.
Korilla BBQ (@KorillaBBQ) - This mobile Korean grill already has a strong following in New York City, but can these Korean grillmasters convince less cosmopolitan palates across the nation to eat bulgogi or tofu burrittos? They may run into challenges sourcing their proteins as well — their pork and chicken is usually hormone and antibiotic free, they’re used to using certified Angus beef and they make their own tofu.
Up and coming star Teesa drops a teaser for her single “Captive.”
After fans funded her upcoming music video, it’s just about ready to be seen by the public. It offer a futuristic visual with an upbeat vibe. The song about living inside the walls of heartbreak will break out soon.
“Why Hollywood Keeps Whitewashing the Past” by Matt Zoller Seitz. A bit long but Seitz has fantastic points by way of reviewing “The Help,” a new movie that once again disappointingly paints “enlightened white people as heroes.” Preach!
There was no real-life book similar to Skeeter’s magnum opus; it’s a fictional flourish that feels like a college-educated white liberal’s wish-fulfillment fantasy of how she would have conducted herself had she been time-warped back to the civil rights era. I wouldn’t have just stood by and let it happen. I would have done something! Something brave! This silliness reminded me, perversely enough, of an old Eddie Murphy routine tweaking macho black males’ fantasies of how they would have behaved if they’d lived in the pre-Civil War South: “Brothers act like they couldn’t have been slaves back 200 years ago … ‘I wish I was a slave! I would f—- somebody up!’”
Dayum! Actress Kristin Stewart for W Mag. Photographed by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggot.
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KPop superstars Super Junior’s MV for “Mr. Single,” their lead single from their 5th album of the same name.
This is what 3D was made for! Like duh.
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Six years after their Guantanamo Bay adventure, stoner buds Harold Lee and Kumar Patel cause a holiday fracas by inadvertently burning down Harold’s father-in-law’s prize Christmas tree.
Don Chao getting hit on by MILF played by Jennifer Bini Taylor in Hornitos Tequila commercial. Chao commented:
I thought it was cool to be cast too, especially when the producers told me they weren’t specifically looking for Asian guys. They were looking for someone who could do innocent and confused. I did find it a little funny that they told me to say “geometry class.” Saying that seems to enforce the stereotype that Asians are good at math. I actually never even took calculus.
(Source: channelapa.com)
