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The drake Kendrick beef trending on tumblr is like finding out an isolated village in the middle of Siberia with no internet or television access knows who Michael Jackson is

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hello, random internet stranger here. ive noticed that your personal text post was not sufficiently excruciatingly specific and explanatory enough to satisfy my need for everything online to be about or catered to me. here is my bizarrely presumptuous assertion of what i believe you meant based on a couple words and with my own imagination filling out the rest. now i need you to explain yourself and how youd dare say such an awful thing. thank you

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Rose Tyler sketches 💐

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kill the shift manager in your brain

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Greg: You delight me, Kiell, you have across the whole series by how angry Alex's nerdy little traps make you.

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♀︎ MAY 27th, 1975: VENUS AND MARS IS RELEASED ♂︎

↳ “Come away on a strange vacation Holiday hardly begun Run into a good friend of mine Sold me her sign Reach for the stars Venus and Mars are alright tonight“ 

Venus and Mars, the fourth album to be released by Wings, was recorded mainly in New Orleans and Los Angeles. It was the first of two albums to feature “the perfect Wings line-up”, with the McCartneys and Denny Laine now joined by Jimmy McCulloch and Joe English.

PAUL: I felt really comfortable with that band. I had written Venus And Mars songs in Jamaica – we were getting around a bit in those days! – and had the album pretty much mapped out. Even though we didn’t use the style of New Orleans on the album, it influenced the way we felt about the music and added to the spirit.

➪ The album topped the charts in the UK and the States as well. With this, following the success of Red Rose Speedway and Band on the Run, Wings scored their third consecutive number one album in the US.

PAUL: When we had a party in the States to celebrate having finished the album, someone came up to us and said ’Hello, Venus. Hello, Mars.’ I thought, ’Oh. no.“ When I write songs, I’m not necessarily talking about me, although psychoanalysts would say “Yes, you are, mate.” But as far as I’m concerned, I’m not. The song ‘Venus and Mars’ is about an imaginary friend who’s got a girl friend who’s into astrology, the kind of person who asks you what your sign is before they say hello. That’s it, ‘a good friend of mine studies the stars.’ In fact, in the first verse, it’s 'a good friend of mine follows the stars,’ so it could be ambiguous, a groupie or an astrologer. I didn’t even know they were our neighbouring planets. I just thought of naming any two planets. […] Later, it turns out they’ve just done an eclipse, Venus and Mars have lined themselves up for the first time in something like a thousand years. 

I’ve been reading a bit of science fiction, things like ‘Foundation’ by Asimov. I love the scope of it, the vision of it, because you can write anything. The second time 'Venus and Mars’ comes around, it says ’Sitting in the hall of the Great Cathedral/Waiting for the transport to come.’ That’s like in science fiction books, waiting for the space shuttle. ’Starship 21ZNA9,’ that’s the kind of thing you’ll find in Asimov. I like that, sitting in the Cathedral, really waiting for the saucer to come down, to take him off to Venus and Mars or whatever.

“rock on lovers everywhere, because that’s basically it”

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“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative

“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot

“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.

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Katharine Hepburn & Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby (1938) dir. Howard Hawks  

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This time, it’s walking. On these cards we’ve got all your names and our names. They are in there several times, so you might have the same ones twice. Greg is gonna try to spot the person by walk.

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The Last Days of Disco (1998)

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@spiceberrie u can hear his voice quiver in the beginning i’m so upset 😭😭😭

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“Can you find the wolves in this picture?”

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

dir. Martin Scorsese

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when u go to pick up the vase u saw on craigslist but when u get there it’s actually two people facing each other

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i feel a sense of loss when i see polls with closed results that i disagree with as if my single vote could have swayed things by 27% if i'd gotten it in soon enough

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bubbl 🫧