Monkey Chatter of the Mind

ichoosebigdays: I would’ve been totally fine with this HBO....

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:32:11 -0400

I would’ve been totally fine with this HBO. Totalleh.

(source: unknown // Credit to the very talented illustrator)

Well…if they had been able to make him look like this, I would have been on board with the blue hair and ridiculous beard. But when I read it in the book, I just couldn’t stop imagining some strange person that would appear in one of my dreams riding an enormous wombat-flamingo hybrid.

hotbritishguyspluscats replied to your post: I’m creating a “Paulina’s Righteous...

Tue, 21 May 2013 01:19:47 -0400

hotbritishguyspluscats replied to your post: I’m creating a “Paulina’s Righteous Fury” Playlist

These are such good choices.

I’m probably going to spend the entire trial scene playing “Drumming Song” on a loop inside my head. If anything happens to Kyle…it’s not my fault.

I've figured out what was wrong with Star Trek: Into Darkness

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:45:33 -0400

First off, let me say that I genuinely like Star Trek and ST: ID. But I found both movies to be missing something that I’ve never quite been able to put my finger on until recently.

These two movies, while well acted and, outlandish plot devices aside, relatively well written, fall down when it comes to the direction. Don’t get me wrong, the direction in both movies is slick and well-paced. He got a lot of the casting right and both films have a wonderful sense of humor. But both movies, essentially, lack love. J.J. Abrams has said that he never loved Star Trek; that he found it difficult to get into and that he wasn’t interested in the philosophical concepts Star Trek deals with.

I cannot understand this for the life of me. In school, we talked a lot about how to handle working on projects that don’t excite us. Sometimes you have to take jobs you don’t love because that’s just part of being a professional. But, when you reach a certain point in your career, you can do whatever the fuck you want. You can make plays and films that inspire and intellectually stimulate you. You can make personal, passionate art.

J.J. Abrams could do whatever he wants. He has the means and industry status to only tell stories he loves. And yet, he’s chosen to work on a project that he didn’t initially get and now, kind of likes. I don’t understand that. Now that I’m out of school, I don’t have the luxury to pick all of the projects I work on. When I get to choose the plays I direct, I try and tell stories that are personal: plays that won’t let me go, stories that keep me awake at night and make me talk all of my friends ears’ off.

J.J. Abrams is lucky to have such a talented cast and writing team. They seem to love Star Trek enough to give the movies a bit of soul. If that were not the case, these most recent Star Trek movies would just be two hours of nice looking explosions, lens flare, and plot lines that generally don’t make any sense. I don’t understand why J.J. Abrams said yes to Star Trek when he could be working on telling stories he genuinely loves instead of ones he only kind of tolerates. All I know is that I won’t be following his example.

echrai: Hail Bacchus!

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:44:04 -0400

echrai:

Hail Bacchus!

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Tue, 21 May 2013 00:22:38 -0400

annachibi replied to your post: annachibi replied to your post: I’m creating a… How about “The...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:57:08 -0400

annachibi replied to your post: annachibi replied to your post: I’m creating a…

How about “The Fight” by Rasmus and “Burn It Down” by Linkin Park

Again, both excellent suggestions. Keep them coming!

thereligionofpeace: BBC — A new exhibition aims to celebrate...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:55:30 -0400

The Bosnian Hardaga family helped shelter a family of Jews

thereligionofpeace:

BBC — A new exhibition aims to celebrate the role Muslims played in saving Jewish lives during the Holocaust.

The Righteous Muslim Exhibition is being launched at the Board of Deputies of British Jews in Bloomsbury, central London.

Photographs of 70 Muslims who sheltered Jews during World War II will be displayed alongside stories detailing their acts of heroism.

The exhibition hopes to inspire new research into instances of collaboration between the Muslim and Jewish communities.

Yad Vashem, Israel’s official memorial to victims of the Holocaust, honours nearly 25,000 so-called “righteous persons” who risked their lives to protect the Jewish community during Nazi Germany’s reign of terror.

Some 70 Muslims have recently been added to the list. The exhibition explores their stories.

‘Empathy and cohesion’

Among the “righteous” are the Hardaga family from Bosnia who provided shelter for the Jewish Kavilio family when German forces occupied Bosnia in 1943.

Half a century later, the Hardagas were themselves saved by the Kavilios during the Bosnian Civil War.

Read more

Photograph: The Bosnian Hardaga family helped shelter a family of Jews

If someone asks me if all Jews hate Muslims and all Muslims hate Jews, I’m going to smack them in the face with a copy of this article.

butilovefire: WHAT IF HELEN MIRREN AS VOLUMNIA CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE HER SPITTING OUT THIS...

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:06:37 -0400

butilovefire:

WHAT IF

HELEN MIRREN AS VOLUMNIA

CAN YOU JUST IMAGINE HER SPITTING OUT THIS MONOLOGUE:

Should we be silent and not speak, our raiment
And state of bodies would bewray what life
We have led since thy exile. Think with thyself
How more unfortunate than all living women
Are we come hither: since that thy sight, which should
Make our eyes flow with joy, hearts dance with comforts,
Constrains them weep and shake with fear and sorrow;
Making the mother, wife and child to see
The son, the husband and the father tearing
His country’s bowels out. And to poor we
Thine enmity’s most capital: thou barr’st us
Our prayers to the gods, which is a comfort
That all but we enjoy; for how can we,
Alas, how can we for our country pray.
Whereto we are bound, together with thy victory,
Whereto we are bound? alack, or we must lose
The country, our dear nurse, or else thy person,
Our comfort in the country. We must find
An evident calamity, though we had
Our wish, which side should win: for either thou
Must, as a foreign recreant, be led
With manacles thorough our streets, or else
triumphantly tread on thy country’s ruin,
And bear the palm for having bravely shed
Thy wife and children’s blood. For myself, son,
I purpose not to wait on fortune till
These wars determine: if I cannot persuade thee
Rather to show a noble grace to both parts
Than seek the end of one, thou shalt no sooner
March to assault thy country than to tread—
Trust to’t, thou shalt not—on thy mother’s womb,
That brought thee to this world.

GET ME THE FUCK TO LONDON

annachibi replied to your post: I’m creating a “Paulina’s Righteous Fury”...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:57:17 -0400

annachibi replied to your post: I’m creating a “Paulina’s Righteous Fury” Playlist

“Tubthumping” by Chumbawamba

Yes, good. I need music that’s going to help get me to this place:

What studied torments, tyrant, hast for me?
What wheels? racks? fires? what flaying? boiling?
In leads or oils? what old or newer torture
Must I receive, whose every word deserves
To taste of thy most worst? Thy tyranny
Together working with thy jealousies,
Fancies too weak for boys, too green and idle
For girls of nine, O, think what they have done
And then run mad indeed, stark mad! for all
Thy by-gone fooleries were but spices of it.
That thou betray’dst Polixenes,’twas nothing;
That did but show thee, of a fool, inconstant
And damnable ingrateful: nor was’t much,
Thou wouldst have poison’d good Camillo’s honour,
To have him kill a king: poor trespasses,
More monstrous standing by: whereof I reckon
The casting forth to crows thy baby-daughter
To be or none or little; though a devil
Would have shed water out of fire ere done’t:
Nor is’t directly laid to thee, the death
Of the young prince, whose honourable thoughts,
Thoughts high for one so tender, cleft the heart
That could conceive a gross and foolish sire
Blemish’d his gracious dam: this is not, no,
Laid to thy answer: but the last,—O lords,
When I have said, cry ‘woe!’ the queen, the queen,
The sweet’st, dear’st creature’s dead, and vengeance for’t
Not dropp’d down yet.

…

I say she’s dead; I’ll swear’t. If word nor oath
Prevail not, go and see: if you can bring
Tincture or lustre in her lip, her eye,
Heat outwardly or breath within, I’ll serve you
As I would do the gods. But, O thou tyrant!
Do not repent these things, for they are heavier
Than all thy woes can stir; therefore betake thee
To nothing but despair. A thousand knees
Ten thousand years together, naked, fasting,
Upon a barren mountain and still winter
In storm perpetual, could not move the gods
To look that way thou wert.

I'm creating a "Paulina's Righteous Fury" Playlist

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:46:24 -0400

And I need more song suggestions. So far it includes:

Cadence to Arms- The Dropkick Murphy’s
Set Fire to the Rain- Adele
Helter Skelter- The Beatles
Drumming Song- Florence and the Machine
Respect- Aretha Franklin

apocalypsesunshine: stevesmithis: I was real mad when he said...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:39:31 -0400

apocalypsesunshine:

stevesmithis:

I was real mad when he said his name…

seriously, i was like ooooh where is he where is he it’s DAARIO TIME WOOHOO YEAH

and then

this fuckin bro right here.

get out of my sight until you fix your face

tyroshi more like tyfauxshi

Yeah, but here’s the thing, if they had made Daario look the way he’s described in the book, he would look like a child’s drawing brought to life. I mean, WHAT A RIDICULOUS LOOKING PERSON.

this-is-not-jewish: thearcanetheory: mildrose: simpliss: i-s...

Mon, 20 May 2013 22:34:27 -0400

this-is-not-jewish:

thearcanetheory:

mildrose:

simpliss:

i-said-adventure:

as-adorable-derps-do:

j-wolf-harding:

demons:

The immediate reaction of German POWs upon watching uncensored footage of the concentration camps shot by the US Signal Corps.

People often forget that most of the German troops had no idea about what was going on, they weren’t all fanatic Nazis bent on genocide, they were just regular soldiers who answered the call when their country went to war.

^ This

THANK YOU SO MUCH OMG

wow

im speechless

NO NO NO NO

FUCK THIS SHIT

THE GERMAN CITIZENS KNEW

THEY KNEW

The ghettos happened in cities, the apartheid laws happened under their noses, Jews were rounded up under their noses THEY FUCKING KNEW

Death camps and concentration camps were built WITHIN CITY LIMITS. Auschwitz, for example, is well within the city, and people take fucking strolls under its walls. I was fucking THERE, don’t even. The Polish knew, the Germans knew, it was LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE not to know. It’s even in the historical record, it’s even in fucking civilian diaries, THEY KNEW.

I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF THIS REVISIONIST BULLSHIT.

^This.

Sorry not sorry, German apologists, but what you’re seeing in this photo isn’t shock, it’s guilt. Richly deserved, completely merited GUILT. So take your, “Aw, those innocent little German soldiers, poor babies,” revisionist shit and shove it back up your collective ass.

FUCKING THANK YOU

#not if I strangle you first

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:05:17 -0400

#not if I strangle you first

221cbakerstreet: thereisnothingicantbe: My dad treats Easter like its the fucking Olympics. He...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:35:08 -0400

221cbakerstreet:

thereisnothingicantbe:

My dad treats Easter like its the fucking Olympics. He gets this sick enjoyment from watching us trying to find our baskets that literally could be ANYWHERE. Last year mine was suspended in air inside our fireplace. 2 years ago my brother had to scale the side of a tree to get his basket down. THIS ISN’T THE GODDAMN TRIWIZARD TOURNAMENT DAD JUST GIVE ME MY FUCKING PEEPS.

I will be this kind of parent

Oh man I will send my kids on the most epic Afikomen hunts. They’ll be searching for hours while the adults get drunk and sing songs before dessert.

deerly-departed: Jily Faceclaims: Julian Morris and Rose...

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:32:40 -0400

deerly-departed:

Jily Faceclaims: Julian Morris and Rose Leslie
Requested by Anonymous

Jily Faceclaims: Rose Leslie & anyone
Requested by maraudersandthemap & alohomorashlie
(She was also requested with 2 other choices for James, so check back soon)

butilovefire: ntlive: National Theatre Live to broadcast the...

Mon, 20 May 2013 10:29:53 -0400

butilovefire:

ntlive:

National Theatre Live to broadcast the Donmar Warehouse production of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

We’re delighted to announce that on 30 January 2014 we will broadcast the Donmar Warehouse production of Coriolanus, directed by Josie Rourke, with Tom Hiddleston in the title role and Mark Gatiss as Menenius, live to cinemas around the world.

Tickets will go on sale from 7 June. Sign up for email updates.

#aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaabaaasdflkajdfl;kjsdf #coriolanus is all about hypermasculine power and performativity #and the limits and failures of that mode of existence #and it’s also all about feminine (specifically maternal) power and performativity #and it’s all about politics #and it’s all about a psychotic death spiral of mutual obsession and love and hatred with aufidius aaaaaaaahwasdlkjfjele #i don’t give a shit about gatiss who’s playing volumnia and aufidius i neeeeed to knoooooooow #why are tom hiddleston’s career choices so fucking good to me

221cbakerstreet: confusedtree: In all seriousness Idris Elba as the 12th Doctor would be a great...

Mon, 20 May 2013 00:03:39 -0400

221cbakerstreet:

confusedtree:

In all seriousness Idris Elba as the 12th Doctor would be a great casting choice because he’d kill it and we’d get to find out just exactly how many anglophiles are also gigantic racists

First I want him as James Bond

Yeah, I’m not on board with him as the Doctor (definitely don’t think he’s right for the part), but JESUS CHRIST would he make an amazing Bond.

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Sun, 19 May 2013 23:02:03 -0400

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Sun, 19 May 2013 22:57:03 -0400

cloud atlas, the neverending story, frankenstein!

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:21:53 -0400

Cloud Atlas:

I really want to read this one. I’m avoiding the movie until I have time to read it.

The Neverending Story

I’m not the biggest fan of the movie. Is the book better?

Frankenstein:

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY, THIS BOOK IS BRILLIANT. Seriously, reading it was one of the most intellectually and emotionally exhilarating reading experiences.