Obama and cast of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon watching live feed of Romney’s NAACP National Convention speech.
Me on my way to work
“ It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I’ve been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that’s afflicted me most of my life.
Unconditional
All we can control
in this silly
and wildly
perfect life
is the love
that we
choose to
give out
without any
regard to ever
getting it back
in return.
-Tyler Knott Gregson-
“But it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world.
Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst… And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life… ”
- American Beauty
“ It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
In our new cover story, Black Keys frontman Patrick Carney tells Rolling Stone senior writer Brian Hiatt that ”rock & roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world … Rock & roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don’t like to see it fucking ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down, post-grunge crap, horrendous shit.”
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“ We’re taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they’re of equal value as happiness, excitement and inspiration.
