The Wanting Comes In Waves.

Interview: Kris Allen Discusses the Making of Thank You Camellia

Thu, 24 May 2012 18:33:19 -0700

Interview: Kris Allen Discusses the Making of Thank You Camellia:

Check out my latest interview!

imwithkanye: Not to be outdone by Obama, Mitt Romney offers a...

Thu, 24 May 2012 13:15:18 -0700

imwithkanye: Not to be outdone by Obama, Mitt Romney offers a chance to dine with Donald Trump. Sorry Mittens but I’d much rather eat with Clooney.

LOL, What a Fail Whale.

Ewan McGregor at 65th Cannes Film Festival 2012.

Thu, 17 May 2012 16:44:58 -0700

Ewan McGregor at 65th Cannes Film Festival 2012.

Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990). Henson may be...

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:48:04 -0700

Jim Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990). Henson may be gone, but his magic is not.

5 Things

Wed, 16 May 2012 09:43:58 -0700

Five Things I’m Obsessed With At This Moment (Music Edition)

The insanely awesome cover of Hall & Oats’ “I Can’t Go For That”, by Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers. (Sad for you if you haven’t checked out their Van Sessions on You Tube yet.)
“Dear Avery” on the vinyl edition of The Decemberists’ 2011 LP, The King Is Dead (You just have to hear it to understand.)
“Trespassing” (the song), by Adam Lambert (It’s an ~homage to “Another One Bites The Dust”. Obviously)
Rediscovering the pure genius that is Paul Simon’s Graceland record. (No, really; It’s fucking amazing.)
These albums: Boys & Girls, by Alabama Shakes and Blunderbuss, by Jack White. (Gritty, roots-driven rock at its absolute best.)

You think you can handle this? #EwanMcGregor #TimRoth...

Tue, 15 May 2012 20:34:03 -0700

You think you can handle this? #EwanMcGregor #TimRoth #Cannes2012

Our real first gay president The new issue of Newsweek features...

Tue, 15 May 2012 20:30:24 -0700

Our real first gay president

The new issue of Newsweek features a cover photo of President Obama topped by a rainbow-colored halo and captioned “The First Gay President.” The halo and caption strike me as cheap sensationalism. I realize airport travelers look at a magazine for 2.2 seconds before moving on to the next one. I grant that this cover will probably get Newsweek a 4.4 second glance. I also understand that Newsweek is desperate for sales. Nevertheless, I doubt that the Newsweek of old, before it was sold for a dollar, would have pandered as shallowly.

The caption is a superficial way to characterize an important development of thought that the president — along with the country — has been making over recent years. It is also entirely wrong. Like the mini-furor a couple of months back about the claim that Richard Nixon was our first gay president, the story simply ignores that the U.S. already had a gay president more than a century ago.

There can be no doubt that James Buchanan was gay, before, during and after his four years in the White House. Moreover, the nation knew it, too — he was not far into the closet.

Today, I know no historian who has studied the matter and thinks Buchanan was heterosexual. Fifteen years ago, historian John Howard, author of “Men Like That,” a pioneering study of queer culture in Mississippi, shared with me the key documents, including Buchanan’s May 13, 1844, letter to a Mrs. Roosevelt. Describing his deteriorating social life after his great love, William Rufus King, senator from Alabama, had moved to Paris to become our ambassador to France, Buchanan wrote:

I am now “solitary and alone,” having no companion in the house with me. I have gone a wooing to several gentlemen, but have not succeeded with any one of them. I feel that it is not good for man to be alone; and should not be astonished to find myself married to some old maid who can nurse me when I am sick, provide good dinners for me when I am well, and not expect from me any very ardent or romantic affection.

Making new friends

Tue, 15 May 2012 20:23:53 -0700

whatshouldwecallme:

When I’m not high:

When I am:

Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start The Fire Harry Truman, Doris Day,...

Tue, 15 May 2012 11:22:58 -0700

Billy Joel - We Didn’t Start The Fire

Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray, South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio, Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television, North Korea South Korea, Marilyn Monroe, Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom, Brando, The King and I, The Catcher in the Rye, Eisenhower, vaccine, England’s got a new queen, Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye

Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser, Prokofiev, Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist bloc, Roy Cohn, Juan Perón, Toscanini, Dacron, Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock, Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn’s got a winning team, Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, ElvisPresley, Disneyland, Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev, Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez

Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac, Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai, Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California, Baseball, Starkweather homicides, Children of Thalidomide, Buddy Holly, Ben-Hur, Space Monkey, Mafia, Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go, U-2, Syngman Rhee, Payola, Kennedy, Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo

Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land, Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs Invasion, Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania, Ole’ Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson, Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex, JFK, blown away! What else do I have to say?

Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again, Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, Punkrock, Begin, Reagan, Palestine, Terror on the airline, Ayatollah’s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan, Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, Heavy metal suicide, Foreign debts, Homeless vets, AIDS, Crack, Bernie Goetz, Hypodermics on the shore, China’s under martial law, Rock-and-roller cola wars

History. FUCK YEAH.

"And this is the true measure of how far we’ve come as a nation: in like five years, the prime..."

Fri, 11 May 2012 16:28:05 -0700

“And this is the true measure of how far we’ve come as a nation: in like five years, the prime talking point from Republicans about people who support gay marriage has gone from ‘It will destroy society via turtle-fucking’ to ‘Oh, of COURSE you’re for it! You’ll say anything popular to get re-elected!’”

- JON STEWART, on criticism by Republicans that President Obama announced his support for marriage equality simply because he wants another term in office, on The Daily Show (via inothernews)

Inside a Painted Lady

Fri, 11 May 2012 11:05:04 -0700

Inside a Painted Lady

Obama for America: A note from Brian H.: Dear Mr. President -I don’t know that you will...

Wed, 09 May 2012 23:00:40 -0700

Obama for America: A note from Brian H.: Dear Mr. President -I don’t know that you will...:

barackobama:

A note from Brian H.:

Dear Mr. President -

I don’t know that you will see this response, yet I hope you will.

I can’t begin to tell you what it means to me to hear these words come from my President. I never dared to hope that the leader of my country would ever affirm aloud what I must…

His smile. <3

Sun, 06 May 2012 09:56:01 -0700

His smile. <3

barackobama: “If people ask you what this campaign is about,...

Sat, 05 May 2012 17:31:16 -0700

barackobama:

“If people ask you what this campaign is about, you tell them it’s still about hope. It’s still about change. It’s still about ordinary people who believe that in the face of the greatest odds, we can make a difference in the life of this country.” —President Obama

barackobama: FLOTUS at the rally in Columbus today: “If we keep...

Sat, 05 May 2012 17:30:35 -0700

barackobama:

FLOTUS at the rally in Columbus today: “If we keep showing up, if we keep fighting the good fight, then eventually we’ll get there. We always do.”

jenny-1981: Oh this… it feels like my twitter feed… I love it!

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:23:14 -0700

jenny-1981:

Oh this… it feels like my twitter feed… I love it!

Photo

Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:20:28 -0700

motherjones: ex-genius: NEWS: Space Shuttle Enterprise...

Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:56:06 -0700

motherjones:

ex-genius:

NEWS: Space Shuttle Enterprise completes historic flyover of New York City on the back of a modified 747 before delivery to the intrepid museum. This is totally an actual photograph of what actually happened.

You sort of had to be there.

"Let’s move forward, not backward. I believe in young people and I’m going to fight for you."

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 20:17:48 -0700

“Let’s move forward, not backward. I believe in young people and I’m going to fight for you.”

- President Obama on why young Americans should vote for him, in 140 characters or less (via barackobama)

“They said he was some kind of scientist.”

Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:58:29 -0700

“They said he was some kind of scientist.”