studiosixty

Took off my Crazypants

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:57:09 -0700

joehillsthrills: sleepyhollowjacks asks: I was reading your chain of tweets about Paxil and had a...

neil-gaiman: assemblethehobbits: This had made my day!! Mine...

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:43:58 -0700

assemblethehobbits:

This had made my day!!

Mine too.

Oh man is there higher praise for a book you’re already eagerly anticipating from one of your favorite authors than the praise of the writer of one of the best books you’ve read in the past few years?

sterlinggates: Thinking of home tonight. Days like today are...

Tue, 21 May 2013 04:08:29 -0700

sterlinggates:

Thinking of home tonight.

Days like today are hard days to be an Oklahoman and yet not actually live in Oklahoma.

You see and hear and read and watch and take in all you can; you make calls and get calls, you get reassurances and make reassurances to others; you wonder and hope and seek out confirmation that people you love and miss and know are all okay, okay in that “we weren’t even anywhere near Moore” way and okay in that “we’re alive but lost everything but we’re alive” way.

And then you stop watching it all and stop following it all because you can’t handle the reality of the nightmare.

The fear instilled in us, as elementary school kids growing up in Oklahoma, wasn’t one of school shootings or terrorist attacks. It would be high school before that ever entered into our consciousness. No, as an elementary school kid you prepared for the terror of a tornado, and you did so by joining all of your classmates in the hallway, bowing your head and hoping that whatever storm system overhead simply dissipated or passed over without incident or moved away to bother someone else.

You sat in the dark with everyone you knew and you hoped it would be okay.

It’s absurd, when you think about it, that the only solution to salvation from 200 mile per hour winds in a storm system a mile or two wide cutting a swath of destruction across fields and houses and roads and lives…

…The only way to be safe is to sit in the dark and bow your head and hope.

And today that’s what hundreds of kids did and today that’s what I did and today that hope wasn’t enough for entirely way too many people. For at least ninety one people and their families, some of whom are still in darkness waiting for things to be okay. And for a lot of them, for most of them, things will never be okay.

It seems like Oklahoma and tragedies go hand in hand, but so does Oklahoma and hope.

So does Oklahoma and perseverance.

So does Oklahoma and strength. And more than that, it’s the audacity Oklahoma has to rebuild a school in the ruins of the previous school, in the very spot where year after year a mighty force of nature descends upon the helpless and the innocent and the unprotected and that mighty force decimates any and all in it’s wake.

A lot of people may look at that audacity and see foolishness, or stubbornness, or stupidity. But that’s not it at all.

It says that we as Oklahomans, we’re not going anywhere. We belong to this land, and we will not be so easily moved by wrath-of-a-vengeful-God like winds and decidedly Old Testament acts of wanton and unforgiving destruction.

We belong to this land and we will rebuild and we will survive and we will heal.

And until then we will sit in the dark and hope that it will all be okay.

GPOY.

Mon, 20 May 2013 17:24:45 -0700

GPOY.

domesticabusewillsaveusall: Stefon’s Wedding |x| SNL...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:18:10 -0700

domesticabusewillsaveusall:

Stefon’s Wedding |x| SNL 18/5/2013

German Smurfs, Gizblow the coked up Gremlin, Human Fire Extinguishers, Ben Affleck and is that Ryan Seacrest? No it’s a drowned albino who looks like Axl Rose.

I’m going to miss Bill Hader.

Just the fucking best.

I didn’t watch the Billboard Music Awards last night, but...

Mon, 20 May 2013 11:12:43 -0700

I didn’t watch the Billboard Music Awards last night, but I did watch this video of Glen Campbell, Johnny Cash, Buck Owens, June Carter Cash, Merle Haggard, Jerry Reed, Mel Tillis and others jam on some of their respective hits.

Goodbye Stefon. :(

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:28:15 -0700

Goodbye Stefon. :(

I’m not excited But should I be Is this the fate that half of...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:40:25 -0700

I’m not excited
But should I be
Is this the fate that half of the world has planned for me?

I know I love you
And you love the sea
Wonder if the water contains a little drop little drop for me

Here’s your song of and for the weekend, Vampire Weekend’s “Unbelievers”, off the fantastic Modern Vampires Of The City.

Alaric in ‘Graduation’ Alaric Saltzman is one of the greatest...

Fri, 17 May 2013 10:17:06 -0700

Alaric in ‘Graduation’

Alaric Saltzman is one of the greatest characters in television history, and easily one of the best characters in the large pantheon of Vampire Diaries characters.

It’s not hyperbole, it’s not because I’m a super fan. It’s because it’s a fantastically written character played perfectly by a gifted actor, Matt Davis. A character who’s arc throughout the series was magnificently handled, and who’s interactions and relationships with the other characters is a stalwart example of how great characters and relationships should and can be written in television.

And without spoiling things, but, uh, Davis headlined a now cancelled CW show called Cult, so Alaric wasn’t around for most of this season. His return over the last two episodes of season four has been nothing short of stunning, and most welcome.

Anyways. Alaric Saltzman, I miss you already.

All. The. Feels.

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:59:00 -0700

All. The. Feels.

That smile.

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:39:23 -0700

That smile.

Oh man so many feels.

Fri, 17 May 2013 01:37:28 -0700

Oh man so many feels.

newgirled: Please, can we uncall it? And before you say no......

Wed, 15 May 2013 02:39:50 -0700

newgirled:

Please, can we uncall it? And before you say no... don't say no.

A perfect finale to what may be a perfect season.

GPOY.

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:55:35 -0700

GPOY.

Welcome to Level 7.

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:20:43 -0700

Welcome to Level 7.

GPOY. (From Matt Kindt’s incredible new book Red Handed:...

Tue, 14 May 2013 16:57:04 -0700

GPOY.

(From Matt Kindt’s incredible new book Red Handed: The Fine Art of Strange Crimes)

The problem with falling in love in late bars Is that...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:55:55 -0700

The problem with falling in love in late bars
Is that there’s always more nights, there’s always more bars.
The problem with showing your lover your scars
Is that everybody’s lover is covered in scars.

So many great songs on Frank Turner’s new album Tape Deck Heart, but “Plain Sailing Weather” is the one on repeat today. (And probably tomorrow too.)

So give me one fine day of plain sailing weather
And I can fuck up anything, anything.
It was a wonderful life when we were together,
And now I’ve fucked up every little goddamn thing.

Every time opportunity knocks on my door, I just send it on...

Mon, 13 May 2013 17:27:47 -0700

Every time opportunity knocks on my door,
I just send it on straight down to hell.
‘Cause every time I was given a chance
to stand on my own two feet I fell.

Well some people they imagine
the disappointment must tear me apart,
Break my heart,
And presume I’m disgusted
by all the injustice I’ve seen.
But that’s not me and I tell you
That I bear no resentment to millionaire pop singers
barely literate poets and guitar stock gunslingers,
And I smile so politely
At the well meaning ignorance
Of the people who tell me I’m gonna make it someday.

David Ford’s albums always come out just when I need them to, when my life needs a push or a pick me up or a reminder or a scolding. His “Go To Hell”, “Decimate” and “I’m Alright Now” off the album Songs For the Road are essential tracks. His new album Charge features the stirring “Every Time”, which is as much David Ford-y as David Ford can get, ending with the following summation:

Well the Sun’s going down on what’s left of today
And the tide drags what’s left of this moment away.
And so I kick through the dirt and the red autumn leaves,
What I had and what I lost and what I still believe,
And I have no regrets for the time that I spent
barely paying my dues and barely paying the rent,
For a simple pursuit of more honest a life.
Yeah I don’t cheat on my taxes, I don’t cheat on my wife.

Now the fire’s burning out and the walls closing in,
And I’m dragged by the gravity into the sin
Of obedient service of some twisted machine,
Blowing smoke in our faces of each little scene.
Set to form a distraction just to buy up some time,
Misdirected by swagger and beaten by rhyme.
Telling tales of a life you might one day attain
If you just keep your focus relentlessly trained
On the things you can get and not who you can be.
No the innocent dream of the sky and the sea,
And the word and the truth and the spirit of man,
And a history that promises one day we can,
With a love for your brother and your sister and yourself.
Get there one day together in good cheer and good health.
But it comes at a cost, yeah there’s a price that you pay
For a sweet bowl tomorrow you gotta give up today.

It’s a sacrifice way beyond mortals like me,
For an age that never was and never could ever be.
So I don’t dwell on the past, I don’t rue my mistakes,
And I’m proud that I never had whatever it takes.
Now I’m stood on the deck of this leaky old boat
With just a shirt on my back and a song in my throat.
And I’m the luckiest boy on the face of the earth,
‘Cause I know about love and I know what it’s worth.

So I’m not giving up, and I’m not giving in,
Though I know it’s a fight that I’m not gonna win.
And I still scream in the face of more powerful men:
I choose this, motherfucker, and I choose it again!

hypotheticalcoffee: “Hey. You wanted to see me?”“Yeah. Now I...

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:41:11 -0700

hypotheticalcoffee:

“Hey. You wanted to see me?”
“Yeah. Now I don’t remember why.”

(The Newsroom, 1x10, The Greater Fool)

Always reblog Sloan and Don.

"I don’t know who told you you’re a bad guy, but somebody did. Somebody along the way, somebody or..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:40:03 -0700

“I don’t know who told you you’re a bad guy, but somebody did. Somebody along the way,...