“The word blog sounds a little grandma-y. It’s really hard to even talk about the internet without seeming instantly corny.”
— Ezra Koenig
Vampire Weekend // Ezra Koenig // Tuesday, May 14, 2013 // 5 notes
“A visitor to the United Center hoping to see a great basketball game between Chicago and Houston got a good deal more — or perhaps a good deal less. It was as if the architects of the modern game did not entirely believe that its new fans, unlike those who had attended the old Chicago Stadium, found the game adequately entertaining. Even as the music boomed out ever more loudly, more and more idiotic games were being played either on the Jumbotron or on the floor, as the players waited in the locker room. On the floor, there might be minibike races between toddlers two or three years old, acrobats firing T-shirts into the crowd, or fans who were brought out, blindfolded, spun around to make them exceptionally dizzy, and then told to shoot baskets for prizes. At time-outs, young, scantily dressed dancing girls rushed out on the floor to do numbers that were supposed to be sexual. The Jumbotron flashed singing contests between fans who could not sing and other contests equally thrilling, such as an electronic chase each night between a doughnut, a bagel, and a piece of cheesecake. The Jumbotron was the symbol of the rising level of narcissism in the society.”
— David Halberstam, “Playing For Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made”
David Halberstam // Michael Jordan // NBA // Thursday, April 25, 2013 // 1 note
“There’s no way to measure these things, but there’s a strong case to be made that Jordan is the most intense competitor on the planet.”
— Wright Thompson
Michael Jordan // Friday, February 15, 2013 // 1 note
“Is the internet ‘officially’ as lame as outdated magazine content, except it might be worse bc there’s so much more of it?”
— Carles
Wednesday, January 23, 2013 //
“The cynics are usually right, sure, but the believers are happier, and the trick is landing somewhere in the middle.”
— Andrew Sharp
Life // Thursday, January 17, 2013 //
“i’ve been working on my rewrite, that’s right/i’m gonna change the ending”
(Source: Spotify)
Paul Simon // Music // Friday, January 04, 2013 //
“Letting go is an act of faith. And then the universe provides for you what was really meant to be.”
— Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler // Friday, December 07, 2012 // 40 notes
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