February 2010
Dear Beyonce,
frangry:
You started out in Destiny’s Child, stop trying to be edgy.
xo, Frangry
If you believe in Lady Gaga, reblog this and don't...
edgrrrleblanc:
helveticunt:
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hymendestroyer:
(via dsfincannon)
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lmao!
bibliotheque:
“I don’t remember this part. When does he paint her nude?”
—Watching Revolutionary Road.
(via skybarn)
January 2010
“I want desperately to be liked. I have gone through a long period of awkward,...”
– The Journals of Sylvia Plath (via thisdeliciousambiguity)
“Oh, God, what woman does not like to be told how wonderful she is, to see...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath (via beginatthebeginning)
“Let’s face it: I’m scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I’m afraid for...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath. (via beginatthebeginning)
Hospice - The First Minute We Met
firmlyrooted:
Eh, I just reread that first post. Screw that.
The Antlers, whom I got into not one month ago, is possibly one of my favorite bands now. From a literary point, the lyrics that Silberman feel not like verse, but tender speech, which flows well with the concept of the album.
I’ve listened to other concept albums by groups such as The Decemberists, Dionysos, and I suppose My...
The Bell Jar ending
the-bell-jar:
The Bell Jar closes just as Esther enters her exit interview at the psychiatric institution where she has spent the past few months recovering. Since the novel stops there, we can’t know for sure what happened in the interview, whether the doctors decided that Esther was ready to go back to college, or whether they decided that she needed more therapy.
But we do know that the...
Setting
the-bell-jar:
1950s; New York City; Boston and its surrounding suburbs
The main action of the story takes place in the summer of 1953. After an internship at a magazine in New York City, Esther ends up in her hometown outside Boston, where she attempts to commit suicide. She then spends much of her time in a psychiatric institution, also outside Boston, before her release in January, 1954.
...
Places of Confinement symbolism
the-bell-jar:
The “bell jar” of the novel’s title finds its parallel in the many places of confinement in the novel. The hospitals where Esther stays, Buddy’s tuberculosis sanatorium, and the Deer Island prison that Esther visits are all places where people are separated off from the rest of society because they are considered in some way dangerous – mentally ill, infectious, or criminal. But...
Press Headlines symbolism
the-bell-jar:
Every once in a while, a headline from one of Esther’s tabloids is splashed across the page, interrupting the regular flow of the material. And you might notice that these headlines look a lot like what we get off of US Weekly or People today. Few of us can look away from these headlines when we’re languishing in a supermarket checkout line, and the novel pokes fun at our lurid...
Electricity or Shock symbolism
the-bell-jar:
The novel opens with Esther’s obsession with a gruesome electrocution, which signals ahead to Esther’s experiences with electroshock therapy, and also to her memory of being electrocuted by her father’s lamp. The most immediate thought that comes to mind whenever you do see electrocution in the novel is probably just, well, the irony. The scenes where electroshock therapy are...
Reflections, Photographs & Doubles symbolism
the-bell-jar:
The novel stresses Esther’s personal crisis by repeatedly showing how she doesn’t recognize herself in the mirror and in photographs of herself: she’s lost all sense of who she is. When Esther finally sees herself in the mirror after her attempted suicide, all she sees is a spooky grin, and she drops her mirror in horror. The flip side of this is that it’s easy for Esther to make...
The Fig Tree symbolism
the-bell-jar:
In Chapter 5, Esther flips open an anthology of short stories, and instantly connects with a story about a Jewish man and a Catholic nun who meet under a fig tree. (The story is a twist on the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden, where a tree is also the scene of a frisk between the sexes.) The short story resonates with Esther because it speaks to her own experience with Buddy....
The Bell Jar symbolism
the-bell-jar:
The peculiar feature of the bell jar is that it keeps everything inside hermetically sealed from the outside world. Whatever’s inside remains preserved, static, unchanging. In The Bell Jar, the main character uses the bell jar as the primary metaphor for feelings of confinement and entrapment. She feels that she’s stuck in her own head, spinning around the same thoughts of...
“I knew something was wrong with me that summer …all the little successes I’d...”
– 1.5-6 (via the-bell-jar)
“It was a queer sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenburgs, and I...”
– 1.1 (via the-bell-jar)
The Bell Jar themes
the-bell-jar:
Women and Femininity The Bell Jar challenges the prevailing notion in the 1950s that women were inferior to, and dependent upon, men. Regardless of their individual talents and desires, women were expected to become wives and mothers, and, failing that, secretaries. Bright young women such as Esther were expected to sacrifice their own dreams to the needs of their husbands. The...
The Bell Jar summary
the-bell-jar:
The Bell Jar opens in the summer of 1953. Esther Greenwood is a bright nineteen-year-old working as an editorial intern at a popular women’s magazine in New York City. Despite her academic promise and ambition, Esther feels isolated from society and discouraged about her future. These early symptoms of depression are aggravated by the pressure she feels to conform to social...
The Bell Jar
the-bell-jar:
The Bell Jar is American writer and poet Sylvia Plath’s only novel, which was originally published under the pseudonym “Victoria Lucas” in 1963. The novel is semi-autobiographical with the names of places and people changed. The book is often regarded as a roman à clef, with the protagonist’s descent into mental illness paralleling Plath’s own experiences with what may have been...
earlyfrost:
“Why must every literary examination of Robert Lowell, of John Berryman, of Anne Sexton, of Jean Stafford, of so many writers and artists, keep perpetuating the notion that their individual pieces of genius were the result of madness? While it may be true that a great deal of art finds its inspirational wellspring in sorrow, let’s not kid ourselves about how much time each of those...
COURTNEY LOVE - LOVE IDOLISES GROHL
davegrohl:
LOVE models her career on her late husband KURT COBAIN’s former NIRVANA bandmate DAVE GROHL. Love is preparing to make a comeback in February (10) as she embarks on a European tour with Hole, after recruiting a new band line-up and a new manager. And she admits she looks towards Foo Fighters star Grohl as a model of success. She tells Britain’s NME magazine, “I look around and I...
Copy the "Teenage Whore"
hermescevera:
Taylor Momsen is really starting to get on my last nerve!
I used to love her in Gossip Girl when she had shorter hair and wore them really cute preppy outfits. Now she’s becoming a bit tedious, there are times when she has looked drop dead gorgeous (in THAT Versace dress lets not forget) but whenever I glance at some awful heat magazine from a distance I’m delighted to see...
Best Courtney Love Interview Ever!
lamestain:
I just went through my old zines and found this: In 1993 (one year before Live Through This) Rollerderby interviewed Courtney Love with the intention of gabbing about clothes and instead got a rambling, scattershot rant about cheese and how her ex-boyfriends used to fart on her. I violating a few ethics codes and copyright laws and copied the entire dialogue after the jump- it’s a...
I refuse to be anything that I'm not.
danigaga:
I’m sorry that I’m not the typical airhead bitch who’s going to hang on your every word and morph to the constraints that society has set on women. I refuse to be that girl who acts one way when boys are around, and another when she’s with the girls. With me, what you see is what you get. I cant be that girl who acts fake because she’s in a room full of men. I don’t give a flying fuck...
“I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in...”
– The Bell Jar (via th3bestidea)
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
Mirror - Sylvia Plath
nurseabby:
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions. What ever you see I swallow immediately Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful—- The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Most of the time I meditate on the opposite wall. It is pink, with speckles. I have looked at it so long I think it is a part of my heart. But it flickers. Faces and darkness...
“color floods to the spot, dull purple.
the rest of the body is all washed-out,...”
– contusion x sylvia plath (via andchristina)
“I become one of those people who walks alone in the dark at night while others...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via paranoidna)
“People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting...”
– Elizabeth Wurtzel (via vild)
Rare Kat/Courtney/Janis pics
fuckyeahkatbjelland:
“As for the story behind those pictures, they were taken by me and Janis Tanaka. these were taken in 1985 when they were playing as the Pagan Babies and/or Sugar Babylon depending on their mood. Janis was my girlfriend at that time and Kat and Courtney spent a lot of time at our house on Buchanan Street in San Francisco. An interesting thing about this era was that at the...