Resolutions: for every day

• read more
• try to eat less snacks between meals + have proper meals more regularly
• drink more: min. 3 cups a day
• have more fruit!
• go to sleep earlier (aka: not past 12. 1AM latest.) (Aha; just look at the time right now.)
• save money. [have 100$ in jar at all times. JUST THINK OF PORTUGAL!♥]
• continue + finish :

1. Anonymous letters
2. Carmen’s letter
3. Sebald code

• don’t have comp on all the time, or have it be the first thing in the morning&last thing at night
• brush hair every day
• stop downloading so goddamn much
• tick off more summerlist things

- Differentiate: speak/talk
- Differentiate : lying/laying

Commonplace book – July 23, 2008

Thank You For Smoking Quotes

Adam Brody : Hey! Ney Neil! I’m gonna impale your mom on a spike and feed her dead body to my dog with syphilis! [Laughs] It’s an inside joke.

Nick: Let’s say that you’re defending chocolate and I’m defending vanilla. Now, if I were to say to you, “Vanilla’s the best flavor ice cream”, you’d say…?
Joey: “No, chocolate is.”
Nick: Exactly. But you can’t win that argument. So I’ll ask you: “So you think chocolate is the end-all and be-all of ice cream, do you?
Joey: It’s the best ice cream; I wouldn’t order any other.
Nick: Oh. So it’s all chocolate for you, is it?
Joey: Yes, chocolate is all I need.
Nick: Well, I need more than chocolate. And for that matter, I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom and choice when it comes to our ice cream, and that, Joey Naylor, that is the definition of liberty.
Joey: But that’s not what we’re talking about.
Nick: Ah, but that’s what I’m talking about.
Joey: But… you didn’t prove that vanilla’s the best.
Nick: I didn’t have to. I proved that you’re wrong, and if you’re wrong, I’m right.
Joey: But you still didn’t convince me.
Nick: Because I’m not after you. I’m after them. [points to the general public]

Jonathan Antin-worthy diss:
“If you were air, I wouldn’t breathe you!”

www.thedailymeme.com

“[...] he told me that I should always try to give a woman what she wants, but that I should remember that I don’t have to do it exactly the way she wants.”

- the pursuit of happiness, p.84

“I think [never having won a trophy in your life] might be the sign of a healthy individual.”

- the pursuit of happiness, p.63

Commonplace book – July 21, 2008

Baudelaire Case

Isadora and Duncan Quagmire

Isadora Duncan was an American dancer whose life was filled with misery (she led a troubled love life: her ex-husband became a psych ward patient and later attempted to commit suicide. Her two kids drowned with their nanny in a freak car accident and her third child passed away nameless an hour after birth. She was often in debt. She was dragged to death when her long scarf was caught in the wheel of a moving car.
Quagmire : noun. A difficult, precarious, or entrapping position. PREDICAMENT.

Quigley Quagmire

His name is derived from author Lillian F. Quigley who wrote a version of ‘Three Blind Men and the Elephant’. John Godfrey Saxe is an American poet best-known for his rendition of the same religious tale. Bertrand Baudelaire and Dewey Denouement were said to like reciting an American humorist poem of the 19th century by Saxe.

Duncan’s favorite book is ‘The Portable Dorothy Parker’,
Isadora’s favorite book is ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’ by Charles Baudelaire.

Sunny’s baby talk

Blake! - ‘And the poem is written in Isadora’s distinct literary style!’
William Blake was an English poet.

Brummel - “In my opinion, you desperately need a bath, and your clothing is in shambles.”
Beau Brummel is credited with introducing and establishing as fashion the modern man’s suit, worn with a tie. His style of dress was known as dandyism. (Which Charles Baudelaire wrote about.)

Busheney - “You’re an evil man with no concern whatsoever for other people.”
Busheney = Bush + Cheney

Babganous! – “I concocted an escape plan with the eggplant that turned out to be even handier than I thought.”
Baba Ghanoush is a Middle Eastern dish with eggplant as the main ingredient.

Biscupid? – “Should I drag my teeth against the ice, too?”
Biscupid. noun. A tooth with two cusps ; a premolar tooth. (Considered a transitional tooth.)

Bildungsroman - “Since that moment, our story has been a long, dreadful education in the wicked ways of the world and the mysterious secrets hidden in all of its corners.”
Class of novel derived from Herman literature that deals with the formative years of the main character, whose psychological development is depicted. It typically ends on a positive note, with the hero’s foolish mistakes and painful disappointments behind him and a life of usefulness ahead.

Coik! - “Thinking about all this is making me dizzy!”
C.O.I.K: Acronym. Clear Only If Known.

Casca – “That’s not very reassuring.”
Casca Rufio Longinuis is a character from ‘Casca: The Eternal Mercenary’ by Barry Sadler. Casca is the soldier who drove a spear into Jesus Christ on the cross and whose blood was poisoned as a result.

Cigam – “Look at this note!”
Cigam = ‘magic’, backwards.

Ackroid! – “Roger!”
Roger Ackroyd was a character in ‘The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’ by Agatha Christie, in which the narrator turns out to be the murderer. His contention was that he always wrote the truth, just not the whole truth. There was also a lot of facts and evidence in the novel that didn’t have anything to do with the murder. From then on, readers were encouraged to ’suspect everyone‘.