alexandra ewing is on the internet.

twenty-something philadelphia-area online diarist comes home in the midst of a total breakdown and eventually makes good, to an electrifying soundtrack of '60s power pop.

it's the feel-good movie of the summer.

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~ Sunday, May 19 ~
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fourbeatsoff:

I found this 2007 issue of Mojo in my closet and I can’t stop laughing at this photo of Liam Gallagher.

fourbeatsoff:

I found this 2007 issue of Mojo in my closet and I can’t stop laughing at this photo of Liam Gallagher.

Tags: A+
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What I would do with my Powerball winnings

(an update to last year’s MegaMillions post)

  • Buy my parents homes (probably separately, because I think that would make them happier, but who knows, money changes things).
  • Buy my parents new cars.
  • Buy my brother a car.
  • Buy my aunt and uncle in Yonkers a beach house, probably down the shore, maybe in North Carolina.
  • Buy my parents a beach house.
  • Pay for my brother’s college education, and flying lessons, and maybe an apartment somewhere, if he wants one.
  • Give every member of my family who has helped out my family a million dollars.
  • Try to locate my old co-workers from LnT191 and give them each a million dollars.
  • Give all my co-workers at DT1657 a million dollars-ish. (Less for the ones I don’t like.)
  • Pay off all my friends’ debts and assure them that throughout our lives I will have their backs when they need it.
  • Pay for any degrees they are pursuing.
  • Give all of them money too.
  • Give various people I love/admire on the internet money to invest in their dream jobs or get health care or even just buy beer, I guess, because it’s really not my decision.
  • Give various teachers I’ve had enough money to retire.
  • Set up some kind of renewed PGSA, and definitely hire back Doug Woods.
  • Pay for all the plastic surgery and health care my mother wants/needs.
  • Offer the same to my father, conditional on seeing a therapist.
  • Pay for my brother and I to get perfect teeth.
  • Take my mother on one of the Viking River Cruises advertised before Downton Abbey.
  • Set up a scholarship at a fancy medical school for future abortion providers.
  • Travel.
  • Purchase myself an apartment in a busy city.
  • Buy myself a Vitamix.
  • And a pair of Ferragamo Varas.
  • And the Miu Miu cat shoes duh.
  • Invest enough to provide a future for myself and any family I choose to have, and the same for my brother.
  • Pull a Luke Snyder and set up a charitable foundation for the rest because it’s still too much money to have and, like my co-worker C said tonight, I don’t want to end up murdered by my own family for my fortune.
Tags: i once again didn't buy a ticket I KNOW I CAN'T BELIEVE IT two fucking years in a row 3a
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~ Saturday, May 18 ~
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I think, in the future, I will only be able to see 2013 as the year I relapsed, and the year all my family started showing their age by dying.

Tags: rip aunt barbara
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If, as the dubious advertising slogan insists, ITV is “where laughter lives”, presumably it goes out on Monday nights.
— I wasn’t aware that the new show with Ian McKellen and Iwan Rheon was airing already, and the first sentence of the first review I found is probably why.
Tags: oh man russell tovey is in this too? this just a ton of talented actors in one evidently awful show vicious
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I’m not pretending I am any good at tumblr but I am truly terrible at twitter, and I am sorry for everyone who puts up with me when I come home from work on Friday nights and then watch bride shows on TLC and House Hunters International on HGTV and I freak out over wedding dresses, and beautiful homes in Thailand, and Natalie Dormer and I saying things in unison in response to questions from Craig Ferguson, and finding out that my favorite ever Amazing Race contestant Brook is getting a reality show about being a home shopping network host (but for a home shopping network I’ve never heard of).

Of course that meant I started watching old Amazing Race clips. I am pretty sure Brook and Claire the only team to have ever worn false eyelashes while running around trying to win a million dollars (or, in Claire’s case, being hit in the face with a watermelon while trying to win a million dollars because Claire was that contestant).

All the clips on YouTube are official CBS clips with ads preceding them and views in the low hundreds and few comments. In one of the videos a commenter complained about what looks like a dowel above Brook’s eye and to my surprise the only other comment was one explaining it, but the poster didn’t reply to the original commenter, so I am sure it was never seen. The explaining comment reads:

She stopped commenting on videos a year ago. RIP, octoloverful.

Tags: shit that keeps me up late and makes my heart pang for no good reason tar17 tar
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~ Friday, May 17 ~
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You act impressed and say you understand
‘Cause you like to believe that all that love is free
For someone like you—
You’ll never be lonely, or get the blues
But darlin’, it’s not true

Tags: ambulance ltd i think i will have this song on hand on every music device i ever own favorite songs
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~ Thursday, May 16 ~
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Used to have pornbot followers, now it’s just NBC shows.

Used to have pornbot followers, now it’s just NBC shows.

Tags: at least they all started naming themselves the same way this is just the recent ones and not the ones that have been there awhile i don't even know some of these
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braindeadradio:

Venture Bros Season 1-4 Recap by number 21 (Gary).  So good.  Cannot wait for the new season.

I think there are two good reasons to watch this. If you’re looking to start the show and don’t have time to catch up before the premiere in June, this is a nice way to understand the universe while giving you the time to go back later. However, if you already watch the show, or are a general TV fan in the mood to admire a delicate, extensive universe, watching the video is just a way to take in the depth of the series.

Only two more weeks!

Tags: okay a a little over two weeks BUT IT'S CLOSE venture bros
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Robyn and I are television critics of nuance, obviously.
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????????????????????

  1. Robyn and I are television critics of nuance, obviously.
  2. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????????????????????

Tags: this fucking show i don't even watch
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~ Wednesday, May 15 ~
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It’s not me, it’s you

After two months, I realize that the difficulty with putting in contacts every day is not that I haven’t mastered the technique, but that the contact in my left eye should be an astigmatism contact.

Tags: i always do the left eye first and once in awhile it takes me two minutes but more often it taken fifteen minutes+ the right is an astigmatism contact and it takes two seconds consistently :(
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