July 2010
NBC Moves 'Persons Unknown' to Saturday | Vulture →
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This show is totally fantastic, I really don’t want to see it drop away this early. Hopefully Saturday nights will still draw some viewers…. I agree, it would be a shame to not see anything resolved.
I was not expecting this. A virtual death sentence. And it’s a real shame because Persons Unknown, while not perfect, is pretty good for summer TV and pretty good within the mystery, sci-fi genre it operates in. At least they’re not canning it completely, without resolution. That would truly terrible.
June 2010
50 Books and Plays in 2010
50 books/plays in 2010
1- Reasons to be Pretty- Neil Labute
2- Trifles- Susan Glaspell
3- Fences- August Wilson
4- As You Like It- Shakespeare
5- Other People’s Love Letters
6- The New York Regional Mormon Singles Halloween Dance- Elna Baker
7- Oleanna- Mamett
8- Amadeus- Peter Schaffer
9- The Glassblower of Murano- Marina Fiorato
10- Dead in the Family- Charlaine Harris
11- The Paris Enigma- Pablo de Santis
12- She Loves Me- book by Joe Masteroff/Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick
13- The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao- Junot Diaz
14- The Sugar Queen - Sarah Addison Allen
15- Notes on a Scandal - Zoe Heller
16- Heat Wave - “Richard Castle” (This book is a spinoff from the TV Show Castle, which is about a novellist named Richard Castle. I have no idea who really wrote this book, as it is credited to Rick Castle. ABC and their cross marketing campaigns make me smile)
17- Making Toast- Roger Rosenblatt
18- The Opposite of Me- Sara Pekkanen
My friends on LiveJournal started this reading meme and I’m giving it a ‘go’ this year. I’m only to 18 books towards the end of June though… I need to pick it up. We’re halfway through the year! :)
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you say to them, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you make them feel.”
—Maya Angelou (via lionofbedstuy)
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“It’s funny how one summer can change everything. It must be something about the heat and the smell of chlorine, fresh cut grass and honeysuckle, asphalt sizzling after late-day thunderstorms, the steam rising while everything drips around it. Something about long, lazy days and whirring air conditioners and bright plastic flip flops from the drugstore thwacking down the street. Something about fall being so close, another year, another Christmas, another beginning. So much in one summer, stirring up like the storms that crest at the end of each day, blowing out all the heat and dirt to leave everything gasping and cool. Everyone can reach back to one summer and lay a finger to it, finding that exact point when everything changed.”
—Sarah Dessen
“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do”
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Dale Carnegie
If you want to inspire creativity and achieve greatness yourself, avoiding the 3 C’s is an important place to start. It can be harder than it sounds, though. I struggle with the temptation to find fault in others, which only detracts from my own ability to do my best :/
(via subcreation)
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“I’m used to walking onto film sets where at some point it all dissolves to scaffolding and lighting. So the completeness of the vision is really breathtaking.”
—JK Rowling re: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter (via popculturebrain)
“Be gentle first with yourself if you wish to be gentle with others”
—~Lama Yeshe
