February 2010
I'm permanently out of the dating pool.... →
trenchant: maura
The study, still under peer review before publication, analyzed 22,000 online daters and found that women put a premium on income and height when deciding which men to contact, said Dan Ariely, a Duke behavioral economist who worked with University of Chicago researchers on the project.
For example, the study showed a 5-foot-9-inch man needs to make $30,000 more than a...
“1) Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no...”
– Jeannette Winterson in Ten rules for writing fiction(part two) @ guardian.co.uk
Though there is lots of good advice in parts one and two of this feature from a stunning array of great writers, Winterson’s is by far the most realistic and pointed and useful.
xoxo, c. hotpoint
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21) →
John Cale (27)
Linda Ronstadt (26)
Blur (17)
Kate Bush (13)
Mumford & Sons (12)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
"Nothing characterizes The Dumbest Generation Of... →
(via maura)
Look, ladies. Don’t settle. EVER. (Also, don’t pine over your fags, they don’t like to have sex with ladies, remember?) Being unmarried, or not in a serious long-term relationship is not a blight or a medical condition or something pathetic. It means you are a fully-formed person who doesn’t need someone else to validate your existence. End of story, the end.
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WatchTune-Yards — Real Live Flesh
Wow, I love it when a rambly, unlistenable, disappointing lo-fi act suddenly exceeds expectations, out of nowhere.
xoxo, c. hotpoint
“In a study published last year, Professor Martha Lauzen of San Diego State...”
– Why are there so few female film-makers?
Worst glass ceiling in the universe. As someone who went to film school, it’s hard to explain exactly how the bias against female directors works out in real life. It’s just … there. You can be anything else — a screenwriter, an...
WatchSpoon — Written In Reverse
I love how these days an “exclusive premiere” on a major music site is exclusive, literally, for the amount of time it takes the first person to see the post and embed the code elsewhere.
xoxo, c. hotpoint
“As the years past, I found myself at the Cactus time and time again, always...”
– Guy Forsyth, on the proposed closing of The Cactus Cafe, one of Austin’s most storied venues, which happens to sit upon some prime real estate on the University of Texas campus. The closure is going to happen no matter how many students, pillars of Austin’s music community, and regular...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31) →
Junior Boys (22)
Alice Sara Ott, Frédéric Chopin (18)
Academy Of Ancient Music, Richard Egarr (15)
The Magnetic Fields (13)
Gui Boratto (13)
Imported from Last.fm…
“Everybody loves glamour when there’s a little disaster involved.”
– Rick Owens (via notacomplexperson)
Well, that just says it all, doesn’t it?
xoxo, c. hotpoint
“One of the greatest moments I’ve ever seen on film was Bill Clinton being...”
– Tom Ford, in V MAGAZINE