preservation of Warren

(originally published June 8, 2011.)

"Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God."

~Warren Ellis

preservation of protesting

(originally published on June 8, 2011.)



When she has a point, she has a point.

preservation of courage

(originally published May 5, 2011.)



^&^

Keep going.

preservation of brokenness

(originally published May 4, 2011.)



^&^

It's true. Broken people hide. They've had to.

preservation of Howe

(originally published May 2, 2011.)

"Adventures, no matter how dark or disturbing, are meant to be shared."
~James Howe (via delicatelybruised)

(via hoodoothatvoodoo)

preservation of Oscar Wilde

(originally published on May 3, 2011.)

"It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
~Oscar Wilde

preservation of Hunter S.

(originally published May 1, 2011.)
(originally seen on) badacresswithbadhabits:

"Hopes rise and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain."
~Hunter S. Thompson (via lilacskin

preservation of H.G. Wells

(originally published May 1, 2011.)

"Moral indignation is usually jealousy with a halo."
~H.G. Wells

preservation of ratings

(originally published May 1, 2011.)

(originally seen on) blackmagickopera:

"Do you think that your 16 year old daughter hasn't masturbated already? Like, do you really think there's anything in that scene that this chick hasn't already tried when the lights go out at night, or in the bathroom, or in the tub, or with the shower head or something like that? I'm telling you, man, I'm not teaching this broad anything new. If I were to create a rating system, I wouldn’t even put murder right at the top of the chief offenses. I would put rape right at the top, and assault against women. Because it's so insanely overused and insulting how much it's overused in movies as a plot device, a woman in peril. That, to me, is offensive, yet that shit skates."
~Kevin Smith (director) on the ridiculousness of movies about sex receiving NC-17 ratings while extremely violent movies get by with R ratings (via phillip-gallagher

-I will never pay to see another Kevin Smith movie ever again but goddamn do I love this.

(originally seen on) morbidfashion:

He’s absolutely right about the ridiculousness of it–that, and the fact that in that dividing line between sex and death, death always wins out as the lesser moral crime, somehow–but why never pay to see a Kevin Smith movie again?

preservation of fear

(originally published May 1, 2011.)

"Make the time to be scared of more interesting things."
~Merlin Mann

preservation of SETI

(originally published May 1, 2011.)

"The whole thing is much larger, and you really need to see it. Especially the bit about how much people spend on Starbucks. Yegads.

"John made this because of SETI having to mothball the Allen Telescope Array, and I strongly suspect because people were trying to say there are better things to spend money on. I'll tell you, I think that argument is a crock. First off, it's a false dichotomy; we can afford to do more than what we need to survive. And moreover, there is always something better to spend money on, yet we still seem to be able to justify (or rationalize) the way we spend the money we do.

"In the United States alone we spend five times as much on tobacco products as we do on the entirety of NASA. How's that for rationalization? And what we spend on NASA is much, much more than we spend on SETI (7500x more, actually). And we don't spend enough on NASA, either."
~Bad Astronomer Phil Plait on the Seti Infographic link

(via eddieatthegov)

(via michaelk42)

preservation of Emilie

(originally published Aprille 27, 2011.)

"What I was always told, literally word for word, a million times was growing up in my life--this just tortured me every day--was, 'You are not what is important. You are literally a vessel for the music of some a person has been dead for some hundred of years. You are meant to keep your individuality out if, because it’s not about you.' I'm just too wildly independent and selfish for that. Fuck yeah it's about me, because you're dead and I'm not and I'm the reason why anybody's getting to hear your fucking music. And guess who would have agreed absolutely? The guy who wrote it. They would have never had a problem with that."
~Emilie Autumn

preservation of brains

(originally published March 31, 2011.)

"I think when you sit alone with your brain too much, your own brain starts to rebel against you."
~Christopher Titus

preservation of reaction

(originally published March 26, 2011.)



Generally true, too.

preservation of Penn

(originally published March 26, 2011.)

"The world is out of its mind with stupidity and the worship of stupidity."
~Sean Penn, in The Accidental Activist, via nevver

preservation of Marley

(oriignally published March 23, 2011.)



Damn, so true.

preservation of Augusten

(originally published March 24, 2011.)

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
~Augusten Burroughs

preservation of the Crow

(originally published March 22, 2011.)



The single most brutally honest, unflinching truth in the entire film. Stunning moment in a film full of stunning moments.