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Relationshapes

mystifiedandsublime:

 I didn’t know Monroe was nice (you never really hear about her personality)…. This makes her pretty to me now.

darlingdivine:

“I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt…it was because of her that I played the Mocambo, a very popular nightclub in the ’50s. She personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him - and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status - that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman - a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.” - Ella Fitzgerald

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onikaisthenewblack:

ohmygod.

youaintartsierthanme:

oceanofmind:

Caddis fly larvae are known to incorporate bits of whatever they can find into their cocoons, be it fish bone or bits of leaves. Hubert Duprat gave them gold, turquoise, gems and pearls.

These guys are interesting little creatures. “Underwater architects,” they’re called sometimes apparently. Something about organisms that create cocoons…they have a certain mysticism.

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capriamovies:

mcakeface:

“I’m so disappointed in Cameron.”

I’ll go. I’ll go. I’ll go. I’ll go. I’ll go. I’ll go. I’ll go. I’ll go.

allabouttoriamos:

Seated Woman with a Parasol, Georges Seurat

 

“I saw a painting by Seurat - Seated Woman With A Parasol - in a book on Impressionism. I was drawn to it and I started to think about Victorian women and then some women today, the type of women who don’t want to intimidate their partner and so allow themselves to become reduced so the other person can feel confident.”

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I was drawn to this woman in this painting, even though we’re so different in so many ways…But still, I was relating to her because she seemed to be able to weather the storm. And the character in Parasol, our female character who, I sing from that point of view, is trapped. Whether she’s going through a divorce or what’s happening to her, there is an end of a relationship, that’s how the whole album starts. It starts with the end, the end of a relationship. And she knows that in order to survive this relationship so that she’s not completely erased - there are parts of herself that she’s had to leave behind in order to stay in it - and she realizes that she has to confront it. So she looks to the Seated Woman with the Parasol, this Victorian woman, for clues on how to not be erased. So she looks to the painting and the painting helps her to see that she has to shape-shift, she has to be able to walk in and out of paintings in such a way that he won’t be able to reach out and control her anymore…”

—Tori on the inspiration behind the song “Parasol”

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lit-hero:

“Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.” 
— Voltaire

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