Beam Me Up, Lovely.

"Are you ready maybe Are you willing to run Are you ready to let yourself drown Are you holding your..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:02:00 -0400

“

Are you ready maybe
Are you willing to run
Are you ready to let yourself drown
Are you holding your breath
Are you ready or not

Are you ready maybe
Do you long to confess
Do you feel that you’re already numb
Are you sure of yourself
Would you lie if you’re not

You tire me out
Don’t wanna let that happen
A secret scream so loud
Why did you let that happen

Ooh ooh so put your arms around me
You let me believe that you are someone else
Ooh ooh cause only time can take you
So let me believe
That I am somewhere else

Maybe, are you ready to break
Do you think that I push you too far
Would you open yourself
Are you reckless or not

You tire me out
Don’t wanna let that happen
A secret scream so loud
Why did you let that happen

Ooh ooh so put your arms around me
You let me believe that you are someone else
Ooh ooh cause only time can take you
So let me believe
That I am somewhere else
Let me believe
That I am somewhere else

Sha la la la la
Sha la la la la
Sha la la la la
Sha la la la la

Sha la la la la

Ooh ooh so put your arms around me
Ooh ooh so put your arms around me

Make me believe
Take me take me
Somewhere
Somewhere
Let me believe
Cause only time can take you
So stop

”

- Sharleen Spiteri of the band Texas

Video

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:01:14 -0400

What is it about Disney chicks cleaning house that just makes me...

Mon, 20 May 2013 19:42:58 -0400

What is it about Disney chicks cleaning house that just makes me want to don an apron, grab a bucket, and go to town??

Kristen Connelly in Cabin in the Woods : lady crush.

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:10:09 -0400

Kristen Connelly in Cabin in the Woods : lady crush.

librophilia: searchingforknowledge: Fifteen rape victims have...

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:09:14 -0400

librophilia:

searchingforknowledge:

Fifteen rape victims have formed martial arts movement and are prepared to confront abusers if no one listens to their complaints…

A GROUP of women are fighting back against the sickening culture of rape which they say infects India. Fifteen determined females – all victims themselves – have trained in martial arts and are prepared to hand out rough justice if no one listens to their complaints. And the movement, called the Red Brigade, is growing rapidly following the gang rape and murder of medical student Jyoti Singh Pandey that horrified the world.

In a nation where a woman is reportedly raped every 20 minutes, the group’s leader Usha Vishwakarma said: “We are fighting back – and the boot is now on the other foot.” Member Sufia Hashmi, 17, said: “We’ve caught a lot of men recently. I joined because men always used to pass comments on me and touch my body but now we beat them and they run.”

Like the other members in the northern city of Lucknow, 25- year-old Usha has first-hand experience of the daily dangers women face in the huge nation – a teacher tried to rape her when she was 18. She said: “He grabbed me and tried to open my trousers. I kicked him in the crotch and ran.” Usha complained to staff but they told her to forget it and allowed her attacker to carry on teaching. She said: “Many parents tell girls to quit school so there will be no sexual violence. But we said no – this has to stop. We decided to form a group to fight for ourselves, not just complain.”MORE

Uh-fucking-may-zing.

This is how we own it.

I really need to clean my floors. This will be motivation...

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:51:21 -0400

I really need to clean my floors. This will be motivation inspiration!

Now I want to make pie.

Wed, 15 May 2013 19:47:00 -0400

Now I want to make pie.

"It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:32:51 -0400

“It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”

- Hugh Laurie (via galitl)

torispeak: Truly, I was a sweetheart when I was little, like...

Tue, 07 May 2013 23:30:39 -0400

torispeak:

Truly, I was a sweetheart when I was little, like the Honeysuckle Fairy. Sweet. Sweet-pea. But sweet-peas are not popular after second grade. Sweet-pea becomes Nerd really fast.

Time Out (UK), January 1992

So thaaaaat’s what happened.

torispeak: America is losing its civil liberties and that is...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:27:26 -0400

torispeak:

America is losing its civil liberties and that is without question. People will look back and study this. One day my daughter will ask me, well, did you do anything? No different from the civil rights movement, which happened in my lifetime. My parents marched in the marches with Dr King, as millions of people did. There was direction the country was going in then and it’s going in a different direction now; rights are being taken away by this authority. And people don’t see it. You have to get people to start thinking about what they believe in. ‘Cos then they will vote and then you will see people revolt. You are what you believe. A generation must rise.

UK Magazine - 2004

Photo

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:09:36 -0400

I absolutely adore frivolously flowery tea cups. There, now you...

Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:41:18 -0400

I absolutely adore frivolously flowery tea cups. There, now you know.

adrianestpierre: Gaston really is the most terrifying Disney...

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 17:20:31 -0400

adrianestpierre:

Gaston really is the most terrifying Disney villain because he could be anyone in the world.

Right?!

lanahplusthree: I love this!

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 22:33:53 -0400

lanahplusthree:

I love this!

torispeak: I love playing live. To me, being on stage is just...

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 12:33:34 -0400

torispeak:

I love playing live. To me, being on stage is just the most magical place a musician can be. You don’t get the same rush in the studio. You don’t get to start again if you make a mistake.

Birmingham Mail, 2009

torispeak: Librarians have such access to information....

Wed, 06 Mar 2013 13:54:37 -0500

torispeak:

Librarians have such access to information. Knowledge is the sexiest - in my mind every librarian wears a stiletto heel.

The Canberra Times (Australian), 2004

Every. Librarian.

cosascool: TED2013 Quotables

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:55:20 -0500

cosascool:

TED2013 Quotables

Perfect.

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:53:29 -0500

Perfect.

torispeak: Three months into the pregnancy, we went back to the...

Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:28:06 -0500

torispeak:

Three months into the pregnancy, we went back to the US to see the specialist in Washington again. I had an ultrasound scan. As Mark and I held hands, I saw the baby - there were two jumping, dancing legs. We were given the thumbs up. During the pregnancy I knew things would be different. I felt a sense of calm I’d never experienced before. I felt my baby’s spirit and I knew she’d be strong.

She, 2003

"In the nineteenth century, a woman who owned property, made high wages, had sex outside of marriage,..."

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:13:41 -0500

“In the nineteenth century, a woman who owned property, made high wages, had sex outside of marriage, performed or received oral sex, used birth control, consorted with men of other races, danced, drank, or walked alone in public, wore makeup, perfume, or stylish clothes — and was not ashamed — was probably a whore.

In fact, prostitutes won virtually all the freedoms that were denied to women but are now taken for granted. Prostitutes were especially successful in the wild, lawless, thoroughly renegade boomtowns of the West. When women were barred from most jobs and wives had no legal right to own property, madams in the West owned large tracts of land and prized real estate. Prostitutes made, by far, the highest wages of all American women. Several madams were so wealthy that they funded irrigation and road-building projects that laid the foundation for the New West. Decades before American employers offered health insurance to their workers, madams across the West provided their employees with free health care. While women were told that they could not and should not protect themselves from violence, and wives had no legal recourse against being raped by their husbands, police officers were employed by madams to protect the women who worked for them, and many madams owned and knew how to use guns.

While feminists were seeking to free women from the “slavery” of patriarchal marriage, prostitutes married later in life and divorced more frequently than other American women. At a time when birth control was effectively banned, prostitutes provided a market for contraceptives that made possible their production and distribution. While women were taught that they belonged in the “private sphere,” prostitutes traveled extensively, often by themselves, and were brazenly “public women.” Long before social dancing in public was considered acceptable for women, prostitutes invented many of the steps that would become all the rage during the dance craze of the 1910s and 1920s. When gambling and public drinking were forbidden for most women, prostitutes were fixtures in western saloons, and they became some of the most successful gamblers in the nation. Most ironically, the makeup, clothing, and hairstyles of prostitutes, which were maligned for their overt sexuality (lipstick was “the scarlet shame of streetwalkers”), became widely fashionable among American women and are now so respectable that even First Ladies wear them.

Women who wished to escape the restrictions of Victorian America had no better place to go than the so-called frontier, where a particular combination of economic and demographic forces gave renegade women many unusual advantages.”

- from _A Renegade History of the United States_ by Thaddeus Russell, quoted extensively on alternet (via marginalutilite)