I gave my first ever commencement speech to the graduating class of 2012 at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
I think I told them everything important that I knew about going out into the world and being an artist, so I may never need to give another one.
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The Great Gatsby trailer
It’s so beautiful!
Pentatonix | Somebody That I Used To Know (A Cappella Gotye Cover)
(via booscoots)
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Jeffrey Eugenides on The Marriage Plot
I get to see Jeffrey Eugenides speak at the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival in May, and I’m starting to get really excited. Nerd.
The Albatros is a new kind of bookmark that follows your reading. No need to remember the page number, each time you turn one, it inserts itself at the right place. The Albatros bookmarks have been invented and developed by Oscar Lhermitte and are made in France. Preorder them at a discounted price here.
Genius!
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Trailer for the film adaptation of Jack Kerouac’s On The Road
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Shakespeare & Company
37 rue de la Bûcherie
75005, Paris.
With a cameo appearance in Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset, Shakespeare & Company is arguably the most iconic bookshop in the French capital. The building, a 17th century ex-monastery has become a landmark in the 5th arrondissement. Apart from being a bookstore, it also serves as a haven where aspiring writers can stay for free - Allen Ginsberg and Anaïs Nin have both been guests in the past. Originally established in 1919 by an American called Sylvia Beach, fellow expatriate George Whitman took over Shakespeare & Company after Beach’s death in 1951. Whitman’s daughter, Sylvia talks about the future of this historical, literary gem.
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Behold, the most damaging deleted scene of all time.
The removal of this scene fundamentally alters the relationship Lilo has with Stitch in their early stages, reducing her affection to Stitch to her simply being a nice girl.
This scene establishes her patience and always blindly optimistic attitude towards Stitch as transference from her parents, contextualizing their entire relationship.
“I needed you.”
Hey Mandapants, have you seen this?
Nooo. No, I had not. :’(
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A fascinating short film about how the now-iconic “Keep Calm and Carry On” WWII propaganda poster went unseen by the public for decades before being discovered and distributed by a small secondhand bookshop in Alnwick, Northumberland, called Barter Books.
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Making books
Back before inkjets, printing was a time-comsuming, laborious process that took teams of people working together to produce just one book.
Davy Jones, founding member of The Monkees, passed away this morning of a heart attack in a hospital near his Florida home. He was 66. RIP.
Above: “Daydream Believer” by The Monkees
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2012 Independent Spirit Awards host Seth Rogen shows other awards show hosts how it’s done, with a killer 15 minute monologue that takes down movies, movie stars, and movie awards — all with the curse words left refreshingly unbleeped.
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Hello! I'm Manda. I currently live in Auckland, New Zealand, but dream of Paris, New York and London. This blog is full of all my favourite things.
