Drinks On Me

"Love conquers all.” For centuries upon centuries we have been misinterpreting this famed trio of words. The uninformed masses breathlessly hold up this dwarfish phrase as a justification for snogging in public squares, abandoning wives, cuckolding husbands, for the escalating divorce rate, for swards of bastard children begging for handouts in the Whitechapel and Aldgate tube stations - when in fact, there is nothing remotely encouraging or cheerful about this oft-quoted phrase. The Latin poet wrote “Amor vincit omnia” or “Love conquers all”. He did not write, “Love frees all” or “liberates” all, and therein lies the first degree of our flagrant misunderstanding. Conquer: to defeat, subjugate, massacre, cream, make mincemeat out of. Surely this cannot be a positive thing. And then he wrote, “conquers all” - not exclusively the unpleasant things, destitution, assassination, burglary, but all, including pleasure, peace, common sense, liberty and self-determination. And thus we may appreciate that Virgil’s words are not encouragement, but rather a caveat, a cue to evade, shirk, elude the feeling at all costs, else we risk the massacre of the things we hold most dear, including ones sense of self."

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Special Topics in Calamity Physics (via palahniukandchocolate)

i own this book. i’m reading it over winter break.

Audio

December 01, 2010

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brokenrecordtrainwreck:

kinnetik:

Enrique Iglesias - Tonight (I’m Fuckin’ You)

Okay, someone needs to make a Brian/Justin fanvid to this song. It’s practically written from Brian’s POV. Just look at some of these lyrics:

I know you want me
I made it obvious that I want you too
So put it on me
Let’s remove the space between me and you
Now rock your body
Damn I like the way that you move
So give it to me
Cause I already know what you wanna do

Here’s the situation
Been to every nation
Nobody’s ever made me feel the way that you do
You know my motivation
Given my reputation
Please excuse I don’t mean to be rude

But tonight I’m fucking you

This is amazing.