Today you are you, that is truer than true.

6 Dec 2009

sacredsimplicity: fuckyeahabramsverse: SYDNEY: I don’t know what your problem is with me. Maybe it’s that I’m a woman, or maybe you just don’t like my attitude, or something, and I’m sorry about that. But I really dont feel like wasting time here. Three’s only one way we can immobilize SD-6, and that’s MY way. So, forgive me for being forthright or… female, but this is how it’s gonna be. VAUGHN: Since I’ve been at the C.I.A., I’ve only seen this map grow. This is what you’re in the middle of, Sydney. If shutting down the Los Angeles cell was all we were after, we would have raided that office three years ago. This is not about cutting off an arm of the monster. This is about killing the monster. And the work you have ahead of you — the work your father has been doing — it’s complicated, it’s political, and it is long term. Alias: 1.02 - So It Begins Heh. I love watching Syd’s ass get owned by that GIANT MAP OF EVIL. Aw, “paper bag.”

sacredsimplicity:

fuckyeahabramsverse:

SYDNEY: I don’t know what your problem is with me. Maybe it’s that I’m a woman, or maybe you just don’t like my attitude, or something, and I’m sorry about that. But I really dont feel like wasting time here. Three’s only one way we can immobilize SD-6, and that’s MY way. So, forgive me for being forthright or… female, but this is how it’s gonna be.

VAUGHN: Since I’ve been at the C.I.A., I’ve only seen this map grow. This is what you’re in the middle of, Sydney. If shutting down the Los Angeles cell was all we were after, we would have raided that office three years ago. This is not about cutting off an arm of the monster. This is about killing the monster. And the work you have ahead of you — the work your father has been doing — it’s complicated, it’s political, and it is long term.

Alias: 1.02 - So It Begins

Heh. I love watching Syd’s ass get owned by that GIANT MAP OF EVIL.

Aw, “paper bag.”

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6 Dec 2009

infinitebutterflies: eemmaa: lifeineflatminor: Sondre Lerche

infinitebutterflies:

eemmaa:

lifeineflatminor:

Sondre Lerche

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6 Dec 2009

A Void by Georges Perec Perhaps this book was filled with too much genius for me. Or perhaps it’s because I kept getting distracted by the fact that this book does not contain the letter “e” anywhere within it. But, on the whole, this book wasn’t able to really capture my imagination.Anton Vowl goes missing, and it is up to his friends and a pair of investigators to find him. In the course of looking for him, they discover that other people have died/gone missing in the course of a few months, and a full-on investigation is underway.The third part of the novel was what really bogged my down in reading this: Augustus’ tale, while very important to the storyline, seemed excessively long for no other reason than to prove that Perec could write a 400 page novel without the letter “e” (in the Afterword, also devoid of “e”s, Perec admits that he wrote this novel in response to a friend’s challenge, who claimed writing without an “e” to be impossible).Accolades to Perec for avoiding the “e”, but this mystery was not for me.

A Void by Georges Perec

Perhaps this book was filled with too much genius for me. Or perhaps it’s because I kept getting distracted by the fact that this book does not contain the letter “e” anywhere within it. But, on the whole, this book wasn’t able to really capture my imagination.

Anton Vowl goes missing, and it is up to his friends and a pair of investigators to find him. In the course of looking for him, they discover that other people have died/gone missing in the course of a few months, and a full-on investigation is underway.

The third part of the novel was what really bogged my down in reading this: Augustus’ tale, while very important to the storyline, seemed excessively long for no other reason than to prove that Perec could write a 400 page novel without the letter “e” (in the Afterword, also devoid of “e”s, Perec admits that he wrote this novel in response to a friend’s challenge, who claimed writing without an “e” to be impossible).

Accolades to Perec for avoiding the “e”, but this mystery was not for me.

5 Dec 2009

sacredsimplicity: fuckyeahabramsverse: My name is Sydney Bristow. Seven years ago, I was recruted by a secret branch of the CIA called SD-6. I was sworn to secrecy but I couldn’t keep it from my fiancé. And when the head of SD-6 found out, he had him killed. That’s when I learned the truth. SD-6 is not part of the CIA. I’d been working for the very people I thought I was fighting against. So I went to the only place that could help me take them down. Now, I’m a double agent for the CIA, where my handler is a man named Michael Vaughn. Only one other person knows the truth about what I do. Another double agent inside SD-6. Someone I hardly know. My father. Alias: Season One opening. I literally want to hug this opening. So many fond memories! Love, love, love, love.

sacredsimplicity:

fuckyeahabramsverse:

My name is Sydney Bristow.
Seven years ago, I was recruted by a secret branch of the CIA called SD-6. I was sworn to secrecy but I couldn’t keep it from my fiancé. And when the head of SD-6 found out, he had him killed.
That’s when I learned the truth. SD-6 is not part of the CIA. I’d been working for the very people I thought I was fighting against. So I went to the only place that could help me take them down.
Now, I’m a double agent for the CIA, where my handler is a man named Michael Vaughn. Only one other person knows the truth about what I do. Another double agent inside SD-6. Someone I hardly know. My father.

Alias: Season One opening.

I literally want to hug this opening. So many fond memories!

Love, love, love, love.

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5 Dec 2009

lolcat: Basment cat

lolcat:

Basment cat

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5 Dec 2009

fuckyeahlordoftherings: allshallfade: Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for. I cry every time.

fuckyeahlordoftherings:

allshallfade:

Frodo: I can’t do this, Sam.
Sam: I know. It’s all wrong. By rights we shouldn’t even be here. But we are. It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines, it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something. Even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
Frodo: What are we holding on to, Sam?
Sam: That there’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for.

I cry every time.

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4 Dec 2009

apollosraven:

Bootleg of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 trailer.

Even though this is a video of the trailer and the quality was meh, I AM SO EXCITED AND I CANNOT WAITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT.

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4 Dec 2009

flickflickflicker: (via chocolate-cigarettes)

flickflickflicker:

(via chocolate-cigarettes)

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4 Dec 2009

The last book in THE HUNGER GAMES trilogy comes out in August!!

The as-yet-unnamed third book in Suzanne Collins’s bestselling trilogy that began with The Hunger Games in fall 2008 and continued with Catching Fire this fall has been set for next August 24. The U.S. hardcover edition (Scholastic, $17.99, 9780439023511) will be released simultaneously with a U.S. audio version (Scholastic, $39.99, 9780545101424).

On July 6, the trade paperback edition of The Hunger Games (Scholastic, $8.99, 9780439023528) will appear.

The first two books in the trilogy have more than 1.5 million copies in print in North America.

From today’s Shelf Awareness.

4 Dec 2009

nothingbuttherain: Vaughn: Damn it! I told you not to say anything.Sydney: I’m sorry, but I don’t care. If you’d been in my position, you probably wouldn’t have been able to control yourself, either.Vaughn: You’re just going to have to learn how to do that.Sydney: Don’t lecture me about my father. Because of the spy trade, my mother is dead. You couldn’t possibly understand what it’s like to have a parent die that way.Vaughn: There’s a book back at Langley. They keep it locked up under glass, and behind it is a marble wall with stars carved in it. It’s a memorial to the agents the company lost in action. Families are never told how they died, or even where. Only that they won’t be coming home. I was eight when my father became one of those stars. At the funeral, there’s a protocol the Agency representative has to follow. What to say, whose hands to shake. You’re admonished — that is actually the word they used, “admonished” — not to be conspiculously emotional. Sydney: Vaughn, I’m so sorry… Alias, 1x06 Reckoning

nothingbuttherain:

Vaughn: Damn it! I told you not to say anything.
Sydney: I’m sorry, but I don’t care. If you’d been in my position, you probably wouldn’t have been able to control yourself, either.
Vaughn: You’re just going to have to learn how to do that.
Sydney: Don’t lecture me about my father. Because of the spy trade, my mother is dead. You couldn’t possibly understand what it’s like to have a parent die that way.
Vaughn: There’s a book back at Langley. They keep it locked up under glass, and behind it is a marble wall with stars carved in it. It’s a memorial to the agents the company lost in action. Families are never told how they died, or even where. Only that they won’t be coming home. I was eight when my father became one of those stars. At the funeral, there’s a protocol the Agency representative has to follow. What to say, whose hands to shake. You’re admonished — that is actually the word they used, “admonished” — not to be conspiculously emotional.
Sydney: Vaughn, I’m so sorry…

Alias, 1x06 Reckoning

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