i might miss it here, but i've started a wordpress: juliannetan.wordpress.com

named it the same thing though, so i suppose that's a sign that my livejournal attachment issues aren't over yet. who knows? i'll still be checking back here often and reading my friends list daily as always, so take care in the meantime and keep writing everyone! x

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another well-animated TEDtalk, on the darwinian theory of beauty. thanks to denis dutton, i finally understand my preoccupation with teardrop shaped stone rings and leaf motifs.

#1 Comin' Home Baby - Mel Torme, on The Judy Garland Show

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from the scene in An Education when Jenny and Danny are dancing in a nightclub after the horse races. bodies held apart by tension but flowing with crooning beats, eyes locked.

#2 Happy Days Are Here Again/Get Happy - Barbra Streisand & Judy Garland, on The Judy Garland Show

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everyone needs to watch this wonderfully weird music video for carmensita, by devendra banhart. go on! natalie portman's in it -- need i say more?

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Balloon Fiesta from Michael Salisbury on Vimeo.

a real life tim burton big fish fantasy land exists! this is going on right now, can you imagine!

3am, i am complaining about missing literature, and ben is trying to convince me that i wouldn't crave it as much if i actually had an additional major in it ( Read more... )

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have to get my hands on this book (or some free time to watch steven johnson's TEDtalk of the same name), and find a way to use this great presentation technique for my whiteboard-only presentation that's coming soon!

While clearing out cupboards to make space for new memories last week, i stumbled upon the english essays i wrote for O level prelims back in scgs (covering math papers too shameful to be displayed!) Writing has always been one of the few things i felt good about, but finding those papers covered in scratchy schoolgirl handwriting brought me back ( Read more... )

i have missed writing in this boundless white box! meant to write about the 2 weeks in the midwest, but somehow the only thing i remember thinking is that even from ____ feet up in the air, the land around narita, tokyo, looks like bento boxes. that was our first transit, before the long haul fifteen hours before we would finally arrive in ames, ( Read more... )