circus girl, without a safety net.

Here are the rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

megmess:

oldfilmsflicker:

1. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
2. She’s Come Undone, Wally Lamb
3. The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
4. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
5. Good in Bed, Jennifer Weiner
6. Valley of the Dolls, Jacqueline Susann
7. Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
8. Helter Skelter, Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry
9. In Cold Blood, Truman Capote
10. The Long Hard Road Out of Hell, Marilyn Manson
11. Violet and Claire, Francesca Lia Block
12. The Shining, Stephen King
13. Paterson, William Carlos Williams
14. Straight Up and Dirty, Stephanie Klein
15. A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories, Flannery O’Connor

alexandra-ewing / aatombomb / quotington

clearly there were two significant literary periods in my life that will forever stick with me: the depressed, awkward, creepy junior high phase (in cold blood, helter skelter, the shining, marilyn manson); and the depressed, awkward, sleeping-with-losers-in-college chick lit phase.

that’s just what sticks with me.

hey a lot of yours that i don’t have are ones that i would have put on mine too if i had enough room. for some reason valley of the dolls always sticks with me. i love flannery o’connor.  all francesca will stay with me. and omg she’s come undone. that would have definitely been on mine too! shit i’ll never forget that book.

Here are the rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

1. franny and zooey - jd salinger
2. abortion: a historical romance - richard brautigan
   
3. love is a mixtape - rob sheffield
   
4. notes from the underground - fyodor dostoevsky
5. the metamorphosis - franz kafka
6. foxfire - joyce carol oates
   
7. dangerous angels - francesca lia block
8. the path of minor planets - andrew sean greer
   
9. the dharma bums - jack kerouac
10. the bell jar - sylvia plath
11. slaughter house five - kurt vonnegut
    
12. you shall know our velocity - dave eggers
    
13. self-help - lorrie moore
    
14. the sun also rises - ernest hemingway
    
15. the great gatsby - f. scott fitzgerald

oldfilmsflicker:alexandra-ewing / aatombomb / quotington

A tumblr tale.

Who were your first 5 followers?
secretary
aminty
oldfilmsflicker
youarewhatyoulove
rocksee

Do you follow any of them?
all of them.

Who’re your 3 most recent followers?
cheukshroom
mama-wolf
friskyfrasky

Who are your 5 favorite followers?
there are more than 5. but the 5 i talk to the most and reblog the most are:
oldfilmsflicker
elohbee
megmess
spacecataz
yourfavoriteredhead

Do you do the whole “If you follow me, I’ll follow you” thing?
not really. i go look people’s blog and if i like the first 5 posts i see i’ll usually follow them.

Biggest Tumblr Pet Peeves?
usually if something annoys me on here i’ll ignore it or unfollow. its fucking tumblr.

How many posts have you “liked”?
1212

Does your Tumblr Crushes really reflect your true “crushes”?
pretty much. i mean there are people i think should be on there but aren’t but 6 out of the 9 are dead on.

How many people do you follow?
146

How many posts have you made?
4755

What was your first post? (find in archives)

a picture i took in a store window of san francisco that had a magazine open to a page that said “i left my heart in san francisco” and i wrote “sometimes i think i left it somewhere else” here

What day was that on?
november 18th 2008. wow almost exactly a year ago.

kaustubha:

starting wednesday i am netflixing "twin peaks"

oldfilmsflicker:

i’ve been meaning to get into this show since i started dating my first boyfriend freshman year at berkeley (aka october 2004)

he always used to say “that’s a damn fine cup of coffee” to me almost every time we got coffee together (which was a lot).

right before he met me he and his friends had rented the whole series from blockbuster, so it was very fresh in his mind.

since i’m on this big netflix tv shows kick and chuck season 2 isn’t available, twin peaks it is!

do it. my favorite tv show ever. i watched it when i was 9 and it completely messed me up. it scares the crap out of me (because seriously who lets their 9 year old watch this? yeah my fucked up mother) but i still can’t help but watch it over and over. it’s also what started my childhood obsession with david lynch. hmmm. crazy. i’m excited for you! can’t wait till you watch david duchovny in drag!