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Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests : Shots – Health News : NPR

But in retrospect he says it makes sense. We use “I” more when we talk to someone with power because we’re more self-conscious. We are focused on ourselves — how we’re coming across — and our language reflects that.
So could we use these insights to change ourselves? Like Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, could we bend our personalities by bending the words we use? Could we become stronger? More powerful? Healthier?
After 20 years of looking at this stuff, Pennebaker doubts it.
“The words reflect who we are more than [they] drive who we are,” he says.
You can’t, he believes, change who you are by changing your language; you can only change your language by changing who you are. He says that’s what his research indicates.
via Our Use Of Little Words Can, Uh, Reveal Hidden Interests : Shots – Health News : NPR.

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rePost::“They Sound ‘Now’”: Raymund Talks New E-Heads Tracks (And More); Unmissable!

Along with his actual beverage, Raymund Marasigan was swilling down the rhymes and rhythms of rap act Skarm: always an appreciative man despite his stature, always the sort to savor good work and not merely wolf it down, no matter the source. “Tapusin ko lang si Skarm, ha,” he said when I asked for a few minutes of his time, his head still mildly bobbing despite his distance from the sound source, dancing without dancing, in place but never stationary. As soon as the duo was up, he reemerged, equally eager about some other band’s new music: the Eraserheads’, a sort of wily phantasm that has evaded its fans and, well, the band itself for over a decade. I mean, everything’s coming up roses now, but the quartet did break up, and a teary reassembly wasn’t going to materialize right after “graduation.” Hindsight and the passing of time were luxuries then, but they are within reach and much needed now. A wordless penance, or maybe even shared wordlessness itself, was a requisite prelude. And now we have this: a band that, though not reunited, has played shows here and abroad; a foursome that has, ultimately, mended whatever needed mending. Fans weren’t asking for anything more. News of new material from them, then, was received like the cure for some incurable malady.
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Broken at Love «

44. That one of the “realest” moments conjured up by M. Seles during the course of the narrative comes totally out of nowhere in Book 2, when Maya calls home and talks to her dad, and he says he’s fine, only she can tell by his voice that he’s hurt his back again, and she knows this will knock the wind out of his struggling lawn-mowing business, and she’s suddenly desperately worried about making money.
45. That the first time you read it, this scene maybe almost made you cry a little bit, because the heart does not keep to a clock.
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Manalo, matalo, panalo parin | SLAMonline Philippines

Loved this article about Croatia vs Philippines!
Laban Pilipnas Puso!!!
 
“Di ko nga alam kung bakit ko ginagawa eh, pero lahat ng makita kong kakilala, sinasabihan ko ng ‘Hoy manood kayo ng Gilas ah!’ Kala mo naman kasali ako sa team.” ‘Yan yung sinabi sa akin ng kaibigan kong si Ben Ullado habang nagmamaneho kami papunta sa bar kung saan magkikita ang buong college barkada namin para panoorin ang National Team natin labanan ang Croatia. Si Ben Ullado. Nagtatrabaho sa bangko. Walang kinalaman sa PBA, o sa Gilas, o sa TV network na magpapalabas ng laro. Si Ben Ullado. Kapitbahay ko mula nung limang taong gulang palang ako. Kaklase ko mula grade school. Kaliwete sa babae at sa basketball. Kakampi ko sa varsity sa UPLB. Yung Ben Ullado na inupakan yung sarili niyang kakampi sa liga kasi sinahod ako, na kalaban nila. Wala siyang maisip na magandang dahilan para ipaliwanag niya ang pag-imbita niya sa mga kamag-anak at katrabaho niya na buksan ang mga TV nila, ibahin ang mga plano at panoorin ang isang laro ng basketball. Pero ginawa parin niya. “Parang duty ko sa bayan brad eh.”
via Manalo, matalo, panalo parin | SLAMonline Philippines.
 
 

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rePost::Critic After Dark: Un condamné à mort (A Man Escaped, Robert Bresson 1956)

Have to check this out one of these days

 
Escape Plan
(Plot discussed in close detail)
Who’d have thought Bresson, he of the austere aestheticism and rigorous philosophy, could make such an effective thriller as A Man Escaped? That opening sequence of Lt. Fontaine about to attempt a break from a car is as superbly timed and edited–with the suspense stretched out into a thin, taut wire–as anything from Kurosawa or Eisenstein.
Bresson’s visual style couldn’t be more fitting for the setting–the whole movie is focused on the title character, in a series of tight medium shots and close-ups. The camera is trained on him, and since he operates in such a small space, it rarely strays elsewhere. The impression of claustrophobic confinement is thus emphasized, even magnified–about an hour of the way through you dearly wish for a shot of a tree, of the sky, of something outside the prison walls, which Bresson refuses to grant (the final shots are of more walls, glimpsed through thick fog, and at night). A voiceover keeps you constantly inside Fontaine’s head, telling you what he thinks and feels with direct simplicity.
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Censor or Unfriend

I am very animated when I write about things that enrage me and I often time resort to cursing.

I’ve been recently told by someone to delete a post with cursing.

Not gonna happen.

I’d rather unfriend someone than censor myself.