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Category: Rebecca McNutt

You’re such a great liar when you lie to yourself.

fib, liar, lies

We get along like a house on fire these days.

argument, days, enemy, fight, fire, friendship, get-along, honesty, house

Yeah, you’re right about having entire rooms full of film and photos… in that Sydney Mines house I have a darkroom, I have boxes of film and home movie footage… I have a few projectors, I have piles of Kodachrome slides… I like photographs. The world is always running away from society and the only way to keep the stuff that’s happened in the past is by taking photographs, I can keep memories of things alive with photographs,” Alecto responded. “People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines… The steel mill, the coal mines, the train tracks, the smog in the sky, I’ve been able to rescue it on super-8 and Kodachrome, and no one can remediate those photographs, I can keep them as long as I want to.

On Wall Street, Clarence was a diamond in a sea of glass, never greedy, never an ambulance-chaser, never the kind of person who deserved to die in the way that he did.

diamond, glass, greed, morality, september-11-attacks, wall-street

If I hear the phrase “selfie” one more time, I’ll have to enroll myself in anger management classes.

anger, anger-management, anger-management-classes, cell-phone, digital, selfie, technology

I never said I was sad, I’m just pessimistic,” said Alecto. “Expect the worst, that way you’ll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems.

cynical, depressed, disappointed, expect, friendship, never, pessamistic, sad, worst

Super 8 film is the language of silence.

canada, cape-breton, film, kodak, kodak-moment, language, nostalgia, nova-scotia, obscure, photography, seventies, silence, super-8

People never like pollution, it has become very wrong to like pollution at all. But just like there are good and bad things about people, there are good and bad things about pollution. If people were pollution we would get rid of anyone who was different, anyone who was considered an inconvenience… but we’d be getting rid of a life, a lot of lives… because we didn’t like them. If pollution was a person would we still be trying to get rid of it? Would we have environmentalists still complaining and protesting and trying to get rid of all pollution?

air, animals, canada, dangerous, death, earth, environment, environmentalism, evil, garbage, help, hippie, hope, human, life, litter, mental-illness, people, plants, pollution, scary, smog, water

Just because something isn’t good doesn’t mean it’s bad.

bad, book, characters, crime, depth, ethics, evil, good, life, literary, lonely, misunderstood, novel, sad, spooky, truth

There are some things in the past that… that just aren’t meant to be viewed.

aren-t, found-footage, met, past, viewed

…So, um, you’re from Rochester? Like, New York?” Jersey asked.“Yup, we used to live out there,” Rudger confirmed, nonchalant. “You ever been?”“Naw, the closest I’ve ever been to there would be… well, believe it or not, New Jersey, the place where my parents named me after. It was crowded, polluted and full of crime… I loved it.

america, angst, city, crime, crowd, love, new-jersey, pollution, teenagers, travel, urban

Netflix is SO overrated.

digital, fad, movies, netflix, overrated, trend