I recently saw this movie trailer, and it felt like ‘God’ had decided 2 ‘make a movie abt my life.’
Recently, I graduated from a Top 20 university with a liberal arts degree. I was hoping to get a very good job after attending a prestigious school and getting meaningful life experience in a dormitory setting. Unfortunately, things didn’t go as planned. I ended up moving back in with my parents, and started to sexually experiment with ‘people who were losers in high school and just stayed at home.’
I was s00 confused…like I thought I was on the ‘fast track’ 2 ‘being rich & happy.’ However, I was ‘just another brick in the wall’ of the American economy, and I didn’t really have any ‘real skills.’ Sorta just wish I could get paid 2 ‘be myself’ and ’share my musings’ on current events (in 140 characters or less).
Just really starting to learn who I am, and how 2 ‘find happiness’ in this world. Guess maybe I should just ’surround myself with ppl who love me’ and things will ‘be alright.’ Sorta wish there was a ‘foreign man’ who lived across the street from me who could share his knowledge/cock with me. I wonder if life really is meaningful, yall. Maybe I’ll know more abt life when I ‘find a real job.’
Sad that my life may not actually be what I thought it would be. This is a movie about ’settling’ for less. Sorta like ‘a more realistic version of The Devil Wears Prada’ for the ‘type of cunt’ who would see this kind of movie.
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted July 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 pm
@Maicol, majoring in first… ‘the best’
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I majored in bloghouse music at college (via bearshare)
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history of alexis bledel.
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bl0g about ecigs plz
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horticulture so one day i can grow my own food and be materially independent(alt)
should’a been a farmer carles
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dick proenneke
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//////////Reply by proenneke
//////////Posted July 3rd, 2009 at 12:59 pm
@m, SO TRUE
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jerking off to alt b00bz on your blahg
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i would bone that bro in a heartbeat
<3 friday night lights
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Lame linking to your own post to generate more hitz.
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I just want to dance.
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carles … i know what school you went to … not top 20.
i had an art class with you, you told me my stuff was pretty bad but better than everyone else’s. greatest day of my life. or maybe when you showed up to my birthday party.
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I majored in mathematics
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//////////Reply by grant
//////////Posted July 3rd, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Hi sterling
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Alexis Bledel “reads books,” so she’s smart. But she also “played a whore” in SIN CITY, so she’s okay with sex-having.
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She has to choose between her kinda dorky, kooky boyfriend that she has had forever and a sexy man who is everything her current boyfriend isnt.
Tough call.
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Alt-boobs?
http://only-alexis.net/gallery/displayimage.php?album=224&pos=3
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//////////Reply by Arex
//////////Posted July 3rd, 2009 at 12:52 am
@zxcvb, alt-bewbs
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//////////Reply by Maicol
//////////Posted July 3rd, 2009 at 1:54 pm
@Arex, maybe entry level alt at best. reminds me of that song ‘dude looks like a lady’.
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I majored in communications/blog commenting.
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Screenwriting, so I can hopefully create something better than this atrocity.
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted July 2nd, 2009 at 9:11 pm
@Sam, yay, movies
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//////////Reply by yooooooooooooooo
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
@Sam, but you majored in screenwriting so you won’t making movies, you’ll be waiting tables
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history. i know it isn’t employable, but i must admit, i love it.
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i hope i dont end up like carles, but i prob will.
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electronic media/art/communication
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top 20 in what?
go to law school. its waht people like you do.
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/slits wrist.
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french literature and banging sluts
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Two good things about this trailer.
1. 90% of the people that are over 21 that read this blog can relate to it.
2. Dimitri Martin is in it for 0.2 seconds.
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//////////Reply by c
//////////Posted July 3rd, 2009 at 12:09 pm
@Monk, jajajajaja
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//////////Reply by xavier
//////////Posted July 3rd, 2009 at 6:22 pm
@Monk, ok good i thought i was the only one who noticed
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 1:26 am
@Monk, Dimitri Martin….the new David Cross?
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//////////Reply by bill?
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
@anony, dimitri’s martin is funny, but no david cross. completely different brand.
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i like girls.
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this is me
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I am now to go to college for photography and minor in being “a moderately attractive alt grrl”, so hopefully I can basically do a lot of coke and hang out with VICE writers and semi-famous bands because I get on the internet a lot…
College is worth it.
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ahh yes, I grad college then did nothing..at least for now. I majored in Communications and minored in Japanese..I’ve still got the same job I’ve had three years ago and I totally know what you mean about the meeting up with old high school friends thing..hah
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 1:28 am
@M, my entire goal in life is to never again meet up with “high school friends”.
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seriously, how much do you think carles gets paid to plug movies?
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crls,
stop mopping and become a teacher. i’m graduating with a B.A. Film next year and after I waste $1000000000000 on grad school at UCLA imma teacher others my faggotry and failure. there’s nothing more authentic than a crazy ass teacher [via Mr Holland's opus]
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//////////Reply by 8armsnine
//////////Posted July 3rd, 2009 at 7:33 pm
@Madi B,
wtf are you talking about ucla is like the 2nd best value/prestige ratio in education after berkeley
unless yr not from ca in which case go home….
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//////////Reply by relevant.
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
@8armsnine, go back to china bitch via darko
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looks like a shitty, ‘modern’ version of reality bites. i miss the 90s
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i majored in criminology (bleh) haha and now im facing future as a prison guard…fun
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majored/mastered in electrical engineering at a moderately prestigious institution…
didnt get any vajeen until senior year of college due to nerddom. worked my ass off for five years. but now i have a job that pays a shitload and i get job offers all the time.
a lib arts/art deg. isnt worth anything these days. have fun working at starbucks fools
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 1:31 am
@max, I don’t know…I still think it sucks less WITH a degree. Like maybe starbucks starts you out with a $1 more than a high school grad.
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computer engineering
too many jobs + not enuf grads = i will always have a job
suck it
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 1:32 am
@aw, fukk, and yet you did not say that you are in fact employed.
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 2:29 am
@anony,
Still in the college bro
on a full ride baby
thx ACT scores
but I also have an internship at a nonprofit IT company. I get to work from 10-4 and get decent wages.
I am going to work at Apple after college (non ironic)
heard the WozBro speak when I was in highschool
‘inspired me’
kno it will be tough
but I hafta try, ya kno?
thx 4 letting me get all vulns, and tell u my dream.
<3 u HRO
<3 u s0 much
xoxo,
–aw, fukk
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//////////Reply by max
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 9:47 am
@aw, fukk,
too bad computer engineers are just EEs that cant handle circuits or any of the math behind DSP
ohh snap
//////////Reply by friendbro
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 1:31 pm
@aw, fukk,
too bad your jobs got taken by indians, lol
//////////Reply by douchebag
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 3:50 am
@aw, fukk,
ah, now it becomes clear – appreciation of the nested [via]
[via engineering]
ps. I work for the Amazon. Hook you up with a job bro-ski?
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
@douchebag,
‘damn’
bro-fessional
thx for the job hook up offer.
u seem pretty chill.
dont live in the uk tho.
(ur site links to the uk’s amazons, amirite?)
just bought some new headphones on amazon
some klipsch s4s
but they are on backorder
:-(
hope they get some soon
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//////////Reply by douchebag
//////////Posted July 5th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
@aw, fukk,
nice phones bro.
I’m a UK-based-bro.
referral scheme works ‘globally’
would get ‘mad respect’ for international referral [via large cash payout]
can you commute to Seattle bro??
hit me up with your résumé…
s e r a f i n i [at] amazon.co.uk
Construction Management. No body has built shit since I graduated, so i just drink beer and go to shows all the time
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 1:34 am
@monster, Management?
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//////////Reply by anonee
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 10:44 am
@anony, Management.
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//////////Reply by friendbro
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 1:32 pm
@anony, MGMT?
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how i r o n i c everyone associated with that movie can’t relate.
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saw demetri martin in the trailer, i love this bro
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you got paid for this post, didn’t you
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 1:36 am
@8armsnine, It’s an interesting consideration but of course we will never know. has carles been taged as a “influential taste maker”?
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just got my B.ull S.hit in neuroscience. Now i’m a ‘molecular biologist’ in a neuro-oncology lab in the “great alt state of Minnesota.
science rules! (via bill nye and the science guys)
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 1:37 am
@Anonymous, Only the self-loathing are welcome here since we hate you via being insanely jealous.
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 2:36 am
@anony,
Sorts wish u wud reply to less ppl
worried u r diluting ur personal brand a lil
idk
cud be wrong
just want to make sure u stay auth
<3 u bro
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//////////Reply by neoplasm
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 10:32 am
@anony, you seem like you would make a good altnemesis to me. we could have an ‘ironic battle of wits’. there would be a great deal of preparation beforehand, for example scoffing at each other from a distance for several weeks and some ‘hit and run’ conversation. there could be a great, great deal of self-loathing involved. seem interesting to you?
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//////////Reply by friendbro
//////////Posted July 4th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
@anony, there isnt much to be jealous about, unless you envy sitting in a lab 8 hours a day and spinning samples in a centrifuge. the pay isnt that much better than starbucks either
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gilmore grlz movie lol.
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this movie is EXACTLY like ‘Reality Bites’ but the part originally played by Genen Gerafalo will now be played by Michael Keaton.
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this movie is ghey.
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getting a b.a. in philosophy and getting rich with the best student job ever: stripperrrr! taking my clothes off for money + stay in school til that phd = i will always have a job.
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$6 nip slips
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i like that she tried to get a job in ‘publishing’ like i did–which means she’s basically fucked. now she can’t even get the jobs that she didn’t want in high school.
wtf is the point of college again?
i would have done comp sci if i actually was good at it. alas. i have a right side brain.
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This movie is about dreams dying. Im terrified and about to debt myself 40K a year for my dreams to die?
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//////////Reply by flowz
//////////Posted July 16th, 2009 at 7:15 pm
@Nikki,
that is what college is all about!! and pending, it might be some of your classmates too.. lol.
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My blog is about this very subject. Checkitout.
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Cal State Channel Islands TOp 20 for sure
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Can someone hook me up with a cool job in a city? (Any within the continental U.S. Portland, Seattle or NYC or Austin or Albuquerque) I just graduated UCSB with a Global Studies degree. We can chat about global hipsterdom and how HR is changing the world.
-THX
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