Portions for Foxes // Rilo Kiley

feelourfire:

A Better Son/Daughter || Rilo Kiley

You’ll be honest, you’ll be brave. You’ll be handsome and you’ll be beautiful. You’ll be happy 

I am not art. I am not here to enlighten you. I was not born to save you - I was born for myself, and it’s myself that I will save.

I really wanted to do a set for the lovely ladies of Hannibal - and to illustrate the disillusionment of female characters as art pieces used only for the development of the male characters.

dallospazio:

“He gave her a string of pearls valued at three hundred and fifty thousand dollars”: Daisy Buchanan’s pearls in The Great Gatsby. 

viciousdoughnut:

anytime i’m not being 1000000% in love with myself is

TIME

WASTED

15milestation:

“I first heard through my agent that Baz Luhrmann was looking for the right actor to play Tom Buchanan, so I flew to New York to see him and put on a double-breasted suit, some leather shoes and even combed my hair and shaved my chin, which I don’t often do. Baz knew me as a scruffy kid from Australia, and I thought this was probably a wasted mission; but, at the same time, I also felt it was worth the shot.”

“It went very well! I hadn’t really acknowledged that a large part of Tom Buchanan was the sportsman in him, and there was certainly a part of me that could be that. Baz showed me some photographs and started really seeing in me what I was not seeing in myself. So, he invited me back the next day, fully dressed me up, coloured my hair and put a cigar in my mouth to turn me into that sporty version of Tom. And then it was done! That’s when he told me, ‘My search is over, I want you to be Tom Buchanan.’”

Joel Edgerton

Photos taken during Joel’s “Gatsby” audition

susiedrinksdallas:

In honor of the recently-realease “The Great Gatsby”, Tanqueray is featuring these five prohibition-style cocktails.  Even if you can’t enjoy them in West Egg, they’re still some of the classic cocktails every drink enthusiast should know how to make.

Cheers, sport!

Gin Rickey
Said to be the preferred pour of F. Scott Fitzgerald, this simple serve is best imbibed on a hot summer day. Don’t forget the chunky ice cubes.

• 1.25 oz Tanqueray London Dry gin
• 1 oz lime juice
• 5 parts soda water

Build in a highball glass, stir, top with soda water. Drag to mix and garnish with a lime wedge.

French 75
This snappy little champagne cocktail’s claim to fame is that it’s the only drink in the classic canon created during Prohibition.

• 1.25 oz Tanqueray Ten
• 0.5 oz simple
• 0.5 oz lemon juice
• Top with champagne

Shake and strain into a rocks glass and top with champagne. 

White Lady
Introduced in the late 20’s, The White Lady was born from the drink the “Delilah,” which included crème de menthe. The Savoy’s Harry Craddock replaced it with orange liqueur and it became an instant classic.

• 1.5oz Tanqueray London Dry Gin
• .75oz orange liqueur
• .75oz lemon juice

Pour all of the ingredients into a shaker, fill with ice, shake and strain into a chilled coupe glass.

The Southside
The Southside is the signature cocktail at the legendary former speakeasy the 21 Club. It’s also said to be the favorite drink of notorious Prohibition-era bootlegger Al Capone and his gang.

• 1.25 oz Tanqueray Ten
• 0.5 oz lime juice
• 0.5 oz simple
• 2 sprigs of mint
• Soda

Muddle one mint sprig with lime & simple. Add Tanqueray and shake well. Pour into glass over crushed ice and stir until the outside of the glass frosts. Top with soda and garnish with sprig of mint.

The Franklin
Let’s not forget Franklin Delano Roosevelt famously celebrated the end of Prohibition with a dirty gin martini. Whether it was with Tanqueray – one of the few gins today that was in production in the 30s – or not is lost to history, but this classic cocktail ushered in a new era of American drinking.

• 1.5oz Tanqueray London Dry Gin
• 1tbsp dry vermouth
• 2tbsp olive juice
• 2 olives

Fill a mixer with all ingredients including the olives. Cover and shake hard 3 – 4 times. Strain contents of the mixer into the cocktail glass. Garnish with an olive.

How to Survive Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby

chestnut-podfic:

A Viewer’s Guide by Chestnut_filly

1. Pretend this is all an Inception fanfic in which Dominick Cobb is attempting to extract the secrets of Spiderman by polluting fond high school memories of reading Gatsby with the aid of Ariadne’s kickass architecture (because the whole movie looks like a dream after tripping on acid, and Ariadne would dig that) fem!Arthur and fem!Eames as Jordan and Daisy, respectively. Ignore the part where he fails because Nick Carraway is so fucking dead and empty and non-judgmentally judgmental and possibly a bit dim that even the Dream Team cannot prevail. 
   
   
2. Sit quietly in the corner counting the seconds that Jordan is on screen, and spend all the minutes she is not on screen pretending she is standing behind Spiderman’s non-emotive shoulder making moues of disinterest. 
   
   
3. Slip into a nice, gentle coma by thinking of the uptick in Jordan/Daisy femslash fic that must inevitably follow the theatrical release of this film.
   
   
4. Imagine you are Jordan Baker, approximately 115 years old at this point, sitting in the theater and imagining hitting all the directors/producers/soundtrack mixers/everyone but the actors and the underpaid, overworked interns over the head with a driver. 
   
   
5. Pull an Oedipus and blind yourself. Similarly, pulling an Odysseus and tying yourself to your seat with earplugs blasting gorgeous women singing distracts you nicely from the cacophony onscreen. Recommended listens include k.d. lang, Tegan and Sara, Melissa Etheridge, and the screams of the damned. 
   
   
6. Spend the movie composing a thesis-worthy essay on the discrepancies between the rich male upper classes’ view of the American Dream and the lower classes’ as demonstrated by Baz Luhrmann’s depiction of wealth. 
   
   
7. Wonder about Meyer Wolfsheim’s views on Lurianic Kabbalah and ponder the possibility that he sees Gatsby and his quest as exemplary of a Neoplatonic world structure, and whether or not Gatsby and his crowd constitute a sort of archetypal group of klippot. Realize that basically any story can match up to the Shevirat ha-Kelim story if you try hard enough. 
   
   
8. Dissolve into a pool of lust the first time Elizabeth Debicki shows up and remain in that state for the duration of the movie so you don’t have to deal with Spiderman and Coob emoting sadly at each other. 
   
   
9. Run out of the theater, shove the ticket at your worst enemy, and flee for the hills, calling to your army of film-Valykries to descend and smite Baz Luhrmann with all the wrath of a disgusted lit nerd.