Trapped In Time is the tumblelog of Matt Simpson. Matt is the co-owner of Maven Web Solutions. His business partner is Eugene. They also blog live music with Todd at The Butter Room, whose latest project is Jamwich.
Matt has two min pins, Forbin & Floyd. He often blogs about music and is a Phishhead who went on 2009 summer tour. In addition to traveling, Matt takes photos. Proud Hoosier and Chicagoan.
Matt Suggests: Annicka, Autumn, Brian, Chris, Christina, Drew, Elle, Jim, Josh, Irick, Katrina, Kaylie, Kelly, Megan, Michael and Michael, Mills, Nikki, Shannon, Sharon, Stacey and Terz, amongst others.
I’ve always appreciated bokeh in photographs, but that’s all it was. An appreciation. I can remember the exact moment when I tipped over into all out fandom. It was this pivotal scene between Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale on The Wire.
Just look at the lushness of those lights behind them. Brilliant.
Stringer + Avon = auto reblog. Bonus points for bokeh.
| — | Franz Kafka, as quoted in the final episode of The Wire. |
“Does Cutty Have to Slap a Bitch?” (via linkchump)
Just watched this episode tonight!
He’s saying that the past is always with us - where we come from, what we go through, how we got through it. All that shit matters. At the end of the book, boats and tides and all… you can change up, right? You can say you’re somebody new, you can give yourself a whole new story. But what came first is who you really are. And what happened before is what really happened. And it don’t matter that some fool say different cause the only thing that make you different is what you go through…
He was frontin’ with all those books. But if you pull one down off the shelf, ain’t none of the pages ever been opened. He got all them books, he ain’t read one of ‘em. Gatsby? He was who he was, and he did what he did. And cause he wasn’t ready to get real with the story… that shit caught up to him.
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D’Angelo Barksdale, The Wire This was probably my favorite scene - or at least one of the most real ones - from season two (which I just finished). Perhaps for the Gatsby reference, or the metaphor that D is able to make to his own life, to the lives of those he had surrounded himself with. |
