Almost Famous Behind The Scenes (2000)🍒⭐️🌿

“He was a teen idol with a message. He signed his name with a peace symbol”

“He knows his mind and speaks it, even if what he says doesn’t fit in with his peers. You could call River the ultimate individualist. A vegan in the day of McDonalds, a pacifist in the era of nuclear weapons” — Teen Beat, 1988

“River Phoenix was often mocked in his day. As the vegan environmentally aware actor who made careful film choices based on his personal politics, he was seen as a little wacko, an eccentric still suffering the psychological effects of growing up in the cult, Children of God. Now he seems ahead of his time. Not only that, an exemplary figure to be revered more than ever, both for his film work and his messages. […] He remains an inspiration for those of us looking for a new masculinity. This wasn’t a man set out to compromise what was in his heart and mind to fulfil any expectations of what a young man must be” — “River Phoenix remains the antidote to Toxic Masculinity”, The Book of Man, Oct 2018

creative writing’s just like yeah sure i can deal with my issues i just need to cover them in several layers of metaphors first

Due to personal reasons, I will now be regressing back to 2014 me, so if you see me watching old Markiplier videos or listening to Badlands and Crybaby then just look the other way

“It really upsets me that we’re trained from an early age to aspire to be the ideal man or the ideal woman. It’s prejudice, really. Many people learn to accept themselves, but others are miserable if they don’t look like Robert Redford. And they shouldn’t be. It’s oppressive. A lot of it has to do with show business. For example, I would like to see more blacks in leading men’s roles, to project a more realistic picture of who we are as a people.”

- River Phoenix

“Stay afraid but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it and eventually the confidence will follow.”

— Carrie Fisher

the only thing you need to know about the world:

"you can't stop the love — and the rock'n'roll"

The Craft (1996) dir. Andrew Fleming

driven by a greed to succeed, nobody can stop me