July 2009
"Arrested Development: The Documentary" Celebrates... →
Three years ago, Fox pulled the plug on “Arrested Development,” a show that won over critics and award jurors — but not the masses.
Two die-hard fans of the sitcom, Neil Lieberman and Jeff Smith, were not ready to let go. So the duo — a director of data integration and a video editor, by trade — decided to make a documentary about the “brilliant, witty and original comedy” to “provide awareness...
June 2009
somesongsmatter:
Care of Cell 44 - The Zombies
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“I think poetry always comes out of what you don’t know. And with students...”
– W.S. Merwin, 6/26/09
Bill Moyers Journal: W.S. Merwin (6/26/09) →
On this week’s episode of the journal, Bill Moyers (aka my hero and pretend Grandpa) sat down with poet W.S. Merwin for the entire hour.
I never wanted the conversation to end.
Please, if you truly care about art or words in any way, take the time to listen, read, or watch this interview (all formats available at the link above). I felt stronger and wiser just from absorbing these men in...
Separation
by W. S. Merwin
Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.
““Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind. Everything really...”
– (via underthelampshade)
Fontanelle - Clem Snide
It’s no easy feat...
DFW@Harper's →
davidfosterwallace:
All of David Foster Wallace’s writings, as featured in and around Harper’s.
I Felt Your Shape - The Microphones
Five Favorite Films with Dave Eggers and Vendela... →
a good read.
kierstenmh:
Bah, I caved. Here is my newest...
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Do you think that if I took a bunch of really awful, maudlin quotes from Nicholas Sparks’ novels and then removed his name and added “Anais Nin” or “Jonathan Safran Foer” to it that they would get massively re-blogged and, possibly, even taken by some misguided soul and put into some artsy crafty type thing that would then make its own endless rounds? I do.
Passat Dreams: Buy Elliott Smith's Car →
(via wheniwascruel)
In Circles - Sunny Day Real Estate
(just in case...
Sunny Day Real Estate Reunion Tour in September! →
The first time all FOUR members (yes, Nate is on board this time around) have played together since the band’s first split back in 1995.
Oh, by the way, THEY WERE MY FAVORITE BAND IN THE WORLD DURING SOME VERY IMPORTANT TEENAGE YEARS OF MY LIFE and, so, I’m very excited about this.
the opening of the fascinating article i just...
“The year was 1374. In dozens of medieval towns scattered along the valley of the River Rhine hundreds of people were seized by an agonising compulsion to dance. Scarcely pausing to rest or eat, they danced for hours or even days in succession. They were victims of one of the strangest afflictions in Western history. Within weeks the mania had engulfed large areas of north-eastern France and...
Baby Britain - Elliott Smith
(okay, I’m...
Video: Elliott Smith - 2.22.00, New York City →
click on link to get to the full show, via The Rawking Refuses To Stop
“I don’t need, from you, a waterfall of careless praise, and I don’t need a...”
– Bowerbirds, Northern Lights (via beautifulordinaire)
This song = soooo good.
“…and the help I require just to exist at all, took a long time to stand,...”
– Elliott Smith, “Passing Feeling”
BLVR: Do you think of writing as a kind of willing, if indirect, personal exposure? Do you ever feel overexposed and wish you could take something back? You’ve said you will never write memoir—why is that?
Lorrie Moore: Well, I don’t have an interesting enough life for a memoir—unless I get to fudge and exaggerate and lie. But then that’s fiction. As for personal exposure in fiction, well, sure....
“In other words, in so many things I loved I was sadly insufficiently gifted and...”
– Lorrie Moore (from this interview with The Believer)
here's what you do
mhight:
move to a city where you can’t turn a corner without meeting someone who reads the new yorker, the new york times on sunday, has seen 400 blows and wants to see 500 days of summer
find an interesting, creative job with normal work hours. by all means, do not mention the movie Teeth in your job interview, no matter how relevant.
when you notice that everyone around you is wearing either...
“A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a...”
– Billy Wilder
