October 2009
September 2009
“I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure...”
– George Eliot
My dentist is a really good guy, but he is all over the map when it comes to making small talk in those short few minutes between doing things, when we’re both just kind of sitting there. Two weeks ago, my mouth slowly numbing (I hate getting the shot in the mouth, by the way, so I’m usually feeling somewhat sick to my stomach and/or out of it while these conversations are happening),...
Love to a Monster - Okkervil River
(I still think...
Fantastic Mr. Fox: Trailer 2 is up! →
(via stayforthecredits)
Okay, it’s official: I can’t wait to see this. Ol’ Wes even figured out a way to work “Street Fighting Man” into the trailer!
“But wait! What’s that Nabokov’s doing with his hands? He’s turning over index cards. He’s glancing at notes. He’s reading. Fluent in three languages, he relies on prefabricated responses to talk about his work. Am I disappointed? I am at first, but then I think: writers don’t have to be brilliant conversationalists; it’s not their job to be smart except, of course, when they write. Hazlitt,...
“I don’t wish to touch hearts. I don’t even want to affect minds very much. What...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (Essay - Why Good Writers Can Be Bad Conversationalists - NYTimes.com) (via ayse) (via furryrabbits)
“HarperCollins Publishers announced Monday that 24-year-old Islip, NY resident...”
– Man’s Facebook Status Given Book Deal | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source (via kmaverick) (via meaghano) (via rebeccalando)
numbersnmumbles:
Fuzzy Microphone Cover 14
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NYT: Daniel Johnston iPhone game →
“We wrapped the game around his whole story of a man going through life trying to find his true love but constantly having to contend with evil and with Satan, which are probably the demons within himself.”
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eceu:
“Into Your Arms” - The Lemonheads
POP...
Ricky Gervais: 'Before The Office I never tried... →
“I enjoyed every moment of it,” he says. “I enjoyed the result and I enjoyed the pride. I also realised in retrospect that I didn’t enjoy all those things because of how good I thought it had turned out. I enjoyed it because of how hard it was.” The Office, Gervais explains, was the first thing he had ever really worked at. A clever working-class kid from Reading,...
“It’s always that one song that gets to you. You can hide, but the song comes to find you.”
— Rob Sheffield, Love is a Mix Tape
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So then, tumblrs, I ask you: what is the one song that always seems to find YOU?
Lucy Vodden Dead: 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds'... →
Vodden’s connection to the Beatles dates back to her early days, when she made friends with schoolmate Julian Lennon, John Lennon’s son. Julian Lennon, then 4 years old, came home from school with a drawing one day, showed it to his father, and said it was “Lucy in the sky with diamonds.”
At the time, John Lennon was gathering material for his contributions to “Sgt....
My Body’s a Zombie for You - Dead...
“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists in particular, as I...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, “The People One Knows,” essay within Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage (via sarahspy)
eceu:
Just Breathe - Pearl Jam
At this...
“Everyone has a self-made pass for travel through the terror and sadness of the...”
– Mark Helprin, A Solider of the Great War
The #1 Work of Fiction of the Last Decade: The... →
thefeeling:
I know a lot of people hate him for his somewhat pompous public persona (alliteration!), and I get that (I was at a party with him once and he wore a Members Only jacket), but The Corrections is a jaw-dropping novel. If you haven’t read it, try to forget its author and give it a try. Then you can play the popular parlor game “Who’s your favorite Lambert?” (I’m a Denise man,...
psychotherapy:
Lithium - Nirvana
“We’d just shared the last beer and slung the empty can out the window at a...”
– Ken Kesey (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
funny ha-ha.
A man walks out of a theater on 42nd at Times Square and stumbles over a bum.
The bum says, “Spare a buck?”
“Neither a borrower nor a lender be!” snaps the man. “William Shakespeare.”
“Fuck you!” says the bum. “David Mamet”.
VCR - xx
This is the best song in the whole world...
in circles - sunny day real estate
re: Why Do People Fear Art?
“Art, as something that is only interesting to the degree to which it shows us human beings not as we would have them be but as they are, leads us to throw over the control structures others build for their benefit. Literature shocks not because what it shows about us is inherently surprising. It does the exact opposite. It is shocking because it breaks down what we would be and shows us...
Try Not to Breathe - R.E.M.
I will try not to...
