October 2010
Work - John Engman
I wanted to be a rain salesman, because rain makes the flowers grow, but because of certain diversions and exhaustions, certain limitations and refusals and runnings low, because of chills and pressures, shaky prisms, big blows, and apes climbing down from banana trees, and dinosaurs weeping openly by glacial shores, and sunlight warming the backsides of Adam and Eve in Eden...
mythologyofblue asked: What was the first concert you attended?
What is your favorite music group?
What is your favorite movie? Book? Halloween candy?
What is your favorite music group?
What is your favorite movie? Book? Halloween candy?
fancyismymiddlename-deactivated asked: This is a BWDR question (sorry! it was the fastest way!). I was just re-reading my post, and one of Michelle's edits was left in. It says "Tense changes- is it alright to change these?" or something like that. Can we fix that?
Oh, and hi! :)
Oh, and hi! :)
I haven't had any questions in a thousand years... →
The Dreamer - Tallest Man on Earth
oh, sometimes...
“And we are put on earth a little space,
That we may learn to bear the beams of...”
– William Blake, Songs of Innocence (via toynbeeconvector)
Me, covering Elliott Smith’s “The Last...
“We’re all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices....”
– Professor Levy, “Crimes & Misdemeanors” (dir: Woody Allen)
a bright wall in a dark room.: Halloween Week: The... →
brightwalldarkroom:
THE WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART
by Erica U.
My older sister went to see The Blair Witch Project before I did; she was always the cool early adopter. She was the first to play me Morrissey and Cure tapes, which she borrowed from the emo boy who stocked shelves at our small town grocery…
Erica on The Blair Witch Project for Halloween Week! :)
“People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets...”
– Wallace Stevens
“Things happen, one after another, world without end. Just because you’re...”
– Richard Siken, Risking sentimentality in poetry
Feeling Sad Makes Us More Creative →
sometimesagreatnotion:
My Body’s a Zombie for...
…I had a friend who thought the secret was in turning a turntable backwards. One pill made you stronger, one pill and you could fly. I had a friend who crashed us through a cornfield and all the husks could do was sing but that was all right, it was singing that mattered to us, had weight, occcupied space, in motion tended to stay in motion, at rest rest.
You start with a darkness to move...
First you wake in disbelief, then in sadness and grief and when you wake for the last time, the forest you’ve been looking for will turn out to be right in the middle of your chest.
- Dean Young, “Side Effects”
“Dumb yearnings, hidden appetites, are ours,
And they must have their food.”
– William Wordsworth, Prelude: Book Fifth
like everyone else on the internet, i am making a fall mix for everybody. however, mine will be magnificent, because I’ve been making them for a couple of years now and NOBODY makes a fall mix like me.
tell your ears: a present is on its way soon.
Twilight - Elliott Smith
My Sweet Lord - George Harrison
“At Cheetah’s, Nomi is pressured by Cristal into giving a private dance to Zack....”
– Ben Mauk, a bright wall in a dark room: Showgirls (1995)
A great new essay from Ben went up today, definitely go and read the entire piece. Probably the single best thing you will ever read on Showgirls ever.
In the Stream - S. Carey
THINGS MY SON SHOULD KNOW AFTER I’VE DIED
I was young once. I dug holes near a canal and almost drowned. I filled notebooks with words as carefully as a hunter loads his shotgun. I had a father also, and I came second to an addiction. I spent a summer swallowing seeds and nothing ever grew in my stomach. Every woman I kissed, I kissed as if I loved her. My left and right hands were rivals. After...
“He strongly disliked the person he’d just demonstrated afresh that he...”
– Jonathan Franzen, Freedom
“For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things...”
– Nick Hornby in Juliet, Naked
(via madisonarm)
(mary karr on david foster wallace)
Busted Halo: In your book you describe getting sober and becoming involved with “David” (aka David Foster Wallace) for a while. Were you in touch with him toward the end of his life?
Mary Karr: Yeah, I was. Our earlier relationship was tumultuous. We were both so snake-bit at the time we were together; we were both newly sober, I was five minutes out of a 13 year marriage and he was Young...
LOVE SONG: I AND THOU
by Alan Dugan
Nothing is plumb, level or square: the studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece fits any other piece without a gap or pinch, and bent nails dance all over the surfacing like maggots. By Christ I am no carpenter. I built the roof for myself, the walls for myself, the floors for myself, and got hung up in it myself. I danced with a purple...
everybody cares, everybody understands: elliott... →
eceu:
Learning to Play in the Womb (Spin, 2000) by Elliott Smith a songwriter on john lennon as a songwriter my friends and i were just starting to teach ourselves to play guitar in 1980. i was 11 and really into beatles songs like “julia” and “sexy sadie”— cool, kaleidoscopic chord changes. i was…
from my (often sparsely updated) music blog…
