March 2010
“A word after a word after a word is power.”
– Margaret Atwood
Into My Arms - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
Late...
“In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you...”
– Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler
leyendecker asked: Thoughts on the individual's relationship to music? Meaning: when do you think the "formative" years are, where you collect the music that will resonate with you one, five, ten years later? I'm only a college student now--but it seems as if most of the heart-wrenching, powerful, transcendent stuff came about in the mid-to-late teens. I thought that being a bit older (but not...
elohbee:
Calling and Not Calling My Ex -...
lettyt asked: Are there any things you haven't done yet that you hope to do before you die? Will you be sad if you don't do them?
songsthataregood:
The Velvet Underground - Oh!...
allimuffin asked: What historical figure terrifies you? I find Rasputin very frightening.
douglasmartini asked: What type of work-- creatively or otherwise-- would you like to be remembered for?
Anonymous asked: How do I get her to realize and understand that she is "the one"?
ledlightsandpancakes asked: would you eat a baby for a million dollars?
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When a Woman Loves a Man, David Lehman
When she says margarita she means daiquiri.
When she says quixotic she means mercurial.
And when she says, "I'll never speak to you again,"
she means, "Put your arms around me from behind
as I stand disconsolate at the window."
He's supposed to know that.
When a man loves a woman he is in New York and she is in Virginia
or he is in Boston, writing, and she is in New York, reading,
or she is...
Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National
The National has...
“Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is...”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
I quite like the idea of a music bath. There needs to be an app for that.
Bag of Hammers - Thao Nguyen with The Get Down...
“When you love somebody and bite your tongue all you get is a mouthful of...”
– Fruit Bats
Nerdshares: “Dave wrote like that, as if his... →
“Dave wrote like that, as if his talent was a responsibility. He had a radical way of seeing his own gifts:
‘I’ve gotten convinced,’ he wrote, ‘that there’s something kind of timelessly vital and sacred about good writing. This thing doesn’t have that much to do with talent, even glittering…
“Hope all 32M people who get health care remember NOT ONE SINGLE REPUBLICAN voted...”
– anamariecox
(via skybarn)
