April 2010
Freud and Jung: A Meeting of Minds (and soon to be... →
psychotherapy:
It is perhaps ironic that when Sigmund Freud – who lived by the psychoanalytic theory that sexual desire was the prime motivator for human beings – found out his young protégé, Carl Jung, was having an extra-marital affair with a pretty patient at a mental hospital, he was damning of it.
It was at the turn of the 20th century when the father of psychoanalysis discovered Jung – a...
I'm Not Going To Spoil It By Quoting... →
…because Allegra Goodman’s “La Vita Nuova” (in the May 3 New Yorker) is just that good (I would cut exactly one word). And quick. The juxtapositions of big and little, of direct addresses of the situation and seemingly throwaway details, set up a marvelously skewed narrative space in which…
I agree with what Sarah says. Go read this story now.
Gaudy Side of Town - GAYNGS
…a collection...
“3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood’s current crazy stampede...”
– Roger Ebert, making a pretty airtight case for why 3-D movies suck (via newsweek) (via alittlespace)
“I think the people who become the most interesting writers are always going to...”
– Kay Ryan
(via unburyingthelead)
trumbler asked: I don't have good questions for you, necessarily. My questions are those I think you can't answer...
1.) I and several of my friends are painfully single. We're good people, kind hearted, intelligent, and even pretty/handsome. Why are we still looking? and
2.) Where should we look? and
3.) I have this idea that people used to...
1.) I and several of my friends are painfully single. We're good people, kind hearted, intelligent, and even pretty/handsome. Why are we still looking? and
2.) Where should we look? and
3.) I have this idea that people used to...
Noah Baumbach and Ben Stiller talk to Charlie Rose →
(via wolfandfox)
Sweet Thing - Van Morrison
now you have something to listen to at work. →
Egg, C.G. Hanzlicek
I’m scrambling an egg for my daughter. “Why are you always whistling?” she asks. “Because I’m happy.” And it’s true, Though it stuns me to say it aloud, There was a time when I wouldn’t Have seen it as my future. It’s partly a matter Of who is there to eat the egg. The self fallen out of love with itself Through the tedium of familiarity,...
“The problem is, this part of the self is always going to be there, the part that...”
– a bright wall in a dark room.: Humpday (2009)
Letitia wrote a very smart (and, I think, somewhat tragic?) essay on Humpday, reasserting the fact that I don’t know anything about relationships and most likely never will. (via monsterbeard)
“Every man’s memory is his private literature.”
– Aldous Huxley
Anonymous asked: Do you smoke cigarettes or have you ever for an extended period of time? If so what do/did you smoke? Follow up: if you did and have since quit, how did that process go for you?
“Who knows sometimes where stories come from? They are perhaps more attached to...”
– Lorrie Moore, The Paris Review (via diana-vilibert)
I’m Not in Love - 10cc
I’m entirely...
mumblelard asked: were they ever otherwise from this? there is a right answer but i am hopefull. also please where was the last place you found yourself talking outside realizing that all of the sun was gone and it was dark now.
Napping boosts memory, but only if you dream. →
notlikethecheese:
“When the students were given the maze test again five hours later, the nappers did better than the students who had stayed awake. However, the nappers who dreamed about the maze performed 10 times better than the nappers who didn’t.”
readingunderworld:
Don DeLillo reads...
I have no problem with you knowing that The Bangles’ “Eternal Flame” gets me every single time.
“He could do the dextral pain the same way: Abiding. No one single instant of it...”
– David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest, pp. 860-1 (via sparklenight)
Therapy Can Help Even Very Distressed Married... →
The study included 134 married couples, 71 in Los Angeles and 63 in Seattle. Most were in their 30s and 40s, and slightly more than half had children. The couples were “chronically, seriously distressed” and fought frequently, but they were hoping to improve their marriages.
“We didn’t want couples who would get better on their own,” Christensen said. “We...
hndrk asked: Two things from today's Pitchfork review of the Roman Candle reissue...
- your take on review itself? I'm not upset because they didn't give a favourite record of mine the score it deserves but clearly the under-appreciated debut album by one of indie rock's most beloved artists should be worth delving into for more than one measly paragraph...have you listened...
- your take on review itself? I'm not upset because they didn't give a favourite record of mine the score it deserves but clearly the under-appreciated debut album by one of indie rock's most beloved artists should be worth delving into for more than one measly paragraph...have you listened...
Come Talk to Me - Bon Iver
(Peter Gabriel cover)
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“So I think it’s got something to do with, that we’re just -...”
– David Foster Wallace, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
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“The old tricks have been exploded, and I think the language needs to find new...”
– David Foster Wallace, Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself
Anonymous asked: Why don't you give movie titles when you post photo clips from them?
