July 2010
Stephanie Says - The Velvet Underground
“But campaigns and word-of-mouth and outright bribery aren’t everything. Sure,...”
– How Did ‘Friday Night Lights’ Get Those (Justly Deserved) Emmy Nominations? (via apsies)
Finally, some official recognition for FNL!
This is what I wrote (and the song I posted) the...
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One year ago today - in about an hour from now exactly - my wonderful, incredible, beautiful, hilarious, sensitive, amazing, life-fulfilling, family-completing son Elliott was born into this world.
“Anxiety is the handmaiden of creativity.”
– T.S. Eliot
“Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their...”
– Paul Schrader
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Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
Astral...
“One hates to invoke Scandinavia in stories about child-rearing, but it can’t be...”
– Why Parents Hate Parenting — New York Magazine
“Much of Head is dedicated to the assumption that lots of people love The Monkees...”
– Hey Hey: Head (1968) and The Monkees Attempt to Get Cool
Happiness - Jane Kenyon
There’s just no accounting for happiness, or the way it turns up like a prodigal who comes back to the dust at your feet having squandered a fortune far away.
And how can you not forgive? You make a feast in honor of what was lost, and take from its place the finest garment, which you saved for an occasion you could not imagine, and you weep night and day to know...
“Everything great that we know has come to us from neurotics. They alone have...”
– Marcel Proust 