August 2010
I Made a Resolution - Seawolf
…well I woke...
“But no one came. Because no one ever does.”
– Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure
The mere presence of women seems to bring health... →
(via The Economist)
Can Preschoolers Be Depressed? (New York Times... →
psychotherapy:
…The history of mental illness has been, in many ways, an ongoing lowering of the bar to entry. Depression was originally seen as an adult problem with origins in childhood, rather than something that existed in children. The psychoanalytic view was that children didn’t have the mental capacity for depression; their superegos were not sufficiently developed. “One of the most...
My Funny Valentine - Billie Holiday and Miles...
Girl in Port - Okkervil River
Oh, I’m a...
a bright wall in a dark room.: Martin Scorsese... →
BUT WHAT IF IT’S GOD? YOU CAN’T CAST OUT GOD, CAN YOU?
by Chris Cantoni
In Martin Scorsese’s films, the main characters generally have one driving force: the willingness, or even the need, to overcome their own personal greatest obstacle. Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle wages war…
“Rough seas, they carry me
wherever I go.”
– Josh Ritter, “Change of Time”
Fourteen years ago tonight, I sat in a girl’s apartment in Switzerland, a girl I’d just met the week before - I was traveling through parts of Europe after my high school graduation - but a girl I was already somehow trying to figure out a future with. Which, of course, was impossible.
So on this very night way back when, I realized it would never work out, no matter how young and...
a bright wall in a dark room.: Inception (2010) →
by Edward Montgomery
“Quality is a characteristic of thought and statement that is recognized by a nonthinking process. Because definitions are a product of rigid, formal thinking, quality cannot be defined.” “When I say, ‘Quality cannot be defined,’ I’m really saying formally, ‘I’m…
Maybe the best essay on Inception you will read this summer.
“Andr Malraux, the French novelist, described a country priest who had taken confession for many decades and summed up what he had learned about human nature in this manner: “First of all, people are much more unhappy than one thinks…and there is no such thing as a grown-up person.” Everyone — and that includes therapists as well as patients — is destined to experience not only the...
“My whole life I’ve been a fraud. I’m not exaggerating. Pretty much all I’ve ever...”
– David Foster Wallace, “Good Old Neon”
“A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get into accord with...”
– Sigmund Freud
Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) talks Kanye West... →
“I was in New York in January and I got a call from my manager and he said Kanye West wanted to maybe use “Woods” as a sample.” I was like, “Yes.” A week later there were more murmurings and eventually I just got on the phone with Kanye. We ended up talking for a half hour about music and how we were fans of each other and Avatar. It was a really...
In Blackwater Woods, Mary Oliver
Look, the trees are turning their own bodies into pillars of light, are giving off the rich fragrance of cinnamon and fulfillment, the long tapers of cattails are bursting and floating away over the blue shoulders of the ponds, and every pond, no matter what its name is, is nameless now. Every year everything I have ever learned in my lifetime leads back to this: the fires ...
“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one...”
– Salman Rushdie
I feel like an old man, not only because I don’t at all understand the fuss around Lady Gaga, but also because, honestly, I have never heard an entire song of hers. I think I heard part of one once, but didn’t think anything one way or the other.
Can somebody please explain her massive popularity to an old man like myself? I mean, I get that she does crazy things and considers...
Fever Dream - Iron & Wine
"This is all happening too fast. I can't adjust as... →
jayparkinsonmd:
jennydeluxe:
Gary Shteyngart, author of Super Sad True Love Story, on technology and his relationship to his iPhone.
This has been my argument for quite some time. We’ve got 200,000 years of analog behavior ingrained in our hearts and souls. And then, literally all of a sudden within the course of a decade, something comes along that tries to treat our analog hearts and minds...
“And, in the end, good movies remind you that sometimes you can’t take sides....”
– a bright wall in a dark room.: Point/Counterpoint: The Kids Are All Right (2010)
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