September 2010
wolfandfox:
NPR: Hollywood Film Editor Sally...
“Here’s what I love about Dylan: He was exactly as you’d expect he would be. He...”
– Obama, on Dylan playing at the White House
whitneymcn on tumblr: Obama Talks Bob Dylan White House Performance
(via newspeedwayboogie)
“Three or four times only in my youth did I glimpse the Joyous Isles, before they...”
– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
Feeling old
25 years ago tonight, Growing Pains made it’s television debut.
Show me that smile again…
Did you know they’re making David Mitchell’s “Cloud Atlas” into a big-time movie? Like, Tom Twyker (Run Lola Run) adapting and directing it, the Wachowski brothers producing it, and people like Tom Hanks, Natalie Portman, James McAvoy and Halle Berry starring in it?
This is either wonderful or awful. I’m not quite yet finished with the book, but I’ve...
a bright wall in a dark room.: Bram Stoker's... →
brightwalldarkroom:
THE FIRST RULE OF VAMPIRISM
by Emily Yoshida
When it comes to art, I’m a big fan of rules – always have been. While it’s certainly fun to see wild displays of creative abandon done well by filmmakers I admire, it is just as equally a joy to see an artist shine from within the confines…
Every Single Episode of SNL Is Coming to Netflix’s... →
popculturebrain:
Well, here’s some pretty amazing news for Netflix subscribers who like to stream stuff via the Watch Instantly feature. A new deal with NBC is bringing every single episode of SNL ever to the service, with new episodes being added the day after they air for at least the next three years. Holy moly.
In addition to this, Netflix Watch Instantly is getting the latest seasons of...
How to Watch the Super Harvest Moon Twilight Show... →
apsies:
For the first time in two decades, the Sun will sink as the full Moon rises exactly opposite to it on the day the summer ends, creating in a strange 360-degree twilight show.
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, today is the autumnal equinox and a Super Harvest Moon will cross the sky after almost 20 years since the last time it happened. When the Sun starts to set on the Western...
Five Songs That Changed You For Good
tesslynch:
I’m curious.
Mine are, in no particular order:
Willie Nelson, “September Song,” off of Stardust
Nelly, “#1,” from Nellyville, for this I will not apologize
Patsy Cline, “I Fall to Pieces,” from Showcase
Modest Mouse, “Gravity Rides Everything,” from The Moon & Antarctica
Electric Light Orchestra, “Telephone Line,” off of A New World Record
So?
Bach, “Prelude, Cello...
Creative Pairs: Inside the Lennon/McCartney... →
How did John Lennon and Paul McCartney make magic together? On the surface, it seems simple—they covered for each other’s deficits and created outlets for each other’s strengths. Paul’s melodic sunshine smoothed out John’s bluesy growls, while John’s soulful depth gave ballast to Paul and kept him from floating away.
These points are true so far as they go. John and...
“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the...”
– Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born (via cosmopsis)
Lost and Lookin’ - Sam Cooke
Runaway - The National
The sun had just barely...
“There is only one inborn erroneous notion … that we exist in order to be...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
Consider the Archive: An Evening of David Foster... →
shephaedrus:
web telecast
“And when he came back to, he was flat on his back on the beach in the freezing...”
– David Foster Wallace, the final lines of Infinite Jest
Two years ago tonight, he took his own life.
Unless it’s Kicks - Okkervil River
And on a...
Jonathan Franzen on NPR’s Fresh Air...
“When I take a long look at my life, as though from outside, it does not appear...”
– Herman Hesse
alackofwords asked: I would have recommended you on tumblr directory, but I didn't find a category for "tumblrs that make me think and feel good about life". Love your music recommendations, movie reviews, links to articles/interviews, quotes, pretty much everything you post. You are awesome! :)
NPR on Franzenfreude →
nprfreshair:
franzenfrenzy:
“Schadenfreude is taking pleasure in the pain of others,” Weiner says. “Franzenfreude is taking pain in the multiple and copious reviews being showered on Jonathan Franzen.”
We’ll also be discussing this tomorrow.
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“If you show someone something you’ve written, you give them a sharpened...”
– David Mitchell, Black Swan Green
“So, what I guess I’m trying to answer or say is that I don’t - being inside my...”
– Charlie Kaufman
“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself...”
– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
I know I said last night that NPR’s Fresh Air having a tumblr has made my whole week - but, honestly, the Fresh Air tumblr now following mine is even more exciting.
Hello, NPR!
(Also, I am entirely willing to work for you or your tumblr at any time - I’m ace at combing through archives and posting interesting stuff! ;)
To Waiting, W.S. Merwin
You spend so much of your time expecting to become someone else always someone who will be different someone to whom a moment whatever moment it may be at last has come and who has been met and transformed into no longer being you and so has forgotten you meanwhile in your life you hardly notice the world around you lights changing sirens dying along the buildings your eyes intent on a sight you...
Fernweh
invisiblestories:
n. Wanderlust; lit. “farsickness”; “an ache for the distance”
