May 2011
Borderline - Chad (me)
Alright, here’s the...
April 2011
idea.
So, look, I realize that I’m never going to be a musician for a living, and (mostly) accepted that long ago. But, I also realized that I love music way too much to ever stop playing it, because playing/engaging with songs is this whole other thing from listening to them, which is of course also a wonderful thing but in a different way.
And tumblr allows me to post that stuff fairly easily,...
A lot of the writing I do is done in notebooks, several of which, large and small, are scattered throughout the house, half-filled. And now my daughter has begun doing the exact same thing, which delights me to no end. She’s only just learning to spell and write though, which makes her notebooks all the more wonderful (and definitely more interesting and adorable than any of mine).
Her...
Nocturne in E-Flat, Op. 9, No. 2 - Frederic...
Oh My Sweet Carolina - Ryan Adams w/ Emmylou...
“No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I’ve...”
– Madeleine L’Engle
a bright wall in a dark room.: Time Travel Week:... →
brightwalldarkroom:
MY YEARS ARE NOT ADVANCING AS FAST AS YOU MIGHT THINK.
by Edward Montgomery
…So many things have happened. You’ve finally become the man that I had hoped for But alas, I am no longer among the living. I suppose such is the way of the world. — Ugetsu, Kenji Mizoguchi
Why David Foster Wallace Inspires Devotion In His... →
The answer has less to do with the part of Wallace that is best-known—the cerebral trappings and stylistic high jinks—than with a feature of his work that is more subtly distinctive. Increasingly over the course of his career, Wallace chased a humane sensibility on the page, a project that had less to do with arcane intellectual stylings than with his effort to break past them, to write...
Time Travel Week: Back to the Future II (1989) →
brightwalldarkroom:
BROADCASTING BEAUTIFUL VIEWS 24 HOURS A DAY: YOU’RE TUNED TO THE SCENERY CHANNEL
by Michelle Said
When I was 15 years old, my best friend Melissa and I wrote letters to our future selves at 25. Would we be married, would we have children? Where would we live? At that point in our lives, 25…
It has begun.
“The next suitable person you’re in light conversation with, you stop suddenly in...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
I laughed out loud reading this passage the first time, then was deeply saddened reading it over a second and third time. Which is exactly why I love David Foster Wallace’s writing. It’s both (funny and sad) - as is life - all at once.
Things they don't tell you about parenting #284
You have no real control over what songs your young children decide to become obsessed with. For example, I had to listen to Madonna’s “Borderline” at least 37 times yesterday alone.
“Daddy, again!”
Mama, You Been on My Mind - Bob Dylan
this is the one time i maybe wish i lived in LA →
Somebody go to this and tell me about it!
PEN Center USA Presents THE PALE KING
Monologues From The Unfinished Novel By David Foster Wallace Readings by: HENRY ROLLINS ♦ JOSH RADNOR ♦ MEGAN MULLALLY NICK OFFERMAN ♦ROB DELANEY ♦MICHELLE AZAR ADAM SCOTT ♦ CASEY WILSON ♦ BRIAN ELERDING
Directed by Charlie Stratton
Co-curated by Bonnie Nadell and Bruce Cohen
“All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down...
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if you don't read The Pale King, at least read...
“Maybe it’s existential. I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you and I have and that everybody has except nobody ever talks about it except existentialists in convoluted French prose. Or Pascal. Our smallness, our insignificance and mortality, yours and mine, the thing that we all spend all our time not thinking about directly,...
Remember when teachers, public employees, Planned...
rebeccalando:
Yeah, me neither.
Car - Built to Spill
I loved this song as a 16...
“Nothing more, nothing less, therapy is the art of teaching someone to overhear...”
– Stephen Metcalf
(via psychotherapy)
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“There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a...”
– Hermann Hesse
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“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil from the dull. Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where phrases like ‘deadly dull’ or ‘excruciatingly dull’ come from. But there might be more to it. Maybe dullness is associated with psychic pain because something...
