March 2012
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February 2012
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“Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.”
– William Faulkner, Mosquitoes
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a bright wall in a dark room.: The Artist (2011) →
brightwalldarkroom:
I WON’T TALK! I WON’T SAY A WORD!
For all the modern day cultural importance of movies, I can’t help but think that they used to simply mean a whole lot more way back when. A time I never knew but feel an aching nostalgia for nonetheless. A time when a movie was an event, but not only an event: an escape like no other, a communal experience, a uniquely bright wall in a...
My kids get to pick the music they want on while I clean up breakfast and do the dishes. Elliott, all of 2 1/2 years old, picked Nirvana this morning (he’s a big fan of “the yeah yeah yeah song” aka Lithium). So now they are dancing in the living room to Nevermind.
My work here is done.
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Little Person - Jon Brion (ft. Deanna Storey)
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Moon River - Josh Ritter
You might have noticed...
“There might be a case to be made that the deep, slow creativity traditionally...”
– James Bradley, Never Real and Always True: on depression and creativity
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Now that I’m 34, I’m really mad that I still haven’t written the Great American Novel yet. Though to be fair, I had the same exact complaint at 22. And only about twenty more pages to show for it now than I did back then. I guess that means I should either give up today and cut my losses and accept my lack of talent/drive/etc, or continue at this rate and turn in a beat-up,...
“Imagine walking into a place, say a mega-chain copy shop in a strip mall. It’s...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan, on David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace's Letter to Don Delillo,...
(Source: Harry Ransom Center)
10-10-95 Dear Don, Since it’s clear from your letters that you’re a person nice, and since it’s well-known that an overkeen sense of obligation tends to afflict the congenitally nice, I again want to implore you not to feel any obligation to read the BM any faster¹ than your own schedule and inclinations permit. If Little/Brown’s Pietsch put...
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46 Things to Read and See for David Foster... →
This is a really, really, really great compendium of DFW stuff (his writing, other’s writing on him, notes, interviews, videos, etc) that is basically perfect for anybody out there who considers themselves a DFW dummy, but would like a good place to start knowing more about this fearlessly brilliant writer and man.
Also, HE WOULD HAVE BEEN FIFTY TODAY.
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“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed,...”
– C.G. Jung, near the end of his life, in Memories, Dreams, Reflections
a bright wall in a dark room.: A Valentine's Movie... →
brightwalldarkroom:
If you decide to watch a movie on Valentine’s Day - and we here at BWDR obviously strongly recommend that you do - choosing one can be a bit of a minefield. The straight-forward Hollywood rom-coms of the past twenty years (at least) are usually god awful, the predictable and…
I made a list of (mostly) non-traditional Valentine’s Day movies, over at BWDR, for...
You and I (Ingrid Michaelson cover) - Knock Knock,...
“[…] there is this existential loneliness in the real world. I don’t know what...”
– David Foster Wallace
(via clementina)
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Working Titles - Damien Jurado
(new record out...
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Waitress (2007) →
brightwalldarkroom:
by Elizabeth Grant Thomas
When a friend of mine, a fellow new mother, started a blog about “making pies and raising Baby,” I asked her if she had seen the film Waitress. When she said she hadn’t, I gushed: “Oh, you have to! It’s about this woman who finds out she’s pregnant, and she…
I asked Elizabeth, a friend of mine from high school, to write a piece for BWDR,...
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Passenger - Lisa Hannigan
Lisa Hannigan, or...
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“Only three things are infinite: the sky in its stars, the sea in its drops of...”
– Gustave Flaubert (to Louise Colet)
“I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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“Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand!”
– E.B. White
(via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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