November 2011
rahnstawp:
Born Ruffians- Badonka Donkey
“I am not bound to win, I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I...”
– Abraham Lincoln
“Desire didn’t bring fulfillment but only temporary satiety until the next...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot.
“During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And...”
– Andy Warhol
“It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future....”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 211, William Gibson (via ayjay)
“Nothing contributed more to this [democratic] explosion of energy than did the...”
– Gordon Wood (via azspot)
Mnemonic for the Deconstruction of Memory
comelylittletree:
If movements undo me, be waterbed, be scooter, be my train leaving in the night. I’ll be waiting by the booth, my one squared escape. When we’re far away & sad, be umbrella, be hat, be my ticket back home. Let’s go someplace where all the barns are yellow. Remember the grasslands. Remember the splendor of ache & autonomy. If I’m woman, be man, be full & daring. The...
October 2011
Watchchildishgambinolyrics:
The world premiere of Childish Gambino’s first single, “Bonfire.”
For You, Sweetheart, I'll Sell Plutonium Reactors
redrougesunbruised:
For you, sweetheart, I’ll ride back down into black smoke early Sunday morning cutting fog, grab the moneysack of gold teeth. Diamond mines soil creep groan ancient cities, archaeological diggings, & yellow bulldozers turn around all night in blood-lit villages. Inhabitants here once gathered seashells that glimmered like pearls. When the smoke clears, you’ll see an...
The Paleontologist’s Blind Date
blogut:
You have such lovely bones, he says, holding my face in his hands, and although I can almost feel the stone and the sand sifting away, his fingers like the softest of brushes, I realize after this touch he would know me years from now, even in the dark, even without my skin. Thank you, I smile— then I close the door and never call him again.
Philip Memmer
themusiclibrary:
Stamp - The Rural Alberta...
“If we teach women that there are only certain ways they may acceptably behave,...”
– Harriet J on Another post about rape
“Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is...”
– Thomas Paine in Common Sense, one of 10 essential cross-disciplinary books about protest (via curiositycounts)
“So I welcome the sudden upsurge in weaponized Keynesianism, which is revealing...”
– Paul Krugman (via azspot)
o-captain-my-captain:
Ezra Furman and the...
“Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what...”
– Epicurus
“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what...”
– Abraham Lincoln
kimyadawson:
caitidid:
postponelife:
Paul...
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Tonight’s theme: Lo-fi. Listen to the Mountain Goats, Pavement, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Teen Daze and more!
klmentine:
All For Myself - Sufjan Stevens
comelylittletree:
Eight Letters - Paul Baribeau
“Doing LSD was one of the two or three most important things I have done in my...”
– Steve Jobs
“We have got to attempt to tell the truth, and that truth is painful. It is a...”
– Dr. Cornel West
hospitalbombers:
levi-civita:
I saw the future...
imightbeahindu asked: YOU'RE A HORRIBLE FRIEND
“Because life is short
We must remember to keep asking it the same question...”
– John Ashbery, “New Spirit” (via emmieo) 