February 2012
6 posts
“When it comes, you’ll be dreaming
that you don’t need to breathe;
that...”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from “I’m Working on the World” in Poems New and Collected, trans. S. Baranczak and C. Cavanagh (via proustitute)
5 tags
“Daydream, which is to thought as the nebula is to the star, borders on sleep, as...”
– V. Hugo, Travailleurs de la Mer
January 2012
7 posts
“When my husband died, because he was so famous & known for not being a...”
– ~ Ann Druyan, talking about her husband, Carl Sagan (via conflictingheart)
“I believe that reading, in its original essence, [is] that fruitful miracle of a...”
– Marcel Proust (via bookriot)
“Your love should never be offered to the mouth of a stranger,
Only to someone...”
– Hafiz (via dansmesbras)
boystown:
Kebab - Anti-L by softspotrecs
Kebab- Anti-L (1982)
”..a short-lived quartet of punk-minded Belgian youths. Inspired by the Crass Records DIY mentality, the burgeoning UK art-punk scene, and their own boredom, Kebab combined anti-political punk diatribes with sharp guitars, plodding basslines, synth gurgles, and spastic electronic percussion. The result is an aggressively sparse...
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December 2011
8 posts
FUCK YOU, BRAIN.
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“Her disintegration went down a shaft of phases, every one more racking than the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, from Ada, or Ardor.
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November 2011
8 posts
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“As if you were on fire from within.
The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
– Pablo Neruda (via femmerun)
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“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is...”
– Henry James
5 tags
yes.
The Hot Chord is Stuck, by Still...
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October 2011
8 posts
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3 tags
LISTEN TO THIS
Our Secret, Beat Happening
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Hysteric, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
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September 2011
10 posts
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Water-Lilies, by A. A. Milne
Where the water-lilies go To and fro, Rocking in the ripples of the water, Lazy on a leaf lies the Lake King’s daughter, And the faint winds shake her. Who will come and take her? I will! I will! Keep still! Keep still! Sleeping on a leaf lies the Lake King’s daughter… Then the wind comes skipping To the lillies on the water; And the kind winds wake her. Now who will take her?...
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“We need dreams the shape of lakes,
with mornings in them thick as fish.
Shade...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, from “Negotiations with a Volcano”
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“By the single letter Da repeated three times, meaning Dāmyata, Datta, Dayadhvam...”
– Swami Krishnananda
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W.H. Auden
Motionless, deep in his mind, lies the past the poet’s forgotten,
Till some small experience wake it to life and a poem’s begotten,
Words it presumptive primordia, Feeling its field of induction,
Meaning its pattern of growth determined during construction.
August 2011
11 posts
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