“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.”
— Paul Auster
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January 29, 2012, 11:26am Comments
“Do you ever have those moments where suddenly you make a quantum jump in understanding, where you see the world so differently that you cannot imagine how you could have perceived it any other way before? Do you have those times when this new understanding makes you feel as though up until that moment you must have been deluded or asleep or just plain stupid?”
—
Derrick Jensen (Endgame)
I had that moment this week.
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January 26, 2012, 9:57pm Comments
Untitled, Francesca Woodman
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January 26, 2012, 9:53pm Comments
oh Andy Partridge, you hit the nail on the head.
“it’s a lack of love song”
XTC - All of a Sudden (It’s Too Late)
What can I say?
Why do we starve a thing thats near extinction?
From day to day,
These weeds of fear,
Are choking our conviction,
Life’s like a jig-saw,
you get the straight bits,
But there’s something missing in the middle.
All of a sudden,
We find the cupboard’s bare.
All of a sudden,
We find heaven’s not there.
All of a sudden,
We find the sun’s gone cold.
All of a sudden
We find we’re more than old.
All of a sudden,
We find that we’ve lost love,
So please don’t push or shove because,
It’s too late,
It’s too late,
In all your hurry you’ve accidentally locked the gate.
What can we do?
Trying to stem the flow of sand is useless.
It’s up to you to start holding hands,
And watch the balance redress,
Life’s like a firework,
You’re only lit once,
And you must stand and radiate correctly.
January 25, 2012, 11:00pm Comments
“Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.”
— Buddha
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January 25, 2012, 10:52am Comments
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Cocteau Twins - Blood Bitch
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January 25, 2012, 10:26am Comments
Implied in every disaster movie is “starting over”, but starting over isn’t the consequence, but the premise: “In order to start over and do it right this time, we need a catastrophe.”
— The Last Psychiatrist, on Contagion
(gif by Uno Moralez)
January 24, 2012, 1:48pm Comments
“If you defer a choice long enough, that is your choice.”
—
via a friend
this is hitting me hard lately
January 22, 2012, 10:41pm Comments
Laurie Spiegel plays Alles synth “Concerto for Self-Accompanying Digital Synthesizer”
Electronic music pioneer Laurie Spiegel performs on the Bell Labs Hal Alles Synth (1977). “The instrument is possibly the first realtime digital synthesizer, built at Bell Telephone Labs, NJ by Hal Alles and team, with C language software written by Laurie that processes the player’s live input into an ongoing accompaniment that will continue to be played live against.”
January 20, 2012, 11:51am Comments
Brian Eno with Harmonia (Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius, Dieter Moebius) in Hörst, (West) Germany during 1976
i will always, always love this photo.
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January 19, 2012, 7:32am Comments
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
— C.S. Lewis
January 18, 2012, 11:36pm Comments
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January 18, 2012, 11:33pm Comments
