January 2010
77 posts
Great paintings shouldn’t be in museums. Have you ever been in a museum? Museums...
– Bob Dylan (via pit-a-patwenttheheartofmissmouse, llllegal, invisibleclockfactory)
Midwinter in Sweden by Henning Sandström (best viewed full screen)
Police in the UK are planning to use unmanned spy drones, controversially...
– CCTV in the sky: police plan to use military-style spy drones | UK news | The Guardian
Hello Combine.
Hello Skynet.
(via womanonfire)
Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an...
– Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky (via severnb:velveteenrabbit:disorganization)
Self-consciousness, that’s what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing...
– Stephen Fry (via suzywire:invisibleclockfactory)
When I was growing up most of the girls I went to school with, they all pretty...
– Siouxsie Sioux
Other than being called childlike, the criticism that I most often receive is...
– Michel Gondry (via fuckyeahmichelgondry:fuckyeahfrenchcinema:joopy)
"It took us so long to realize that a purpose of...
- Kurt Vonnegut
(viamontejon:simplicityandi:scout:jesuisperdu:hammerito:danionaday & emilydonne)
Finally, know that an unshot skeet’s movement against the vast lapis lazuli dome...
– David Foster Wallace, A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again, excerpted in Five Dials’ memorial tribute. (via helloprotagonist)
One Being Inside All
montejon:
englishannah:
Lovers, it is time for the taste of fire.
Let sadness and your fears of death sit in the corner and sulk.
The sky itself reels with love. There is one being inside all of us, one peace.
Poet, let every word tremble its wind bell. Saddle the horse with great anticipation.
Flute notes are calling us into friendship. Begin again. Play the melody all the way through...
Let’s be very clear about this: when a woman finds herself pregnant due to...
– Rev. Katherine Ragsdale via AAG
I think I would respect christians more if more of them were like this woman
(via ironedorchid, florencecraye)
A woman’s relationship with hunger and satisfaction acts like a mirror,...
– Carolyn Knapp, quoted in Chessler’s Women and Madness.
If I didn’t have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this,...
– Annie Leibovitz
Adieu to you, noble down-East lobster, all-too-rare-because-so-damned-expensive...
– John Barth, Good-bye to the fruits. (via 12000boxes)
Brian Eno on the naming of things →
“A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t….My interest in making music has been to create something that does not exist that I would like to listen to, not because I wanted a job as a musician. I wanted to hear music that had not yet happened, by putting together things that suggested a new thing which did not...
We now live in a fast-moving, fully lit world where night still happens, but is...
– Why I adore the night | Life and style | The Guardian (via womanonfire)