June 2010
164 posts
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“I want to do music for the subway— I want to make music so that when you go...”
– Pitchfork: Interviews: LCD Soundsystem (via lineara)
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yakkysack
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a game played while stuck with someone you don’t know in which players toss increasingly random questions back and forth in a blind effort to detect shared interests, a game of conversational Battleship that continues until you realize that their interests are all bunched together in beet farming, the hurdy-gurdy, or shower curtain rings.
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“Looking at a sunset, just for a second you forget your separateness: you are the...”
– Osho. (via montejon:englishannah)
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Australian 'angel' saves lives at suicide spot →
givemesomethingtoread:
In those bleak moments when the lost souls stood atop the cliff, wondering whether to jump, the sound of the wind and the waves was broken by a soft voice. “Why don’t you come and have a cup of tea?” the stranger would ask. And when they turned to him, his smile was often their salvation.
For almost 50 years, Don Ritchie has lived across the street from ...
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“If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.”
– Edward Bulwer-Lytton (via @JPBarlow)
“Now that the show is over, and we have jointly exercised our constitutional...”
– Boards of Canada, “One Very Important Thought” (via greetdeath:migue-e)
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“Soon they will sprout beards and their hair will grow down their backs, and...”
– —Xan Brooks
Wimbledon Live Blog Devolves Into Poetry And Madness (via philliplee)
this is so amazing. seriously this guy should be a sports writer. I love this whole thing. zombies & post apocalypse. existential sporting events. amazing.
(via asphalteden:hinternetz)
brilliant
“At some point in your movie-going life you’re going to have to realize...”
– youtube comment on 2 or 3 Things I know About Her by Jean-Luc Godard
the bug fix
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the satisfaction of updating software, which gains effortless new features inside the cocoon of the progress bar, whereas your personality—a beta version with serious compatibility issues, unstable memory and a quirky interface—is open source, trusting peers to collaboratively debug your emotional source code until it’s stable enough for official release into...
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“Clearly, Chen wants to make triple-A games, but his “A’s” have real meaning:...”
– E3 2010: Journey Impressions - Preview (via notgames)
“Many of the most important impressions and thoughts in a person’s life are ones...”
– David Foster Wallace (from Whiskey River:crashinglybeautiful:themagiclantern)
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Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin - Ballade De...
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the Lazenby effect
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the tendency for the day after a really good day to be an utterly shitty one, a karmic circuit breaker that recalibrates your capacity to savor subsequent success, a periodic whipcrack that twists your flatlining trajectory into a heartbeat curve that leaves you shaken, not stirred.
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“You could stick all my shit in Tate Modern and have an opening with Tony Blair...”
– Banksy (via banksystreetart:rynkawilliam)
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“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their...”
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game
[Act One: City of the Damned]
(via liquidnight)
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“Both terrible pain and incredible delights fade down to a kind of baseline...”
– Cory Doctorow, “Ariely’s UPSIDE OF IRRATIONALITY: using irrational cognitive blindspots to your advantage” - Boing Boing (via mooseyard) 