August 2010
55 posts
themagiclantern:
Arbol / “Nomi” (feat. Suzy...
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“A sensitive person receives fifty impressions where somebody else may only get...”
– Marlon Brando in a profile of him done by Truman Capote for The New Yorker magazine in 1957 titled, The Duke in his Domain. (via danielcharles:miguee-e:velveteenrabbit)
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“No. I mean that pornography is the unconsciousness of sex. So, Noise is the...”
– Merzbow
The Beauty of Noise, An interview with Masami Akita of Merzbow —-
(via asdfadfasdfadfasdf:velveteenrabbit)
“Religious believers do not have a monopoly on a sense of wonder – and what I...”
– Roz Kaveney, Belief is unnecessary, but knowledge helps (via cncntrc)
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nöt creme won her heart
gumman:
“Mama, when i grow up can I marry someone Swedish?”
“Why?”
“Because I really like this candy!!!!”
I blame Pushkin.
i’d totally marry my swedish friend for candy. for cloudberry jam, too.
“It can be hard to remember the depth of happiness that reigned unappreciated...”
– Alain de Botton (via naomijade) (via asphalteden)
My favorite rejoinder to this sentiment:
“For a lot of people, life has gotten better. You don’t know what it was like in 1950. It wasn’t just the dreariness of Bing Crosby that made life tough.”
- Dr. James Watson
(via lineara)
I agree with...
“If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness,...”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein (via fuckyeahexistentialism:womanonfire)
the hesitation waltz
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the moment of deciding whether to give a departing acquaintance a handshake or a hug, calculated by measuring your relative orbits, divided by the time it takes your signals to bounce back and multiplied by the proximity of close friends who just gave them a hug, the extreme gravity of which may well slingshot you into a heartfelt zombie lurch.
add trying to...
“The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
– Saint Augustine (via gumman)
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“Florian - wardrobe. Warhol - projections. Prof. Stephen Hawkins - vocoder. Erik...”
– John Foxx illustrates his dream band at allgigs.co.uk (via metamatica:rocketsandrayguns)
this sounds like my idea of heaven on earth
“Each time we don’t say what we want to say we’re dying. Make a list of how many...”
– Yoko Ono (via lonesomemamablues:fuckyeahyokoono:sofiakatarina)
“There is also a wild beast-like craving for every inch of your body, for every...”
– James Joyce, letter to Nora (via zeroisnan:insalatadiparole)
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mooseyard:
naomijade:
mooseyard:
Continuing...
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lethobenthos
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the habit of forgetting how important someone is to you until you see them again in person, making you wish your day would begin with a “previously on” recap of your life’s various plot arcs, and end with “to be continued…” after those will-they-won’t-they cliffhanger episodes that air just before the show goes back into months of repeats.
“I take pleasure in my transformations. I look quiet and consistent, but few know...”
– Anaïs Nin (via everwhite:fuckyeahanaisnin)
