April 2011
76 posts
“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects,...”
– william faulkner
“pues así llegué a saber
que toda la dicha humana,
en fin, pasa como sueño.”
– pedro calderon de la barca
“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
– emerson
transparent specimen art →
iori tomita
“The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue...”
– anne frank
“You know, they say that there is a part
of the human chest that if you strike...”
– cristin o’keefe aptowicz
the past is sleeping right next to me.
“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really...”
– ernest hemingway
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-17) →
M. Ward (2)
Spoon (1)
Noah and the Whale (1)
Hot Water Music (1)
Deerhunter (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
45 McDonald’s Items Not Available In The U.S. That... →
whole smorgasbord of menu items available at McDonald’s restaurants abroad that we in the United States can only salivate over from afar. Those creeps at McDonald’s International are holding out on us.
“I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion...”
– dostoevsky, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
they were beautiful from inside..with that kind of radiance that faith makes, and the kind that love makes.
..for those sudden moments of incandescence: unexpected, but once one knows the one, one can live life in the light of their part and the hope of their future.
“The next time you try to seduce anyone, don’t do it with talk, with words....”
– william faulkner
Helen of Troy Does Countertop Dancing
The world is full of women who’d tell me I should be ashamed of myself if they had the chance. Quit dancing. Get some self-respect and a day job. Right. And minimum wage, and varicose veins, just standing in one place for eight hours behind a glass counter bundled up to the neck, instead of naked as a meat sandwich. Selling gloves, or something. Instead of what I do sell. You have to have...
“Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without...”
– charles bukowski
There is the rhythmic leading of your legs with mine, my body against yours, suddenly very comfortable; we still being strangers; dancing gives us, in society, this strange prerogative of studiedly casual embrace.
“With machines the feeling is, well, more finite. It doesn’t go any further. With...”
– haruki murakami
“Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the...”
– john berryman
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-4-10) →
Azure Ray (1)
The Temptations (1)
David Bazan (1)
The Walkmen (1)
The Tallest Man on Earth (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“She was like the moon—part of her was always hidden away.”
– dia reeves
“The history of human thought recalls the swinging of a pendulum which takes...”
– Anarchist Morality (1890)
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.”
– herman melville
..depends on what you want but you aren’t sure, and you aren’t sure what he wants or need either, so get down off your high horse and be fair. you know damn well that as soon as he confined himself to you, you’d be off with other dates, playing your damn sweet innocent song.
oh god, there is not faith or permanence or solace in love unless-unless-the mind adores, the body adores-and yet the fear...
