February 2010
1 post
January 2010
31 posts
Stream the new album from The Knife →
yea! you can also dowload the thing. i’m listening now, and it seems made for today in berlin.
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“When I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via crashinglybeautiful) (via joethelion)
So one of the things James is interested in is certainly what an American abroad can do for herself. It is most often “she” who can do things for herself abroad: James’s men fare much less well. But he is also interested in what she does to others than herself, often with her beauty and her ignorance, with her exclusion from the world that she finds herself in. She can do things...
“To know oneself is to err, and the oracle that said ‘Know thyself’ proposed a...”
– The Book of Disquiet (entry 149), Fernando Pessoa (via unlitstairs) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via notational) (via thisworldwemustleave) (via montycantsin)
Fernando Pessoa is one of the best things that happened in the 20th century.
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Angela: i love the cheesecake factory
Natasha: oh so do i
Angela: they are so good at refilling my glass of diet coke
Natasha: I'm all for globalization because i like the idea of getting the same thing wherever i go and know what to expect
Angela: HOW DO YOU SAY CHEESECAKE IN SWAHILI?
WatchJust lovely.
“How one walks through the world is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful...”
– Elaine Scarry (from riskywiver) (via crashinglybeautiful)
The extravagance of assent
English Kate Croy is getting ready to teach American Milly Theale a lesson, but she starts off by situating Milly’s ignorance.
It seemed at least — the American mind as sitting there thrilled and dazzled in Milly — not to understand English society without a separate confrontation with all the cases. It couldn’t proceed by — there was some technical term she lacked...
It was positively, this effect, an excitement that carried her on; she went forward into space under the sense of an impulse received—an impulse simple and direct, easy above all to act upon. She was borne up for the hour, and now she knew why she had wanted to come by herself. No one in the world could have sufficiently entered into her state; no tie would have been close enough to enable...
Weirdest song of the day →
joethelion:
sturtle:
On my way to work, I walk by a hospice for people living with AIDS (one of two in the neighborhood). And as I passed this morning, I heard a woman singing in the courtyard, invisible behind a…
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is...”
– james baldwin (the fire next time) (via quellequaintrelle) (via robertpatrick)
rad use of the word care
“He was struck at the same time with her happy grasp of what had really occurred in Fleet Street — all the more that it was his own final reading… It was just because he didn’t nose about and wasn’t the usual gossipmonger that they had picked him out; it was a branch of their correspondance with which they evidently wished a new tone associated, such a tone as, from...
and where did you go now? and where have you been...
more henry james
“She was little more than a rugged relic, a plain prosaic result of him, as if she had somehow been pulled through him as through an obstinate funnel, only to be left crumpled and useless and with nothing in her but what he accounted for. She had grown red and fat, which were not happy signs of mourning…”
This is a description of Katie Croy’s sister Marian in The Wings of...
praise, praise, praise.
joethelion:
but yes, see?
“…so yes, volatile is probably the word. but we were onto something about this in earlier conversations. about how a. is so important because he lets himself be animated by the catastrophe. there *might* be ways that letting that volatility have a go at us could be a way of calming it, and ourselves. (that last phrase is me thinking my way into the work for the next...
“(those who have suffered, understand suffering,
and thereby extend their hand...”
– Patti Smith (via joethelion)
omg - this made me want to hit the “love” button like ten thousand times, but i realized i’d have to actually articulate that to make it heard.
so there it is, said.
i'm in love with the measure for measure
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we made out and moaned in the shadow of the well-lit fernseherturm, the famous tv tower which looked very different than what it looks like on t-shirts when you’re staring at it from around half way up its stalk. around 1 or 2 in the morning, i started saying i was hungry. roman and adrian eventually came to realize they had some chili con carne, but i already had my jacket...
joethelion:
Oh she also changed time and space! We did like 5 do over countdowns.
we had our own time and space confusions going on. we knew that b was going to the berghain at 10 o’clock new year’s morning, and we had the idea of waking up early to join him and the other berliners to shake our booties. we didn’t wake up that early, but we did go to the berghain for...
new year's eve - where i wasn't and where i was
joethelion:
patti smith said that we are going to be happy in hell. and by the end she didn’t start rock and roll nigger with the seminal, singular monologue. she’s gone. she said there’s a lineage of words and joy. and then she flew away.
OK - this is a little scary to me, because if i really needed to see patti this year, even the very slightest hint of the idea that she’s going to...
December 2009
24 posts
“He told everything now, kept no more back than she had kept at their previous...”
– Henry James, “Broken Wings” (1900). Yes, I was piqued by the unexpected pathos of the title. Turns out it’s about a writer woman and an artist man who could have fallen in love, but then each got too tied up in the wrong idea of the other. Look how close here are...
“1789, even brought on by the 18th century, was still unpredictable; it was...”
– Arlette Farge, in a rough translation from a 2001 interview in the French journal Vacarme cited here
“A failed saint turns to autobiography. Love amazes me; I exult in my luck, in...”
– Margery Kempe, Robert Glück (via joethelion)
HA! http://www.theawl.com/2009/12/leave-now-while-you-still-can
Let’s meet at a bar somewhere and celebrate, this urinary tract infection of a year is ALMOST OVER.
And i know from unirary tract infections, ‘cos i just got over one. ew. out, out, damned drip!
digging a lot the yo la tengo ditty, “here to fall:”
i know you’re worried
i’m worried, too
but if you’re ready
i’m here to fall with you
what else is there for us to do…