May 2013
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March 2013
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“There may be some truths that are, after all, our friends in the universe.”
– Saul Bellow (via theparisreview)
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February 2013
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WatchI made this playlist full of songs about love (or something like that) for all you loveless nerds out there. Coincidentally, it features no songs from Loveless.
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“Gracious, soft-voiced girls, who were brought up on memories instead of money.”
– F Scott Fitzgerald, The Ice Palace (via thatkindofwoman)
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January 2013
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“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (via liquidnight)
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Fugazi — “Waiting Room.”
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my top 10 albums of fiscal year 2012.
As some of you know, I almost didn’t do a list for the first time in seven (!) years. What were the top albums of those years, you ask?
2011: Nebraska, by Bruce Springsteen
2010: Alligator, by The National
2009: Remain in Light, by Talking Heads
2008: OK Computer, by Radiohead
2007: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, by Neutral Milk Hotel
2006: Foxtrot, by Genesis (whoopsie-doodle)
Top 5 reasons I...
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December 2012
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AUSTIN KLEON: The artist vs. the scientist →
austinkleon:
I am a scientist I seek to understand me All of my impurities and evils yet unknown —Guided By Voices
thenearsightedmonkey:
Because artists and scientists don’t hang around each other quite enough, they accumulate odd imaginations about each other. Here a great scientist talks about an artist who imagines that scientists have a inferior imaginative take on things.
It was...
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“And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not...”
– excerpt from John Steinbeck’s response to his eldest son Thom’s 1958 letter, in which the teenage boy confesses to have fallen desperately in love with a girl named Susan while at boarding school. (via evoketheforms)
I’ve probably reblogged this before. I will probably reblog it again.
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November 2012
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“Leave a lover with his thoughts for twenty-four hours, and this is what will...”
– Stendhal on “crystallization” and how love works, a timeless gem circa 1822 (via explore-blog)
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Belle & Sebastian — “Seeing...
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“I did maybe three records with Modest Mouse. Isaac Brock is cool, man, like...”
– Big Boi (via thegrandarchives)
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the poor dancing girl she won't dance again:... →
bradofarrell:
Worms – oh my god WORMS
“This is not acceptable!” I screamed as Kathy drowned
Is the dance floor calling? No
Ask your dumbass friends if they know of a reputable artist.
You re About To Discover A Career Opportunity Where You Will NEVER Be Laid
NO-ONE should have to go through what I did just to build a simple koi pond
Want to unlock the hidden doors of your inner being?...
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“Without a firm idea of what he lives for, man will…sooner destroy himself than...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via krgray)
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“[S]olitude and privacy are not just privileges. They are also compensations....”
– William Deresiewicz on the loss of solitude and privacy. Also see how the invention of walls redefined the modern conception of privacy.
Counter with a look at the rise of solo living.
(via explore-blog) 