June 2012
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always crashing in the same car.
This blog isn’t a journal, right?
From the beginning, I’ve considered The Arkadelphian a performance on some level or other; it’s an idealized, benevolent, generally neutered superego with really great taste. Yeah, it’s someone I’d like to be, but The Arkadelphian isn’t Walter Lewellyn any more than David Bowie was the Thin White Duke, throwing darts in...
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“WHAT I WON’T MISS
Dry skin
Bad dinners like the one we went to last night...”
– Lists of Note remembers Nora Ephron through her lists, from the last pages of her final book, I Remember Nothing: And Other Reflections.
Also see Ephron’s most timeless words on love, life, death, and reading.
(via explore-blog)
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“Don’t let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via larmoyante)
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TV on the Radio — “Province.”
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one of the few regrets
in my life is that I managed to leave Francoise Hardy circa 1968, Debbie Harry circa Parallel Lines, Betty Bacall circa Key Largo, Brigitte Bardot circa 1955, and Ione Skye in Say Anything… off my list of fictional/similarly impossible crushes. I would hold a boombox issuing forth Peter Gabriel aloft for any one of these gals.
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an exhaustively detailed, imaginative, and... →
This really is a must-read for any serious Bowie fan. I particularly enjoy his thoughts on “Heroes” and Station to Station, but it’s all work of a caliber worthy of Bowie.
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Patti Smith — “My...
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Sharing Poetry: W.B. Yeats, "When You are Old" →
sharingpoetry:
When you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
And bending down...
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“If we could just have the kitchen and the bedroom, that would be all we need.”
– Julia Child (via austinkleon)
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essential reading: gq's oral history of the dream... →
Sorry to spoil it for you, but here’s the best part:
There was one moment where Krzyzewski claps his hands and says, “Okay, plenty of time.” And Michael is at the other end of the court, and he shouts out: “Fuck that! We’re going to win this game. Fuck that.” You gotta figure Coach K never heard that at a Duke practice.
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up and over we go.
With very few exceptions, I don’t dream. Or perhaps it’s that I don’t remember my dreams. In One Hundred Years of Solitude, a plague of insomnia befalls the central town of Macondo, forcing everyone to carry on their lives wearied, nearly broken, and suffering from the decay of their memory. After dreaming vividly and often as a child, it’s only with my recent conversion to a Romantic point...
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“Everybody blames the Internet for the decline of newspapers, but the Web is only...”
– Jack Shafer, Reuters. The Great Newspaper Liquidation. (via futurejournalismproject) (via shortformblog)
I’m not the world’s biggest booster of the Birmingham News, but today, this isn’t a quote I’d pass along to them, especially in light of the fact that the lucky few who...
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“High over the downriver land lightning quaked soundlessly and ceased. Far clouds...”
– Cormac McCarthy | Suttree | pg. 29 (via evoketheforms)
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prometheus: an airing of grievances.
(This isn’t a typical Arkadelphian piece, but I’ll try and balance that out later with an essay on a piece of art I really love, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. If you’re a Prometheus superfan and don’t want to see me rag on the movie, how about looking at the picture above? Wasn’t that scene great? If you’re not interested in me bitching about this disaster, how about...
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from "kaleidoscope," by ray bradbury. →
And I? thought Hollis. What can I do? Is there anything I can do now to make up for a terrible and empty life? If only I could do one good thing to make up for the meanness I collected all these years and didn’t even know was in me! But there’s no one here but myself, and how can you do good all alone? You can’t. Tomorrow night I’ll hit the Earth’s atmosphere.
I’ll burn, he thought, and be...
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“Now I come to you full of future. And from habit we begin to live our past.”
– Rilke’s love letters to Lou Andreas-Salomé (via explore-blog)
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“Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.”
– Ray Bradbury. (via neil-gaiman)
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fictional character/similarly impossible crush...
Sheena: She’s a punk rocker.
Courteney Cox in the “Dancing in the Dark” video: It should go without saying that she’s a perennial contender.
Edith Hamilton: What a hottie.
Annie Clark/St. Vincent: Flawless artist/human.
Janelle Monae/Cindi Mayweather: See above.
April Ludgate: A female Ron Swanson whose favorite band is Neutral Milk Hotel.
Jackie Brown: More...
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“Goodness comes from within…Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot...”
– Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange (via bookmania)
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