February 2012
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ashapelessform:
“With this change in condition come inevitably adaptations to the change. What, unless biological science is a mass of errors, is the cause of human intelligence and vigour? Hardship and freedom: conditions under which the active, strong, and subtle survive and the weaker go to the wall; conditions that put a premium upon the loyal alliance of capable men, upon self-restraint,...
January 2012
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The little silver-rimmed glasses gave him a look of deflected sharpness, as if they were hiding some dishonest plan that would show in his naked eyes. His fingers began to snap nervously and he forgot what he had been going to do. He saw his mother’s face in his, looking at the face in the mirror. He moved back quickly and raised his hand to take off the glasses but the door opened and two...
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AM:59
Are you growing mistrustful of others? Do you suspect that your wife does not actually have cancer? Is every trip to the mailbox an exercise in loathing and remorse? Are your coworkers having trouble finding anything interesting to say when they talk about you behind your back? Do you deeply despise people who possess many of the same opinions and motives as your own?
- AM/PM, Amelia Gray
kitchenknivesandcherrybombs asked: are you familiar with Haruki Murakami?
December 2011
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I Told My Therapist About You, So I Guess We're...
p0megranates:lxxepicxxl:
‘Work is for the boring and luck is for the privileged.’
She said that to me once, on the corner of 76th and Broadway at a red light in the foggy confines of my crappy car on a rainy Tuesday. I never really understood what she meant, or why I missed her like death. But she was married now and I was finally ok with that. (I bet he doesn’t even make you laugh the way I...
"We plunged into the cornucopia, quivering with...
Blank Notebooks.
Clothes appropriate for interviews and/or jobs that pay far better than my current one does.
Two bottles of gin.
Adultmas.
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Screenwriting Tip #850
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screenwritingtips:
Every skill, trait or item your protagonist uses to get out of a tight spot should be set up earlier in the script. A hitherto unmentioned ability to speak Latin is just as jarring as a hitherto unmentioned gun.
An astounding amount of a good screenplay is built from retcons that happen before anyone sees it.
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The Dependent Clause: Whatever's Good For Your... →
thedependentclause:
I’m listening to old live recordings of Yes as I type this, because duh, but also because it’s a Christmas tradition for me as real as any tree-trimming. Intellectually, I know that part of the reason Christmas makes many people so anxious and depressed is because it never quite measures up to the nostalgic and probably false memories they have of it from childhood, and...
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Albums released this year that I found myself...
EMA - Past Life Martyred Saints: This goes to show that dismantled parts can be greater than their previous sum. After all the excitement and conversation that I’ve seen about this I have almost nothing to add to the discussion. If you haven’t heard this yet (unlikely, I know) don’t bother reading things about it, just dive in. You won’t be disappointed. (Souterrain...
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Chili's Grill & Bar
yelpingwithcormac:
Natomas - Sacramento, CA
Cormac M. | Author | Lost in the chaparral, NM
Four stars.
I am going to remove a star, he said.
Please don’t mister.
Don’t move. It’s better if you don’t move.
Please.
It’s important you know why. Do you understand why this is happening?
Oh God.
It is because I clearly shared with you my condition. I cannot countenance gluten. And yet I see...
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delawareareyou:
“The year I read that book was the year I finally began to open up my life to others, learning that it was alright to talk about things, that it could help me. I had been telling stories, but then in a way I had not been telling them at all. And I found that even the sad stories could be beautiful, the way you can love rain and thunderstorms when you are inside and it is not pain...
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Loss for words.
Overlooking the below-freezing temperature you would have to endure to stay in there, imagine what it might feel like to sit inside of a crate or cage in the cargo hold of an airplane flying 35,000 feet above ground. Elevated, for the sake of argument, above land which is to-the-millimeter even with sea level. Your own personal cell happens to be of the breathable, slatted sort. The kind you can...
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“The girl looked at him almost tenderly. “You poor baby,” she murmured. “It’s...”
– “Good Country People”, Flannery O’Connor (via aaroncanipe)
continuants asked: You're going to TPR at the Metro?!?! Because I'M going to TPR at the Metro!!!!
November 2011
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“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape -...”
– Andrew Wyeth
(via oldthrashbarg)
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silencesounds:
“In dark and silence to close as if to light the eyes and hear a sound. Some object moving from its place to its last place. Some soft thing softly stirring soon to stir no more. To darkness visible to close the eyes and hear if only that. Some soft thing softly stirring soon to stir no more.”
- Samuel Beckett, Company (1979)
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DFW word of the day
themottstmenagerie:
Ejecta - pl.n.
Ejected matter, as that from an erupting volcano.
ETYMOLOGY: New Latin iecta, from neuter pl. of Latin iectus, past participle of icere, to throw out ; see eject
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kitchenknivesandcherrybombs asked: Brian! What if you're not the Justin Bieber of Rochester. What if Bieber is the Brian Latimer of the world?
October 2011
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With waking, words hidden inside an ear crawl deeper and bury themselves behind folds and dreams. Arms all around. Quiet arms and warm. There is a voice swimming in that dark: I’m bleeding.
It isn’t complete. There are slashes and fades; forms to be made and focus to recapture. So he goes to reach with arms pinned down, sliding elbows and wrists, wriggling into the cool and...
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Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
reelecteddie:
Miroslav Volf on the need to imagine a new order:
The most seminal impact of envy consists … in transforming “the ideas of the dominant” into the “dominant ideas.” Once the link between the privileged position and certain values has been socially constructed, the disprivileged are prompted to seek redress for their humiliation through demanding such values for themselves—and...
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‘Our house was outside the city, off one of the blacktop roads. We had us a big dog that my daddy would keep on a chain in the front yard. A big part German shepherd. I hated the chain but we didn’t have a fence, we were right off the road there. The dog hated that chain. But he had dignity. What he’d do, he’d never go out to the length of the chain. He’d never even...
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“I think we ought to only read the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Kafka (via holyfuckingshittt)
September 2011
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The sun overhead like a peephole into hell’s own self-consuming heart.
- David Foster Wallace, The Pale King
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a reminder
unrepentant:
on saturday i woke up early and lay in bed for a long time. things got sadder; by 10am i was checking facebook on my phone. a friend’s status update indicated that franz wright had been in town for a reading the night before. i quietly damned myself for not knowing about it, then idly googled to take stock of what i’d missed only to discover another event was scheduled—a q&a—at...
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Chasing Hamburg: Part 2
Before moving to...
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Patton Oswalt // AV Club →
jwelker:
great interview; i love when someone i look up to vocalizes something ive been trying to figure out.
AVC: It’s funny, because the Internet likely played a hand in people coming across your work in the first place, but it also was how you and the rest of the world found out what they did. The Internet can foster so much creativity, but then it provides these shortcuts for those who...
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Usually after a good puke you feel good right away. We hugged each other and said good-bye and then headed off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
-Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar.
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Finnegans Wake Is Lovely (Particularly When It...
americanroulette:
“Then Nuvoletta reflected for the last time in her little long life and she made up all her myriads of drifting minds in one. She cancelled all her engauzements. She climbed over the bannistars; she gave a childy cloudy cry: Nuée! Nuée! A lightdress fluttered. She was gone. And into the river that had been a stream (for a thousand of tears had gone eon her and come on her and...
July 2011
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dafttimo asked: What kind of brush pen is that!? Is it good!?
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the-mu asked: brian, i think i was staring right at you during 1994!'s set at the bug jar last week
sorry i didn't say hi, i was feeling pretty horrible after snowing and i drank a lot of iced tea and that didn't help anything
sorry i didn't say hi, i was feeling pretty horrible after snowing and i drank a lot of iced tea and that didn't help anything
June 2011
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'Trillaphon' →
Trill: To roll
Phon(o): sound
A rolling sound. White noise. Sedated.
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Parasite/parasitic architecture.
palethrough:
“Parasitic architecture can be defined as an adaptable, transient and exploitive form of architecture that forces relationships with host buildings in order to complete themselves. Parasites cannot sustain their own existence without siphoning energy from the surplus supply demonstrated in host buildings.”
tumblr, i need some help. if this describes anything you’ve seen lately,...
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