December 2010
58 posts
Emilia on Men
‘Tis not a year or two shows us a man.
They are all but stomachs and we all but food:
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full
They belch us.
Emilia (Iago’s wife) on men. Othello 3.4
“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: ‘It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.”
—Jim Jarmusch (via grandpatakesatrip)
November 2010
63 posts
This Blood is Our Own
The Love Language
The Love Language - This Blood is Our Own
The sun was burning like it’d never come up tomorrow.
Listen
The Shit - “Businessman”
We really showed them today.
Schumann Funf Stuke im Volkston, Op.102 - I. Mit Humor
Schumann (1810-1856)
Schumann - 5 Stücke im Volkston, for cello and piano, Op.102 - I. Mit Humor
No Law
“No law can impede violation or disobedience of the law.”
August 31, 1820
“Original men not as rare as we think.”
May 23, 1832
More here. A look into the daybooks blogs of one of 19th century Europe’s literary masters.
I'm afraid
“I’m afraid I’m falling in love with you. It’s a problem. What should I do?”
“Give me your address.”
Roland Barthes, Incidents.
Some great truths
Even in my first meeting with Brendel he imparted some great truths. He told me, for instance, that the beginning of Beethoven must be very clear, so clear that a musical person could write it down just through listening to my playing. Everything, he said, is there — the motivic material, the character of the piece. He compared it to a great movie where missing the first minute would cause you to not properly understand the film.
The World Is Full Of Crashing Bores
The Smiths/Morrissey
Morrissey - The World is Full of Crashing Bores (BBC Radio Theater 2009)
Those who wish to hurt you, work within the law.
Freely Espousing
No, it is absolutely forbidden
for words to echo the act described; or try to. Except very directly
as in
bong. And tickle. Oh it is inescapable kiss.
James Schuyler, from “Freely Espousing”
Small Bones Small Bodies
Future Of The Left
Any hearing loss I experience in my old age, I will blame 100% on FotL at the Bottom Lounge.
Future of the Left “Small Bones Small Bodies”
Never gets old.
Memories of Lala
“Great music. Love it. What’s the point?”
Bloozeandbeach from Atlanta
At this price, it’s cheaper to just buy and rip the CD. So how is eMusic now any different from, hipper than, OR A BETTER DEAL THAN the other MP3 sites?
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“ridiculous pricing”
Why buy this here when you can get it cheaper in the store? Pass. eMusic officially sucks now. I’m canceling.
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“Fantastic album”
Bluesboy from Atlanta by way of Chicago
Great insight to a period of great creativity with Bruce. But don’t buy it here. Best Buy has the physical media for $13.99.
Underheard Mutterings to Apple Store Clerks
- Next time you revitalize a “neighborhood” by building a computer-colored fountain where a decent pizza place used to be, and you redesign the rape-encouraging stairwells of an otherwise peaceful subway station by tossing your rude advertisements of torso-challenged screen-tapping yuppies on the dirty walls, please do it in Oakland.
- Great. While you do that, I’ll text a dunce.
- You know what else is a do-it-yourself task? Slowly dying.
- Just a print version. Thxs.
From Twenty-One Love Poems
III
Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time
for years of missing each other. Yet only this odd warp
in time tells me we’re not young.
