February 2012
25 posts
St. Vincent - Cheerleader
disconaivete:
No actual cheerleading in the video for St. Vincent’s Cheerleader, but Annie Clark being exposed as a piece in a gallery. Directed by Hiro Murai, inspired by Ron Mueck. (via)
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“If what’s always distinguished bad writing— flat characters, a narrative world...”
– David Foster Wallace (via ajay via harkaway via kadrey)
“The outrage is tiresome and deeply hypocritical, in all the tiresome ways you’ve...”
– Sasha Frere-Jones
This. A thousand times.
(via blancateli)
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"Is Boredom Good for Us?" →
….or “Writing About Science is Really Hard.”
A review I wrote for Wunderkammer.
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“Play with Fire,” The Rolling Stones
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“the son of darkness and the athlete of hell.”
– Pope Urban on Cyril Lucaris, the six-time Patriarch of Constantinople and one-time Patriarch of Alexandria, who in 1629 declared his belief in the basic tennets of Calvinism.
[via Strolling through Istanbul]
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“Murray feels like a slightly lesser hero, as if when the divine protectors were...”
– Brian Phillips in “The epic warfare of the Rafael Nadal-Novak Djokovic Australian Open final”
Five things you can't do on Twitter in the United... →
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“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look, and...”
– Martin Amis in London Fields
“Hence reading is self-mastery, because the self (and its affirmations) are held...”
– So Why Read (Fiction) Any More? « Commentary Magazine (via ayjay)
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"A report from the Hospital," Wisława Szymborska,...
We used matches to draw lots: who would visit him.
And I lost. I got up from our table.
Visiting hours were just about to start.
When I said hello he didn’t say a word.
I tried to take his hand — he pulled it back
like a hungry dog that won’t give up his bone.
He seemed embarrassed about dying.
What do you say to someone like that?
Our eyes never met, like in a faked...
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“We Don’t Say Shut Up,”...
January 2012
39 posts
“I used to buy a lot of MP3s. I don’t anymore. That’s not to say I don’t listen...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Why publishers should give away ebooks (via ayjay)
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“In a profession which specialises in hypocrisy, Mr Gingrich’s performance stands...”
– Newt Gingrich harried Bill Clinton for having sex with an intern 27 years his junior when he was having sex with a staffer 23 years younger than himself. His arrogance, meanwhile, verges on monomania. He once wrote of himself as the “definer of the forces of civilisation”. (via theeconomist)
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“Such people are strictly amateur compared to, say, Harold Williams, a New...”
– Graeme Wood
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“You threw out all the cheese, Charles. How could God hate cheese?”
– Nathan Englander, in For the Relief of Unbearable Urges. [Universal dilemmas, h/t Ben]
“It’s not my place to judge anyone, but it’s frustrating as hell that there are...”
– Newt’s sister, Candace Gingrich-Jones (via alaina)
“While in Korea, Linebarger masterminded the surrender of thousands of Chinese...”
– “From the introduction to The Best of Cordwainer Smith, the author of “Scanners Live in Vain” and, in non-pseudonymous life, an East Asia scholar from Milwaukee named Paul Linebarger (1913-1966)” via Helen at The Cigarette Smoking Blog
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“Bon Iver, Bon Iver
First it was For Emma, Forever Ago. The soul in a...”
– From the bio on Bon Iver’s website.
Not only do I not know what any of this means, it’s the most pretentious, insufferable mess of writing I can remember. Who needs a drink?
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“In contemporary religious circles, souls, if they are mentioned at all, tend to...”
– Marilynne Robinson, from her new book When I was a Child I Read Books
[via Wes]
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“Congress is polarized largely because Americans live in communities of...”
– Ryan Lizza, The Obama Memos: How Washington Remade the President : The New Yorker
“Apple executives say that going overseas, at this point, is their only option....”
– This is an Apple executive’s idea of what a workforce should look like so that the company can make $400,000 of profit per (non-contracted) employee. That’s some robber baron shit. (via madregale)
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“In 1978 Fela married twenty-seven women, many of whom were his dancers,...”
– Wikipedia on Fela Kuti
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“The joy of bourbon drinking is not the pharmacological effect of the C2H5OH on...”
– Walker Percy, from “Bourbon, Neat”
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“For someone who has ceased to believe in his own immortality, life isn’t...”
– Nathaniel Philbrick in Why Read Moby-Dick?
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