May 2012
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Something or other.
Tonight in New York City it’s misty, and the lights of buildings glow though the wet air.
Some days the thing that makes me happiest in the world the view of the all the lights from the N train when it comes out of Queensboro Plaza. Some days I don’t know what I’m doing.
This weekend I’m going to my friends’ graduation at the college I graduated from a year ago. I...
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So I've been all kinds of distracted non-tumblring...
but one of the smartest people I know is writing about the National here this week. And you should, ya know, check it out.
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“Melville is somehow more on the side of Kleist. He is a more comprehensible...”
– Maurice Sendak from an interview with Hank Nuwer
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April 2012
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"Franzen, Wallace, and the Shame of Storytelling" →
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“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“Like a lot of people, the first time I heard him sing, I had no idea how much I...”
– Peter Gerstenzang wrote a lovely memorial of Levon Helm. (via sotc-nyc)
Read this, please.
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i wrote a thing about nostalgia strangling us all... →
“Who wants to look back at an era and realize that the people alive during it were themselves casting their glances toward the more idyllic era receding in the rearview mirror?”
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23 and banging round in bookshops.
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“I mean that’s what’s great about New York—there’s more...”
– shit people say
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“I was so involved with boy-rhythms that I never came to grips with the fact that...”
– Patti Smith, 1976 (via Horses by Philip Shaw)
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jack white, wocka wocka →
maura:
alternative distribution strategies ahoy!
Things like this remind of why I still think that Jack White is probably some kind of genius.
I don’t like most of his non-White Stripes music that much, and I think he’s given in to this idolization as some sort of savior-of-American-music-guitargodman recently, and nothing I’ve heard from that much-hyped upcoming solo release is half as good...
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Jack White Releases 3 RPM Record →
paradoxolojest:
No, that’s not a typo. A three RPM record that contains all of Third Man Records’s “Blue Series” singles (remember the Jack White/Insane Clown Posse song? Yeah, there were more).
My guess is Jack White’s been studying the phrase “unlistenable” and has been, for sherry and giggles, trying to push it to every extreme possible. Like some Frank Zappa, early Dan Deacon, or Rebecca...
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It's been a beautiful day
and it’s still warm, but now it’s cooler out, and the wind blowing through my bedroom window feels heavy with rain. I walked around Union Square today with one of my co-workers and we ate ice cream and talked about nothing.
On the way home tonight the sidewalk was covered with fallen flower petals, and in the block before I got back to my apartment I looked up and could see the Big...
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“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
– Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (via libraryland)
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“…The misogyny Dworkin decries is real enough—it is just not all of...”
– Ellen Willis, “Nature’s Revenge” (1981)
I may well have posted this before, but it won’t ever stop being relevant to my entire life, so fuck it, I’m posting it again.
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“Smith speaks for an emergent class of highly educated but economically...”
– Philip Shaw, Horses (via ghnfennn)
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