December 2009
81 posts
resolved:
to fix the work situation.
to reclaim my old, organized self.
to try to act like i don’t believe what i fear to be true.
Carpe Diem? Maybe Tomorrow →
at least i have the deadline thing down pat.
“In the Coens’ universe, it doesn’t matter whether a character...”
– Directors of the decade: No. 3: The Coen brothers
Matt Zoller Seitz
supertwin powers: activate?
i feel like a lot of experiences come in sets. if there’s a high there’s a low. there’s the drunken glow and the hangover, there’s the buttery dish and the upset stomach (or the eventual heart attack, etc.), the sugar buzz and the sad crash, falling in love and heartbreak.
i think, that for most of us, the goodness experience is so good, that it tends to crowd out the...
Get Me Away from Here, I’m Dyi…
Listening To Otis Redding At H…
“Giving up his hopes…
…compromising one’s...”
– woody allen, husbands and wives
(juliette lewis’ character)
Rejection massively reduces IQ (New Scientist) →
psychotherapy:
Rejection can dramatically reduce a person’s IQ and their ability to reason analytically, while increasing their aggression, according to new research.
“It’s been known for a long time that rejected kids tend to be more violent and aggressive,” says Roy Baumeister of the Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, who led the work. “But we’ve found that randomly assigning students...
“fuck her. let’s get a sandwich.”
– chad, in the company of men
“If you say there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to...”
– Gabriel García Márquez, in a 1981 interview with the Paris Review, explains how he found the right tone for One Hundred Years Of Solitude.
— From London.
(via whileyouweresleeping)
“If you make something that matters, it will speak for itself. Don’t put that on...”
– Alex Payne (via merlin)
What i like even better is this one, from the dialogue that followed:
Thankfully, our lives are small enough that we often find the recognition that sustains us close at hand.
“Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink.”
– Suzuki Roshi
Love for sale: Appraising the relics of a... →
this is the perfect short story for a person who loves things.
The Moment Jars →
Her Anxiety, W.B. Yeats
whileyouweresleeping:
Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie. Such body lovers have, Such exacting breath, That they touch or sigh. Every touch they give, Love is nearer death. Prove that I lie. I like Poems on the Underground.
— From London.
Relax - Scout Niblett
“If death is what the sense of self fears, the solution is for the sense of self...”
– What are you really afraid of? — David R. Loy, Tricycle Magazine
Watching buddhists make sense of guilt is personally fun for me.
how do we come to have the interests we have? i sometimes wonder if they’re almost genetic, passed down. i like so many of the same things as a grandmother i hardly knew, a wonderfully pre-postmodern small town woman who mostly worked a printing press, like everyone else in the family. i lack the underlying faith, but still feel like a too-comfortable life is missing something, that...
