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[May. 20th, 2012|11:37 am] |
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"It doesn't matter how you feel inside, you know. It's what shows up on the surface that counts. Take all your bad feelings and push them down, all the way down, past your knees, until you're almost walking on them. And then you'll fit in, and you'll be invited to parties, and boys will like you... and happiness will follow." |
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[May. 18th, 2012|10:39 pm] |
"...I once had a patient, a sound atheist, who used to read in the British Museum. One day as he sat reading, I saw a train of thought in his mind beginning to go the wrong way...before I knew where I was I saw my twenty years of work beginning to totter...But I was not such a fool. I struck instantly at the part of the man which I had best under my control, and suggested that it was just about time he had some lunch...before he reached the bottom of the steps I had got into him an unalterable conviction that, whatever odd ideas might come into a man's head when he was shut up alone with his books, a health dose of 'real life' was just enough to show him that all "that sort of thing" just couldn't be true. He knew he'd had a narrow escape, and in later years was found of talking about that 'inarticulate sense for actuality which is our ultimate safeguard against the aberrations of mere logic.' He is now safe in Our Father's House." -- The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
What a cool book
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[May. 1st, 2012|03:22 pm] |
if you dont watch Twin Peaks your dumb |
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[Apr. 3rd, 2012|11:30 pm] |
"...You know, then, that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath and which is the sum of your actions and so is constantly in a state of becoming under your own violation - and knowing these things, you can even survive the catastrophe of Success...
...Security is a kind of death, I think, and it can come to you in a storm of royalty checks besides a kidney-shaped pool in Beverly Hills or anywhere at all that is removed from the conditions that made you an artist, if that's what you are or were or intended to be...
Then what is good? The obsessive interest in human affairs, plus a certain amount of compassion and moral conviction, that first made the experience of living something that must be translated into pigment or music or bodily movement or poetry or prose or anything thats dynamic and expressive - thats what's good for you if you're at all serious in your aims...That time is short and it doesn't return again. It is slipping away while I write this and while you read it, and the monosyllable of the clock is Loss, loss, loss, unless you devote your heart to its opposition."
-Tenessee Williams "The Catastrophe of Success"
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[Apr. 1st, 2012|06:28 pm] |
Kitano used to be a regular collaborator with composer Joe Hisaishi, who has created scores for many of his films. However, during the making of Dolls they had an argument, apparently over which tunes to include on the film's soundtrack, and have not worked together since.[7]
Now that is heartbreaking. two of my favorites |
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[Mar. 24th, 2012|07:28 pm] |
Today at the bank when an old lady opened up her wallet to give her debit card to the teller I saw taped inside an old black and white headshot. It was of an absolutely gorgeous woman with a 60's style haircut, gloves, and pearl necklace. I told the old lady that it was a beautiful picture and if it was of her. She said it was.
Goddamn the whole event was one of the most beautiful things i've been privy to and it was hidden and lasted less than six seconds and now its gone. |
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[Mar. 20th, 2012|09:48 pm] |
"The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world’s total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000.
“I suppose they will all want dignity,” I said.
“I suppose,” said O’Hare."
-Slaughterhouse Five |
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[Mar. 20th, 2012|09:40 pm] |
"Candide, observing a Milton, asked whether he did not look upon this author as a great man.
"Who?" said Pococurante, "that barbarian, who writes a long commentary in ten books of harsh verse on the first chapter of Genesis; that coarse imitator of the Greeks, who disfigures the Creation, and who, while Moses represents the Eternal producing the world by a word, makes the Messiah take a great pair of compasses from the armoury of heaven to circumscribe His work? How can I have any esteem for a writer who has spoiled Tasso's hell and the devil, who transforms Lucifer sometimes into a toad and other times into a pigmy, who makes him repeat the same things a hundred times, who makes him dispute on theology, who, by a serious imitation of Ariosto's comic invention of firearms, represents the devils cannonading in heaven? Neither I nor any man in Italy could take pleasure in those melancholy extravagances; and the marriage of Sin and Death, and the snakes brought forth by Sin, are enough to turn the stomach of any one with the least taste, [and his long description of a pest-house is good only for a grave-digger]. This obscure, whimsical, and disagreeable poem was despised upon its first publication, and I only treat it now as it was treated in its own country by contemporaries. For the matter of[Pg 140] that I say what I think, and I care very little whether others think as I do."
Candide was grieved at this speech, for he had a respect for Homer and was fond of Milton.
"Alas!" said he softly to Martin, "I am afraid that this man holds our German poets in very great contempt."
"There would not be much harm in that," said Martin.
"Oh! what a superior man," said Candide below his breath. "What a great genius is this Pococurante! Nothing can please him."
- Candide
Pococurante, the original hipster
This book is so goddamn funny |
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[Mar. 1st, 2012|11:43 pm] |
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"The Concept of Legacy" is a cool phrase. I wonder if it's a book. it should be. |
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