May 2010
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“I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
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christopherkozoriz:
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. ~ Michel de Montaigne
I should too.
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“Few men have been admired of their familiars.”
– ~ Michel de Montaigne (via christopherkozoriz)
Montaigne so makes me smile. I just blew close to a hundred bucks online a few days ago on books. One of my spoils is Montaigne’s The Complete Works. Can’t wait to read the pioneer blog of human history :) (I hope I’ve not been...
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26 Life Lessons Learned by Age 26 →
I’m past 26, so technically I should have learned them all? But having gone through the list, I’d say I get many of them in theory, but I do not necessarily live them out.
Looks like I’ve still got lots of growing up to do.
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fourzerofive:
“I hate Gucci,” said Francis.
“Do you?” said Henry, glancing up from his reverie. “Really? I think it’s rather grand.”
“Come on, Henry.”
“Well, it’s so expensive, but it’s so ugly too, isn’t it? I think they make it ugly on purpose. And yet people buy it out of sheer perversity.”
“I don’t see what you think is grand about that.”
“Anything is grand if it’s done on a large...
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Cover Wishlist #1
Khalil Fong/方大同 to cover Sade’s By Your Side.
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fuckyeahjohnmayer:
L.A.’s Gonna Eat You Alive -...
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adverted:
“Halah” - Mazzy Star
I never really...
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fuckyeahjohnmayer:
Simmering (Live at Brandeis...
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Montaigne, philosopher of life, part 2: Learning... →
“By expecting too much of ourselves, he thought, and trying to remain in control of every experience, we actually undermine that control. We lose contact with our nature, and thus we lose our ability to understand or judge situations correctly. This makes us foolish as well as miserable. Not understanding ourselves, we can understand nothing else either.”
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“When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my...”
– Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (via clongetch)
Another reason why Montaigne resonates so much with me.
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If there’s such a thing as sampling in music, is there a similar thing in writing?
I’m resilient. I’ll be. There’s no denying that I exist. But I’m more than that. I’m a singularity coming into being. I’ll be eternity. I am. I am. I am.
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Khalil Fong's first live performance of his latest... →
Khalil Fong has a new song titled *gasp* Coconut Husk (!)
I’m not sure I got it on first listen. It’s one of those commercial jingles that musicians get commissioned to write. (Check out how the standard Nokia ringtone got incorporated into the chorus.)
But I figure I probably will in time, as with all of Khalil’s other songs.
(And this is not a case of Blind Fangirl Faith....
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“I want so to live that I work with my hands and my feeling and my brain. I want...”
– Katherine Mansfield (via katherinemansfieldproject) (via dialogues) (via crashinglybeautiful)
Ditto. (Maybe not a garden. But the rest applies.)
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“I actually like being motivated by that burning desire to do something. I like...”
– John Mayer
Yup, especially the last part. If doing something scares you and makes you feel alone, up the scare factor so that everyone else gets scared together with you. (Since you are already at it, might as well…)
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kristenadams:
Regina singing Hallelujah
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awesm:
Michael Henry & Justin Robinett -...
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fuckyeahcello:
chelseyscheffe:
bloom |...
The 50 best author vs author putdowns of all time →
Looks like I’m not the only Austen non-appreciator :)
“Productivity is really about slowing down to focus on doing something real,...”
– Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist
This is what my yesterday was about. I think I’m starting to get on top of things.
(via procrastinaction)
(via unreticent-rexy, bridgettelizabeth)
Yeah, that’s what I need to be doing.
“Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything...”
– Johann Wolfgang van Goethe (via readwriterepeat)
April 2010
77 posts
newsweek:
“3-D is a waste of a perfectly good dimension. Hollywood’s current crazy stampede toward it is suicidal. It adds nothing essential to the moviegoing experience. For some, it is an annoying distraction. For others, it creates nausea and headaches. It is driven largely to sell expensive projection equipment and add a $5 to $7.50 surcharge on already expensive movie tickets. Its image is...
