February 2012
5 posts
3 tags
Let us simmer over our incalculable cauldron, our enthralling confusion, our...
– Virginia Woolf on Montaigne. (download)
January 2012
18 posts
You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded,...
– Annie Dillard, The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
So many unsaid things collect in the soul, so much exhaustion and irritation lie...
–
Dmitri Shostakovich (Testimony)
DAY 4= AN ANNOTATED MIXTAPE of songs I listened to... →
glasshalf-fullshit:
1. MIKE MCDERMOTT/ SHARON VAN ETTEN I fell in love with Sharon Van Etten last Christmas Eve in a sort of irrevocable way— the wrestling in her voice, the lyrics. ‘Because I was in Love’ got me through a lot of impatient nights. 2. WANDERING STAR/ POLICA 3. SEND HIS LOVE TO ME/ PJ HARVEY …
2 parts white Beyonce plus 1 part M83 plus 1 part James Blake, but slightly less prolific.
IN FACT, SHE’S COWARDLY. THAT’S WHY I CAN’T CAPTURE HER LOOK.
– Amelie.
December 2011
4 posts
Chiasmus/ Fan Li →
Reaallyyy beautiful.
The Glass Essay/ Anne Carson →
So light.
November 2011
19 posts
It may have been a warning. It may also have been a burden. Even if love was...
– Margaret Atwood, from The Blind Assassin (via aubade)
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the...
– Ray Bradbury (via kari-shma)
October 2011
14 posts