April302010
Regina Spektor | No surprises (Radiohead cover)
Plays: 5,640
Reblogged from twentythree :.
February172010
"2.
Front of card: A golden sunset on a Pacific coast.
Inside: “I’ve been able to not feel for almost 16 years straight, but tonight I can see the weight of my mother’s body making the most innocent indentation on a mattress 25 hundred miles from here. And I can feel every kind thing my father did for us now that I’m a man who understands what it takes to make even the smallest things happen. And tonight I know that to stay with my girlfriend will mean watching us both age through life’s finite amount of days, and that is my true fear of commitment. I stay awake most nights wrestling with love and death."
— I Lost My Greeting-Card Gig Because of My Drinking, Dan Kennedy. (via presidents) (via remusjlupin)
September192009
Matt Nathanson - Suspended (Live At The Point)
It’s not enough to stay surrounded
It’s not enough to stay awake, torn, braced, cornered,
and not feel alive.Sunshine, I’m beginning to like it
Sunshine, I’m beginning to like this.
Plays: 31
Reblogged from 12minds.
June152009
"Movies are social and novels are private, and this difference is as essential as the addition of visuals and sound in storytelling. Movies are collaborative creations, novels are written by one. We watch movies together, you can’t ever really read a novel with another person. Reading a novel is always a private moment between you and the author. If you’ve never had that sense the author of the book you are reading must have read your mind somehow, you’re just not reading the right books.
People who really love movies, and from time to time I am one of them, are always trying to get that sense of one-on-one novelistic intimacy. My favorite way to start a weekend is to wake up Saturday at an ungodly hour, 5 am or so, make espresso and watch a film that will make me think. At that hour, watching a film feels less like passively enjoying a work of art than something you imagined and took part in. A hypnagogic revelation.
You see a movie with your friend, go out for drinks afterward, and this disrupts the process of letting it sink in. The best thing to do after a film…is to walk around, aimlessly, when the city’s yet to wake up and you run no risk of your thoughts interrupted by people asking for directions, catcalling, wanting your attention.
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— Joanne McNeil (via unicornology)
Reblogged from HOLY SHIT, IT'S A FUCKING RAINBOW..
May292009
"Anything you say will be more interesting than everything they’ve ever said."
— Bill Nighy as Lawrence Montague in The Girl in the Cafe (via windycitygirl)
Reblogged from Windy City Girl.
May252009
zenzizenzizenzic
noun • the eighth power of a number
Wikipedia: The 16th century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde coined the term to “doeth represent the square of squares squared”. Compositionally, zenzic means “squared”, so zenzizenzizenzic means “the squared squared squared”, or algebraically, ((x2)2)2 = x8. zenzizenzizenzic has the most z’s of any recorded word in English.
Reblogged from Word Journal.
May232009
(via xkcd.com)
Does anyone else remember Mathnet and Square One? I used to watch it ages ago, but it never got repeated on the ABC. I think my interest in maths probably started with this show, or maybe I just wanted a calculator holster…
"This song is about…waking up under a bush in your ex-girlfriend’s garden…this is a song is about getting drunk and forgetting you don’t go out with her anymore, forgetting she doens’t love you anymore. So this is about…wanting too much, wanting to be close to someone too much, wanting to know where they are all the time, and when they’re going out you’re like “Where are you going?” or “What time will you be back?” or “I’ll come with you”. It’s about trying to do the right thing, trying to withdraw so that you don’t love so much, trying to go “ok”. And in doing so, something inside of you just dies and you turn off, and then like all things in life, she falls in love with you and you don’t care. And it’s a song of hope."
— Glen Hansard of The Frames, intro to What Happens When The Heart Just Stops
The Frames - What Happens When The Heart Just Stops
Plays: 5
