May 2013
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April 2013
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No - it’s not self-destructive to jump into a cactus… I was just...
– Werner Herzog (from Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe)
March 2013
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Don’t put one foot in your job and the other in your dreams. Go ahead and quit,...
– Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano (via sissy-hankshaw)
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Once again reality has proven that no particular group has a monopoly over...
– Roberto Bolano, “Days of 1978” in Last Evenings on Earth
February 2013
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Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over...
– David Foster Wallace
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January 2013
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I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has...
– Henry Miller - Tropic of Cancer
December 2012
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Still I can’t get it out of my mind what a discrepancy there is between...
– Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
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November 2012
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…I don’t think what is called the work of the world, this everyday work, you see...
– Henry Miller
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October 2012
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The Pragmatic Approach: A Compelling Argument... →
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A Compelling Argument for Voting for a Third Party... →
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Everyday we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...
– henry miller
September 2012
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Checking the Cell Structure!
Sleeper (1973) - Woody Allen
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What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and...
– Herman Melville (Moby Dick; or, The Whale)
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2 Concepts of Liberty - Isaiah Berlin →
Awesome, short read on Berlin’s two concepts of liberty. Liberty/freedom from the absence of interference (negative) V. liberty/freedom to (positive)…
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Mr. G., I like reading so much now because of you that I built a library in...
August 2012
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Q: What about Eureka’s first track? That’s a loaded line you’re singing there...
– Jim O’Rourke interview with Andy Battaglia http://www.beefheart.com/zine/articles/0109orourke.htm
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dover:
Window Water Baby Moving
Experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage captured the home birth of his first child in 1958. I watched this film several years ago in an Avant-garde film class that I took at Berkeley. Even though I was watching it in a lecture room filled with strangers, it moved me to tears. I’ve thought about it often since then, but today is the first time during my pregnancy...
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July 2012
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Edwin Turner, 'Intertexuality and Structure in... →
sarahemilyduff:
‘2666 has a reputation for being fragmentary and inconclusive—and in some ways, yes, of course it is—but a second full reading of 2666 reveals a book that is cohesive, densely allusive, and thematically precise.
Rereading is one way of stepping back to see the bigger picture that Bolaño twists together from smaller fragments. Rereading reveals the intertextual correspondences...
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It seems as though I’m filming my life in order to have a life to film, like...
– Ross McElwee, “Sherman’s March” (via aaroncanipe)
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