January 2012
13 posts
i’ve had the wind knocked out of me, but never the hurricane.
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“For lonely people are usually lonely not because of hideous deformity or odor or obnoxiousness… Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”
If you’ve got a body you can’t stand let go of this ridiculous insecurity you look amazing especially when you’re not compared to anything
— Buddy Wakefield
Tonight I can write the saddest lines. Write, for example, ‘The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance.’ The night wind revolves in the sky and sings. Tonight I can write the saddest lines. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too. Through nights like this one I held her in my arms. I kissed her again and again under the endless sky. She loved me, sometimes I loved...
Because
when you wake up, you will have forgotten the idea completely and miss it like a front tooth, but at least you know how to recognize moments of brilliance, because even at your worst you are fucking incredible.
“I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer
Alright, I gave in. I’m about 3/4 through...
Conquered Books: 2011 Edition.
Oblivion and other stories- David Foster Wallace (2004) 336 pages.
Girl With Curious Hair-David Foster Wallace (1996) 384 pages.
For Whom the Bell Tolls- Ernest Hemingway (1940) 507 pages.
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee- Dee Brown (1971) 446 pages.
The Pale King- David Foster Wallace (2011) 547 pages.
Infinite Jest- David Foster Wallace (reissue: 2006) 1,081 pages.
Zen and the Art of...
December 2011
23 posts
“I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”
-Leonardo Da Vinci’s last words
“In secular psychodevelopmental terms, an epiphany is a sudden, life-changing realisation, often one that catalyses a person’s emotional maturation. The person, in one blinding flash, ‘grows up’, ‘comes of age.’ ‘Put[s] away childish things.’ Releases illusions gone moist and rank from a grip of years’ duration. Becomes for good or ill, a citizen of reality.”
— ...
you’re only young once, you’re only young once, you’re only young once, you’re only young once.
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I blew off a packed bar to stay home, listen to...
It is still beautiful to feel the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body. The samurai looks insignificant beside his armour of black dragon scales.
“Why should we accept that the “talent” of someone who writes jingles...”
– A People’s History of the United States, Howard Zinn
“Mary had a little lamb, its fleece electrostatic / And everywhere Mary went, the lights became erratic.”
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November 2011
12 posts
Right now, there’s an older man staying in one of the rooms of the hotel who has been here just about 3 weeks, almost all of November. He came in with another older guy (both about 70ish) with long, shoulder-length white hair. They talked, etc, etc, and I started talking to the long-haired, hippie looking one, and found out that A) he’s the founder of KellerWilliams, a substantial...
“the “Occupy” movement, whether displaying itself on Wall Street or in the streets of Oakland (which has, with unspeakable cowardice, embraced it) is anything but an exercise of our blessed First Amendment. “Occupy” is nothing but a pack of louts, thieves, and rapists, an unruly mob, fed by Woodstock-era nostalgia and putrid false righteousness. These clowns can do nothing but harm...
What exactly do you think you are? The millions and trillions of thoughts, memories, juxtapositions — even crazy ones like this, you’re thinking — that flash through your head and disappear? Some sum or remainder of these? Your history? Do you know how long it’s been since I told you I was a fraud? Do you remember you were looking at the respicem watch hanging from the rearview and seeing...
The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy (covering...
October 2011
15 posts
