January 2009
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What drives so much of what we do is desire—desire of all forms. Sexual,...
– Terry Rodgers
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December 2008
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The art of lying is the art of the practical. It ought never be indulged in for...
– ~ Dalton Trumbo
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SLANG TANG →
A great podcast featuring alternative, electronic & urban music from around the world.
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40.
a people shaped toomany-ness far too
and will it tell us who we are and will
it tell us why we dream and will it tell
us how we drink crawl eat walk die fly do?
a notalive undead too-nearishness
and shall we cry and shall we laugh and shall
entirely our doom steer his great small
wish into upward deepness of less fear
much more than climbing hope meets most despair?
all...
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Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring...
– Anais Nin
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from "Their attitudes differ"
kfan:
You held out your hand I took your fingerprints You asked for love I gave you only descriptions Please die I said so I can write about it
—Margaret Atwood
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documentary:
Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes I get a kick out of rummaging through the workspaces and archives of creative people to see what makes them tick. This is exactly what Jon Ronson does when he is granted access to poke around Stanley Kubrik’s estate and film his findings. A very intruiging look into the private life of one of the 20th century’s most obsessive flimmakers. from channel4.com...
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Light is the most intimate force in the universe. It reaches out across space to...
– C:>The.Sex!of:+Texture
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Neighborhood #4 (7 Kettles) - Arcade Fire
“It’s not a lover I want no more,
and it’s not heaven I’m pining for,
but there’s some spirit I used to know,
that’s been drowned out by the radio”
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St. Paul’s. The pagan darkness after the collapse of Rome saw here a...
– From The Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theatre of Marvels by Alan Moore.
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I’m an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way...
– Dziga Vertov
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We’re not much for modern dance around here but this piece (DNA performed in New York, 2007 by Bridgeman Packer Dance) in which two dancers interact with video projections of themselves is a brilliant marriage of technology and choreography. I’ve watched this multiple times and still find it amazing. Music by Grammy Award-winning composer / percussionist Glen Velez.
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Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film,...
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via)
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The Ambition of the Short Story →
“The short story apologizes for nothing. It exults in its shortness. It wants to be shorter still. It wants to be a single word. If it could find that word, if it could utter that syllable, the entire universe would blaze up out of it with a roar.”
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Hope Leaves the Theater by Charlie Kaufman →
A radio drama recorded live at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York starring Meryl Streep, Hope Davis and Peter Dinklage. Excellent.