January 2010
25 posts
“I would not deny that war had a certain moral core, but that made it easier for...”
“Sitting there, alone in a foreign country, far from my job and everyone I know,...”
– Carol, from Paris je t’aime (via pseudopoetry)
I don't think
i’ll ever get tired of Fleet Foxes. Their sound literally transports me to a more surreal and happier state of being.
First,
there is a mountain.
Then, there is no mountain.
Then, there is.
there's a cotton crush
on the southern states.
but, back up here man
we’ve got so much thread and space
to waste, waste, waste.
“standing in the kitchen
chomping on some pumpkin bread
down below me I notice...”
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“In winter we close the windows
and read Chekhov,
nearly weeping for his...”
– Lisel Muller, “Late Hours”
Auxiliary
This is what it feels like to stand behind the line,
to stand off to the side.
Wondering how to get back
to the fast track.
Or the test track.
Like the one they have in Disney World.
It’s got stripes down the center,
just like a real road.
But it doesn’t lead anywhere.
It just goes back to the start.
To infancy.
To the womb.
To loneliness.
(No) Surprises →
“I am so genuinely excited about what we’re doing, but for obvious reasons I can’t divulge anything more…anyway we all love surprises don’t we?”
Daybreakers
was just ok. The idea was pretty sweet, but they could have executed it a lot better. It opened up with some cool cinematography which got my hopes up, but overall it was just pretty standard sci-fi-action-gore-lets-startle-the-audience-a-few-times fare. Willem Dafoe was a nice touch, but they could have developed his character a little more— he had some interesting quirks but in the end...
“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– The Economist
Parody of US gov website "ready.gov"
Do not drive a station wagon if a utility pole is protruding from the hood.
Is that really how the movie ends?
Yes.
But they didn’t explain what happened to him.
Sometimes things are best left unexplained. If you knew what happened to him, it would ruin your night. So it’s left up to our minds to ponder his fate. That uncertainty is comforting.
Thom: Thinking abt life while throwing down a... →
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Today’s date, 01-02-2010, is a palindrome; it...
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Yellowfin Tuna Asks: What Kind Of Sick Fuck Would... →
I can't decide
if i thought Lolita was a good movie or not
