January 2012
12 posts
As the author would say, "Presented without...
michelledean:
When I am making the kind of living from my writing that Neil Gaiman does from his (which is to say, any kind at all), perhaps I shall tell you then that people need to lighten up about copyright. Until then, I kind of think all this “culture must be free!!!1!!!111!!!” stuff ain’t particularly convincing.
House Kills SOPA | Examiner →
newsweek:
utnereader:
infoneer-pulse:
In a surprise move today, Representative Eric Cantor(R-VA) announced that he will stop all action on SOPA, effectively killing the bill. This move was most likely due to several things. One of those things is that SOPA and PIPA met huge online protest against the bills. Another reason would be that the White House threatened to veto the bill if it had...
1.95mi after work. the start of something good.
“Part of me is made of glass, and also, I love you.”
– The History of Love, Nicole Krauss (via clavicola)
That’s one of my favorite quotes from that book. Also, you should read it.
December 2011
7 posts
“I don’t ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via vavin)
To Begin
Today I had that feeling of wondering when life really begins mixed with a wholesome disgust at my present condition. I read some Meister Eckhart in the hopes I’d feel better, but really all I want was to be wrapped in the Divine arms of love and told everything will be alright.
hijinks ensued: Every Republican politician (and... →
hijinksensued:
stfuconservatives:
Rich
White
Bigoted
Think about everyone you know, politicians and regular people included… it’s like I’ve unlocked some sort of secret code.
-Joe
This is the post that made me stop following you. I don’t really like the STFU thing, in general, because the problem…
Preach it!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
M83 (20)
Teresa Cristina (10)
Matt Pond PA (7)
Johann Sebastian Bach (6)
Laura Marling (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
November 2011
19 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
M83 (27)
Joan as Police Woman (12)
Bill Evans (10)
Feist (9)
John Coltrane (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“I don’t like this expression “First World problems.” It is false and it is...”
– “What’s Wrong with First World Problems”
This times a million, plus the fact that everyone talking about “first world problems” is bragging about them.
(via katherinestasaph)
This. I want to punch people who do the first world problems thing.
(via feminaamphibios)
I’ve said pretty much...
“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (This Side of Paradise)
It’s quotes like this that compel me to love Fitzgerald.
“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do...”
– Buddha (via vineetkaur)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-13) →
Feist (11)
Antonín Dvořák (9)
Björk (9)
Jenny Wilson (7)
Washed Out (7)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“In the end, the only thing we can really give to another is our bodies, and...”
Lover or Fighter
I have been asked
“Lover or fighter?”
But there is her autumn,
and avacados,
and peach
that makes me forget
what to say.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6) →
Joan as Police Woman (47)
Frightened Rabbit (15)
Breathe Owl Breathe (14)
Four Tet (6)
Two Door Cinema Club (4)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a...”
– Robert Frost. (via askios)
Might as well get in on the reblog goodness.
October 2011
18 posts
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
– Henry Ellis (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
Dude, brilliant quote.
I love...
…you, and there isn’t a damn thing you can do about it. I love you as the prophecies of the end of our world come true. I love you in unending beauty and happiness. I love you beyond the reaches of our ever expanding universe, where God’s words have yet to press. I love you even though we are not in love, which is only to say our loves are not related to each other, intertwined...
Darning Love
Linger the laughing echoes of children–gone is your love–and I’ll take a piece of cake with the camel on needled thread.
“And the world will not discourage you from operating on your default settings,...”
– David Foster Wallace (via michelledean)
It reminds me of something from Revelations of Divine Love from Julian of Norwich that says “And in His love He has made all things beneficial to us.” If we are wholly wrapped up in our own little worlds, how can we ever truly work in love?
“The habit of moving our hands while we speak is left over from it. Clapping,...”
– The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
“I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving...”
– ― J.M. Coetzee Dusklands (via dkwon)
I know J.M. Coetzee is a great writer because when I read his work I hate him, and not because his work is bad, rather because it’s so damn good.
