August 2010
26 posts
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-29) →
Jenny Wilson (25)
The Innocence Mission (22)
Sharon Van Etten (12)
Laura Marling (11)
Sarah Jaffe (5)
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Story Seeds
He was too simple to love. With others, every discovery of ugliness meant you had to dig deeper to find something worth keeping. You had to keep looking, hoping you’d find something beautiful to love.
Story Seeds are brief excerpts from my writing journal that may or may not become complete, short fiction pieces.
LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL
whatwillsuffice:
ysrebel:
April 16, 1963
MY DEAR FELLOW CLERGYMEN:
While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If I sought to answer all the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would have little time for anything other than such...
One Million Calls Made from Gmail in 24 Hours →
shepdaddy:
theatlantic:
soupsoup:
Game changer.
We suppose the real question is: a game-changer for whom?
It would be interesting if Google could apply this to their Droid devices, undercutting the phone side of mobile carriers.
What makes you think that Google isn’t looking to do just that?
The Nice Chapter
If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not nice, I am a sounding gong, a tinkling cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom the deepest mysteries and all knowledge, and have faith that can move mountains, but lack nice, I am nothing. If I give everything I have to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but lack nice, I gain nothing.
Nice is patient, nice is kind....
Strawberry Farmer
What I do want to do is to transport myself to a strawberry patch in New Zealand and pick the most ripe berries, and after make strawberry shortcake to enjoy and forget that there was ever a thing as a heart or dreams that involved more than food and toys.
“You couldn’t make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the...”
– Elizabeth Strout (Olive Kitteridge)
Humean Logic
Hume was right when he said knowledge is a matter of fact,
But only in matters of love;
Because if I am in a room without you,
I can still hold the absurd idea that we never met,
And that all my best hopes are waiting
Beyond the unfinished business
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-22) →
Sarah Jaffe (22)
Four Tet (14)
Arcade Fire (9)
London Symphony Orchestra (8)
Johannes Brahms (4)
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““What is…the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?”
...”
– Cat On a Hot Tin Roof
Hold Up Now
it would be rather nice to live briefly without feelings—to know oneself without the veil of ambiguity that confuses desire for reason.
I Am Become
He became her, bright as the Morningstar, and just as terrible. He burned every comfort, all the lovely ideas—images that played in black and white informing of the troops that would never come home.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-15) →
Janelle Monáe (14)
Slow Club (14)
Best Coast (13)
Passion Pit (11)
My Morning Jacket (11)
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The Soul Making Odyssey
It is a unique beauty, the soul that seeks God. And her soul shone so great it moved him to love her in ever more splendid and virtuous ways.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-8) →
Arcade Fire (30)
Sharon Van Etten (18)
Mos Def (17)
Lauryn Hill (15)
The Roots (14)
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“Now I too see
the wildest things require the strongest cages,
the panther’s...”
– Moira Egan, from Dear Mr. Merrill (via thebronzemedal)
“Our political debates do not suffer from too much doubt but from too much...”
– Les Black, in the New Humanist (via thebronzemedal)
Word.
“With big tales and soft words, she would sidle up to your heart to pick your...”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-8-1) →
The Innocence Mission (34)
Sarah Jaffe (25)
Johannes Brahms (23)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (17)
Johann Sebastian Bach (16)
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