March 2013
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“Are you here for all the things that I don’t have” was my relationship with my...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 176, Amy Hempel
“Some people make transitions very easily, and I apparently don’t. I have to work...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 176, Amy Hempel
“If I want a plot I’ll watch Dallas.”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 87, Elizabeth Hardwick
“And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life...”
– Ezra Pound, 1885–1972
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February 2013
5 posts
“Did you know in ancient Rome
priests called augurs studied
the future by...”
– Erstwhile Harbinger Auspices by Matthew Zapruder : The Poetry Foundation
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January 2013
9 posts
“…trying to describe how three years of sitting naked before strangers and...”
– Rachel Howard: When I Lose the Scarf | berfrois
I remember, vaguely
“Writing, creating something so beautiful that it may outlast you, is so...”
– The Secret Lives of Stories: Rewriting Our Personal Narratives - page 3 | Poets & Writers
“Nothing gives quite the satisfaction that doing things brings.”
– Sherwood Anderson on Art and Life: A Letter of Advice to His Teenage Son, 1927 | Brain Pickings
“If you have a negative tendency and you deny it, then you’ve doubled it. If you...”
– George Saunders Has Written the Best Book You’ll Read This Year - NYTimes.com
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December 2012
42 posts
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Sounds of the Year
Well, it’s not a best of list. It’s never comprehensive. It signifies nothing. But I love the exercise of waking daily, remembering the big songs that made the year substantial, worthwhile. Same game as last year, same caveats. I picked more than 31, I think. Sometimes I couldn’t choose. I thought there would be very few guitars, but in fact there were some. I went to the gym as...
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Running out of days. Not running out of songs. Annual problem.
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— Pye Corner Audio, “Sleep...
“A glorious something else awaits.”
– Sugar, DEAR SUGAR #59: The Holidays Are Hell(ish) Edition
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“Where there was something and suddenly isn’t,
an absence shouts, celebrates,...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye, from “Burning the Old Year” (via proustitute)
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No more in the wrong place. No more at the wrong...
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Please.
— My Nu Leng, “Time Goes...
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“Unlike most of Tarantino’s femmes fatales, Broomhilda doesn’t get to annihilate...”
– Kerry Washington Scandal Interview - Kerry Washington on Django Unchained - ELLE
(Been wanting to prove her wrong all week and I can’t.)
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“Vowels in modern English have lost their value, their color. My hope for...”
– Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 39, Jorge Luis Borges
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WatchStomping like I’m up in Louboutins.
— Le1f, “Wut,” Dark York
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Don't Make Me Choose II: Killer Mike Edition
For baroqueness, Eli reference:
For clarity of narrative, assonance:
For its joy:
This is church: front pew, amen, pulpit.
— Killer Mike, “Go!;” “Southern Fried;” “R.A.P. Music;” R.A.P. Music
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Hot/Cold
Theme song for lying on beaches by one’s self.
Theme song for hiding from that gray, snowless winter:
— Burial, “Ashtray Wasp,” Kindred
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WatchTaste. Sex. System.
— Scuba, “The Hope,” Personality
(theme song for not bonking on treadmill runs)
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“Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful...”
– George Bellows
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