March 2011
February 2011
waldosia
n. [Brit. wallesia] a condition characterized by scanning faces in a crowd looking for a specific person who would have no reason to be there, which is your brain’s way of checking to see whether they’re still in your life, subconsciously patting its emotional pockets before it leaves for the day.
last night i had a dream
a man shot my sister.
i squished his eyeballs.
“Shatter my heart and create a new room for a limitless love.”
– Rumi
Elvis Costello//Beyond Belief
Old Crow Medicine Show//Wagon Wheel
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via cardigans)
LITOST
is a Czech word with no exact translation into any other language. It designates a feeling as infinite as an open accordion, a feeling that is the synthesis of many others: grief, sympathy, remorse, and an indefinable longing. The first syllable, which is long and stressed, sounds like the wail of an abandoned dog.
(The Book of Laughter and Forgetting, Milan Kundera)
September 2010
“What is a saint? A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility....”
– L. Cohen, Beautiful Losers
NYT: Coral reefs face 2nd major global die-off →
August 2010
July 2010
“Ever had a relationship end in such a way that you never saw it coming, but it...”
– Carolie Bartol
Yes.
June 2010
Watchclaytoncubitt:
Allison Bohl, ‘The Irma Thomas Sway’ 2009
Beautiful 17-second silent clip of Irma Thomas swaying during performance.
See also: Irma Thomas - ‘It’s Raining’
“Among other things, drag queens are living testimony to the way women used to...”
– Andy Warhol
