January 2009
“In the empire of the senses
You’re the queen of all you survey
All the...”
– Sting, Love is the Seventh Wave
boyghost:
Way Down in the Hole Blind Boys of...
“In her three decades as a singer and songwriter, [Lucinda] Williams has lived...”
– David Hadju in The New Republic
“If you’re going to run around with peacocks, which is what people...”
– David Hadju, in The New Republic
“In endeavoring to perfectly comprehend the habits and natural history of the...”
– From The Lion and his Kind
in Harper’s May 1855(!)
HOLY EFFING BANANAS
missb:
junot diaz has agreed to do a short interview for paperbackgirl. i am freaking out right now.
Wow. So unbelievably cool.
“Reading is a very complex art - the hastiest examination of our sensations as a...”
– Virginia Woolf
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“Think now: where would your good be if there were no evil, and what would the...”
– Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
The Grateful Dead, Quinn The Eskimo (The Mighty...
“Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to...”
– John Updike
Ani Difranco, Both Hands (Live in Texas)
This...
“Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.”
– John Updike
muxtape.com →
noahkalina:
(via jstn)
and your bones have been my bedframe and your...
robot-heart:
ani difranco
Great, great song. I’m gonna post the incredible live version from the “more joy, less shame” EP when I get home tonight.
“All stirrings of our sensibility, even the most pleasant ones, are bound to...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Tom Waits, Tango ‘til They’re Sore
“Well you play that tarantella all the hounds will start to roar
The boys all go...”
– Tom Waits, Tango ‘Til They’re Sore
“The true reason [we read books] remains the inscrutable one - we get pleasure...”
– Virginia Woolf on her love of reading | Books | The Guardian (via buyhercandy)
Idlewild, The Bronze Medal
I believe I mentioned...
Getting excited about our staff party tonight. T minus 5 hours and counting.
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emilyposts:
Could someone please explain to me what TDD phone numbers are? I know it has something to do with deafness but I don’t understand how it works.
You can learn more and see an image here. My parents had one, and whenever their friends would call I would answer the phone using it. I took many messages with it as a kid. My parents still have one, but now they mainly use video chat over IP...
“Now as to the benefits to men that lay concealed beneath the earth–bronze, iron,...”
– Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound
“Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that...”
– Barack Obama’s Inaugural Address (via jdel) (via inauguration) (via bijan)
“There is little hope for us until we become toughminded enough to break loose...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only...”
– Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
“In closing, I direct your attention to a perfect sentence. Yes, they exist. One...”
– Colson Whitehead, via Harper’s
His novel Sag Harbor is due out this year. Go back and check out The Intuitionist and John Henry Days if you haven’t already.
