“The most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it’s you and that you’re standing in the doorway.”
—The Mountain Goats, “Going to Georgia”
February 2010
High & Dry
Radiohead
Two jumps in a week
I bet you think that’s pretty clever, don’t you boy?
Little known fact: In 1997, Thom Yorke, Elliott Smith, and Conor Oberst signed an historical accord to make our formative high school years depressing as hell.
indierawk:-Anatomy of a Hipster #57.
can’t. fucking. breathe.
“Things aren’t so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable. They happen in a space that no word has ever entered.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
“When there’s so much beauty in the world sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid life.”
—American Beauty (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“Wait, Katie! When we first started hanging out together this morning, we were just friends, but things change, and I’ve fallen in love with you. And, I ju-I just know that if you gave me a chance, I could make you feel so good. So, I’m coming to you, not as your buddy, and not as a co-counselor, but for the first time as a man, a man who loves a woman, and who wants to hold her and provide for her, and yes-have sex with her, but no seriously Katie, I-I love the way you laugh and I love the way your hair smells and I-I love it that sometimes for no reason you’re late for shul, and I don’t care that you’re bowlegged and I don’t care that you’re bilingual, all I know is that I would have said no to every single person on your list because I’ve always wanted you.”
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Skeletons (Acoustic)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Yeah Yeah Yeahs: “Skeletons” (acoustic)
Fall asleep, spin in the sky, skeleton me, love, don’t cry.
“Sitting beside the young woman, who looked so beautiful in the dawn, appeased and enchanted by the view of this magical decor — sea, mountains, clouds, the open sky — Gurov reflected that, essentially, if you thought about it, everything was beautiful in this world, everything except for what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher goals of our being and our human dignity.”
—Anton Chekhov, “The Lady With the Dog”
“It is impossible to sufficiently articulate an inarticulate process, a very wordless time. I did not learn to live by words, so I have found myself with few words to describe what happened. I’ve felt rather like I was dubbing in voiced and adding Technicolor to a black-and-white silent film. This history is revisionist in that same way: I have added words, color, and chronology to a time of my life that appears to me a pile of random frames scattered over the floor of my brain. I am sometimes startled, now, when I stand up and turn to the door to catch myself in the mirror. I’m often surprised that I exist, that my body is a corporeal body, that my face is a face, and that my name has a correlation to a person I can identify as myself. But, I suppose it’s not so strange to create a collage of memory—clippings that substitute for a linear, logical narrative. I did a very similar thing with myself.”
~ Marya Hornbacher.
“Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
“When you read the [Twilight series], it’s like saying ‘Edward Cullen is so beautiful I creamed myself’. I mean every line is like that. He’s the most ridiculous person who’s so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn’t do it. And the more I read the script, the more I hated this guy, so that’s how I played him, as a manic-depressive who hates himself. Plus, he’s a 108 year-old virgin, so there’s clearly some issues there.”
—Robert Pattinson
“How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples - those myths about dragons that at the last moment turn into princesses. Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses, only waiting to see us, once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible in our lives is, in its deepest being, something helpless, that wants help from us.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Girl Inform Me (Live)
James Mercer
James Mercer of the Shins, “Girl Inform Me” (live)
Unknown quotients, you must be using potions — how else would you tie my head to the sky?
Just joined a group on Facebook called “Vegetarians and Vegans Who Hate PETA”.
PETA = absurdly misogynistic and racist. And ineffective to boot.
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Half the people can be part right all of the time, and
Some of the people can be all right part of the time,
But all the people can’t be all right all of the time.
I think Abraham Lincoln said that.
I’ll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours!
I said that.
” —Bob Dylan
“I was walking by a dry cleaner at 3 a.m., and it said “Sorry, we’re closed.” You don’t have to be sorry. It’s 3 a.m., and you’re a dry cleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I’m not gonna walk by at ten a.m. and say, “Hey, I walked by at three, you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology. This jacket would be halfway done!”
—Mitch Hedberg
