January 2012
38 posts
after being asked why i don't focus on the more...
the reason not to focus on the positive efforts of society that aim to bring about a more environmentally healthful, peaceful, and equal world is because of the pervasiveness of destructive crimes against the natural world and all of those creatures (including ourselves) within it. i do not think it is time yet for us to pat ourselves on the back. so what that we recycle, compost, and drive a...
“I’m still thinking of the most peaceful way to drift away.”
– Florence Johnson
“Are you aware of how certain you will fail if you try and compete with nature?”
– Iris Haussler.
“I figure since I only have one fucking body- I should just destroy it.”
– Andrea Degeus (on her desire to be covered in tattoos).
born to die by lana del rey.
come and take a walk...
“The days were quiet. They did not feel particularly quiet or happy but through...”
– John McGahern from That They May Face the Rising Sun (via gravellyrun)
nothing about life is righteous,
if there is anything to aspire to in this life, let it be this: to make the faithful faithless, the holy unholy, and the innocent disillusioned with all of the world.
better a devil you know than a devil you don’t.
damien hirst and lady gaga: evil masterminds or...
damien hirst is like the lady gaga of the contemporary art industry. he is shocking, transgresses tradition art practices, reinvents himself every few years, makes elusive and grandiose statements as to what his art is actually about, he refers to god a lot, is mega loaded, obviously has a be-dazzler, relentlessly considers himself an artist devoted to his art, and is adored by many and loathed by...
“Mature artists do things, create works, and then figure out what they are...”
– John Ford (on advising the “young” artist).
who is to say this is the only way? you can stop thinking when you’re dead.
“My works are like little puzzles, interesting little games. I play a game with...”
– Carl Beam (Canadian Ojibwe contemporary artist, activist and environmentalist).
will you follow me around for your whole life?
i was thinking maybe we should move to new mexico, what better place to be but where the mountains meet the desert?
contemporary sylvia,
n: if we were born 100 years ago, our names would be the author citation of so many quotes. we are simply too late. you know when you find yourself thinking a quote, then you see it written by someone else? frick i would out-did sylvia plath, i can think like she writes all day!
“Vegetarians and corpse eaters approach the same phenomenon- the consumption of...”
– An excerpt from Neither Man nor Beast: Feminism and the Defense of Animals by Carol J. Adams.
“I could tell you now that I’m a vegetarian, but let’s just leave it at that. I won’t go into the reasons. If you don’t understand them, there’s not much I can say; and...
to bloom, to decay (the reasons for the whys),
i am getting a tattoo, and this is mostly an argument to convince my mother that it is not 1. stupid, 2. meaningless, 3. regrettable.
there are a few things that tattoos represent: they represent a moment in time, a period in your life when you deemed this particular thing important to you enough to have it permanently embedded in your skin. they then represent the thing in which you are getting...
you don't have to fully understand someone in...
new and better friends (needed),
c: i was just invited out to dinner with the girls from my program..
e: oh that is nice, included in the babysitters club once again…
c: but it was a crappy invite.
e: that isn’t crappy, you are just being critical because she didn’t say, “in honour of your existence, brilliance, charm, beauty, and amazing friendship abilities i would like for you to join us this...
my wit is sharp tonight, i'll protect you,
c: i am scared to go outside what with the stabber abound…
e: we haven’t any time for cry babies!
c: ow…
moments later…
e: ahhhh!!!
c: what?! oh my god!
e: i thought that crack was a step, and i thought instead of walking i was falling…
c: you scared the crap out of me!
“Eventually something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall...”
– Richard Siken
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we...”
– Anais Nin (via reluctantbuddha)
sort of like being reminded of things you already know but you need to hear every once and a while in order to have them fresh in your memory again.
and at once i knew, i was not magnificent,
December 2011
46 posts
“Without music life would be a mistake”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via talkativolive)
the most fucked up thing i've read in a while, →
christian re-constructivist, congressman, and lunatic Ron Paul publicly announces and defends his belief that gay sex should result in the death penalty. ironically he thinks the world would function better on biblical law, yet endorses federal constitutional rights such as the right to bear arms. obviously a huge wing-nut, he thinks global warming is a hoax, that human life begins at conception,...
i relish in these moments of domesticity,
c and i decide to install the fire alarm i got her for christmas. sure laugh, but it is a romantic gift that screams, “i don’t want you to die, specifically in a fire!” but before we begin drilling holes into the ceiling, we smoke a smidgen of pot via some lacross tweezers. while i am holding a kitchen chair and c is squirreling around with some screws, her telephone rings...
eggspectations: the restaurant,
e: what the hell? eggspectations, how cheesy is that? and what is with the jester and the egg?
r: it’s humpty-dumpty.
e: there’s no jester in that, just all the king’s horses and all the king’s men…
r: oh well! adjust your expectations because this place is crap!
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via quote-book)
merry mythology,
christmas is kind of misinforming, as well as most other things in life. t’is the season to be tacky, fuck-la-la-la-la-LA-LA-LA-LA.
offending for the betterment of the household...
m: you know those little porcelain creepy figurines that were in the cabinet?
e: okay…
m: she removed them the very next day, after you commented on how creepy they were.
e: i did?
m: yeah, and i’m glad too, because i couldn’t tell her that.
e: i can’t believe i did that, i don’t even remember what they look like.
m: and then she said that my glass elephant was...
