“ I often joke that my favorite music involves a bearded man singing about his feelings with an acoustic guitar while a woman from Portland plays the cello.
Essay 2.0
You know her life was saved by rock and roll - yes, rock and roll.
Jun 10
Look what came in the mail! You can buy a copy here, or in WHSmith from next week.
sold!
Jun 08
Jun 05
(via Mustachioed Puppy Grew Up To Be Quite The Gentleman)
Franz Nicolay dog, mwahahaha
May 30
“ I know me. Days of vinyl means days where I am not in contact with the outside world. Isolation. Hours vanish. Time gets measured in flipsides or the pages to books read in tandem to the record player. The world in analog and ink is sometimes too close to being a wall I cannot see over.
May 25
“ Mindfulness, in contrast, involves observing without questioning. If the takeaway from research on cognitive biases is not simply that thinking errors exist but the belief that we are immune from them, then the virtue of mindfulness is pausing to observe this convoluted process in a non-evaluative way. We spend a lot of energy protecting our egos instead of considering our faults. Mindfulness may help reverse this.
May 24
May 20
(via Create stuff… today!)
“ No other band has ever accomplished what the Mars Volta did, and it’s unlikely that any other ever will.
Feb 10
“ And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
“ The list is the origin of culture. It’s part of the history of art and literature. What does culture want? To make infinity comprehensible. It also wants to create order — not always, but often. And how, as a human being, does one face infinity? How does one attempt to grasp the incomprehensible? Through lists, through catalogs, through collections in museums and through encyclopedias and dictionaries. There is an allure to enumerating how many women Don Giovanni slept with: It was 2,063, at least according to Mozart’s librettist, Lorenzo da Ponte. We also have completely practical lists — the shopping list, the will, the menu — that are also cultural achievements in their own right.” ~ Umberto Eco
Feb 09
Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg at Grey Gallery: NYC-ARTS | Exhibit (by ThirteenWNET)
The inexpensive little camera caught them celebrating life together—not at the big historic moments like the first reading of Howl but rather casual moments when they were eating, sleeping, traveling, and just plain hanging out. (guernica)
Feb 06
And he’s sleeping next to a girl
who never knew what she wanted.
(Source: gilmorelorelai, via picturethisforever)
The Head and The Heart Sundance Song Debut (by Lostinmymindcom)
