June 2012
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monsterpussy replied to your photoset: Hands up: who else found that MTV promo gif in the…
No! That show is the best! I’m so excited!
*googles* …oh, okay, I get it. Awkward sounds like something I’d enjoy, TBH.
Still an annoying way to plug the show, though.
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“They tried, in this way and that, to make signals of confidence in each other...”
– The Charioteer, Mary Renault (via apiphile)
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“The trailer is introduced on the official Lara Croft Facebook page as showing...”
– How the social web responded to the new Tomb Raider game | The Wall UK
(Full disclosure - a tweet of mine on the subject is quoted in the article, but let’s be honest: this is a trope that needs to laid to rest with extreme prejudice.)
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Leonard Cohen Explains the Broken Heart
kathleenjoy:
When the level of suffering in any individual reaches a certain point and he can’t deal with his own discomfort, then he is going to look for some kind of solution. I don’t think any religious quest is begun with a sense of luxury. I don’t think any serious study is undertaken unless the being is broken with some kind of suffering, either physical or psychic. I don’t think anybody...
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“I think what I find deeply moving about the film, and maybe hopeful is too...”
– Interview: Director Mark Romanek Talks ‘Never Let Me Go’ - News in Film
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How to Kill a Living Thing
somethingchanged:
Neglect it Criticise it to its face Say how it kills the light Traps all the rubbish Bores you with its green
Continually Harden your heart Then Cut it down close To the root as possible
Forget it For a week or a month Return with an axe Split it with one blow Insert a stone
To keep the wound wide open
- Eibhlin Nic Eochaidh.
Sonnet
john-keats:
Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art - Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors - No - yet still stedfast, still...
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Stephen Sondheim on Leonard Bernstein
Terry Gross: Did you learn anything working with Bernstein and watching him work?
Stephen Sondheim: Oh, sure. A great deal. Yes. Mainly I learned something about courage. I learned – Lenny was never afraid to make big mistakes. He was never afraid to fall off the top rung of the ladder and I learned by implication that the worst thing you can do is fall off a low rung. If you're going to make a mistake, make a huge one.
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“To manifest your dreams before you manifest your fears. To navigate beyond the...”
– Saul Williams, ‘raised to be lowered’ (via ninestories) 