April 2009
76 posts
Self-Portrait At 28 by David Berman
I know it’s a bad title but I’m giving it to myself as a gift on a day nearly canceled by sunlight when the entire hill is approaching the ideal of Virginia brochured with goldenrod and loblolly and I think “at least I have not woken up with a bloody knife in my hand” by then having absently wandered one hundred yards from the house while still seated in this chair with my...
silkworm: miracle mile
“Wow, such hatred. No, Kevin Garnett isn’t the worst person in the world. In...”
– Worst Person In The World: Kevin Garnett, NBC Chicago
Second comment on my Garnett thing from this morning. My favorite type of Internet sports commenters — except for the really, really racist ones — are those who take the no-doubt-longer-than-most-humans-because-typing-with-two-fingers-is-hard...
“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical,...”
– Alan Moore (via affremblequotes) (via onefootinthegrave)
carrieabigstick:
too many birds- bill callahan
...
i actually think it is...
Swine Flu is God's way of punishing the Internet...
(via alexblagg)
bmichael: Pavement - Frontwards (Live)
FYI
fusioned:
You think you are the hottest shit to ever walk into New York but you’re really just a fucking bitch.
dood…calm down. take a walk around the block. i think when you get back home you will realize that “bitch” is a little bit harsh and that michael orell really is just a brat.
A Single Autumn, by W.S. Merwin
hellofriend:
I’m casually going through some of W.S. Merwin’s recent poetry, thanks both to his recent Pulizer Prize and to his appearance on NPR this week. Anyway, here’s one. It’ll smack you in the chest.
The year my parents died one that summer one that fall three months and three days apart I moved into the house where they had lived their last years it had never been theirs and was still...
sexypants:The Flaming Lips - Fight Test
bmichael:the Shivers - Chelsea Hotel #2 Cf.,...
Life Story: Tennessee Williams
After you’ve been to bed together for the first time, without the advantage or disadvantage of any prior acquaintance, the other party very often says to you, Tell me about yourself, I want to know all about you, what’s your story? And you think maybe they really and truly do sincerely want to know your life story, and so you light up a cigarette and begin to tell it to them, the...
guy in front of me in traffice with 'johngalt'...
eammonbrennan’s twitter
so apparently the anecdote about guernica goes a... →
DURING World War II Picasso suffered some harassment from the Gestapo in Nazi-occupied Paris. An inquisitive German officer, coming into his apartment, noticed a photograph of Guernica lying on a table. “Did you do that?” he asked Picasso. “No, you did,” said Picasso (cough) (cough) ‘and …well…those bible guys’ (cough cough).
(via hydeordie)
To This May
by W. S. Merwin
They know so much more now about the heart we are told but the world still seems to come one at a time one day one year one season and here it is spring once more with its birds nesting in the holes in the walls its morning finding the first time its light pretending not to move always beginning as it goes
kayfabe:folkinz:tom petty & the heartbreakers...
Characters from Hamlet Comment on the Fish odor... →
Hamlet
“A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. Then he can apparently just bring that fish to work and make us all smell it by remicrowaving it, for chrissakes. I wish we were all dead.”
axelrod:clapclapclap:Destroyer - It’s Gonna Take...
There is no such thing as silence. Something is always happening that makes a sound.
John Cage
yes you who must leave everything that you cannot...
leonard cohen
TONIGHT! WALL STREET THE MUSICAL!
fusioned:
STARRING VINCENT VENEZIANI AS THE DRUG-RIDDLED BROKER
(Enter Stage Center into a bright, 30th floor office)
BROKER: HELLO!
SECRETARY: Hi there. Can I help you?
BROKER: Yes, you see…
BROKER: I’VE GOT DRUGS IN MY SYSTEM
AND I’M ALL OUT OF GAS
THIS COCAINE IN MY BLOOD
HAS BEEN KICKING MY ASS
I JUST CRASHED MY PORSCHE
AND MY FAMILY IS DEAD
PASS MY SOME QUAALUDES,
GET THIS OUT...
george best was the best british footballer of all time. a self-destructive, alcoholic genius, he came to prominence during th epop cultural revolution of the 60s and was frequently referred to as the “fifth beatle” like umpteen other people at the time—there were so many fifth beatles that, had they all been allowed on stage, they’d have made earth, wind, & fire look...
my life is a series of embarrassing incidents...
russell brand
tuneage:Ezra Furman and the Harpoons - “We Should...
“I’m an unreliable witness of my own existence.”
– Russell Brand on Fresh Air (via yourmonkeycalled)
soupsoup:kaytee:This Will Be Our Year : The...
Pastor of Muppets --that's my new dj moniker.
nedhepburn’s twitter
dead milkmen: dean’s dream
"The secret to happiness is drinking constantly....
doug
tightgrip:Nada Surf - See These Bones
krisnair: My Rights Versus Yours - New...
"Seriously, why is France so special? Why don't...
ECON lays down his disgust of pretention
