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“Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer,...”
— Dan le Sac VS Scroobius Pip:...

Mar 30th

by Merlin Mann (file under: well-crafted blasphemy)

Mar 30th

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Silver Jews: Slow Education

Mar 30th

“But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the...”
— Samuel Beckett: Watt

Mar 30th

“the only way \ i know how \ to wash dishes \ is by smashing...”
— Pedro Pietri: Telephone booth...

Mar 30th

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Camille Saint-Saëns: The Swan from Carnival Of The Animals (played on the Theremin by Masami...

Mar 29th

Jofre Ferrer: Sola esperant l’hivern

Mar 29th

“l(a le af fa ll s) one l iness”
— e.e. cummings

Mar 29th

in Cassadaga (via parapluie)

Mar 29th

via BibliOdyssey

Mar 29th

“Wherever we turn in the storm of roses, \ the night is lit...”
— Ingeborg Bachmann: In The...

Mar 28th

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e.e. cummings reading his poetry

Mar 28th

“Many of the songs involve desperate characters who’ve...”
— The Mountain Goats, Bio (via...

Mar 28th

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Maps (Director: Patrick Daughters)

Mar 27th

Mar 27th

“But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into...”
— Samuel Beckett: Watt

Mar 27th

“She sits with \ tears on \ her cheek \ her cheek on...”
— William Carlos Williams: Young...

Mar 27th

Robert Doisneau

Mar 26th

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Helpdesk

Mar 26th

“Comedy is a red rubber ball and if you throw it against a...”
— Mel Brooks

Mar 26th

“The easiest thing you can do as an artist is: be angry and...”
— Liam Lynch: Lynchland (Viewer...

Mar 26th

Mauricio Morata: Víctima del plasma

Mar 26th

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Bob Dylan: When The Deals Goes Down (Director: Bennett Miller)

Mar 25th

“Im Kino gewesen. Geweint.”
— Franz Kafka: Tagebuch, 1913

Mar 25th

“I just think of a letter and mark around it.”
— Frederic W. Goudy

Mar 25th

(via postsecret)

Mar 24th

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Shivaree: John, 2/14 (directed by Floria Sigismondi)

Mar 24th

“You can play a shoestring if you’re sincere.”
— John Coltrane

Mar 24th

1962

Mar 24th

“I wish you health and happiness \ but I can’t go on...”
— Theodoros Angelopoulos

Mar 24th

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Bright Eyes: Easy/Lucky/Free (directed by Lauri Faggioni & Lily Thome)

Mar 24th

Frederic W. Goudy: Deepdene, original drawing 1927 (D.J.R....

Mar 24th

Mar 23rd

“If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to...”
— Nick Hornby: High Fidelity

Mar 23rd

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Eleni Mandell: Girls

Mar 23rd

Kalev Kevad: Old and New

Mar 23rd

“Can I have fifty pounds \ To mend the shed? \ I’m...”
— Ewan McTeagle: Can I have...

Mar 22nd

Matt Blakemore: Swan Lake

Mar 22nd

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So long zefrank. Take your time to blink for a while. Come back soon…

Mar 22nd

“im bout to put this thizz in my life…. spark this...”
— urban dictionary: yadadamean

Mar 22nd

from Hannah and Her Sisters (a Theremin kiss)

Mar 21st

“…Jambuwel’s defecalties is Terry...”
— James Joyce: Finnegans Wake,...

Mar 21st

Eclipsed Moon and Stars (© Johannes Schedler; via Astronomy...

Mar 20th

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Claude Debussy: Clair de Lune - Lydia Kavina playing the Theremin (arranged by the Radio Science...

Mar 20th

“[…] I mean the possibility that some of those who were...”
— Samuel Beckett: The Capital of...

Mar 20th

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Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Music For A Found Harmonium

Mar 20th

“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It...”
— Edmund Burke: Reflections on...

Mar 19th

Jacques Tati

Mar 19th

“I am a fuckin’ asshole. But before you judge -...”
— Rob in High Fidelity (from the...

Mar 19th

“thought i could organise freedom \ how Scandinavian of me”
— Björk Guðmundsdóttir: Hunter

Mar 19th

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Van Morrison & Chet Baker: Send In The Clowns (Live at Ronnie Scott’s, June 6th, 1986)

Mar 18th

Louis Armstrong 1960 (K. Burns / G.C. Ward: Jazz)

Mar 18th

“A good woman will pick you apart \ A box full of suggestions...”
— Bright Eyes: Land Locked Blues

Mar 18th

“Alas \ I believe \ I might have become \ a great writer \...”
— Diane DiPalma: Three Laments

Mar 17th

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Fiona Apple: Parting Gift

Mar 17th

Some lesser know mental diseases

SAD - Strange Associativity Disorder PMTDD - Picky Music Taste Diversification Disorder AOP -...

Mar 17th

“We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture,...”
— Michel de Montaigne: Essays

Mar 17th

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Eels: Novocaine for the Soul (Director: Mark Romanek) - file under: resolving dangling references

Mar 16th

fragile red hope by *littlemissfreak

Mar 16th

“No future in this. Alas yes.”
— Samuel Beckett: Worstward Ho

Mar 16th

Gould Hummingbirds (via BibliOdyssey)

Mar 16th

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Eels: Hey Man (Now You’re Really Living)

Mar 15th

“We live on a mountain \ Right at the top \ There’s a...”
— Björk Guðmundsdóttir:...

Mar 15th

peter and the wolf

Mar 15th

D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-L-Y

Mar 15th

“If you don’t have a song \ To sing you’re okay \...”
— Fiona Apple: Waltz (Better...

Mar 15th

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YsabellaBrave: Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (Lorenz Hart / Richard Rodgers, 1940)

Mar 14th

Mar 14th

“The epiphany, of course, was that the right way to comb my...”
— Anil Dash: Hair Theory (via...

Mar 14th

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CocoRosie: Hairnet Paradise (file under: the inner workings of magic)

Mar 13th

Bed Jumping

Mar 13th

The Elk Bath (Bitteroot National Forest, Montana, August 6,...

Mar 13th

“It’s quite a simple thing, you know - turning over a...”
— John Osborne: Look Back in...

Mar 13th

from: Jesper Just: Something to love (2005)

Mar 12th

“Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and...”
— Leonard Koren: Wabi-Sabi: For...

Mar 12th

“You see stars that clear have been dead for years \ But the...”
— Bright Eyes: We are nowhere...

Mar 12th

Cauchemar

Self-portrait, as seen on TV …

Mar 12th

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The Mountain Goats: Woke Up New (directed by Rian Johnson)

Mar 12th

Barbara Fischer: can you hear me now

Mar 12th

“I’d walk away like a movie star \ Who get’s...”
— Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could...

Mar 12th

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YsabellaBrave: Ain’t Nobody’s Business (Porter Grainger / Everett Robbins, 1923)

Mar 10th

The mandatory subway picture; moving on (© belacqua)

Mar 10th

“Find the line, find the shape \ Through the grain \ Find the...”
— Suzanne Vega: Night Vision

Mar 10th

life explained (via tumbleo)

Mar 10th

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Pizzicato Five: Happy Sad (1995) - we miss your style, p5!

Mar 10th

cont’d: Eric Gill: Gill Sans (1927-30)

Mar 9th

“I celebrate myself, and sing myself, \ And what I assume you...”
— Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass

Mar 9th

from: Final Fantasy: This is the Dream of Win and Regine

Mar 9th

“Society didn’t want us? Well, it can rest assured that we...”
— Coluche

Mar 9th

Dark confessions, exhibit A

Quotations? I basically live on quotations!

Mar 8th

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Bob Dylan: Blood in My Eyes

Mar 8th

“It is a flower, stupid, please enjoy it or go away.”
— Ysabellabrave Talks Back

Mar 8th

“The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it...”
— Jean Baudrillard: Simulacra...

Mar 8th

The Art Pill (logo by Ladyfantasy8) - Directions: The...

Mar 7th

“You barely understand yourself. How could you possibly...”

Mar 7th

It landed on the beach (© belacqua)

Mar 7th

“And I don’t know a soul who’s not been battered...”
— Paul Simon: American Tune

Mar 7th

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Bob Dylan: Girl From The North Country (1964)

Mar 6th

Eric Gill: draft for the Gill Sans typeface (L. Blackwell:...

Mar 6th

“Totally sweet: adjective often used in reference to ninjas.”
— Urban Dictionary: totally...

Mar 6th

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Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Air á Danser

Mar 5th

Katsushika Hokusai: Beneath the Great Wave off Kanagawa

Mar 5th

“Some of these bootleggers, they make pretty good stuff. \...”
— Bob Dylan: Sugar Baby

Mar 5th

“Uns überfüllts. Wir ordnens. Es zerfällt. \ Wir ordnens...”
— Rainer Maria Rilke: 8....

Mar 5th

Scary stairs (© belacqua)

Mar 5th

Sketchy thought #47: The lady in western...

Imagine one, tender and precious. Imagine her strong and deep, honest and frail. And a world full of...

Mar 5th

“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; \ petals on a...”
— Ezra Pound: In a Station of...

Mar 5th

Now, what? (Photo: Frank Martin Dietrich / Photocase)

Mar 4th

“We are not concerned with the very poor. They are...”
— E.M. Forster: Howards End

Mar 4th

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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy: No More Workhorse Blues

Mar 4th

Tom Phillips: Samuel Beckett (National Portrait Gallery,...

Mar 3rd

“We tried to find some words \ To aid in the decay \ But none...”
— Regina Spektor: On The Radio

Mar 3rd

“All men are equal - all men, that is to say, who possess...”
— E.M. Forster: Howards End

Mar 3rd

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Particularly fascinating… (via Owl-stretchting time)

Mar 3rd

“Policemen make wonderful friends!”
— Monty Python

Mar 3rd

“I got a right to sing the blues \ I got a right to feel low...”
— Harold Arlen / Ted Koehler: I...

Mar 3rd

Mar 3rd

“Esse est percipii”
— George Berkeley

Mar 2nd

Mar 2nd

“I have measured out my life with coffee spoons”
— T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of...

Mar 2nd

Run for cover, man! Run!

Mar 2nd

“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.”
— Batty in Blade Runner

Mar 1st

“Well you’ve got me searching for \ Searching for, the...”
— Van Morrison: Philosophers...

Mar 1st

Mar 1st

“Sometimes I worry that I’ve lost the plot \ My...”
— Bright Eyes: Easy / Lucky /...

Mar 1st

“Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar.”
— Ingeborg Bachmann

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