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2009

December 6
November 6
October 6
September 17
August 10
July 18
June 31
May 29
April 9
March 17
February 13
January 32

2008

December 12
November 12
October 15
September 28
August 14
July 10
June 12
May 21
April 21
March 6
February 15
January 15

2007

December 6
November 2
October 17
September 14
August 32
July 32
June 50
May 72
April 106
March 126
February 15
January
Warch Watch
The Streets: Blinded by the Lights (directed by Adam Smith)
May 1st
“Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity....”
— Immanuel Kant: What is...
May 1st
Warch Watch
The Streets: Dry Your Eyes (directed by Johan Renck)
May 1st
“Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of...”
— Immanuel Kant: Critique of...
May 1st
Warch Watch
Willie Nelson & Bob Dylan: Pancho and Lefty (file-under: birthdays)
Apr 30th
John Roderick: This is the classic argument that people have about art.
Merlin Mann: If it's classic it's definitely stupid.
John Roderick: People want art to be pure and so they believe that people make art directly from their heart to the brush. Unmotivated by...
Merlin Mann: ...that's like saying strippers like to dance because they like wearing high heels. That's so far off, like, how stuff get's made.
Apr 30th
“floordrobe: A form of storage for clothing which requires no...”
— Urban Dictionary: floordrobe
Apr 30th
Lisa Nolan: time machine
Apr 30th
Warch Watch
of Montreal: Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games (directed by Kangaroo Alliance; Illustrator:...
Apr 30th
“The thing that used to worry him most was the fact that...”
— Douglas Adams: The...
Apr 29th
bricolage 108: Systematic study
Apr 29th
Warch Watch
The Chieftans & Sinead O’Connor: The Foggy Dew
Apr 28th
“On the wild and crazy wings of youth they went flying around...”
— Jackson Browne: Before The...
Apr 28th
Denis Darzacq: La chute
Apr 27th
Warch Watch
Planxty: Cliffs of Dooneen
Apr 27th
“Ours, the scientists keep telling us, is a universe which is...”
— Orson Welles about the...
Apr 27th
Apr 27th
“And after doing everything they do, they get up, they bathe,...”
— Julio Cortazar: A Certain...
Apr 26th
Warch Watch
Stina Nordenstam: Get On With You Life
Apr 26th
Alexandre Duret-Lutz: Eiffel planet
Apr 26th
Warch Watch
Alex Gopher: The Child (Director: Antoine Bardou-Jacquet)
Apr 25th
“I’m nobody! Who are you? \ Are you nobody, too? \ Then...”
— Emily Dickinson: I’m...
Apr 25th
Sergey Tyukanov: The Moon (via BiblioOdyssey)
Apr 25th
“Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me,...”
— Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
Apr 23rd
Warch Watch
R.E.M.: Nightswimming (Director: Jem Cohen; UK Version)
Apr 23rd
“I’m as pale as a ghost \ Holding a blossom on a stem \...”
— Bob Dylan: Spirit On The Water
Apr 23rd
Warch Watch
Belle & Sebastian: Wrapped Up in Books (directed by Blair Young and Stuart Murdoch)
Apr 23rd

How to make a book

Find a strong, healthy tree in the prime of its life and kill it with an unsuspected, painless chop....
Apr 22nd
Shakespeare And Company, Paris
Apr 22nd
Books
Apr 22nd
humble attempt, 100 ft and counting (philosophy: 29 ft;...
Apr 22nd
a private library in Baltimore
Apr 22nd
Stockholm Public Library
Apr 22nd
Anna Amalia Library, Weimar (before the fire)
Apr 22nd
Anna Amalia Library, Weimar (after the fire)
Apr 22nd
Trinity College Library, Dublin
Apr 22nd
“i’m turning out just like my father \ though i swore i...”
— Eels: Things The Grandchildren...
Apr 20th
from Fiona Apple: O’ Sailor (directed by Floria...
Apr 20th
“Don’t take any wooden nickels \ When you sell your...”
— Eels: Wooden Nickels
Apr 20th
“First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first,...”
— Bertrand Russell: In Praise of...
Apr 20th
Warch Watch
Peter And The Wolf: Lightness  (directed by Bill Baird)
Apr 19th
“You told me the rain would be coming down. \ So I stayed...”
— Peter And The Wolf: The Bonsai...
Apr 19th
Edward Hopper: Office in a Small City (1953)
Apr 18th
Jake Davies: An Afternoon Around Sanbe Dam4128
Apr 18th
“You don’t try to photograph the reality, you try to...”
— Stanley Kubrick (according to...
Apr 17th
Warch Watch
Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins: Rise Up With Fists  (directed by Autumn deWilde)
Apr 17th
“History is a little man in a brown suit \ trying to define a...”
— Richard Siken: Little Beast ...
Apr 17th
“I think the picture shows the crude breathing device...
Apr 17th
Warch Watch
Влади́мир Высо́цкий: Купола / Vladimir Vysotsky: The Cupolas (translated lyrics)
Apr 17th
“Wenn alles in Ordnung ist \ und sogar der Satzbau stimmt, \...”
— Karl Krolow: Alles in Ordnung
Apr 17th
by Krzysiek
Apr 17th
“Springtime can kill you if you resist the bloom.”
— Brenda Biundo
Apr 15th
Warch Watch
Bright Eyes: Four Winds (directed by Patrick Daughters)
Apr 15th
“Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
— Oscar Wilde
Apr 15th
Warch Watch
Björk: Bachelorette (directed by Michel Gondry)
Apr 15th
“Unrhymed, unrhythmical, the chatter goes: \ Yet no one hears...”
— W.H. Auden: At the Party
Apr 15th
by simply photo via the paper crane project
Apr 15th
Euler’s formula (Leonhard Euler, born April 15, 1707)
Apr 15th
Warch Watch
Feist: 1 2 3 4 (directed by Patrick Daughters)
Apr 14th
“Spring is like a perhaps hand \ (which comes carefully \ out...”
— e.e. cummings
Apr 13th
Warch Watch
Silver Jews: How Can I Love You (If You Won’t Lie Down)
Apr 13th
Apr 13th
“Being a Humanist means trying to behave decently without...”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Apr 13th
André Kertész 1972
Apr 12th
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:...”
— Kurt Vonnegut
Apr 12th
sweet dreams are made of this…
Apr 12th
Warch Watch
Devendra Banhart: Sight to Behold
Apr 12th
Claude Perrault: ‘Memoire’s for a Natural...
Apr 12th
“If you dissect a bird \ To diagram the tongue \ You’ll...”
— Sylvia Plath: Admonition
Apr 12th
from: The Postal Service: Such Great Heights (Director: Josh...
Apr 11th
Warch Watch
T.S. Eliot reading The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Apr 10th

Something to think about

” ‘Is not a quine’ is not a quine” is a quine
Apr 10th
Liam Lynch Podcast
Apr 10th
Warch Watch
Townes Van Zandt: Pancho & Lefty (1993)
Apr 9th
Mill Lane, 1940s
Apr 9th
“Age by age, \ We rhyme with our seasons’ \ Rehearsed...”
— Gregory And The Hawk: Season...
Apr 9th
Warch Watch
Fiona Apple: Fast As You Can (live at Club Largo)
Apr 9th
Jennifer König: walter wasn’t sure what to do
Apr 8th

A koan

Statler: The question is, what is a manamana?
Waldorf: The question is, who cares?
Apr 8th
dale: i’d be pissed…
Apr 8th
“Life in his mind gave him pleasure, such pleasure that...”
— Samuel Beckett: Murphy
Apr 7th

how angels dance

(from Wim Wenders: Der Himmel über Berlin)
Apr 7th
No one belongs here more than you
Apr 7th
“These musicians not only knew what to play, they knew what...”
— Bob Dylan
Apr 7th
“True thoughts are those alone which do not understand...”
— Theodor W. Adorno
Apr 7th
Warch Watch
CocoRosie & Antony: Beautiful Boyz (Schlachthof Hamburg, 2004)
Apr 7th
neene: brooklyn
Apr 7th
“I can’t make real life \ as good as television. \ One...”
— Jenny Owen Youngs: P.S.
Apr 6th
Warch Watch
Dony Permedi:Kiwi! 
Apr 6th
From Bakelite to Plasma: TV Through the Ages
Apr 6th
spoted by Nicholas Humphrey (via boing boing)
Apr 6th
André Kertész (1926)
Apr 5th
“Last year was a year ago; nothing more. \ We weren’t...”
— Kenneth Patchen: Street Corner...
Apr 5th
Warch Watch
Fiona Apple: Fast As You Can
Apr 4th
“Murphys mind pictured itself as a large hollow sphere,...”
— Samuel Beckett: Murphy
Apr 4th
“Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times...”
— Jean-Luc Godard: Le Petit...
Apr 3rd
(file under: manners)
Apr 3rd
Warch Watch
The Big Lebowski - Essentials
Apr 3rd
“The situation is hopeless, but not serious.”
— Paul Watzlawick
Apr 3rd
Jeremy Cowart: Matt Wertz Car
Apr 3rd
“Was there a time when dancers with their fiddles \ In...”
— Dylan Thomas: Was There A Time
Apr 2nd
Warch Watch
Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen
Apr 2nd
“The kid in the mall works at hawt dawg on a stick \ His hat...”
— Eels: Grace Kelly Blues
Apr 2nd
Warch Watch
Wir sind Helden: Nur ein Wort
Apr 1st
Uli Wiesmeier: Das letzte Edelweiß
Apr 1st
“What can I say? \ It is better to have loved and lost \ Than...”
— Amiri Baraka
Apr 1st
madelaine arnaud: how i got my stutter
Mar 31st
Warch Watch
Weird Al Yankovic: Bob (file under: the man who speaks in palindromes)
Mar 31st
Saturday in the Park with Friends Painting Seurat on the...
Mar 31st
“April is the cruellest month, breeding \ Lilacs out of the...”
— T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land
Mar 31st