January 2011
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We came here in the winter and it took us days to figure out how to turn the heating on. I pushed my bed against the wall, but always slept on the outside. We danced together in the dark, until I was left dancing alone. When I heard you laugh through the wall, I pushed music deep into my ears and curled up as small as I could. I would lie on the windowsill and watch the sky transition into dawn....
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bubblebathos: Interpol →
(by request) Interpol: going across the Williamsburg or Brooklyn Bridge late at night in a taxi, aviator sunglasses, Vice magazine parties, the old TV ads for Simon Says/Mastermind, getting PBR spilled on you, ambulance sirens, Run Lola Run, letting a girl borrow your leather jacket, getting your…
“The writer’s only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless...”
– William Faulkner (via theparisreview)
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I WILL:
definitely forget how to spell Apollonian and Dionysian in the exam.
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sistersleeptalking:
Come Talk To Me, Bon Iver...
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NIETZSCHE ON MUSIC:
We are to perceive how all that comes into being must be ready for a sorrowful end; we are compelled to look into the terrors of individual existence-yet we are not to become torpid: a metaphysical comfort tears us momentarily from the bustle of the transforming figures. We are really for brief moments Primordial Being itself, and feel its indomitable desire for being and joy in existence; the...
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MUSIC FOR STUDYING
Broken Social Scene
ZAZA
Brian Eno
Miles Davis
Sigur Ros
As you can see, I like instrumental music. Does anyone have any suggestions?
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Since She Left: The heart remains the same →
sincesheleft:
When he couldn’t sleep he watched the street, lit up orange, below. Most of the few people he saw at night were young men slowly staggering home; heads lolled back and arms swinging languidly at their sides, when together, they would stop each other from drunkenly running up the wrong stoop with a simple tug on the arm. When girls appeared, they were often alone. He watched them...
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fictionz:
sarahwrotethat:
Gerry Rafferty,...
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December 2010
23 posts
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Danger stalks me at every turn, intrigue is as... →
Happy New Year!