January 2012
27 posts
“It is no accident that you are reading this. I am making black marks on white...”
– Duane Michals, 1976
“The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case...”
– Warren Ellis
Really applies to most adaptations. (especially of Alan Moore’s)
“you’ve got to burn
straight up and down
and then maybe sidewise
for a while...”
– Charles Bukowski (from Bone Palace Ballet)
(via Darla Teagarden, with thanks.)
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient...”
– Dr. Seuss
Kate Black's Resolutions
2011 left me figuratively AND literally gutted. Don’t get me wrong— plenty of wonderful and meaningful things for which I am profoundly grateful happened as well. Still, I’m far too wrung out to craft a proper “2011 in review” style post, as many of my brilliant friends have been doing. Instead, I’m gonna repost something Kate Black wrote, and keep her words...
December 2011
21 posts
“And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
LA HAINE It starts as a small little thing, indignation at a trespass, anger, having been wronged. It grows into a flag, parading first down small streets, sweeping up the meanderers, then avenues and winning crowds, cheers along the way. It writes an anthem, builds a campaign. Marching through the mind it settles thoroughly in memory and vein, changing our posture, the way we hold...
What's the name of that Tim Burton movie
milesjai:
The one with Johnny Depp
And Helena Bonham Carter
With the soundtrack by Danny Elfman
“At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither...”
– T.S. Eliot
I'm a Tumblr Hack and I'm Okay.
We’re all steeping in sepia zeitgeist, wandering around this pixelated hall of smoke and mirrors.
Understandably, a lot of us spend a LOT of time worrying too much about whether or not we are, in fact, unlovable, boring, hackneyed, derivative artwankers, cluttering the world with yet more uninspiring and mediocre output.
It’s so easy to develop a Salieri complex.
FWIW, here’s...
“Religious faith didn’t make America strong; genocide made America strong....”
– Justin Left (In response to Rick Perry.)
November 2011
17 posts
