January 2010
42 posts
Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.
– Zora Neale Hurston
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
M.I.A./Diplo (47)
Popol Vuh (34)
Joy Division (27)
The Knife (22)
Sufjan Stevens (21)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watch to the ennnnnnnnd.
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
– General George S. Patton
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Angels of Light (30)
Deaf Center (30)
Depeche Mode (26)
M.I.A. (23)
Siouxsie & The Banshees (21)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with...
– Tom Waits (in an interview with… himself)
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
– Mark Twain
telling The World
Awwww! Speak of Teh Debbil…
amandapalmer:
dear The World, we are going to get married. love, amanda palmer and neil gaiman cross-posted to neil’s blog
Congrats, you two.
Tremble: your whole life is a rehearsal for the moment you are in now.
– Judith Malina
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
M.I.A./Diplo (69)
Pyramids with Nadja (15)
Iron & Wine (10)
Grouper (9)
Oingo Boingo (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Mer's Top 20 Albums of the 00s (and then some)
An unexpectedly painful —but necessary— exercise.
Read them here.
Diary entry. Winter, 2005.
A dream:
I’m in my big fluffy monster slippers, shuffling into a forest clearing. It’s freezing. I can see every star in the sky, my breath in a cloud in front of my face. I shove my hands deep into the pockets of my terrycloth robe. The pockets are full of teeth. I take one out and examine it. Its roots are squirming, it pinches my palm and I yelp and let it drop to the ground. My...
A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely...
– Charles Horton Cooley
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...
– Bertrand Russell
We spent the 00s tolerating the dumbest and meanest amongst us. Let’s...
– Siege