September 2009
4 posts
“All that remains from the work of Skopas
are the feet. Sometimes not even that....”
– Theoretical Lives, Jack Gilbert
August 2009
97 posts
“It’s only after you’ve lost everything, that you’re free to do...”
– Fight Club
“I say, I see all these people I used to know and they all still have the same...”
– Katy Papertalk
“You Know
You Know Where You Are With
You Know Where You Are With
Floor...”
– Let Down
“I swear that I hate Pete just a little more each episode. I am convinced...”
– commenter @ Jezebel
“Before shooting began on the second season, during which Betty would finally...”
– Vanity Fair
“It’s that problem – the way that the characters of Mad Men are torn...”
– Mad Men’s feminine mystique
“The rape was a shocker—but the audience reactions were perhaps more disturbing....”
– Dangerous Curves
Me: I think the whole thing with David Cameron's son really humanised him to a lot of people. I worry it's going to tip the scales toward the Tories at the next general election for really irrelevant reasons.
Fliss: I don't know though, there was the whole thing with Sarah having the miscarriage. That didn't really seem to change anything for Gordon Brown.
Me: I think Gordon Brown's a little *too* human.
“They say, to make you feel better, that when one door closes, another opens. I...”
– Olive
“I have no other but a woman’s reason -
I think him so because I think him...”
– Lucetta
The Green Ink Brigade →
Don’t ask me why these people choose green ink. They just do.
“A woman who is fond of conversation; the wife of one who is shorter than...”
– The Ananga Ranga, on the types of women most easily seduced. (via nightmarebrunette)
Troilus and Cressida, 5.2
Cressida: (Unaware of having T.'s audience.) Troilus, farewell! One eye yet looks on thee, / But with my heart the other eye doth see. / Ah, poor our sex! This fault in us I find, / The error of our eye directs our mind; / What error leads must err - O, then conclude / Minds swayed by eyes are full of turpitude. (Exit.)
Troilus: A proof of strength she could not publish more, / Unless she said 'My mind is now turned whore'.
“The LI was the first breakaway faction from Isidore Isou’s Letterists. The...”
– Wikipedia
Everclear, Local God
“Between the rue du...
“Cicero’s tongue will be cut out, Copernicus’s eyes will be gouged...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Devils
“The official base of the [Letterist International] was at 32, Rue de la...”
– Wikipedia
“The Letterist International (LI) was a Paris-based collective of radical artists...”
– Letterist International
Troilus and Cressida, 4.5
Hector: Is this Achilles?
Achilles: I am Achilles.
Hector: Stand fair, I pray thee; let me look on thee.
Achilles: Behold thy fill.
Hector: Nay, I have done already.
Achilles: Thou art too brief. I will the second time / As I would buy thee, view thee limb by limb.
Hector: O, like a book of sport thou'll read me o'er; / But there's more in me than thou understand'st. / Why dost thou so oppress me with thine eye?
Achilles: Tell me, you heavens, in which part of his body / Shall I destroy him? - whether there, or there, or there? - / That I may give the local wound a name, / And make distinct the very breach whereout / Hector's great spirit flew. Answer me, heavens!
Hector: It would discredit the blest gods, proud man, / To answer such a question. Stand again: / Think'st thou to catch my life so pleasantly / As to prenominate in nice conjecture / Where thou wilt hit me dead?
Achilles: I tell thee yea.
Hector: Wert thou an oracle to tell me so, / I'd not believe thee. Henceforth guard thee well; / For I'll not kill thee there, nor there, nor there; / But, by the forge that stithied Mars his helm, / I'll kill thee everywhere, yea o'er and o'er.
“I have nothing but respect for Michael but someone needs to pick up where he...”
– Kanye West
(via heapsgood)
I trufax fucking love Kanye West and his rigoddamndiculous ego.
nightmarebrunette:
I think I am still as clueless as I was in high school. If the frontman in a band tells you the back of your jaw is sexy and asks where you got such “beautiful ivory skin” and where you got your dress, and your boots, and sits with you for hours and tells you where the band is staying but then just says “it was a pleasure meeting you” at the end of the night, is this your cue...
mamihlapinatapai
nightmarebrunette:
noun • a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.
The word is from the Yaghan language.
Oui, c’est moi.
“One of the initial students to stay in the numbing room told the debriefing...”
– Holiday from Everything
“The Enhanced Edition does some of the things we’re now accustomed to...”
– The Guardian
“Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all...”
– Joseph Campbell