February 2010
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January 2010
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“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in...”
– David Foster Wallace, in his essay entitled, “Up, Simba”. (via davidfosterwallace)
“A novel is a mirror walking down a road. She had read that in one of the books...”
– The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje.
This novel was poetry stretched out into prose.
perendinate
wordjournal:
verb • /puh-REN-di-nayt/ • to put off something until the day after tomorrow
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Philip Glass' Discography
bearsohmy:
johnsinger:
1000 Airplanes on the Roof 600 Lines / How Now Stradivarius Aguas da Amazonia Akhnaten Alter Ego performs Philip Glass The American Sound The American Virtuoso Analog Anima Mundi Animals in Love Another Look at Harmony - Part IV La Belle et la Bête Book of Longing Brant, Scelsi, Wolpe, Xenakis, Cage, Glass, Feldman A Brighton Serenade The Music of Candyman Cassandra’s...
“… I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair,...”
– “A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again” by David Foster Wallace.
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delawareareyou:
david byrne & dirty...
US Amendment Processes
An amendment may be proposed with two-thirds of the majority vote in the House and Senate (aka Congress). All twenty-seven amendments have been proposed via this method.
The unused method is a constitutional convention, which, if called by two-thirds of the states’ legislatures, would open up all amendments for (re)consideration. Most congress members are skeptical of this method and it...
In a Station of the Metro
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
— Ezra Pound
I want to know
I want I want ridiculous to know to know WHAT rotting
ginsberg
I want to know what happens after I rot
because I’m already rotting
my hair’s falling out I’ve got a belly I’m sick of sex
my ass drags in the universe I know too much
and not enough
high school i keep trying to see your point, but learning is inevitable, and no lesson plan or lecture taught me this.
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