May 2012
3 posts
Quote on Media →
The futility of everything that comes to us from the media is the inescapable consequence of the absolute inability of that particular stage to remain silent. Music, commercial breaks, news flashes, adverts, news broadcasts, movies, presenters—there is no alternative but to fill the screen; otherwise there would be an irremediable void…. That’s why the slightest technical hitch,...
Quote of the Day →
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched.
Albert Camus
March 2012
2 posts
How Many Winters?
tylerknott:
How appropriate, I thought to myself, that our ancestors measured life and measured age and the passing of time in the number of winters that had been endured. Only through the frost and the freeze can we truly fall in love with the warmth. -Tyler Knott Gregson-
January 2012
1 post
Aleister Crowley, from "Pentecost" in The Sword of...
I find some folks think me (for one) So great a fool that I disclaim Indeed Jehovah’s hate for shame That man to-day should not be weaned Of worshipping so foul a fiend In presence of the living Sun, And yet replace him oiled and clean By the Egyptian Pantheon, The same thing by another name. Thus when of late Egyptian Gods Evoked ecstatic periods In verse of mine, you thought...
December 2011
6 posts
November 2011
16 posts
All the Way Down - Part 1 ~ Biffy Clyro (*My 2011...
Watchnedhepburn:
emmaiocovozzi:
FOK JULLE NAAIERS- Die Antwoord
This is fucking brilliant, but not for the faint of heart.
Conversation ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox →
God and I in space alone … and nobody else in view … “And where are all the people, Oh Lord” I said, “the earth below and the sky overhead and the dead that I once knew?” “That was a dream,” God smiled and said: “The dream that seemed to be true; there were no people living or dead; there was no earth, and no sky overhead, there was only...
October 2011
8 posts
WatchBlind - Chapel Club
Quotes from "Dread"
Stephen Grace: It’s good. Quaid: The painting? It’s a hobby. Stephen Grace: You have any others? Quaid: No. I trash them when I’m done. I can’t stand all these eyes staring at me.
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Quaid: My life is a labyrinth. A map of its complexities is etched on my face in a thousand tiny expressions.
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Joshua Shaw: Gentle Jesus, meek and mild. Look upon...
September 2011
4 posts
August 2011
2 posts
July 2011
19 posts
Warning - When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear...
When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple with a red hat that doesn’t go, and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves and satin candles, and say we’ve no money for butter. I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired and gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells and run my stick along the public railings and...
