December 2009
33 posts
“Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde (via chickenshit) (via quote-book)
WatchYouth In Revolt red band trailer. It’s good to see Michael Cera finally give George Michael a break.
“A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging...”
– William James
Nestle Crunch Hotline
Call the Nestle Crunch Hotline at 1-800-295-0051. When you are asked if you want to continue in English or Spanish, just wait quietly for about 10 seconds and you will smile. Promise! Keep going and press 4. Listen to the options…then press 7. If you comment on this after listening, don’t give away the surprise! Also, this isn’t some trick to get you to call a phone sex line or...
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding...”
– Carl Jung (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– Robert Frost (via simtan) (via quote-book)
The Beatles - "Strawberry Fields Forever" →
“When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person,...”
– Albert Camus
listening to "Neil Young - Southern Man" →
Neil Young - "Don't Let It Bring You Down" →
WatchBeck’s Record Club covering Leonard Cohen’s “One of Us Can’t Be Wrong”
A line in the sand...
I can not, in good conscience, support “health care reform” or any other of this bullshit we’re being fed any more. I will not pay an individual mandate. I will not see W.V. destroyed for cheap, unsustainable energy. I will not further allow those who “take” their living to use the euphemism, “I’ve earned it.”
I’ve been duped…and...
“Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (via nowheretohide)
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"The Nymph's Reply To The Shepherd" by Sir Walter...
If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd’s tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. Time drives the flocks from field to fold When rivers rage and rocks grow cold, And Philomel becometh dumb; The rest complains of cares to come. The flowers do fade, and wanton fields To wayward winter reckoning yields; A honey tongue, a heart of...
“Ash: “I’m not different, am I?”
Mrs. Fox: “We all are,...”
– from the film “Fantastic Mr. Fox”
listening to "Toro Y Moi - Blessa" →
“No one could risk more than his life. Each according to his strength and...”
– Hans Fallada (from Every Man Dies Alone)
“The greatest Americans
have not been born yet.
They are waiting patiently...”
– Saul Williams
“Nothing is worth more than this day.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via calidre) (via quote-book)
No Age - "Things I Did When I Was Dead" →
The Wombats - "Let's Dance to Joy Division" →
listening to Grizzly Bear (With Victoria Legrand)... →