bodies of water

September 30, 2016

"But lately I can't help but think that it isn't enough. A room, no matter how large, will never be big enough. A flat, a house, even a mansion like Wakewater, why, still not enough. We - us women - need something more. We need a larger space. A river, a sea, an ocean. To counter all those years, those centuries, of being so confined. Of being sealed in and locked away."


Bodies of Water
(Page 127)

Rating: 3/5

the weeknd feat. daft punk - starboy

bon iver // 22, a million

LP + 12" + cd
Because i'm the worst.

triathlon - get back

September 29, 2016

ichabod

Completely in love with this happy puppy.
And increasingly furious knowing what i know about season 3.
Not cool, Sleepy Hollow writers.
Not cool at all.

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nobody cares

Offensive sweatshirts could be my new favourite thing.

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c418 - strange gambino

September 28, 2016



It's killing me that this isn't downloadable.

cyberbully mom club - burns so bright (demo)

September 27, 2016

prusakov vitaliy

Post office (color)

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molly drag

A successful day at Bandcamp.
Molly Drag forever.

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molly drag - everyone i love is dead (fog lake remix)

lying cat

September 26, 2016

It hurts my heart that this isn't available in the uk/doesn't ship to the uk.

Fuckers.

boy, snow, bird

'Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believe them to be trustworthy. I'd hide myself away inside them, setting two mirrors up to face each other so that when I stood between them I was infinitely reflected in either direction. Many, many me's. When I stood on tiptoe, we all stood on tiptoe, trying to see the first of us, and the last. The effect was dizzying, a vast pulse, not quite alive, more like the working of an automaton. I felt the reflection at my shoulder like a touch. I was on the most familiar terms with her, same as any other junior dope too lonely to be selective about the company she keeps.'


Boy, Snow, Bird
(Page 3)


Rating: 3/5

college - héritage

September 25, 2016

tom mcrae - the boy with the bubblegun


It's been a while.

kim cogan


nils ericson

September 24, 2016

iowa

kate kato




kings of leon - walls


I'm not sure it'll ever matter what he sings.

henry fuseli

September 23, 2016

The Shepherd's Dream

father john misty - real love baby

September 22, 2016

father john misty - bored in the usa


I'd forgotten.

watsky feat. mal devisa - midnight heart

rawr?

September 21, 2016

Three guaranteed ways to make me happy:

1. Books
2. Cereal
3. Socks fit for the queen of six year olds


My sister keeps my love with sock-based bribes.
It's wondrous.

pogo // wonderland

September 20, 2016


Just having a moment with Pogo.

robin cracknell

Songless

i want to believe

September 19, 2016


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chicago

Chicago River
chuddlesworth
Chicago River | Chicago, IL


'Hog Butcher for the World,
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,
Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler;
Stormy, husky, brawling,
City of the Big Shoulders:

They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
And they tell me you are crooked and I answer: Yes, it is true I have seen the gunman kill and go free to kill again.
And they tell me you are brutal and my reply is: On the faces of women and children I have seen the marks of wanton hunger.
And having answered so I turn once more to those who sneer at this my city, and I give them back the sneer and say to them:
Come and show me another city with lifted head singing so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.
Flinging magnetic curses amid the toil of piling job on job, here is a tall bold slugger set vivid against the little soft cities;
Fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action, cunning as a savage pitted against the wilderness,
Bareheaded,
Shoveling,
Wrecking,
Planning,
Building, breaking, rebuilding,
Under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth,
Under the terrible burden of destiny laughing as a young man laughs,
Laughing even as an ignorant fighter laughs who has never lost a battle,
Bragging and laughing that under his wrist is the pulse, and under his ribs the heart of the people,
Laughing!
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.'


Chicago

fink - looking too closely

august to september

September 18, 2016

'In his early writings, Thoreau called the alphabet the saddest song. Later in life he would renounce this position and say it produced only dissonant music.
Letters, Montaigne said, are a necessary evil.
But are they? asked Blake, years later. I shall write of the world without them.
I would grow mold on the language, said Pasteur. Except nothing can grow on that cold, dead surface.
Of words Teresa of Avila said, I did not live to erase them all.
They make me sick, said Luther. Yours and yours and yours. Even sometimes my own.
If it can be said, then I am not interested, wrote Schopenhauer.
When told to explain himself, a criminal in Arthur's court simply pointed at the large embroidered alphabet that hung above the king.
Poets need a new instrument, said Shelley.
If I could take something from the world, said Nietzsche, and take with it even the memory of that thing, so that the world might carry on ever forward with not even the possibility that thing could exist again, it would be the language that sits rotting inside my mouth.
I am a writer, said Picasso. I make my own letters.
Shall I destroy this now, or shall I wait for you to leave the room, said his patron to Kadmos, the reputed inventor of the alphabet.
Kadmos is a fraud, said Wheaton. Said Nestor. Said William James.
Do not read this, warned Plutarch.
Do not read this, warned Cicero.
Do not read this, begged Ovid.
If you value your life.
Bleed a man, and with that vile release spell out his name in the sand, prescribed Hippocrates.
No alphabet but in things, said Williams.
Correction. No alphabet at all.'


The Flame Alphabet
(Page 187-188)

Rating: 1/5

' "I need a horse," said Granny.
"There's old Poorchick's plough horse—" Shawn began.
"Too slow."
"I . . . er . . . I've got a mule," said Oats. "The King was kind enough to let me put it in the stables."
"Neither one thing nor t'other, eh?" said Granny. "It suits you. That'll do for me, then. Fetch it up here and I'll be off to get the girls back."
"What? I thought you wanted it to take you up to your cottage! Into Uberwald? Alone? I couldn't let you do that!"
"I ain't asking you to let me do anything. Now off you go and fetch it, otherwise Om will be angry, I expect."
"But you can hardly stand up!"
"Certainly I can! Off you go."
Oats turned to the assembled Lancrastians for support.
"You wouldn't let a poor old lady go off to confront monsters on a wild night like this, would you?
They watched him owlishly for a while just in case something interestingly nasty was going to happen to him.
Then someone near the back said, "So why should we care what happens to monsters?"
And Shawn ogg said, "That's Granny Weatherwax, that is."
"But she's an old lady!" Oats insisted.
The crowd took a few steps back. Oats was clearly a dangerous man to be around.
"Would you go out alone on a night like this?" he said.
The voice at the back said, "Depends if I knew where Granny Weatherwax was."
"Don't think I didn't hear that, Bestiality Carter," said Granny, but there was just a hint of satisfaction in her voice.'


Carpe Jugulum
(Page 199-200)

Rating: 4/5

Bonus quote because, Hannibal:

"Don't trust the cannibal just 'cos he's usin' a knife and fork!"
- (Page 271)

'There was no sign, sound or smell of the Greme.
Philip settled himself in front of his screen and plunged eagerly into Part the Second.
The switch of narrator, the change of voice which, during transcription, had briefly startled him out of his enchantment, now astonished him utterly.
Who in God's name was this omniscient narrator out of nowhere? Why this totally unheralded side-step into the Third Person? What the hell was Pocket up to? His eyes jittered down a page of text. Then he stopped himself, scrolled back up and began again.
Bemused though he was, he had to concede that this new voice was extremely beguiling. Magisterial, yet without the slightest taint of pomposity. Literary but also intimate, conversational. Mellow with dark undertones. Complex yet unstrained, like Henry James cured of costiveness. Avuncular. Strangely familiar. Very, very good.
Better, Philip acknowledged bitterly, than anything he had ever written. Better than anything he would or could ever write. A first-time novelist ‑ and a bloody gnome, into the bargain ‑ had achieved a feat of literary ventriloquism way beyond the reach of his own striving.
The little shit.'


The Murdstone Trilogy
(Page 194-195)

Rating: 3/5

'When God had made The Man, he made him out of stuff that sun all the time and glittered all over. Then after than some angels got jealous and chopped him into millions of pieces, but still he glittered and hummed. So they beat him down to nothing but sparks but each little spark had a shine and a song. So they covered each on over with mud. And the lonesomeness in the sparks make them hunt for one another, but the mud is dead and dumb. Like all the other tumbling mud-balls, Janie had tried to show her shine.'


They Eyes Were Watching God
(Page 138-139)

Rating: 3/5

'There were holes under her armpits to sew for school.
The cotton blouse in his hands looked slippier to get to grips with than the squirrel he was fixing on the bench. Clary saw him measure every squirrely inch. Her spine tingled, afraid, as the squirrel got lost, then became itself again. Cale stitched her blouse to the leg of his jeans and said fuck ‑ "Sorry pumpkin, not a word you should use. Ok?" he said. The girl nodded. She has always understood some words are wood wool, stuffed into gaps to fill holes, and others are flesh, stomachs and hearts. They must be removed.'


Don't Try This at Home
(Page 121)

Rating: 2/5

Initially i thought i loathed this collection of short stories but three days after finishing it, it's still on my mind.
Perhaps a case of the parts being more than the whole.

georgi kay - jóga (björk cover)



Re-watching Top of the Lake and i'd forgotten how killer this cover this.

laurence philomene

September 17, 2016

lavender study
cheyenne as me
pink study
St-Romain

kishi bashi - statues in a gallery

fortunately, the milk...


Gaiman, Riddell, aliens, dinosaurs, vampires, flower-potted dwarves and piranhas?
Oh, hi there perfect kid's book.
Let's treasure you forever, okay?
The vampires were of course my favourite part.

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