January 2012
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“If you have read several books by Don DeLillo, sooner or later you will have a...”
– A Different Kind of Delirium by Charles Baxter | The New York Review of Books (via ayjay)
A Slushy in the Face: Why Musical Theater Isn't... →
popculturebrain:
Most Broadway shows are performed in houses that are not rock venues with sound design that is so concerned with making the lyrics audible and the audience comfortable that the actual sound of real rock music is completely washed out and lost. “In the Heights” (2008) got a lot of attention from the musical theater world for being the “first rap musical.” But it didn’t get a lot...
“non sum qualis eram.
[i am not as i was]”
– Mark Z. Danielewski | House of Leaves (via wannabechomsky)
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XXVII. If I should die, And you should live, And time should gurgle on, And morn should beam, And noon should burn, As it has usual done; If birds should build as early, And bees as bustling go, — One might depart at option From enterprise below! ‘T is sweet to know that stocks will stand When we with daisies lie, That commerce will continue, And trades as briskly fly. It makes the...
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XXVI. I lived on dread; to those who know The stimulus there is In danger, other impetus Is numb and vital-less. As ‘t were a spur upon the soul, A fear will urge it where To go without the spectre’s aid Were challenging despair.
Emily Dickinson
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via delicatelybruised)
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“Talent’s just an instrument. It’s like having a pen that works instead of one...”
– David Foster Wallace (via the-apt-also-rises)
“i am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that...”
– infinite jest: david foster wallace (page 61-62). (via withanextrae)
“Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or...”
– Oscar Wilde (via selfinspiration)
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goodnight. tomorrow i'm going to start a blog.
“All right, at the height of lovemaking, you know, the very height, when she’s...”
– David Foster Wallace (via aboulie)
“[David Foster Wallace is] maybe the only notoriously “difficult” writer who...”
– John Jeremiah Sullivan in GQ… thanks Jon Fox, for posting the link to this.
Read More http://www.gq.com/entertainment/books/201105/david-foster-wallace-the-pale-king-john-jeremiah-sullivan#ixzz1kD2Y5FK7
(via googoop)
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fishing for laughs
newbeatnik:
ride the conversation waves answer when asked nod politely laugh when implied shipwrecked on a sea of joke timing tides
fish from the memory banks some amusing anecdote to net attention or drown under the surface of an impolite unrehearsed diatribe that falls flat ellicits no approval gains no purchase
i’ve been caught, hook, line, sinker by such depths before no; best to go...
“As long as I was alive, I was something. That was just how it was. But somewhere...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via avdunstar)
“Scholars often neglect exercise. We are very sad fellows, madam,” agreed...”
– Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell) - True faqs. (via bschwartz)
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“If we wait until we’re ready, we’ll be waiting for the rest of our lives.”
– Lemony Snicket (via toobrothers)
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No ideas but in things: The novel's not dead, it's... →
noideasbut:
“The novel’s not dead, it’s not even seriously injured, but I do think we’re working in the margins, working in the shadows of the novel’s greatness and influence. There’s plenty of impressive talent around, and there’s strong evidence that younger writers are moving into history, finding broader…
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“Psychiatry taught me that you have to come up with your own version of neurotic...”
– John Waters (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“Would you parents let you watch this at home? I don’t want you poisoning...”
– Father dearest on RuPaul’s Drag Race
