February 2012
“this is how i feel, i can’t name it straight out but it seems important, do you...”
– david foster wallace. (via 13000units)
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“I heard a joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says life is harsh...”
– Rorschach (Watchmen)
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Having Sex with Jonathan Franzen
thetangential:
Sure, go ahead and put on some music. No, sorry, I don’t have that album—they only had it on 33 1/3 RPM vinyl, not on 78s.
Would I like to go to bed? Well, I admit that beds are comfortable—in fact, they’re a bittoo comfortable. Haven’t you noticed that human creativity and vigor has been markedly reduced since the invention of the modern bed? We used to wake up at the crack of...
CatabolicMystic: Graphic Interpretation of David... →
catabolicmystic:
There’s probably no better way to pay tribute to David Foster Wallace than graphic meta commentary. Michael Rigley developed GOOD OLD NEON (video below) as a visual re-contextualization of Wallace’s poetry in an attempt to reveal the author’s “original intent.”
“This is another paradox……
“Call it sigh-fi, slow-wave, disso-dance, tranbian, trance-andental,...”
– - Sean Adams, via 10/10 Review of Blondes - Blondes
Stream the the album in full on DiS here… here’s a track from the record entitled ‘Pleasure’
(via drownedinsoundcloud)
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD DO NOT CALL IT ANY OF THOSE THINGS. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CO-OPPERATION. XOXO PPEA
(via...
“The real world is where you take pictures for... →
modernandmaterialthings:
“Documentary vision is kind of like the “camera eye” photographers develop when, after taking many photos, they begin to see the world as always a potential photo even when not holding the camera at all. The habit of the photographer involuntarily framing and composing the world has become a metaphor for those trained to document using social media. The explosion of...
“I learned it at just twenty-one or twenty-two, at the IRS’s Regional Examination...”
– David Foster Wallace, The Pale King. (via glgorkstr)
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“We are all dying to give our lives away to something, maybe. God or Satan,...”
– Hal Incandenza, Infinite Jest
Am I cocky for saying the closest I’ve ever felt, the closest a character has ever been to Hal Incandenza, who’s a tennis prodigy/language prodigy? When I was little, I was supposed to be a good linebacker/quarterback. Then I was supposed to be the valedictorian. Then...
January 2012
“The voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses.”
– E.E Cummings (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“In this particular winter of our discontent, the wispiest nostrums and baldest...”
– James Howard Kunstler (via azspot)
“I used to buy a lot of MP3s. I don’t anymore. That’s not to say I don’t listen...”
– Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog: Why publishers should give away ebooks (via ayjay)
Watchisthatoffensive:
popculturebrain:
Trailer: Game of Thrones Season 2
HELLYES
orgasm.
thewalkingparadox:
Malandragem: You Want a Physicist to Speak at Your Funeral
thereisafish:
You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets...
“Today, what are you creating with your words? Are you longing for and opening...”
– Words Were Meant to Make Things (via azspot)
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“David. My moth-
er Works So hard
So hard and for bread she needs some lard...”
– Young David Foster Wallace for an elementary school poetry assignment, From the collections at the UT Austin Harry Ransom Center, http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/04/14/read_a_childhood_poem_by_david_foster_wallace.html
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