Everyday is like Sunday

Chvrches The Mother we Share

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 06:09:00 -0400

Chvrches

The Mother we Share

Jeremy Scott for Adidas, as seen Iggy Azalea Work video.

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 11:58:47 -0400

Jeremy Scott for Adidas, as seen Iggy Azalea Work video.

Frank Ocean Forest Gump live at The Grammys, 2013

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 18:53:05 -0500

Frank Ocean

Forest Gump live at The Grammys, 2013

Binjamin Wilkomirski

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 11:10:28 -0500

Orphaned thing, you never had a history. You were an object dropped into a context you neither liked nor understood. Painstakingly, over years of newspaper clippings, re-visited wireless broadcasts, silent footage, black-and-white stills, documents and excursions to the scene of atrocity, you sewed the inadequacy of your life together with the terror of theirs. The story became plausible. Then it became fact.

Daddy: who were you? You wished him into a gassed man with a star on his jacket. Mummy became a ragged skeleton with shaved head and ill-fitting shoes. You were a miracle of survival and a talisman against forgetting.

You were 54 when you first published your life-lie. Through your self-imposed victimhood, you became the informants and the overseers; you were the regime. And so you have fused yourself into history. You are history. Did it help something inside you to commit a second, ink Holocaust? No one will ever believe a word you say again. You duped everyone, but I imagine you will remain duped last, longest. I imagine memory and fiction are the same word by now. Now. But then again, you were always past tense, were you not, History?

I just cannot understand. Why, when you could have been anything, did you choose this?

"You cannot make up later for the emotional storms you missed out on. A world which was not enchanted..."

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 10:04:10 -0500

“You cannot make up later for the emotional storms you missed out on. A world which was not enchanted and dark at the right time will not grow bright when knowledge grows, but will only dry. Flat and barren are the wonders you dissect before being allowed to believe in them.”

- Christa Wolf

Reading and Writing

"Ye tempests, rage! ye turbid torrents, roll! Ye suit the joyless tenor of my soul! Life’s..."

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 13:10:24 -0500

“Ye tempests, rage! ye turbid torrents, roll!
Ye suit the joyless tenor of my soul!
Life’s social haunts and pleasures I resign;
Be nameless wilds and lonely wanderings mine”

- Robert Burns

On the Death of Robert Dundas, Esq.

Hugo Simberg

Wed, 16 Jan 2013 07:55:08 -0500

Hugo Simberg

Photo

Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:49:27 -0500

"The trouble with asking humans to enact the impersonal is that they usually do so by objectifying..."

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:03:24 -0500

“The trouble with asking humans to enact the impersonal is that they usually do so by objectifying the humans around them. The humans around them won’t behave like objects, so the ‘impersonal’ diagnostician has to construct mechanistic models of these humans that turn them into the object they have refused to become. The models of depersonalisation are invariably linguistic, and thus at the heart of politics is language, at the heart of language is politics.”

- Tom Leonard

Pedro Xisto

Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:47:36 -0500

Pedro Xisto

I have always had faith in my modest intellect. Right now I understand nothing of what I read.

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:38:38 -0500

Photo

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 15:57:05 -0500

"There are split seconds in the morning between waking and sleep when you know nothing. Not just..."

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:31:48 -0500

“There are split seconds in the morning between waking and sleep when you know nothing. Not just things missing like where or who you are, but nothing. The fact of being alive has no substance. No awareness of skin and bone, the trap inside the skull. For these split seconds you hover in the sky like Icarus. Then you remember.”

- Janice Galloway

The Trick is to Keep Breathing

Haim Don’t Save Me

Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:37:51 -0500

Haim

Don’t Save Me

"Please don’t go I’ll eat you whole I love you so I love you so"

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 14:07:04 -0500

“Please don’t go
I’ll eat you whole
I love you so
I love you so”

- Alt-j

Breezeblocks

Natasha Kahn

Tue, 20 Nov 2012 12:08:18 -0500

Natasha Kahn

"Once I wanted to be The Greatest"

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 05:55:48 -0500

“Once I wanted to be The Greatest”

- Cat Power

The Greatest

Solange Losing You

Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:50:30 -0400

Solange

Losing You

"Now it’s St Brigid’s Day and the first snowdrop In County Wicklow, and this a..."

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 12:20:50 -0400

“

Now it’s St Brigid’s Day and the first snowdrop
In County Wicklow, and this a Brigid’s Girdle
I’m plaiting for you, an airy fairy hoop
(Like one of those old crinolines they’d trindle),

Twisted straw that’s lifted in a circle
To handsel and to heal, a rite of spring
As strange and lightsome and traditional
As the motions you go through going through the thing.

”

- Seamus Heaney

A Brigid’s Girdle

"Listen, listen, if I know my world, which is doubtful, but if I do, I know it is chaotic, mean and..."

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:01:54 -0400

“Listen, listen, if I know my world, which is doubtful, but if I do, I know it is chaotic, mean and vicious, with laws cast in the wrong moulds, a fair conception gone awry, in short an awful place, and yet, and yet a place capable of glory in those rare moments when a little light breaks forth, and something is not explained, not forgiven, but merely illuminated.”

- John Banville

Birchwood