May 2009
52 posts
Now playing: Little Joy “No One’s...
Now playing: Maia Hirasawa “Hush...
“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”
– Eric Fromm, via Tony Robbins’s Twitter status
Now playing: Thom Yorke “Rat’s...
“I’m no longer phased by the shady exit. It’s part of you and I...”
– My Pal Ray, Re: my apology for leaving another show without goodbyes last night
“It’s terrible. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy....”
– Times Online writer Jeremy Clarkson’s review of the new Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hybrid (via)
“Shel [Silverstein] loved women and had a voracious appetite for them. But he...”
– from “The Many Sides of Shel Silverstein”
Like a mama you birthed me!
Brooklyn you nursed...
At the Horse Feathers show at Brooklyn’s...
“Newspapers are reporting that more women are seeking to end their pregnancies because they can’t afford to raise a child. Family planning clinics from Florida to Iowa to Denver have seen the number of abortions they perform rise by as much as 15 percent; this past January, Planned Parenthood of Illinois provided the highest number of abortions in its history. The National Network of...
“I remember once, years ago, I was walking out a door — I’d been having a...”
– excerpted from “Christopher Walken: What I’ve Learned” in Esquire magazine
“Dolphin sex can be violent and coercive. Gangs of two or three male bottlenose...”
– from “The Dark Secrets Dolphins Don’t Want You to Know”
Overplaying: Foreign Born “It Grew on...
I understand now why 'Sirens of Titan' is...
The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky— as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment.
The big eye was a glutton for great theater. The big eye was indifferent as to whether the Earthling shows were comedy, tragedy, farce, satire, athletics, or vaudeville. Its demand, which Earthlings apparently found as irresistible as gravity, was that...
Obsessively revisiting: The Black Keys...
Currently overplaying: Grizzly Bear “While...
Watch“Leafy & Weedy Seadragons” underwater video via ColourLovers
Found this video super calming, ‘til I reached the nuts guitar solo that builds up midway through. It was around that point I realized seadragons are the ocean’s response to early Bowie/glam rock.
Amanda knows this dude who is “still really...
Sparky Campanella: 40 over Forty →
syntheticpubes:
Sex is part of who we are. And because we live in a society that uses sex to sell everything from perfume to paper clips, it creates a real tension when we feel we no longer “have it.” For many women that “it” is a function of how they look. We all lose youthful beauty as we age - men and women. But women have it tougher than men. Men don’t have to integrate the loss of their...
