May 2012
12 posts
LOUD: Are you acquainted with Poppers? [dead silence and blank looks] Uh, you...
– Lance Loud of “An American Family” interviews Donna Summer, 1976.
Remembering Donna Summer, The Queen of Disco - Page - Interview Magazine
Anonymous asked: The quotation under your search bar... I love you automatically. <3
April 2012
18 posts
liketigersonvaseline:
Stereolab: “Jenny Ondioline” (1993)
Best song of the ’90s, and almost as long.
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Demographic of One: What is some advice you can... →
This applies to writing too, for the most part.
mollycrabapple:
Work hard, make friends, don’t give up.
A bit more: be incredibly opportunistic and on the hunt for places that can use your art. Be hard on yourself. Shun all the woo woo vagueness that people tell artists: “fulfilling your dreams”, “nurturing your creativity”, the whole lot of that. It…
Old pond, frog jumps in, so what.
– La Petite Zine - Issue 28 —A line from Michael Robbins’ poem “The Dark Clicks On.” Initially thought this was just a lazy Bashō joke, then realized what “so what” sounds like in this context. (I also giggled at the first line of Robbins’ poem.)
March 2012
6 posts
Billboards on Sunset Blvd. #19 | Flickr - Photo... →
The whole set must be seen to be believed. Great.
February 2012
11 posts
More Recommended Reading →
tetw:
from Front of Book
Another selection of top-quality essays from writer, reviewer, blogger and lit-spotter Kate Silver, a.k.a. Front of Book:
My Bird Problem by Jonathan Franzen Now That Books Mean Nothing by Nell Boeschenstein The Lynching of Claude Neal by Ben Montgomery The Syncher, Not the Song by Douglas Wolk Writer’s Writer and Writer’s Writer’s Writer by Julian Barnes
For more...
At 9, he settled a dispute with a pistol. At 13, he lit out for the Amazon...
– John Fairfax, Who Rowed Across Oceans, Dies at 74 - NYTimes.com —This may be the only use of “apprenticed to a pirate” outside of Gilbert & Sullivan. Better still, it’s non-fiction.
January 2012
11 posts