May 2012
15 posts
'Valtari' →
In Stones and trees: Past the flannel plains and... →
stonesandtrees:
Past the flannel plains and blacktop graphs and skylines of canted rust, and past the tobacco-brown river overhung with weeping trees and coins of sunlight through them on the water downriver, to the place beyond the windbreak, where untilled fields simmer shrilly in the A.M. heat: shattercane,…
stonesandtrees:
Books lie, he said. God don’t lie No, said the judge. He does not. And these are his words. He held up a chunk of rock. He speaks in stones and trees, the bones of things. The squatters in their rags nodded among themselves and were soon reckoning him correct, this man of learning, in all his speculations, and this the judge encouraged until they were right proselytes of the new...
Sam Raimi continues to keep horror fun and this... →
“All of the next C.o.L. album is written. One half is recorded and the other half...”
– http://cultofluna.com/
April 2012
6 posts
mewithoutYou-Fox’s Dream of the Long Flume....
March 2012
12 posts
Greater love hath no man....
Kathie Lee of daytime television talk show jabber fame just quoted John 15:13 (“There is no greater love than this: that a person would lay down his life for the sake of his friends.”) in describing the “brilliance” of the recent Hunger Games movie.
And now I shall lay down and die.
“We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of...”
– Fahrenheit 451
“Speed up the film, Montag, quick… Uh! Bang! Smack! Wallop, Bing, Bong, Boom!...”
– Fahrenheit 451
February 2012
7 posts
Watchlifecaughtintherain:
The greatest episode of The Daily Show I have ever seen. I hope it wins an Emmy. And a Golden Globe. And an Oscar. And a Grammy. And a Tony. And sweeps every category of Nobel.
On this night, there was a standing ovation in my living room.
neil-gaiman:
Just watch this. (If it lets you watch it where you are.)
“You’ve confused a war on religion with not always...
Almost Done
jhnmyr:
Single’s ready. Artwork is set… Just a couple more mixes, then mastering. Thanks for waiting.
JM
Watch
January 2012
8 posts
I’m not really feeling the first single off of this record but this write up has got me going. Matt Bayles and Cursive? I’m in.
http://www.cursivearmy.com/07/2011/11/16/new-record-i-am-gemini-officially-announced/
December 2011
13 posts
Man…2011 was a great year for art; Music, film, literature, etc…I’ve thought about boiling it all down into a “top-whatever” list but I can’t seem to muster up the discipline.
The Depressed Person
The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing emotional pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in it’s essential horror.
- “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men” by David Foster Wallace