December 2011
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“The drink is popular at bars among college-aged adults, who enjoy the...”
– Wikipedia
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“To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it....”
– Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
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“A specter is haunting cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an...”
– Hollis Frampton, “A Pentagram for Conjuring the Narrative”
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“I don’t argue that there is an ethics for writing the autobiographical. However,...”
– Kate Zambreno, All The Sad Young Pretty Girls on Thought Catalog (via thoughtcatalog)
i fully agree with this.
thefoxwhowasalsothesun asked: Is there an interesting reason behind the theme change or?
smag9 asked: Hi! I read your 'One Sentence Love Story' on Thought Catalog and I am just confused. Why is it the 'last text she will ever send him' and why isn't it making her feel any better? I followed the whole entire thing, read it over and over because I love it so much but you just lost me at the end. What does the interaction with her mother and father have to do with the boy?
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“You think you love banana splits but really you just love the maraschino cherry...”
– One Sentence Love Story « Thought Catalog (via nickdouglas)
i wrote this
Thought Catalog: One Sentence Love Story, by Nick... →
thoughtcatalog:
Sometimes when you think you love something what you really love is not the thing itself but just some small and inessential part of it: you think you love banana splits but really you just love the maraschino cherry on top and you think you love autumn but really you just love getting a Pumpkin…
my story on tc
the world is still not ready for kid a. give another five years.
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this was the week in which two women died gruesomely in new york elevators.
funny the embarrassment i feel when someone mentions that i looked like i was having a good time. like the person who said it now has something on me. maybe it’s because enjoying myself often means forgetting that i am being watched. but no, it’s more the feeling that that person is pointing out a weakness, as if to say “you are now at my mercy.” incidentally the person in...
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why is everyone dying?
just because it’s fake doesn’t mean it isn’t real
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last night i had a long and involved dream in which i’d adopted a very cute, very affectionate little black and white piglet. i spent most of the dream guiding her around a strange, futuristic landscape toward some destination whose significance i can’t recall.
but the last thing i saw before waking was the inside of someone’s freezer, which was completely filled with packs of...
the rhythm of the cosmos itself issues from overcorrection. the day we get it “just right” is the day the world ends, like a dream.
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to the lighthouse
this afternoon i finished to the lighthouse and i can already feel myself dividing my life into “before to the lighthouse” and “after to the lighthouse.”
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WE ARE SO FUCKED →
we are so fucked
thefoxwhowasalsothesun asked: You write. I can't find the write word to describe it so I'll leave it at that but you write and I read and I can feel things stir inside and I thought you should know.
last night i dreamed that i put my iphone in the microwave.
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the Muse
last night just before dawn i had a dream about the Muse. she appeared at my front door strangely at first, as she often does, with the body of a four-legged creature and the head of a woman. but when i looked again she’d changed: now she was a beautiful girl about my age with strawberry blonde hair and blue eyes and a reddish-brown leather motorcycle jacket. i’d never seen her before...
ps tonight i can’t stop listening to “ricerar a 3” from j.s. bach’s a musical offering. there’s one turn that just slays me. i get that sting behind my eyes like i’m gonna weep, every time. and i can’t say what it is. i didn’t take good enough care of myself today and now i can’t write. on my best nights there is no limit to what i can put into...
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“Noble deeds are possible only in periods when self-irony is not yet rife.”
– E.M. Cioran, Anathemas and Admirations
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“erbarme dich, mein gott” - j.s. bach,...
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Acedia →
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hey so should i be reading nylon? is that “where it’s at” right now? if not then what should i be reading?
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“If, when a man has fallen into habits of idleness, of day-dreaming and of sloth,...”
– Charles Baudelaire, Intimate Journals
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this weekend
this weekend i wrote the best thing i’ve ever written in my life. full moon never disappoints.
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“Why is it always Bobby Kennedy or John Lennon? Why isn’t it Richard Nixon...”
– Carola Dibbell on 8 December 1980
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“Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Children playing: a sign of autism since 11... →
taoistdrunk:
lol but for real though fuck off
i keep accidentally offending people on the internet. i even did it to kelly oxford once. people never get pissed at me irl. but on the internet it’s just hate hate hate and sometimes i guess i’m asking for it. i just wanna be loved man. but people only notice you if you piss them off. that’s why the kids with absent parents are...
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janealbertson:
Since 80s fashion has become so mainstream, it makes sense that designers have found a new decade to mine for inspiration: from wide-legged pants to heavy-metal-inspired album art, it seems the 70s are back.
But why the 1970s, and not, say, the 1940s or 1990s? Because fashion follows culture, and the cultural atmosphere right now is all about revolution. The Occupy Wall...
now i’ve made up my mind: all i am is a writer. i’m going to read a lot and write a lot and live just enough to have something to write about, and that is all.
“All flesh is grass: and life in the ancient polis strikes us at being more...”
– Fredric Jameson, The Antinomies of Postmodernity (via particlesofthings)