September 2010
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I was up all night with a sick animal. The world seems a very empty place in the depths of 3am. I am tired and begin to resent being up in this nothingness but then this poor sick thing looks up at me and I think, how could I not? This great huge creature who is so powerful in the day brought low to the floor by sickness in the dark and is no different than a small child, needs me and it would be...
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“I don’t think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you...”
– This, I think, is truth. From a man who has himself, put some words in the right order. I read Arcadia all the time. I can say it has changed my world, at the very least.
Tom Stoppard. (via mer-et-soleil)
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“The consumerist society is a kind of soft police state. We think we have a...”
– Thom Yorke, (apparently not a huge Friedrich Hayek fan)
I find, especially after moments of incredible melancholy, that all I really have at the end of it all is my art. Little else is anything but transitory.
Victor Frankl said:
There is no need to feel ashamed of existential despair because of the assumption that it is an emotional disease, for it is not a neurotic symptom but a human achievement and accomplishment. Above all, it is a...
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Tories: The Coalition boogeyman returns!
Also known as, What?!?
As in, what coalition? I don’t see one. Do you see one? Is it hiding behind a tree wearing a Stephane Dion mask?
Whatever, Flaherty’s fear mongering yesterday was bizarre and sounded like campaign rhetoric if I ever heard it. Which is weird because does anybody see an election on the horizon? I mean, really? You got know at this point we would pretty much end...
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The Polaris Prize is imminent.
So today is THE DAY. The day the Polaris Prize is awarded and yet another incredible album is crowned champion of the Canadian independent music scene. The Polaris Prize is perhaps the most coveted award in all of Canadian music (and the one that neither Nickelback nor Justin Beiber will ever win) and it is awarded annually to the best album of the year. Records are evaluated on their overall...
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WatchFound here. To quote:
One day Jarbas Agnelli was reading his newspaper when he saw a picture of birds on electric wires which immediately fascinated him.. He noticed that the positions of the birds looked like a pice of musical notation. He set about recreating the melody based on where the birds were perched. He contacted the photographer who had taken the original picture who was also...
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Banksy on art and death.
I was reading this article about Banksy in the Sun, thinking it was half-way interesting but nothing life-changing or even particularly new when I was hit between the eyes with the quite profound thought found in the very last paragraph. To quote:
“Graffiti’s always been a temporary art form. You make your mark and then they scrub it off. I mean, most of it is just designed to...
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WatchLykke Li, Queen Of The Desert via Stereogum
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Bearded Joaquin Phoenix Immortalized by Shepard... →
Brilliant marketing. Check out the comment section, it’s getting mean down there.
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Let’s start by flashing back to late February at the Justice for All outdoor concert in Taiwan’s tropical city of Pingtung. An array of Taiwanese acts will take the stage throughout the day, including the extreme-metal band Chthonic, shoegazers Windmill, and a postrock outfit called Aphasia. Chthonic singer Freddy Lim is a noted activist for Taiwanese sovereignty, Windmill sings in the...
