January 2010
“Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.”
– Orson Welles
Earliest Memories →
These are your earliest memories.
“Now we are all sons of bitches.”
– Robert J. Oppenheimer, After viewing 1st full test of manhattan project at trinity, NM. Invention and Technology magazine, 2001
Words No.21
Taarradhin (Arabic): a way of resolving a problem without anyone losing face (not the same as our concept of a compromise – everyone wins)
Anonymous asked: Write more. I'll be waiting.
Words No.20
Litost (Czech): a state of torment created by the sudden sight of one’s own misery
“Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.”
– Luis Cernada
WHEN ALL IS NOT THAT BAD by Gary La Buda
Roaming, wandering stumbling I walk to stabilize tripping down a river Spinning in my head Cyclones spinning cloning Tie died swirly loops Being brushed through the sky To cover its skin The air Or maybe that’s its ultra ego An allie of sorts Real sorts Surrounds me so I can breath And take this all in To only awaken out of a comatose state Wishing to return
“Your problems and mine, they are nothing new. They are all just another small...”
– Lewis Ward
“Your motivation? Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with...”
– Noel Coward
“Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware...”
– Donella Meadows, The Global Citizen
“Depression is such a cruel punishment. There are no fevers, no rashes, no blood...”
– Martha Manning, Undercurrents (via yerawizardharry) (via apassingfeeling) (via knockturn) (via honeyhands) (via tayloveee) (via booklover)
Anonymous asked: Why is "Odd-tastes" hyphenated?
Monday's Flare No. 1
It’s Space Sickness, minus the ship and minus the space. And to be frank, I’m not entirely sure, it’s a sickness to begin with. More like a state of mind with a constant unceasing throbbing pulse that resonates deep down within my axons, crumbling the dendrites in its wake. It feels cold. As if the interior of my bones is coated in a deep layer of frost, as if my marrow’s...
“Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their...”
– William James
“Your ignorance, cramps my conversation.”
– Sir Anthony Hawkins
nihilnoetia:
mum - the ghosts you draw on my...
“The man of genius is he who understands incomparably more other beings than the...”
– Otto Weininger
“Ever notice that what the hell is always the right decision?”
– Marilyn Monroe
“Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge, ” he said....”
– Carlos Castaneda
“Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I...”
– Fran Lebowitz
Anonymous asked: what i was trying to ask was "das beste oder nichts"?
est-ce que tu parle allemande aussi?
the story was the best in could think of in 5 minutes, btw. i like it.
est-ce que tu parle allemande aussi?
the story was the best in could think of in 5 minutes, btw. i like it.
“What is wrong with us human beings, and has been wrong since time immemorial, is...”
– Carlos Castaneda ~ Active Side of Infinity
“Color is sensibility in material form, matter in its primordial state.”
– Yves Klein
“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted...”
– Frida Kahlo
ghoulnextdoor-deactivated201005 asked: I am not going to bore you with questions challenging your intellect. For now, perhaps a sartorial/aesthetic question! You always wear such lovely nail paint - list a few of your favourite brands/colours, s'il vous plaît?
Mote by Keith Trim
When she turned her gaze upon me, I was a mote of dust caught in a beam of sunlight I was huge and beautiful and bright. I laughed and danced and shone. And when she turned away, a cloud moved across the sun and I was extinguished.
Anonymous asked: das beste oder nichts?
um.. a tale. there was that princess, she lived in a tower. she had everything she ever wanted. though, she never was really happy. she was allowed to go out, but the forest which surrounded the tower scared her. until her 21st birthday, she had never seen anything that wasn't part of the tower. Then, from one day to another, she disappeared. Her parents...
um.. a tale. there was that princess, she lived in a tower. she had everything she ever wanted. though, she never was really happy. she was allowed to go out, but the forest which surrounded the tower scared her. until her 21st birthday, she had never seen anything that wasn't part of the tower. Then, from one day to another, she disappeared. Her parents...
Anonymous asked: What is the point?
jvs asked: bonjour!
“Violence is one of the most cinematic things you can do with film. It’s almost...”
– Quentin Tarantino
“The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts...”
– Steven Weinberg
Fallout Webs and Sayonara
We were playing poker supernova and I called the nebula in you cherry knots eyes… Death dropped and sprinkled us with doom’s day dust. It was cold in the attic and I could see words forming out of my breath. I was trying to outline the letters but you dropped a cinnamon kiss on my cheek and broke my concentration.
It smelled of holy incenses from the Sacred Land and nowhere in sight...
“The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore.”
– Lord Byron
Binary Star by Gabriel Gadfly
We are a binary star; My orbital Gemini You and I Revolve / Evolve Into a spirograph mandala. I want to crush stars In the nebula Where my hips Press into yours.
“And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever...”
– Nick Tosches