December 2009
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uncertaintimes:
ontheborderland:
The Marcels,...
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Watchnevver:
Happy New Year from Peteski
Tom Waits - Innocent When You Dream (from...
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New Year's Resolutions
640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 Get into jazz
(from Teddy Wayne & Greg Wayne at McSweeney’s)
“What does it matter,
the new year, the old year?
I stretch out my legs and all...”
– Bankei (from Whiskey River)
“The meaning of life is beyond me. The best I can do is deal with it one word at...”
– Larry Gelbart (via devilduck) (via samsaramotel)
“In the blue night
frost haze, the sky glows
with the moon
pine tree tops...”
– Gary Snyder
Van Morrison - Moondance (from: lovehaight)
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Janis Joplin - Maybe
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“I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the...”
– Saul Bellow
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“I understand, all right. The hopeless dream of being - not seeming, but being....”
– Ingmar Bergman, Persona, 1966 (via fuckyeahingmarbergman) (via dialogues)
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“The best way to look at suffering is with gratitude, that it is happening in...”
– Ayya Khema (from Waking Up)
“Most mortals are conscious that a split often occurs between their present...”
– John Dewey, “Art as Experience” (via lethebashar)
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“Life itself consists of phases in which the organism falls out of step with the...”
– John Dewey, “Art as Experience” (from a wonderfully thoughtful post at The Blog of Innocence)
Burning the Old Year
Letters swallow themselves in seconds. Notes friends tied to the doorknob, transparent scarlet paper, sizzle like moth wings, marry the air. So much of any year is flammable, lists of vegetables, partial poems. Orange swirling flame of days, so little is a stone. Where there was something and suddenly isn’t, an absence shouts, celebrates, leaves a space. I begin again with the smallest...
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“A man died and went into the next world where he met numbers of people, some of...”
– Maurice Nicoll
