February 2011
23 posts
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old school swag
“let’s start a magazine
to hell with literature we want something redblooded
lousy with pure reeking with stark and fearlessly obscene
but really clean get what I mean let’s not spoil it let’s make it serious
something authentic and delirious you know something genuine like a mark in a toilet
graced with guts and gutted with grace”
squeeze your nuts and open...
YOUNG@HEART
durgapolashi:
Xavier Dolan makes out with a fish! And more! My feature about the Montreal filmmaker in PAPER MAG’s Spring issue HERE.
“I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see...”
– Joan Didion, “Why I Write” (via sayyes)
You cannot produce something great on purpose or... →
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sebastien grainger - meet new friends
take time...
Am I wasting my time? How could it have taken me so long to realize I was wasting my time, when these people figured it out in thirty seconds? These are like the aftershocks that follow an earthquake, which can be felt far away from the original fault line. You ask yourself, What else don’t I know about myself? If you didn’t realize you were unfit for one thing, you worry, it follows that you...
you should date a bibliophile
isabelthespy:
in response.
date a boy who loves to read. find him in the poetry section of your local barnes and noble, debating between translations of the aeneid. tell him you think that while fagles is better suited for the tumultuous vivacity of the greeks, roman stateliness is more accurately conveyed in the fitzgerald. when he confides his embarrassment over his ignorance of virgil,...
literarypiano:
My stepfather is a painter. People often ask him about what inspires him while painting.
My stepfather says, “It’s not a matter of inspiration. I just have to make sure that I keep going.”
It probably isn't
ardhra:
a #firstworldproblem
Things that people in the third world have:
clothing
footwear
computers
mobile phones
air conditioning
medical care
food
Granted, many of these things are in short supply occasionally. But permanent deprivation of all of these things isn’t a third world condition.
DESPITE WHAT WHITE FIRST-WORLD TWITTER USERS LIKE TO THINK
Particular local conditions,...
