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desire

Desire is a place of not yet having: it’s in the becoming, the longing, the imagining…
Amy Scholder, Editor’s Note, "Essential Acker"

Desire is the only honest part of us….but she knew art could awaken in us the authentic desire buried under the meaninglessness of modern life. The responsibility to act on that desire is up to us.
Jeanette Winterson, Introduction, "Essential Acker"

+ Tori Amos | Sister named Desire
+ U2 | Desire

January 29, 2009 in Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

'Cause I can't find the words and I can't find the songs

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I don't know if she's been swept off her feet. I don't know what her best date was or what her worse date should of been. I don't know if she is as allergic to the words "soul mate" as I am. I Just know that the later it gets, the more I want to whisper to her. And these whispers would not be benign.

“That’s the nature of women; not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.”
Cervantes

Radiohead: Stop Whispering/live
Ben Folds + Rufus Wainwring: Careless Whisper/live

January 25, 2009 in MP3, Quotes, text | Permalink | Comments (4) | TrackBack

I have only words to play with

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"Nabakov wrote on index cards,
at a lectem, in his socks"
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: There She Goes My Beautiful World/live

"Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with!"
Nabokov

January 23, 2009 in MP3, Nabokov, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

attention bb

What's my favorite song on this album?

January 20, 2009 in U2 | Permalink | Comments (6) | TrackBack

YOU don't KNOW how beautiful YOU are

U2: G E T on Y O U R boots

+ Dublin radio airs new U2 single

Big Thanks to Spencer for letting me know the single was out.

January 19, 2009 in U2 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

best week of tv ever

It starts tonight. The best week of television ever. Or this year at least.

16 January 2009
Battlestar Galactica: Season 4, Episode 11: Sometimes a Great Notion
+ Battlestar Galactica, how I love thee, let me count thy ways....

Friday Nigh Lights: Season 3, Episode 1: I Knew You When
+ 'Friday Night Lights' shines bright again ( I just saw the finale this week so I'm saying goodbye, but you maybe saying hello to this season )

18 January 2009
Big Love: Season 3, Episode 1: Block Party
+ Season 3 Trailer

We Are One: The Obama Inauguration Celebration ( with U2!)
+ Comic Books with Obama covers: 1, 2, 3, 4

21 January 2009
Lost: Season 5, Episode 1: Because You Left , Season 5, Episode 2: The Lie

22 January 2009
Skins: Series 3 Episode 1: Everyone
+ Series 3 Extended Trailer
+ Skins interactive trailer

January 16, 2009 in TV | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Or you keep on burning

Writing is one method of dealing with being human or wanting to suicide cause in order to write you kill yourself at the same time while remaining alive.
Kathy Acker