I never wanna see you a sad girl

Idk100

+ The "Skins" cast: "Wild World"

Keep On Going
Karl Krolow

I go around some street corners
and have an idea in my head clear as a picture
of time between March and October.
I like the cut-out
I'm moving around in,
slowly, toward change,
dying of something, while I
just keep on going, at least for the moment -
how do you write about
still being alive
among objects that are all used up
and possessions that shine,
lists without specifics, so to speak?
Some things just wait for me
to stop defending myself.
In the air
shining insects.

+ Manic Street Preachers, “So Why So Sad (Avalanches Remix)”
why so sad You live and you love
+
SKINS, series 1 trailer

May 17, 2008 in MP3, Quotes, TV, Videos | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

why I’m the oldest recipient of your on-again, off-again love.

Byannabelmehran1
Annabel Mehran

Sky-Meaning I
by Edip Cansever translated by Julia Clare Tillinghast and Richard Tillinghast

No matter the time or place, I’ll always grow for the one who is the sea.
With one thin finger cut in half.
That is why I’m the oldest recipient of your on-again, off-again love.
And that is why I grew up in the desert, with nothing but a single slice of sweet melon.

I’ve made you into a cure, I’ve emulated you.
I’ve torn up some of my poems, and procured new ones.

And if I’ve passed too quickly from one situation to the next—
Not because of blood, not fatally—but through a kind of companionability,
Now, at last, I’m the strength there is in numbers.
It’s just a memory, if I clam up, looking at my finger-stub.

As I open my eyes, you’re the sun hung out on the line.
You’re a blue child, you’re our love
Peering out at me from the middle of a blue warehouse.

+ Madeleine Peyroux: Blue Alert (live)

May 16, 2008 in Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

How long can I guy go on dreaming

Textbybukowski
Text: Charles Bukowski

[ Maude Maggart - Deep In A Dream/I Had The Craziest Dream ]

May 9, 2008 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Talking only makes me feel more alone

Adorote_by_complejo
Adorote by *complejo

Teddy Thompson: I'm Left, You're Right, She's Gone

“Talking only makes me feel more alone,”
you said once in the car outside the clinic.
Two years later, you spoke the same sentence
word for word one night after friends had gone.
Within a month, you’d erased yourself    . . .
Erased? “To absent oneself,” I found scribbled on
a wrapper a year later    . . .
   Now sunlight and tree
shadow rush over the windshield of  the car:
I’m talking with my new wife — then gone, absented.
“Sometimes I feel almost too much joy,”
you wrote from the balcony of  your cheap
hotel in Paris. “What are you thinking?” she asks.
Light shutters across us. Wherever you are
in me I’m there, though it’s not what you wanted.

Infidelity by Philip White

The Supremes: Love Is Here And Now You're Gone (2000 Box Set Version)

May 7, 2008 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

The God of Loneliness

Wiitoysrus

The New Yorker: The God of Loneliness by Philip Schultz [via]

I’m one of eight men waiting
for the doors of Toys R Us to open
in a mall on the eastern tip of Long Island.
We’ve come for the Japanese electronic game
that’s so hard to find. Last week, I waited
three hours for a store in Manhattan
to disappoint me. The first today, bundled
in six layers, I stood shivering in the dawn light
reading the new Aeneid translation, which I hid
when the others came, stamping boots
and rubbing gloveless hands, joking about
sacrificing sleep for ungrateful sons. “My boy broke
two front teeth playing hockey,” a man wearing
shorts laughs. “This is his reward.” My sons
will leap into my arms, remember this morning
all their lives. “The game is for my oldest boy,
just back from Iraq,” a man in overalls says
from the back of the line. “He plays these games
in his room all day. I’m not worried, he’ll snap out of it,
he’s earned his rest.” These men fix leaks, lay
foundations for other men’s dreams without complaint.

+ Naruto - Loneliness
+ Review: Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life / Another Take

May 4, 2008 in Games, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

What New York used to be

Lovenycmanhattan

//The Kills: What New York used to be

Dawn in New York has
  four columns of mire
  and a hurricane of black pigeons
  splashing in the putrid waters.

Dawn in New York groans
  on enormous fire escapes
  searching between the angles
  for spikenards of drafted anguish.

Dawn arrives and no one receives it in his mouth
  because morning and hope are impossible there:
  sometimes the furious swarming coins
  penetrate like drills and devour abandoned children.

Those that go out early know in their bones
  there will be no paradise or loves that bloom and die:
  they know they will be mired in numbers and laws,
  in mindless games, in fruitless labors.

The light is buried under chains and noises
  in an impudent challenge to rootless science.
  And crowds stagger sleeplessly through the boroughs
  as if they had just escaped a shipwreck of blood.
"A Poet in New York" by Federico Garcia Lorca

//The Magnetic Fields: The Luckiest Guy on the Lower East Side

Away for a few days. You know where.

April 24, 2008 in MP3, NYC, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

[ She's The New York City Skyline ]

Nycbyrion2
Rion

One need never leave the confines of New York to get all the greenery one wishes--I can't even enjoy a blade of grass unless I know there's a subway handy, or a record store or some other sign that people do not totally regret life.
Frank O'Hara

[ The Damnwells: She's The New York City Skyline ]

+ Preview of THE NEW YORK FOUR

April 22, 2008 in MP3, NYC, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

you're like New York City

Anniehalleverett_collection

"Alvy, you're incapable of enjoying life, you know that? I mean you're like New York City. You're just this person. You're like this island unto yourself."

+ Ghostland Observatory - Sad Sad City "(live)

April 21, 2008 in NYC, Quotes, Videos | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Extinction

Morrisoneis4e

The progress of an artist is continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T.S. Eliot

+ X-Men Reload: Remember When...?
+ E is for Extinction
+ Living Colour - Cult Of Personality (live)

April 15, 2008 in Comics, Music, Quotes, Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)

i have kissed you into a memory

Byvinna
vinna.

believe me that strangers arrive
when i have kissed you into a memory
slowly, oh seriously
-that since and if you disappear
e.e. cummings

+ Radiohead: How To Disappear Completely

April 2, 2008 in 100 Songs, Quotes, Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)

Blah, Blah, Fucking Blah. But I also have to live with myself.

Sayidblah
Naveen Andrews / GQ Magazine

[ the twilight singers -  live with me ]

+ Twilight Singers - Live With Me/Where Did You Sleep Last Night (live)

March 31, 2008 in MP3, Quotes, Videos | Permalink | Comments (0)

Woman is the content of a Man's life...

Leonardjoni

+ Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell: Just One Of Those Things

My old teacher said 'The older you become, the lonelier you get and the deeper love you need'.
Leonard Cohen

+ Diana Krall - A Case of You
+ Joni Mitchell - Both Sides Now (live)
+ Joni Mitchell - Goodbye Blue Sky
+ Joni Mitchell and Herbie Hancock: Together again

March 28, 2008 in Quotes, Sincerely L. Cohen | Permalink | Comments (0)

I want you the right way

Bynicolepatriciamalina
Nicole Patricia Malina

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. It is easy to display a wound, the proud scars of combat. 
Leonard Cohen, "The Favorite Game"

> The Afghan Whigs: 66
> Maxwell: Welcome
> Radiohead: Nobody Does It Better
> PJ Harvey: Is This Desire?
> Marvin Gaye: I Want You
> Beck: Kangaroo
Her "Map of Your Desire" playlist.

March 24, 2008 in MP3, playlist, Quotes, Sincerely L. Cohen, Videos | Permalink | Comments (1)

I'm martyr to a motion not my own

Quintessence_ii_by_clarapalmer444px
Quintessence II by Clara Palmer

I Knew a Woman
Theodore Roethke

I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
Of her choice virtues only gods should speak,
Or English poets who grew up on Greek
(I'd have them sing in chorus, cheek to cheek.)

How well her wishes went! She stroked my chin,
She taught me Turn, and Counter-turn, and stand;
She taught me Touch, that undulant white skin:
I nibbled meekly from her proffered hand;
She was the sickle; I, poor I, the rake,
Coming behind her for her pretty sake
(But what prodigious mowing did we make.)

Love likes a gander, and adores a goose:
Her full lips pursed, the errant note to seize;
She played it quick, she played it light and loose;
My eyes, they dazzled at her flowing knees;
Her several parts could keep a pure repose,
Or one hip quiver with a mobile nose
(She moved in circles, and those circles moved.)

Let seed be grass, and grass turn into hay:
I'm martyr to a motion not my own;
What's freedom for? To know eternity.
I swear she cast a shadow white as stone.
But who would count eternity in days?
These old bones live to learn her wanton ways:
(I measure time by how a body sways.)

> Joseph Arthur: Honey and The Moon
> Leonard Cohen: Joan of Arc
> Massive Attack: Live With Me
> Ronettes: Be My Baby
> Prince: I Would Die 4 U
> KD Lang: Crying
> U2: Love is Blindness
> Yoko Kanno & Steve Conte: Words That We Couldn't Say
Her "Map of Your Aching and Longing" playlist.

March 24, 2008 in MP3, playlist, Quotes, Videos | Permalink | Comments (1)

[ I Was in Love with You ]

Shotbyjoel

Where once the waters of your face
Spun to my screws, your dry ghost blows

Dylan Thomas

[ The Gutter Twins - I Was in Love with You ]

She asked: "Remember your last mistake?". I told her all about it.
When I went to sleep, she went into action.
She deleted all her pictures and emails. Packed and mailed any old letters I may have stored away. Anything she thought might remind me of her is Gone. She decided to aid my melancholic memory.

+ Beck - Nobody's Fault But My Own @ the Union Chapel

heartless tales
That drain on you
Who would ever notice you
You fade into a shaded room

March 1, 2008 in MP3, Quotes, text | Permalink | Comments (2)

The moon was naked and cold

Pleaseawoman
Urban Graphics Scrawl 070 "The Opposite Sex"

[ Jools Holand + Bono: If You Wear That  Velvet Dress ]

February 12, 2008 in MP3, Quotes, U2 | Permalink | Comments (2)

Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio

Ythelast60_2

"Girls are not a game. Not one that you can win."
Y: THE LAST MAN #60

[ Gavin Friday - The Last Song I'll Ever Sing ]

+ GOOD-BYE TO Y : BRIAN K VAUGHAN, 1 - 2
+ GOOD-BYE TO Y: PIA GUERRA
+ Caruso talks Y: The Last Man trilogy
+ Brian K. Vaughan talks 'Lost'

Today I realized that all three comic book series whose endings I've really lamented, "Sandman", "Preacher" and now "Y: The Last Man", were all published by Vertigo.

January 30, 2008 in Comics, MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

Just know that I am sad

Fromdancadoserros
via A Dança Dos Erros

[ U2: Stateless ]

What we wanted sometimes
Faced with your eyes,
Given your mouth!

Almost crying that the penalty
Measuring that anxiety
For today - that is so little!

So little that neither exists!

From all that we were,
Just know that I am sad.

António Botto

January 27, 2008 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (1)

Sadness Is waiting to happen For people like us

Francescawoodman
photo: Francesca Woodman  | text: Andre Breton

[ Hawksley Workman: Wonderful And Sad // No Reason To Cry Your Eyes Out  ]

January 21, 2008 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

kisses are a better fate

By_szym
photo: szym / text: e.e. cummings

[ Nancy Sinatra - Let Me Kiss You ]

January 14, 2008 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

[ I Wanted to Be Alone ]

Marvinscottjarrett

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

[Sam Phillips: I Wanted to Be Alone ]

December 5, 2007 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

.a catalog of increasing disasters.

Letters_by_breakfastwithtext
letters by ~breakfast

+ Like I Do | Minipop
+ The Letters | Leonard Cohen

Dear xxx,
Your letter was too short. You asked: "How goes your obsession?" My answer: Which one?
: I refuse to give up a love which I believe is good. I believe it's
good because it's not linear, just an obsession; but calm, rich,
and many-angled.[ Kathy Acker ] 

Can__t_ever_be_by_missbeccawithtext
can't ever be by *missbecca
[ I'm Actual (Demo) | The Format ]
+ My Body Is A Cage (live) | Arcade Fire

Dear xxxx,

My hotel room felt like an accident. Hours of being there culminated in an discharge of several letters that were long overdue. But yours never reached you. Don't worry, you only missed a few delineated romances, complaints about culture and miniature compliments to make you smile.

"A tale without love is like beef without mustard--insipid" [Anatole France]

Bymarciosimnchcolored
marcio simnch
[ Love is Here | Starsailor ] You can't love what you have not
+ Country Feedback (live) | R.E.M: It’s crazy what you could’ve had

Dear xxxxx,

What I miss the most are your accounts of saturnalia dreams. Maybe even your capricious chasm and your delicate expectations of me. I am bound to ignore the expiration date on our friendship. Eventually. The anticipation could almost be called delight. Am I your subject or your object? I squint to tell the difference.

: I have to erase you out of my life so I can keep on living.
no matter how passionate no matter how perfect no matter
how deep love, it fades and there's nothing. I won't stand for it. [ Kathy Acker ]


"Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away" [Dorothy Parker] 

Kissinglipsmosaic
Kissing Lips Mosaic

"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid. Let's go.'" [ Maya Angelou ]

+ 'Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart' Video | Rufus Wainwright

P.S. thank you for hearing me

November 29, 2007 in MP3, Quotes, text | Permalink | Comments (0)

Crying & Passion

Louploup_by_gloria_anielasmaller
louploup by *gloria-aniela

"The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless"
- Dorothy Sayers

+ Crying
+ Hallelujah
+ Bird On A Wire

November 7, 2007 in Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

[ You're My Thrill ]

Boogieidreamofyou
(c) BOOGIE

[ Joni Mitchell - You're My Thrill ]

"Desire persuades me one way, reason another, I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse."
- Ovid

Dear xxxxxxe, 
I dreamed of you. I don't want to see you, but my heart does.

November 6, 2007 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

[ To Build A Home ]

Makiroom
maki miyashita

[ The Cinematic Orchestra: To Build A Home ]

Writing is what I did when I was alone with no one watching me or telling me what to do. I could do whatever I wanted.
- Kathy Acker

November 4, 2007 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

[ Absolutely Zero ]

Miniandentheface

[ Jason Mraz: Absolutely Zero (live) ]

He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
 

November 4, 2007 in 100 Songs, MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (2)

Black Dress

100bulletsartblackdress
from 100 Bullets by Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso

[ Depeche Mode - Dressed In Black ]
[ Gavin Friday - Little Black Dress ]

Kristenbellblackdress

October 14, 2007 in Chicks, Comics, MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (2)

Esse

Annarosakraubeachgirl
anna rosa krau

Esse

I looked at that face, dumbfounded. The lights of métro stations flew by; I didn't notice  them. What can be done, if our sight lacks absolute power to devour objects ecstatically, in an instant, leaving nothing more  than the void of an ideal form, a sign like a hieroglyph simplified from the drawing of an animal or bird? A slightly snub nose, a high brow with sleekly brushed-back hair, the line of the chin - but why isn't the power of sight absolute? - and in a whiteness tinged with pink two sculpted holes, containing a dark, lustrous lava. To absorb that face but to have it simultaneously against the background of all spring boughs, walls, waves, in its weeping, its laughter, moving it back fifteen years, or ahead thirty. To have. It is not even a desire. Like a butterfly, a fish, the stem of a plant, only more mysterious. And so it befell me that after so many attempts at naming the world, I am able only to repeat, harping on one string, the highest, the unique avowal beyond which no power can attain: I am, she is. Shout, blow the trumpets, make thousands-strong marches, leap, rend your clothing, repeating only: is!

She got out at Raspail. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things.
A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

Brie-Comte-Robert, 1954

+ Mark Ronson - God Put A Smile Upon Your Face (feat. The Daptone Horns) @iguessimfloating

October 12, 2007 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

/ love is an overwhelming currency /

Letmeoutheart
~sweetzz145
| ~arlenephotography

[ love is an overwhelming currency: a mix ]

When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better.'It's all right' we whisper, 'I'm here, I love you.' and we lie: 'I'll never leave you.' For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.
Neil Gaiman

September 21, 2007 in MP3, Neil says hi by the way, playlist, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (3)

"And the rest is rust and stardust..."

Mystardustbook
One of the prized books on my shelf, a signed first printing of Stardust signed by Neil with a drawing of a Luna in it. Neil is awesome. Are you going to go see the movie or What!

+ NPR: A Magical Fairy Tale Hits the Big Screen
+ NEIL GAIMAN AND CHARLES VESS' STARDUST - new printing

[ Maude Maggart - Stardust ]

And the rest is rust and stardust. --Nabokov.

Donneasong_2

August 11, 2007 in Books, Film, MP3, Nabokov, Neil says hi by the way, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (3)

Damn

Idontgiveadamn

+ Eels - Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover (live) @ The Runout Groove

Bigger Version
Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

July 23, 2007 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

sex for depressives

Xgirlx
/wendy bevan/

[ Spottiswoode And His Enemies - Never Gonna Get That Girl ]

“Poor me. There’s nothing so sweet as wallowing in it is there? Wallowing is sex for depressives.”
Jeanette Winterson

“It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.”
Leonard Cohen

July 22, 2007 in MP3, Quotes, Sincerely L. Cohen | Permalink | Comments (0)

from this darkness

Morpheus_the_twilight_man_michael_z

All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone;
We must speak of other matters:
You can be me when I’m gone.

Neil Gaiman

[ Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - I See a Darkness ]

July 20, 2007 in MP3, Neil says hi by the way, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

pretend its a movie

Never complain about a situation while it is still going on; if you cant believe its happening pretend its a movie, after its over, find someone to pin the blame on and never let them forget it.
Andy Warhol

+ Okkervil River - Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe @ False45th

July 20, 2007 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

Sometimes, I still Miss You

  Photo that would of gone here is this one by Wendy Bevan. Photo removed by the photographer's request.

as manic, melodramatic and misguided as your intensity was
and as plain, puny and pristine as you body was
sometimes, I still miss you.

[ Sting- It's A Lonesome Old Town ]

I only miss you in my sleep.
I only miss you when my pride lets my heart speak.
but all I wanna do is miss you tonight.
all I wanna do is miss you tonight.

- I don’t remember the source

We are all improved by the glow of memory.
- Neil Gaiman

June 10, 2007 in MP3, Quotes, text | Permalink | Comments (1)

Erase

Josie_moran_superhawt

I took my pills for my memory
but I could not stop it
from erasing

Leonard Cohen

[ The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind (KCRW Session) ]

+ The Cardigans - Erase/Rewind (From The Old School Mix)

June 10, 2007 in MP3, Quotes, Sincerely L. Cohen | Permalink | Comments (0)

[ Not An Addict ]

Cure_allbig
Cure All

It is not opium which makes me work but its absence, and in order for me to feel its absence it must from time to time be present.
Antonin Artaud

[ K's Choice - Not An Addict (live) ] 

June 2, 2007 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

: hope

Exodus

David Usher : Hope (Tell everyone)

Hermandad Brotherhood
Homenaje a Claudio Ptolomeo


Homage to Claudius Ptolemy
Soy hombre: duro poco I am a man: little do I last
y es enorme la noche. and the night is enormous.
Pero miro hacia arribo But I look up:
las estrellas escriben. the stars write.
Sin entender comprendo: Unknowing I understand:
tambiŽn soy escritura I too am written,
y en este mismo instante and at this very moment
alguien me deletrea. someone spells me out.

Octavio Paz - via

April 27, 2007 in 100 Songs, MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (5)

God is alive; Magic is afoot

Cohenby_david_boswell

"God is Alive, Magic is Afoot...." ]

Leonard reading from "BEAUTIFUL LOSERS"

+ Leonard Cohen - "Famous Blue Raincoat" - Germany, 1979

+ Leonard Cohen - Under Review: 1934-1977 - Thanks to this I now have a great little introductory DVD for my friends who ask "Who is this Leonard Cohen person?"
 

April 8, 2007 in Quotes, Sincerely L. Cohen | Permalink | Comments (2)

//mystery

Amcmystery

"Indulge in the mystery twice and perhaps feel alive for the rest of the day"
A. M. Couture

[ U2 - She's a Mystery To Me (live) ]

March 20, 2007 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (1)

//against

Astronaut_by_anemises

"As nights went on and nothing happened and the phenomenon slowly faded to the accustomed deeper violets again, most had difficulty remembering the earlier rise of heart, the sense of overture and possibility, and went back once again to seeking only orgasm, hallucination, stupor, sleep, to fetch them through the night and prepare them against the day."
Against the Day - Thomas Pynchon {via}

+ The Postal Service - Against All Odds
+ Pynchon Trivia Contest

February 22, 2007 in Quotes | Permalink | Comments (2)

//Man

Acaso78
Javier Vallhonrat, Acaso 2000-2002 (Untitled #78)

What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate.
Leonard Cohen

[ Hawksley Workman - Complicated Man ]

January 30, 2007 in MP3, Quotes, Sincerely L. Cohen | Permalink | Comments (0)

//Woman

Ythelastman55panel
Y: THE LAST MAN #52

[ Neneh Cherry - Woman ]

December 29, 2006 in Comics, MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (3)

[ Suffer Well ]

Abandonedwoman
Abandoned Woman by AngryVarmit

and in this way, what
we are practicing
is suffering,
which everybody practices,
but strangely few of us
grow graceful in.

T. Hoagland

[ Depeche Mode - Suffer Well (live) ]

December 10, 2006 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (3)

[ Alone Together ]

Christophekutner2

Photo: Christophe Kutner

[ Judy Garland - Alone Together ]

I have never loved a woman for herself alone, but because I was caught up in the time with her, between train arrivals and train departures and other commitments. I have loved because she was beautiful and we were two humans lying in the forest at the edge of a dark lake or because she was not beautiful and we were two humans walking between buildings who understood something about suffering. I have loved because so many loved her or because so many were indifferent to her, or to make her believe that she was a girl in a meadow upon whose approved knees I laid my head or to make her believe that I was saint and that she had been loved by a saint. I never told a woman I liked her and when I wrote the words “My love,” I never meant it to mean “I love you.”

L.Cohen “Poems Written / While Dying of Love”

November 24, 2006 in MP3, Quotes, Sincerely L. Cohen | Permalink | Comments (0)

said


Grant Morrison, obviously Capt. Jean-Luc Picard's Happier Twin

"I'd like to have them all released as a boxed set of issues that you can shuffle around and also as individual miniseries plus bookends in a sumptuous Absolute collection printed using the finest intelligent inks from Mars and Venus on paper so smooth and so sexy that one touch is like fortnight's worth of non-stop latex sex."
said Mr.Grant Morrison on the subject of his Seven Soldiers series.

"The King is basically Michael Myers with a big plastic head."
said Chepo on the subject of the Burger King Sneak King game ( Already reviewed by IGN with the headline “Sneak King Review: Call off the restraining order, I’m loving it.” )

"If Luna Darko plays 4 days every week, I will be one happy Xbox."
said my Xbox 360 on the subject of my playing habits.

November 16, 2006 in Comics, Games, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Drowning Man

Spiderduckierules_1
Swimming lessons by ~Crawl + Breathe Life by =larafairie

[ The Cure - The Drowning Man ]

" I swim in your love, I drown in my loneliness "
Leonard Cohen

November 14, 2006 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

[ ('Til) I Kissed You ]

Maleevscarlettandcliff
Art by ALEX MALEEV from "The ballad of Clint Barton and Wanda Maximoff"

[ The Everly Brothers - ('Til) I Kissed You ]

I want to be the hypnotist who takes no chances of falling asleep himself. I want to kiss with one eye open. Or I did. I don’t want to anymore”
L. Cohen

November 4, 2006 in MP3, Quotes, Sincerely L. Cohen | Permalink | Comments (1)

Otherside

Luk_found_dharma
LOST IN KALININGRAD: Tribute to the Lost series shot in Russian woods

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstasy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

+ KT Tunstall - Other Side of the World @ The World Cafe
+ KT Tunstall's Covergraphy 

October 18, 2006 in MP3, Quotes, TV | Permalink | Comments (0)

ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART

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from How to heal a broken heart by =lexidh

+ Tim Curry - ANYONE WHO HAD A HEART [ music set to HOUSE MD video ]

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.
Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things - Published yesterday.

+ Speaking of Comic Book writers...Creator/writer Bill Willingham needs you!

September 27, 2006 in MP3, Neil says hi by the way, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (1)

[ Some Kinda Love ]

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art: Steve Dillon, Preacher

[ Velvet Underground - Some Kinda Love (Closet Mix) ]

Who knows how to make love stay?

1. Tell love you are going to Junior’s Deli on Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to pick up a cheesecake, and if love stays, it can have half. It will stay.

2. Tell love you want a memento of it and obtain a lock of its hair. Burn the hair in a dime-store incense burner with yin/yang symbols on three sides. Face southwest. Talk fast over the burning hair in a convincingly exotic language. Remove the ashes of the burnt hair and use them to paint a mustache on your face. Find love. Tell it you are someone new. It will stay.

3. Wake love up in the middle of the night. Tell it the world is on fire. Dash to the bedroom window and pee out of it. Casually return to bed and assure love that everything is going to be all right. Fall asleep. Love will be there in the morning.

from Still Life With Woodpecker, by Tom Robbins

September 9, 2006 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (1)

[ Alone + Easy Target ]

Heartwindow

[ Foo Fighter - Alone + Easy Target ]

"I am not protected from your agitation of my heart. I am a bee in your world. I am a squirrel. I move too quickly. I die too fast. Your song is cruel and selfish. You have no gasp to express me. I appeared in this world with you when you were lost in the pride of being alone."
L. Cohen

August 1, 2006 in MP3, Quotes, Sincerely L. Cohen | Permalink | Comments (0)

[ Lonely Still ]

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[ Jesse Sykes -  Lonely Still ]

"Solitude exists for us not to remember but to forget."
Cristina Garcia

"Razumov longed desperately for a word of advice, for moral support. Who knows what true loneliness is--not  the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad."
Joseph Conrad

"I'm not a man of many faces. The mask i wear is one"
Sting

"I'm a burning hearth," he said
"People see the smoke,
But no one comes to warm themselves"
J.Mitchell

July 31, 2006 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

I try to think about life

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I start a picture and I finish it. I don't think about art while I work. I try to think about life.
Jean Michel Basquiat

///// The Smiths - Paint A Vulgar Picture

July 30, 2006 in Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

The Moon

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The Moon is outside.
I saw the great uncomplicated thing
when I went to take a leak just now.
I should have looked at it longer.
I am a poor lover of the moon.
I see it all at once and that's it
for me and the moon.
Leonard Cohen

+ "I had an affair with the Moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame......"

Laurabrick
Nora Zehetner, the femme fatale in Brick.


    The moon's Celestial Highness;
    There's not a trace / upon her face
    Of diffidence or shyness:
    She borrows light / that, through the night,
    Mankind may all acclaim her--
    And, truth to tell, / she lights up well,
    So I, for one, don't blame her.
    Ah, pray make no mistake; / We're not shy--
    We're very wide awake,
    The moon and I..."
    The Mikado

[
Nora Zehetner - The Sun Whose Rays Are All Ablaze ]

July 22, 2006 in MP3, Quotes, Sincerely L. Cohen | Permalink | Comments (1)

the Voice

“That's the whole trouble. You can't ever find a place that's nice and peaceful, because there isn't any. You may think there is, but once you get there, when you're not looking, somebody'll sneak up and write "Fuck you" right under your nose.”
J. D. Salinger

+ Who's the Voice of this Generation? Hemingway's rose like the sun. Kerouac found his on the road. So why can't today's young novelists express the essence of their era? 

July 9, 2006 in Quotes | Permalink | Comments (2)

Fail again. Fail better


"Ever tried. Ever failed.No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett

//// Ray Charles “Come Rain or Come Shine”

July 5, 2006 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0)

[ It's A Long Life To Always Be Longing ]

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[ Hawksley Workman - It's A Long Life To Always Be Longing ]

I have no desire to do anything. I am afraid of nothing and I want nothing. I wait like a psychopath in a game of dodge-ball: breathing quickly while the fools decide which one will throw at me next, and jumping aside for no reason except that I like being in the middle. And there is no reason for being in the middle. Why not quit altogether and like outside the circle?

I have no idea what to say, I don’t know when I’ll see you again and I don’t believe in anything beyond the next ten minutes. People keep calling me and telling me what a great friend I am. Everybody is looking for someone who can stand up in the wind. It is lonely standing up and crowded lying down. I refuse to be an anchor for other people’s dreams – but then I refuse to anchor mine to anyone else. So I have no choice but to stand up and piss into the wind. Pardon my vulgarity.

Hunter S. Thompson

July 4, 2006 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (1)

Era Lo, sencillamente Lo...

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"Era Lo, sencillamente Lo por la mañana, cuando estaba derecha, con su metro cuarenta y ocho de estatura, con un pie enfundado en un calcetín. Era Lola cuando llevaba puestos los pantalones. Era Dolly en la escuela. Era Dolores cuando firmaba. Pero en mis brazos siempre fué Lolita."
(Tomado del libro "Lolita" de Vladimir Nabokov)

It never occured to me to read Lolita in Spanish.

June 1, 2006 in Nabokov, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

Young Rimbaud

If you are young and you don't happen to be Arthur Rimbaud
we would prefer not to hear from you
and if you happen to be Arthur Rimbaud
we definitely don't want to hear from you

Leonard Cohen, The Book of Longing

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What I liked were: absurd paintings, pictures over doorways, stage sets, carnival backdrops, billboards, bright-colored prints, old-fashioned literature, church Latin, erotic books full of misspellings, the kind of novels our grandmothers read, fairy tales, little children's books, old operas, silly old songs, the naive rhythms of country rimes.
Arthur Rimbaud , SECOND DELIRIUM: THE ALCHEMY OF THE WORD,  A Season In Hell

+ Jill Sobule and Billy Bragg - "All the Young Dudes"

May 15, 2006 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

[ Lust ]

[ Hawksley Workman - Lust ]

May 6, 2006 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack

Teledildonics is the word

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art: Sam Webber

If you like, you may live in a computer created world all day and all night. You will be able to try out a Virtual life with a Virtual lover. You can go into your Virtual house and do Virtual housework, add a baby or two, even find out if you’d rather be gay. Or single. Or straight. Why hesitate when you could simulate. And sex? Certainly. Teledildonics is the word.
Jeanette Winterson, Written On the Body, 1992

Certainly Miss Winterson plays The Sims now?

April 23, 2006 in Quotes | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack

..kiss..

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Photo: Per Zennström

To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

Jeanette Winterson

// Little Mermaid Soundtrack - Kiss the Girl

April 16, 2006 in Quotes | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack

[ Leave ]

"Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads."
André Breton 

[ REM  - Leave (remix) ]

I tried to leave you, I don't deny
I closed the book on us, at least a hundred times.
I'd wake up every morning by your side.
The years go by, you lose your pride.
The baby's crying, so you do not go outside,
and all your work it's right before your eyes.
Goodnight, my darling, I hope you're satisfied,
the bed is kind of narrow, but my arms are open wide.
And here's a man still working for your smile.

Leonard Cohen

April 9, 2006 in MP3, Quotes | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Zero into herself..

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Photo: Patrick Demarchelier

She has turned her face, more than once, to the Outer Radiance and simply seen nothing there. And so each time taken a little more of the Zero into herself. It comes down to courage, at worst an amount of self-delu