How few opportunities to make a sound
Decision are left as our debilities multiply
July 05, 2018
April 25, 2018
And your favorite Leonard Cohen songs
I am just floating
Infinitely placid
Infinitely calm
And infinitely spacious with you
I love you in the movies
With sunglasses
And your favorite Leonard Cohen songs
When we fall into your kitchen drawers
And play spooning
I’ll be here in the morning
Singing into your fingertips
Candy covered lips
I could have chosen not to be hurt
But there is no life in that
I wouldn’t change this for eternity
This is lovely
+ Ladies and Gentlemen... Mr. Leonard Cohen
+ Leonard Cohen Documentary, 1989
+ Leonard Cohen in his Hydra's house (1988)
April 06, 2018
you've tried everything
As you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
― Douglas Coupland
Eurythmics: I've Tried Everything
April 04, 2018
You remind me of the bible
Beth Orton: I Love How You Love Me
April 03, 2018
January 15, 2018
January 13, 2018
that furnace
“Love, that furnace into which everything is dropped.”
— James Salter
Love is a fire.
It burns everyone.
It disfigures everyone.
It is the world’s excuse
for being ugly.
— Leonard Cohen, “Love Is A Fire”
January 04, 2018
forgive me this apostasy
(Insomnia, your stare is dull and ashen. My love, forgive me this apostasy.)
— Vladimir Nabokov
November 30, 2017
a violent stab of loneliness
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning.” – Haruki Murakami
November 23, 2017
no escape from loneliness
Sent to me by my Leonard Cohen fundamentalist Muse.
+ Leonard Cohen told us back in 2008 why he loved seeing other artists cover his songs.
+ Leonard Cohen : Une brèche en toute chose
November 18, 2017
HighDef Nabokov
The last Lolita film recently had it's 20th anniversary and I've been waiting for an American blu-ray release of "Lolita" forever and a day. I had given up but then I ran into a great release from Germany that was was the upgrade I was looking for. Here's the image difference between the DVD and this blu-ray.
+ Lolita: Behind the Scenes
+ SEEING 'LOLITA':"The remake of "Lolita" may never open in America"
+ Interview: Dominique Swain, ‘Lolita’ Star in 1997 Remake
+ NYT: Revisiting a Dangerous Obsession
+ ADRIAN LYNE’S LOLITA
+ Ennio Morricone - Love In The Morning / Lolita
+ Nabokov and the Movies
+ Essay: Lolita - Girly: Sarah K. Cleaver on Tumblr nymphet
November 12, 2017
Let's begin again
While I'm on this R.E.M. kick, one for my Muse: [R.E.M. You Are The Everything.live],
and also thanks for all the encouragement to my dear be your pet.
August 28, 2017
as you get older
I read somewhere that as you get older, the brain cells associated with anxiety begin to die. [Pauses] A lot of other brain cells die, too, so you’ve got to watch out
Leonard Cohen
Hayden: Starting Over And I feel like starting over / More now, as I'm older
January 07, 2017
Memory, some say, is fate's shorthand
Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath. Vladimir Nabokov, Transparent Things
November 17, 2016
of anguish and anxiety
“the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse”.
- Leonard Cohen on depression
+ LEONARD COHEN: A FINAL INTERVIEW | September 2016| David Remnick from The New Yorker
August 10, 2016
July 28, 2016
not so lonely....
Mr.Robot.eps2.2_init1.asec
February 20, 2016
February 14, 2016
nostalgia is a liar
nostalgia is a liar. nothing was ever as good as you remember it to be. there’s a reason you don’t talk to that person anymore, there’s a reason you’re not part of each other’s lives. don’t trust nostalgia. grieve. reflect. move on. /via
If you have never heard the live version of Buckley's FORGET HER...Buckle up and fix that RIGHT NOW:
image: © 2011-2015 BRANDON JORDAN via
January 31, 2016
January 11, 2016
//Bowie//
A drawing I did of Bowie circa 1997. One of the few drawings I've always been happy about. A few personal favorites: Everyone Says Hi.live // Something In The Air // Bring Me the Disco King.live // Natalie Merchant's Space Oddity
Thinking about how we mourn artists we've never met. We don't cry because we knew them, we cry because they helped us know ourselves.
— Juliette (@ElusiveJ) January 11, 2016 via ken
+ Bowie as Warhol via GF
+ David Bowie art by Yoshitaka Amano
January 06, 2016
January 02, 2016
December 01, 2015
January 18, 2015
[how] sad
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
— Leonard Cohen
January 12, 2015
Please make me empty...
“Please make me empty, if I’m empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I’m not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”
Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
+ Lana Del Rey - Chelsea Hotel No 2
Margaret Atwood
September 08, 2014
A lot of it is about suffering and how something always feels not quite right
"A lot of it is about suffering and how something always feels not quite right."
- My Muse
My wonderful muse was talking about something else but this line reminded me of The Leftovers. Especially after last night's overachieving and incredible season finale was stuck in my head.
"This, then, is the message of The Leftovers, revealed in the final minute of the final episode of the season. Pain, loss, grief, failure, shame: these things are real, and the damage they do is lasting and debilitating."
- “The Leftovers” finale: Frustrating and painful — but hopeful, too
This instrumental moves me. Everytime it was used in the show it was perfect.
[ Max Richter: November ]
August 23, 2014
loneliest moment
"The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
August 16, 2014
silence searching for a sound
I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?
Neil Gaiman
Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired.
Leonard Cohen
Please don’t understand me too quickly.
André Gide
//Nicola Samori, L'Occhio Occidentale
June 21, 2014
Existence is random
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces.
Alan Moore, Watchmen
+ Covers by Dave Gibbons for the French edition of Watchmen
+ Rorschach Tattoo
May 10, 2014
April 18, 2014
Gabriel
He believed it as if it had been determined by fate.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
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
+ Morrissey - My Dearest Love
February 08, 2014
January 23, 2014
January 18, 2014
you've got no one to talk to
“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too sensitive, too cold hearted. I’m like a collection of paradoxes.”
Ferdinand de Saussure
January 11, 2014
January 05, 2014
terrible lingering fears about ourselves
"How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around, talk to people, eat and drink. We manage to function. The feelings are deep and real. Shouldn’t they paralyze us? How is it we can survive them, at least for a little while? We drive a car, we teach a class. How is it no one sees how deeply afraid we were, last night, this morning? Is it something we all hide from each other, by mutual consent? Or do we share the same secret without knowing it? Wear the same disguise?"
Don DeLillo, White Noise
January 04, 2014
no hope
“What he had really wanted to do was to tear a hole in his world and escape.”
Vladimir Nabokov
December 22, 2013
..causes the most pain
James Kidd, Assassin's Creed 4
December 14, 2013
December 02, 2013
November 30, 2013
Not A Movie
[ Okkervil River: Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe ]
November 28, 2013
Friendship is less simple....
“Friendship is less simple. It is long and hard to obtain but when one has it there's no getting rid of it; one simply has to cope with it. Don't think for a minute that your friends will telephone you every evening, as they ought to, in order to find out if this doesn't happen to be the evening when you are deciding to commit suicide, or simply whether you don't need company, whether you are not in the mood to go out. No, don't worry, they'll ring up the evening you are not alone, when life is beautiful. As for suicide, they would be more likely to push you to it, by virtue of what you owe to yourself, according to them. May heaven protect us, cher Monsieur, from being set upon a pedestal by our friends!”
― Albert Camus, The Fall
September 07, 2013
August 29, 2013
Pain wanders
Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire
Theodore Roethke
night people
There's something wild in the country/that only the night people know
Tennessee Williams
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