October 2010
3 posts
Disappears - Lux - Gone Completely
“If you’re in Heaven then you’ll forgive me, dear
Because...”
– Nick Cave
August 2010
7 posts
2 tags
“The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
1 tag
“How she became a manager remains a mystery. But there are only two...”
– Max Barry - Company
“Worship in the temple of your soul, but know the names of those who control your...”
– Harlan Ellison
February 2010
6 posts
2 tags
The movers move,
the shakers shake,
the winners write their history
But from high on the high hills
it all looks like nothing
—Justin Sullivan
3 tags
2 tags
Machines of Loving Grace - Gilt - Last
She threw...
January 2010
15 posts
2 tags
“It was either Phil [Dick] or [Ace editor] Terry Carr who came up with the idea...”
– Poul Anderson, posthumous appreciation of Philip K. Dick in Locus magazine #256
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“She came onto him like a slow movin’ cold front — His beer was...”
– John Hiatt
“The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea...”
– Thornton Wilder
The moft excellent comedie and tragical romance of
TWO GENTLEMEN OF LEBOWSKI
WALTER In sooth, then, faithful friend, this was a rug of value? Thou wouldst call it not a rug among ordinary rugs, but a rug of purpose? A star in a firmament, in step with the fashion alike to the Whitsun morris-dance? A worthy rug, a rug of consequence, sir?
THE KNAVE It was of consequence, I should think;...
2 tags
2 tags
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More - Dark Parade
No...
1 tag
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“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing...”
– Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
“The best way to waste your life, … is by taking notes. The easiest way to...”
– Chuck Palahniuk
3 tags
Was talking about this a couple days ago, had to...
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make...”
– Voltaire
Helmet - Meantime - Unsung
It is like metal, but...
November 2009
1 post
“as
the
spirit
wanes
the
form
appears”
– Charles Bukowski
October 2009
6 posts
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head - Ego...
“To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.”
– Anatole France
“I think Linus Tordalv started working on Linux back in 1991…and the shit...”
– Fake Steve Jobs
1 tag
Project Pigeon →
bestofwikipedia:
During World War II, Project Pigeon was famed behaviorist B.F. Skinner’s attempt to develop a pigeon-guided missile. The project centered around dividing the nose cone of a missile into three compartments, and encasing a pigeon in each. The compartments for each had a video image of what was in front of them, and the pigeons would peck toward the object, thereby directing the...
September 2009
11 posts
2 tags
“You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I...”
– Sydney Smith
4 tags
3 tags
“Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.”
– Paul Gauguin
coketalk:
I’ll cry myself to sleep tonight. Tomorrow, watch the fuck out.
Book Titles, If They Were Written Today
yourmonkeycalled:
Then: The Wealth of Nations Now: Invisible Hands: The Mysterious Market Forces That Control Our Lives and How to Profit from Them
“Never go with a hippie to a second location.”
– Jack Donaghy (via ericmortensen)
2 tags
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human...”
– H. P. Lovecraft, “The Call of Cthulhu”, first line
3 tags
August 2009
40 posts
Health - Get Color - Die Slow