March 2012
2 posts
Fish is a free 'tap essay' by Robin Sloan. →
“To love is to return.”
“I don’t like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work,—the chance to find...”
– Marlow in Heart of Darkness (via everythinginthesky)
October 2011
2 posts
3 tags
Discovering QQ
Many of my Chinese students have asked me to get a QQ account. At first I found this puzzling, as I had never heard of QQ, nor did I know how it would help me stay in touch with my students.
So I did a google search and found this on Wikipedia -
Tencent QQ, generally referred to as QQ, is the most popular free instant messaging computer program in mainland China. As of July 11, 2011, the...
April 2011
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March 2011
1 post
WatchBill Murray.
December 2010
2 posts
“The unspoken is not merely what is deprived of sound; rather, it is
the unsaid,...”
– Martin Heidegger, “The Way to Language”
November 2010
6 posts
Places of importance
“Since I don’t happen to be much interested in the ways that intellectuals...”
– Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism
“So take Derrida, one of the grand old men. I thought I ought to at least be able...”
– Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism
“Korine originally intended to follow up Gummo with a short-lived project known...”
– Harmony Korine (via eli)
October 2010
7 posts
Hou Hsiao Hsien
“One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the...”
– Alain de Botton on Distraction
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Two gems from Frege’s essay “On Sense and Nominatum” -
On poetry: “Among the differences possible in this connection [the individual’s image] we mention the shadings and colorings which poetry seeks to impart to the senses. These shadings and colorings are not objective. Every listener or reader has to add to them in accordance with the hints of the poet or...
“What most excites Zahedi is Bazin’s peculiarly Christian film aesthetic, his...”
– Long Pauses: Waking Life (2001)
September 2010
1 post
Watch‘lost in a moment’ by dennis wheatley
August 2010
1 post
“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in...”
– Bob Dylan
July 2010
2 posts
“Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and...”
– Jean Cocteau
June 2010
8 posts
Love like a sunset (part 2) - Phoenix
The Playlist:
There’s no sign of Coppola breaking out of the privileged bubble that infuriates so many of her critics, although, thankfully, her lyrical eye for an image is still intact.
Coppola doesn’t pretend be outside of that privileged bubble. That poised kind of honesty allows for truthful moments to emerge in her films.
“There is so much promise. Buttons to push to make words and pictures and films...”
– Frank Chimero
May 2010
4 posts
“Have little and you will gain. Have much and you will be confused.”
– Lao Tzu
“I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep...”
– Jarvis Cocker
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April 2010
2 posts
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March 2010
3 posts
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February 2010
3 posts
“In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground...”
– Michael Azerrad in Paste, February 2010 (via marco)
Concrete blocks and Palm trees
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January 2010
4 posts
WatchLaundry Day # (via wanderingbear)
“She uses the remote as demonstrated, drapes drawing quietly aside to reveal a...”
– William Gibson on the view from a Tokyo hotel, from Pattern Recognition. (via)
November 2009
1 post
Watchwanderingbear:
modern love..