March 2012
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“To love is to return.”
Mar 21st
“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)
Mar 2nd
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October 2011
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Oct 23rd
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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...
Oct 16th
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April 2011
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March 2011
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Bill Murray.
Mar 1st
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December 2010
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Dec 12th
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“The unspoken is not merely what is deprived of sound; rather, it is the unsaid,...”
– Martin Heidegger, “The Way to Language”
Dec 4th
November 2010
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Places of importance
 
Nov 29th
“Since I don’t happen to be much interested in the ways that intellectuals...”
– Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism
Nov 28th
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“So take Derrida, one of the grand old men. I thought I ought to at least be able...”
– Noam Chomsky on Post-Modernism
Nov 28th
“Korine originally intended to follow up Gummo with a short-lived project known...”
–  Harmony Korine (via eli)
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October 2010
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Oct 25th
Hou Hsiao Hsien
Oct 24th
“One of the more embarrassing and self-indulgent challenges of our time is the...”
– Alain de Botton on Distraction
Oct 18th
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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...
Oct 16th
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Oct 11th
“What most excites Zahedi is Bazin’s peculiarly Christian film aesthetic, his...”
– Long Pauses: Waking Life (2001)
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September 2010
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‘lost in a moment’ by dennis wheatley
Sep 22nd
August 2010
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“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in...”
– Bob Dylan
Aug 12th
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July 2010
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Jul 30th
“Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and...”
–  Jean Cocteau
Jul 30th
June 2010
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ListenLove like a sunset (part 2) - Phoenix
Jun 21st
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Jun 21st
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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.
Jun 17th
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Jun 15th
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“There is so much promise. Buttons to push to make words and pictures and films...”
– Frank Chimero
Jun 4th
May 2010
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“Have little and you will gain. Have much and you will be confused.”
– Lao Tzu
May 25th
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“I am passionate about keeping the human dimension in things. You have to keep...”
– Jarvis Cocker
May 23rd
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April 2010
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Apr 12th
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Apr 6th
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March 2010
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February 2010
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“In eras past, mainstream culture was blandly, blindly complacent, so underground...”
– Michael Azerrad in Paste, February 2010 (via marco)
Feb 18th
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Feb 9th
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Concrete blocks and Palm trees
たそがれ # Sentosa # 那覇 # # # # your kitchen - #
Feb 6th
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January 2010
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Laundry Day # (via wanderingbear)
Jan 17th
“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)
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November 2009
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wanderingbear: modern love..
Nov 7th
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