February 2009
50 posts
“It is easy enough to mock the breadth of his package, but it was easier still to...”
– Richard Cohen on the President’s package.
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“The novelist now better understands his medium; he is ceasing to pretend that...”
– William Gass
Watch‘Enormous Amount of Money’: McCain Confronts Obama Over Cost of New ‘Marine One’ Fleet
“Next thing you are on your way across the white pasture afrolic with lambs in...”
– Samuel Beckett, Company
“Quick imagine.”
– Samuel Beckett
Dubai Architecture-DUBAI IS NUTS-Dubai is said to... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-22) →
Harry Nilsson (33)
The National (19)
Kanye West (18)
Beirut (17)
Andrew Bird (10)
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Good Old Desk--Nilsson
My old desk doesn’t arabesque, in the morning when I first arrive. It’s a pleasure to see it’s waiting there for me to keep my hopes alive. Such a comfort to know it’s got no place to go, it’s always there. It’s the one thing I’ve got, a huge success, my Good Old Desk. My old desk isn’t picturesque, but it’s happy as a desk can be. We never...
Naming the beams for Dana Farber patients -... →
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“I see editors as something like the landing party in Cape Canaveral, giving...”
– The trusted friends who steer novelists away from cliche | Books | The Guardian
“If you went to a restaurant and they had “yummy spaghetti” on the menu, you...”
– »HTML Giant » Vicarious MFA: Two week round-up.
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“Be interesting! Be interesting! Art is no excuse for boring people.”
– Jules Renard
I have a likin' for lichen.
My car has on it a light dusting of sawdust, like snow.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-15) →
The National (26)
Kanye West (23)
Harry Nilsson (17)
Nick Lowe (12)
Coldplay (12)
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“It is easier to be gigantic than to be beautiful.”
– Nietzsche
“What is good is light; whatever is divine moves on tender feet”: first...”
– Nietzsche, on Bizet’s Carmen, The Case of Wagner.
“There are no plurals, only chance or temporary agglomerations. The only plural...”
– Manifesto of the Flying Mallet by Michael Hofmann : Poetry Magazine
“Write what you don’t know and tell, don’t show.”
– Powell
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-8) →
Andrew Bird (27)
Patrick Doyle (26)
Kanye West (26)
Paul McCartney (17)
Julee Cruise (14)
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William Vollman's favorite books
What are your ten favorite books, and what makes them special to you? Danilo Kis, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich (A, G) William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (A, B, E) Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (D, E, G) Lady Murasaki, The Tale of Gengi (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) Tadeusz Konwicki, A Dreambook of our Time (A, E, F) Montaigne, Complete Essays (D, E, F) Kawabata Yasunori, Snow County (C, D, E, G)...
Conversational Reading: publishing in a recession →
Halloween in the Time of Cholera - a set on... →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-2-1) →
Kanye West (87)
Patrick Doyle (46)
Beirut (17)
Harry Nilsson (15)
Hauschka (14)
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