November 2009
56 posts
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via mariecriedwolf,libraries)
“What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don’t live up until...”
– Charles Bukowski (via 50yearstorm, syntheticpubes)
Deer Tick/ Beautiful Girls (Sean Kingston Cover)
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In typical holiday fashion
I have been dead for the past several days. By which I mean having, recuperating from, and attempting to deal with the aftermath of an explosive family feud; catching a nasty cold; and having an anxiety attack. But I can see the light at the end of the tunnel. Tomorrow I go back to Berkeley where 10-page papers, production week on the magazine, sleep deprivation and massive drug intake (-my normal...
Adrienne Rich/ What Kind of Times Are These?
From...
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NYT: Meditation reduces blood pressure, stress →
Could the mental relaxation produced by transcendental meditation have physiological benefits? A study presented last week at the American Heart Association meeting in Orlando, Fla., suggests that it may, at least in the case of people with established coronary artery disease.
Researchers followed about 200 high-risk patients for an average of five years. Among the 100 who meditated, there were...
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Devendra Banhart/ Electric Heart (via mssjiggs)
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I just want to wash my hair
but it will take an hour to dry and I am so so tired hello day four of dirty hair I will wash you during Thanksgiving vacation
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Jane’s Addiction/ Jane Says
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An open letter to the city of San Francisco
I HATE YOU.
You bitches cost me nearly $500 tonight. WHY? I am a good person. I don’t know why you felt all of this was necessary. You could really stand to learn something called HUMAN COMPASSION.
I don’t want to live with you assholes anyway. Fuck you and your startup companies and your asshole cops and your fixed gear-riding pussy hipsters and your stupid bridge with its constant...
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Sometimes I don't want to talk. I just want to be...
(via thingsgohazy)
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If people over 65 in each state made the laws, 0... →
syntheticpubes:
Old people are the enemy, and they vote (more than you).
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Florence + the Machine/ Postcards from Italy...
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Dear protestors,
I support your right to march picket lines and rally for your cause. I support your cause. I support your right to strike. I do not support your breaking the law, pulling fire alarms all over campus, or retaliating against law enforcement officers who are doing their jobs.
I don’t want fee increases, either. But by stopping students from going class, you’re taking more direct action...
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Sleigh Bells/ Crown on the Ground
Sleigh Bells...
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Hella people are advising against early cancer... →
Arriving on the heels of hotly disputed guidelines calling for less use of mammography, the new recommendations [to delay Pap tests for young women] might seem like part of a larger plan to slash cancer screening for women. But the timing was coincidental, said Dr. Cheryl B. Iglesia, the chairwoman of a panel in the obstetricians’ group that developed the Pap smear guidelines. The group updates...
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The Cure/ The Love Cats
You’re so...
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“The people most affected by [the War on Drugs] are black and brown and poor....”
– David Simon (Do click. This discussion is incredible. Part II has fantastic insight into the collapse of newspapers.) (via syntheticpubes)
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When love beckons you follow her Though her ways are hard and steep And when her wings enfold you yield to her Though the sword hidden among her pinions may wound you And when she speaks to you believe in her Though her voice may shatter your dreams as the North wind lays waste the garden For even as love crowns you so does she crucify you Even as she is for your growth so is she for your...
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Sigur Rós/ Starálfur (via moon-dust, kapi)
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dys-pho-ri-a (n.): feelings of dissatisfaction, anxiety, restlessness, or unease; a seemingly perpetual state of general yet acute unhappiness.
(via thingsgohazy)
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Hot Chip/ Take It In
From their new album, One...
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“Hemingway has his classic moment in “The Sun Also Rises” when someone asks Mike...”
– Prozac Nation, Elizabeth Wurtzel. (via thelovelybones, exactcenter)
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I would like
to get out of this place; to start over and be someone that I like a little more; a steady job; an apartment of my own; a poodle; to get out of debt; to be healthy; to get paid to do something that I love; to have time to relax; to be respected; to be satisfied with myself; to be happy
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The XX/ Shelter (Death to the Throne Remix)
I...
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Allen Ginsberg/ America (Chicago, 1959)
Last...
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The Invitation
by Oriah.
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.
It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love for your dream for the adventure of being alive.
It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon… I want to know if you have...
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Kings of Leon/ Use Somebody
I hated this song...
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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
– Philip K. Dick. (via vkels)
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Chairlift/ Bruises
I’m permanently black...
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Coke Talk of the Day
coketalk:
A friend of mine has a roommate who voted Yes on Prop 8, the California ballot measure that made it unconstitutional for gays to marry in my state.
I know this because my friend just asked for my advice on how to handle her. They’ve known each other all their lives — childhood friends who these days don’t seem to have anything in common other than childhood.
Until now, it hasn’t...
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I'm Gay And
I thought maybe I should tell my parents. then recalled all the pain my once stable, now outed friends carry (with their crutches); ruined by homophobic parenthood. youth who face adults with hellfire speech and condemnations that turn air to glass, who tumble apart like a fist full of confetti, a freshly shattered mirror, a breeze full of sand, a cough full of spit, a sky full of rain,...
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Aesop Rock/ None Shall Pass (via linnheidi,...
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i wish i was
a wonderful person
there for everyone
dead
beautiful
free
asleep
(via thingsgohazy:anorexiaa)
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“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is...”
– Italo Calvino.
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decontextualized conversation, vol. II
Erin: There wasn’t really anything interesting on the ballot, anyway. Ashley: I wanted to vote on the marijuana proposition. But I guess I was just being lazy.
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my horoscope is sometimes scarily accurate
November 2, 2009 - November 8, 2009. Pisces: Don’t let too much red tape ruin your chances of bringing a creative business project to a successful conclusion. Legal necessities may be blocking your chances of getting as much accomplished as you had hoped. Be patient and do what you can in the meantime. At work you may find yourself involved in dramas that seem a waste of time and energy....
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Edwyn Collins/ A Girl Like You