March 2010
1 post
January 2010
1 post
Two facts and a question
Wittgenstein knows!
Consider for example the proceedings that we call “games”. I mean board-games, card-games, ball-games, Olympic games, and so on. What is common to them all? — Don’t say: “There must be something common, or they would not be called ‘games’ “-but look and see whether there is anything common to all. — For if you look at them...
December 2009
10 posts
kelsium:
Abortion is a medical procedure. Prevent it as much as possible. Don’t need one? Don’t get one. Need one? Get one. Got something to say about someone else’s medical procedure? Don’t. Like dicks? Eat one.
Carla Bruni - Raphael
this song is unique in...
I wonder how long post-graduation it will take until I no longer internally pronounce all instances of “Benjamin” as “Benyameen.”
sous le soleil exactement - serge gainsbourg
November 2009
7 posts
I just realised there are hardly any Soviets in my...
faithandbegorrah:
zombienumbersix:
Y’all got any recommendations for Russian composers that aren’t awful and aren’t Tschaikovsky?
ETA: ARTEMYEV!
Shostakovich! Shos! ta! ko! vich!
rachmaninoff.
Press: Recently there has been an article published in Rolling Stone magazine stating that "Daytripper" was about a prostitute, and "Norwegian Wood" was about a lesbian. What was your intent when writing these songs?
Paul: We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians.
Who speaks Russian here? I'd like to know exactly...
faithandbegorrah:
(via inothernews)
I haven’t seen the film, but that doesn’t sound familiar. Most of the common and really dirty Russian swears have some form of “yohb” or “yehb” (meaning “to fuck,” but way more offensive). It may be using a form of the verb “myat’,” meaning “to fuck” (more literally “to crush; to wrinkle” - not so much with the sex positivity, you see). This old article from...
why you gotta be an embittered asshole, Teddy?
The ambivalence of the retarded listeners has its most extreme expression in the fact that individuals, not yet fully reified, want to extricate themselves from the mechanism of musical reification to which they have been handed over, but that their revolts against fetishism only entangle them more deeply in it. Whenever they attempt to break away from the passive status of compulsory consumers...
You remind me of the babe.
kelsium:
chuffedlittlemuffin:
kelsium:
chuffedlittlemuffin:
kelsium:
(via chuffedlittlemuffin)
What babe?
The babe with the power.
What power?
The power of voodoo.
Who do?
you do!
October 2009
33 posts
k, got me.
e.e. cummings or a YouTube comment?
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/1vincent.html
“If you are currently in a relationship, or have a past one to look back on, ask...”
– Anne Hill, in “The Three Most Important Words in Any Relationship”
This essay isn’t very long and it’s completely genius in its simplicity.
It suggests that you can find out all you need to know about the health of a relationship by asking the other person, when they get up from the table or...
faithandbegorrah:
henryv:
To hold her, to keep her - just as she was - with her cruelty, with her vulgarity, with her blinding blue eyes, with her miserable poetry, with her fat feet, with her impure, dry, sordid, infantile soul.
your daily Nabokov; Pnin.
such a beautiful little book. still wrecks me a little bit.
Swoon.
oh my god. book soulmates. bookmates?
To hold her, to keep her - just as she was - with her cruelty, with her vulgarity, with her blinding blue eyes, with her miserable poetry, with her fat feet, with her impure, dry, sordid, infantile soul.
your daily Nabokov; Pnin.
such a beautiful little book. still wrecks me a little bit.
the greedy the people (as if as can yes) they sell and they buy and they die for because though the bell in the steeple says Why the chary the wary (as all as can each) they don’t and they do and they turn to a which though the moon in her glory says Who the busy the millions (as you’re as can i’m) they flock and they flee through a thunder of seem though the stars in their...
kelsium:
Oh, henryv. Lucky you! You came just in time for the 1:30 a.m. showing of Psychotic Insomnia and Anxiety Fueled Blather written by, directed by, and starring Kelsium.
oh, good. i’m right with you there.
dailymeh:
I’m well aware of expressivism in metaethics and aesthetics. I’d like to point out that expressivism doesn’t imply that there must be anything sensible about “my truth” and “your truth”. As any moderately well brought up person will tell you, it’s not ok to excuse your murdering, lying and stealing with “in my morality, these things are good”. Morality is absolute, not relative, even...
I can sum up my attempts to read Proust with this:...
faithandbegorrah:
(via skybarn)
Wilde died for your sins.
I…I feel like someone kicked my puppy.
also: what’s this, Boston? Fat, lumpyass snowflakes, that’s what.
I hesitate to even say flakes really, because they’re too widely spaced, infrequent and large. Snowchunks.
My Russian professor always used to say that...
natface:
So many adjectival endings.
a bitch to learn, but that’s the price to be paid for the resulting precision.
the suffixes are pretty key too (see my very last post!) - tell me, please, how one might render solnyshko in English.
“For the first time in their love story, the blessing, the genius of lyrical speech descended upon the rough lad, he murmured and moaned, kissing her face with voluble tenderness, crying out in three languages - the three greatest in all the world - pet words upon which a dictionary of secret diminutives was to be based and go through many revisions till the definitive edition of...
Truth is not multiple
dailymeh:
I wish truth was a holy word. I wish we were more reverential when talking about truth. Talking about truth should be a little like talking about a god: we should do so only rarely, and when we do, on the assumption that we’re only barely worthy, that we are speaking about something that’s above us and that we can never fully understand.
I’m not advocating a mysticism about truth....
Beirut - Elephant Gun
abbreviated nonsense
From Life magazine, Dec. 1932, p.19:
ABBREVIATED NONSENSE
Of persons I know a great No. Who go to the Opera and slo.
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I’ve often walked the Ave. To see the beauties. Have.?
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I bought stock in a western oil Co. As for oil, I don’t think they po.
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The knowledge to be an Esq. Is one that is hard to acq.
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A woman needed a Dr. Because her husband sr.
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If I were a rich...
“I’m a tidy sort of bloke. I don’t like chaos. I kept records in the record rack,...”
– George Harrison (via ringoknowsbest)