July 2011
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This man speaks truth.
SL: CONNOR LET'S BE BEST FRIENDS
SL: (code for: connor let's get hella drunk together)
CS: hmmm...
CS: i already have a best friend
CS: but you can never have too many shots!
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“Who cares who’s thuggin?
Your girl do more tricks than a Pro Tools...”
– Dave Coresh (“Stop”)
Someone’s clearly been in music production for too long.
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“When I saw this spectacle, I wanted to live for a moment for
A moment. However...”
– Lucie Brock-Broido (“A Meadow”)
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What you cannot think will be your life.
Walking through the city at night is like this. There are yellow lights, and cars, and black sky. There is the idea of urgency, and time leaning in like an old best friend. Nothing like this has ever happened before, to anyone. You think you will live forever. You think you will die right now.
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This afternoon at work.
Co-intern: Is this someone's knife?
Co-intern: Did you leave your knife on the ground?
Producer: No, my knife is about twice as big as that one.
Co-intern: Whose knife is this on the ground then?
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“The girl knew that she had to accept whatever form the game might take, just...”
– Milan Kundera (“The Hitchhiking Game,” from Laughable Loves)
I couldn’t find a copy of this story online. It’s so playfully twisted - something about Kundera’s brand of perversion, and the way he kind of glides around his themes. (Like Mary Gaitskill’s “A...
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“what a shame that time passes, don’t you think? what a shame that we die, and...”
– Roberto Bolaño (The Savage Detectives) (via fwriction)
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“But there was nothing I could do with the emotion really,” said Sam. “It just...”
– Tao Lin (Shoplifting from American Apparel) (via winmeroundwithprose)
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“And I’m deeply moved by the resilience, by the unfathomable mystery of the human...”
– Sherod Santos (The Intricated Soul) (via wwnorton)
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“Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist. There are still those that lie...”
– Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
Savoring this book. Slowly, slowly.
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DEAR SUGAR #78: The Obliterated Place →
“19. Forgiveness bellows from the bottom of the canoe. There are doubts, dangers, unfathomable travesties. There are stories you’ll learn if you’re strong enough to travel there. One of them might cure you.”
Sugar Sugar Sugar Sugar Sugar. One of these days I will write you a letter, and you will cure me of all my niggling doubts and anxieties. Maybe.
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Kids say the darnedest things.
brdgrl:
A conversation I had at camp today with a six-year-old as she was dropping leaves in the creek:
Camper (mumbling): There’s one metaphor… and there’s another metaphor…I need more metaphors (runs to grab some more leaves).
Me: Whatcha up to?
Camper: It’s a metaphor.
Me: What do you mean, “metaphor?”
Camper: I don’t know. I don’t know what a metaphor is, actually. It just is one.
I...
