September 2010
21 posts
August 2010
29 posts
To the ant the world
is such abundance
only foraging in
endless pastures.
no self to weigh
the question's burden,
man is a machine
gone insane.
n
i was listening to “the state i am in” by belle and sebastian today. i noticed the “string squeak” in the song, the sound of fingers swiping the surface of the guitar strings as it is played. the more i listened, the more pronounced the squeak was. i laughed to myself. i thought about what a keen filter the mind is. that it can filter out such an apparent noise and focus...
Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual...
– i disagree. i am a man, and i understand this precisely. she shouldn’t generalize all people who have penises as being like the assholes she meets in bars.
Anne Carson (via severnb, invisiblestories)
i dig andy warhol and the whole “take the elements of your time and appropriate it” idea. good hip-hop does this well musically. but the corporate power structure stands in the way. i can’t help but think that the whole concept of the “original idea” was created as a means of protecting financial investment. robbing the individual of the ability to play a role in his...
there’s nothing else. there isn’t. and that is fine.
do what you love. not because it means anything
in the grand scheme of things, but because of the
charge it gives you. how it makes you lost in the
moment and timeless. when you’re in that place,
there is no beginning or end. in that moment you
are free. what could be better?
Why should I fear death
If I am, Death is not
If death is, I am not
Why...
– — Epicurus (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
freaking amazing.