February 2010
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In defense of sentimentality
See also pleasure language: “The ego discourses only when it’s been hurt” (p. 54) “To escape disreality, I… link myself to the world by bad temper. I discourse against something (p. 88). “Love has a complicity with my language…” (p.98). “To try to write love is to confront the muck of language, that region of hysteria where language is both too much and...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Chicago Underground Duo (22)
Ricardo Villalobos (19)
The Avett Brothers (14)
Bobby Hughes Combination (12)
Chicago Underground Quartet (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr…
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Red Light Winter
“Complicated, I know, but the gray areas intrigued me: how we hold on to the tiniest details when we encounter someone we’re bewitched by, and how the other person might not remember the most obvious things from that meeting; the cruelty and pain of being disremembered versus the alchemy of selective memory and how we twist and distort it to rationalize and justify what we want to...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Nitzer Ebb (5)
Clock DVA (4)
Throbbing Gristle (3)
SPK (3)
Nocturnal Emissions (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Perfect Roasted Chicken
This summer, while cooking at a friend’s house I stumbled upon the secret to super-crispy chicken skin. And it’s neither olive oil nor butter. Citrus juice! I’ve applied this preparation to whole roasted chickens and recently, through my meanderings online found the perfect cooking preparation to make your breast meat unbelievably moist and your skin beautifully browned and...
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The Right Insight Leads to the Right Action
“He who knows what good is will do good.” ~ Socrates
By this he meant that the right insight leads to the right action. And only he who does right can be a “virtuous man.” When we do wrong it is because we don’t know any better. That is why it is so important to go on learning. Socrates was concerned with finding clear and universally valid definitions of right and...
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Is there such a thing as natural modesty?
Wisest is she who knows she does not...
– Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
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Unending Love
I seem to have loved you in numberless forms, numberless times…
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
My spellbound heart has made and remade the necklace of songs,
That you take as a gift, wear round your neck in your many forms,
In life after life, in age after age, forever.
Whenever I hear old chronicles of love, it’s age old pain,
It’s ancient tale of being...
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I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s...
– Haruki Murakami (via kari-shma)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Cat Power (32)
Cassius (13)
The Dresden Dolls (1)
The Weakerthans (1)
Casual, Rock Marciano, Vordual Mega, & Tragedy Khadafi (1)
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The only thing we require to be good philosophers is the faculty of wonder
– Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder