February 2012
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Yayoi Kusama -Tate Modern - Video - Watch | Selectism.com
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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child...
– Fahrenheit 451 (via colocke)
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February 10, 1997
On this day, Blur released their self-titled album in the UK. To honor this, I will post a song from the American release every day for the next 16 days.
garunriot:
allwindows:
Jean Dujardin’s Villain Auditions
the. best.
I’m swooning over this.
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Guest DJ: Gael García Bernal’s Music Diaries
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Where one stands on a woman’s right to choose and on equality for gay people is...
– Mitt Romney’s character flaw - Jonathan Capeheart - PostPartisan - The Washington Post
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AnOther Thing I Wanted to Tell You - Sir Ian McKellen on his London Pub & Charles Dickens | AnOther
We couldn’t have been more than twelve
or thirteen, sitting on that green...
– Exegesis by Paul Hostovsky | The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor
‘endlessly making an end to things’
—Celan
I must have left a...
– February Sky by Bruce Smith : The Poetry Foundation
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
– Horace Mann (via ataxiwardance)
If you want to go fast, go by yourself. If you want to go far, go with others
– African proverb (via shoulder-blade)
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Le Chêne et le Roseau de Jean de la Fontaine
Le Chêne un jour dit au Roseau:
Vous avez bien sujet d’accuser la Nature;
Un Roitelet pour vous est un pesant fardeau.
Le moindre vent, qui d’aventure
Fait rider la face de l’eau,
Vous oblige à baisser la tête:
Cependant que mon front, au Caucase pareil,
Non content d’arrêter les rayons du soleil,
Brave l’effort de la tempête.
Tout vous est Aquilon, tout me...
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Physically Unable to Perform: Taking Apart Super...
Jeff: This whole week has been one big opportunity for writers to weave in very serious and poignant cultural things to their stories.
Jeff: This is also, in part, about the little boy inside of me. Who liked to kiss trees. And was shunned. He never got to catch a touchdown pass. Or kiss a tree without being pants-ed. So, on this night, when the world's greatest warriors do battle, I think of him. Shooting free throws in a canoe that his grandmother made.
David: ...and that is why Tiquan Underwood deserved better.
Jeff: He deserved better because what do we tell these kids. 'There's not enough ham for you? We brought you to the buffet, but now you have to wait in the mini van?'
David: That's not my America. That's not my Super Bowl.
dalent:
Tomorrow
Game On: GQ Takes To Its Home Field for New York Fashion Week
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the black keys – gold on the ceiling music video premiere. | marshallmatlock.com
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Meryl Streep: The Fresh Air Interview
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Grandparents
My grandparents were wonderful and great people. I miss my Grandma Abigail terribly. I heard it somewhere before: Parents get to say no. Grandparents get to say yes!