July 2010
13 posts
“I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, ‘If I...”
– Annie Dillard
Playboy: In some of your books—especially The Sirens of Titan and Slaughterhouse-Five—there’s serious notion that all moments in time exist simultaneously, which implies that the future can’t be changed by an act of will in the present. How does a desire to improve things fit with that?
Kurt Vonnegut: You understand, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.
“Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained;...”
– William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Days, By Philip Larkin
What are days for? Days are where we live. They come, they wake us Time and time over. They are to be happy in: Where can we live but days? Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their long coats Running over the fields.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25) →
The Snake the Cross the Crown (13)
Radiohead (11)
Cinnamon Chasers (7)
Kid Cudi (6)
Kid Cudi, Best Coast and Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend (6)
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“Let us! (since Life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to...”
– Alexander Pope, “An Essay on Man”
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-11) →
The Beatles (22)
Grizzly Bear (10)
Kid Cudi (4)
Soulsavers (3)
The Decemberists (3)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-4) →
The Beatles (52)
Wiz Khalifa (30)
Radiohead (24)
Kid Cudi (12)
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (4)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-6-27) →
Kid Cudi (37)
The Arcade Fire (19)
Dan Black (13)
LCD Soundsystem (8)
Evening Hymns (7)
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