March 2012
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Nancy's Blog: The Monkees: why I'm a believer in... →
psychojello:
by Bob Stanley, the Guardian UK
The death of Davy Jones should give us pause to remember that the Monkees were one of the great groups of the 1960s
Stanley is also a member of Saint Etienne (a perfect pop group in their own right).
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February 2012
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“The Cinema”, 1926 article by Virginia Woolf →
Oblivious, by Adalena Kavanagh →
Adalena’s short story “Oblivious” has just been published (her second, and first that will be printed on paper - the other was only published online). You can read it through the link above.
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Palique: “Error funesto es decir que hay que... →
rapporter:
“Error funesto es decir que hay que comprender la música para gozar de ella. La música no se hace, ni debe jamás hacerse para que se comprenda, sino para que se sienta.”
Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946), compositor español.
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“It is a…
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“You have had many sadnesses, large ones, which passed. And you say that even...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet, translated by S. Mitchell (via growing-orbits)
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Legal Man Belle and Sebastian (single, 2000)
And...
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the-theme-is:
“Eight Days on the Road” Aretha...
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Watchcriterioncorner:
HUGO and The First Movie Magicians
with Martin Scorsese’s Hugo primed to lose the best picture Oscar this sunday, it’s important to fan the rare flames of interest in early cinema that the film has ignited for audiences of all ages and passions (it’s very strange to me that people are lumping The Artist in with Hugo as if “early cinema” were merely a relative term. also, fuck...
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Weird Love Stories and Other Readings →
Adalena on author readings by Dan Chaon and Stewart O’Nan, and a writing workshop with Chris Adrian. O’Nan sings a Heart song (as in, yes, the Wilson sisters’ band).
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“When we’re incomplete, we’re always searching for somebody to complete us. When,...”
– Tom Robbins
Amen!
(via 45andsingle)
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Ordinary finds: Dada Manifesto (1916, Hugo Ball) →
i12bent:
“Dada is a new tendency in art. One can tell this from the fact that until now nobody knew anything about it, and tomorrow everyone in Zurich will be talking about it. Dada comes from the dictionary. It is terribly simple. In French it means “hobby horse”. In German it means “good-bye”, “Get off…
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“The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys”...
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“Orpheus
When I wrote of the women in their dances and
wildness, it was...”
– “The Poem as Mask” by Muriel Rukeyser (via growing-orbits)
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thespinelessanarchist:
“Some of Them Are Old...
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“Place to Be” Nick Drake (from Pink...
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“Come Together” Spiritualized (from...
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