February 2012
5 posts
“It’s like making a movie: All sorts of accidental things will happen after...”
– Kurt Vonnegut in Advice to Writers, one of 9 essential books on writing well. (via curiositycounts)
Caffeine = thoughts abound
My dashboard has been looking like the hefty chunk of shit the editors of Vice took out before they released a new issue.
Or maybe a really disturbing mood board for an unsuccessful zine.
In either case, this is very telling of how my taste and things that I find interesting nowadays has varied. None of that twee, Etsy shit. I guess I’m into that “gritty” Kodachrome documented...
So this is why I don't party as often...
Partying = too much money, too many calories consumed (and too many calories that I regret), and it doesn’t lead to anything fun because you’re just too damn tired and wasted by the end of the night.
I am so not in the mood for anything but passing out in my big, comfy bed. Nothing else. Blah.
I’m not in college anymore so I don’t have an excuse. :(
January 2012
19 posts
3 tags
Last time I bash yet surprisingly bring film...
Finding out what you truly want to do in life after receiving your degree in a completely unrelated field (although I could make the case that the two are wholly related, but then again can’t you do that with a lot of things in life?) is an admittedly scary and daunting task. But if I truly want it, I believe I can pursue it. Yeah, it may be late in the game but if I feel so strongly about...
4 tags
I need to take some meditation classes or something. This is too unhealthy.
LCD Soundsystem - All My Friends
Biologist Michael Soule on the Seven Deadly Sins →
Some of the intriguing bits of this interview:
LWON: We’re all really good at justifying our sins, right?
Soule: Yes. And that gets back to your other question about modern sins, whether there are any sins that are left out of the old typology. I think there are a lot of them, but my favorite is denial, which in a way is a form of mental sloth.
Denial is really an example of an immature mind....
The Joy of Quiet →
By PICO IYER
NY Times Published: December 29, 2011
ABOUT a year ago, I flew to Singapore to join the writer Malcolm Gladwell, the fashion designer Marc Ecko and the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister in addressing a group of advertising people on “Marketing to the Child of Tomorrow.” Soon after I arrived, the chief executive of the agency that had invited us took me aside. What he was most...
December 2011
47 posts
“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the...”
– Ian McEwan (via misswallflower)
Damn, well if you put it that way…
“You can’t have ‘wisdom’ without emphasizing ‘dumb’”
– Wise words gathered from my misspent youth
…and my excuse to continuously do dumb shit.
Self-restraint and self-control is one of the most difficult things for me to accomplish. I’m ruled by impulse and the idea that if I don’t do it now then it won’t ever get done. But that’s not always true. Sometimes wanting to know so badly and being so curious can be a detriment. But I won’t let myself go and falsely reason with myself to be the “bigger...
Changes in 2012
I looked (more like pored) over at job listings in new areas, realized the potential for me to land a job there, contemplated the possibilities, started thinking to myself this is all part of “character building” and I’ll be a better person for it, and all the while wondered what’s in store for the next chapter in my life. 2011 was quite a fucking trip in itself.
But you...
WatchCH Video - Lou Nasti
This guy’s name screams ‘pornstar’ or ‘really great rapper/MC name’ but he chose a different path.
