August 2011
July 2011
“If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are...”
– Lao Tzu (via paperlover)
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“The overculture will always try to devalue anything truly threatening. If you...”
– Program or be Programmed: The GeekDad Interview With Douglas Rushkoff | GeekDad | Wired.com
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could...”
– Charles Bukowski (via atozedphoto)
“This is what politics is to me. Someone tells you all the trees on your street...”
– - John Malkovich, Esquire Magazine, Nov 2008 Quote of the month « Scott Berkun
“It is this desire, to be transformed by understanding, that has pretty much...”
– MIRANDA JULY - » 7 27 11
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“It’s important to start facing your demons early on. That’s going to be your...”
– Miranda July Letter to Jane Magazine
“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that...”
– Brian Eno (via austinkleon)
My nothing times are some of my most productive times.
(via bustr)
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What I like about Twitter's display of content
1. It’s easy on the eyes, literally.
Twitter facilitates efficient saccades, the physical eye movements that take your eyes from one line to the next when reading. Every Twitter app I know of (including the website) displays tweets in narrow columns which is ideal for scanning quickly.
2. The content presentation is uniform.
All the content in Twitter is displayed using a similar...
Watch(via Lady Gaga to Howard Stern: ‘I Don’t Give a F—k About Money’ | Billboard.com)
Now that’s an interview.
“Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing...”
– Timothy Leary - Wikiquote
“You give into distraction as if it is a murderer. You lay there, waiting to be...”
– Miranda July
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“I was in Africa last year and saw a lot of animals in the wild that I’d...”
– You Weren’t Meant to Have a Boss
“Waiting for the fear to subside
There are two problems with this strategy:
...”
– Seth’s Blog: Waiting for the fear to subside
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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world, but then I thought,...”
– Frida Kahlo (via spraycharles)
i hope to everything good and right in the world that this is an actual quote.
but you know. the internet.
(via velveteenrabbit)
“The striking thing about all consumer products — and none more so than...”
– Jonathon Franzen
The simple fact of the matter is that trying to be perfectly likable is incompatible with loving relationships. Sooner or later, for example, you’re going to find yourself in a hideous, screaming fight, and you’ll hear coming out of your mouth things that you yourself don’t...
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“Experiences of self-transcendence are generally only sought and interpreted in a...”
– The Blog : What’s the Point of Transcendence? : Sam Harris
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Upcoming concert calendar...
Earth
M83
Low
Plaid
The Sea & Cake
Maybes:
Erasure (I’ll go if someone else wants to join!)
Dntel
Twin Sister
Shonen Knife
“Is he where you got your work ethic?
Yes. My dad never took a day off work. He...”
– THE SELF-TITLED INTERVIEW: Zomby | self-titled magazine :: s/t daily
“I have a daughter who will one day take drugs. Of course, I will do everything...”
– Drugs and the Meaning of Life
“The “war on drugs” has been well lost, and should never have been waged. While...”
– Drugs and the Meaning of Life
“When there is something better out there, you can’t help trying to find it. You...”
– Online Dating: Sex, Love, and Loneliness : The New Yorker
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“When you want something bad enough, you make the time—regardless of your other...”
– Fried, Jason (2010). Rework (Kindle Locations 360-361). Crown Business. Kindle Edition.
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““I do not care about genres or borders about genres.”
“I...”
– Some choice quotes from an interview with Ryuichi Sakamoto… 