July 2010
June 2010
“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”
– Sir William Osler
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Anthropodermic bibliopegy →
readmorewikipedia:
Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. Though uncommon in modern times, the technique dates back to at least the 17th century.
The libraries of many Ivy League universities include one or more samples of anthropodermic bibliopegy.
train song // ben gibbard & feist
allyringwald:
Jonathan Richman
If religion is the opiate of the people, tradition...
—ZADIE SMITH
“A dame? I’d so much rather be a knight. It would, of course, be a great honor to...”
– Interview: ‘I Am Love’ Star Tilda Swinton - Cinematical
“You are what you love, not what loves you.”
– Adaptation
the beach boys - i should have known better →
I've teeth that ache away. →
Who are you, bird,
who chirps in the dead still of night?
The Start of Something - Voxtrot
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Ra Ra Riot: St. Peter’s Day Festival
I’m in...
Death Comes to Me Again, A Girl
Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip, barefoot, giggling. It’s not so terrible she tells me, not like you think, all darkness and silence. There are windchimes and the smell of lemons, some days it rains, but more often the air is dry and sweet. I sit beneath the staircase built from hair and bone and listen to the voices of the living. I like it, she says, shaking the dust from her...
“I think [artistic] blocks are caused by pressure of success or fear of failure....”
– Matthew Gray Gubler in Juxtapoz
ned hepburn: Fuckin' News, man. Sheesh. →
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It’s fucking pathetic that “there is no room for a moderate, balanced viewpoint” in the news. Stop fucking pandering to the extremes and you won’t get a totally fractured America. Olbermann is JUST as fucking bad as Bill O’Reilly. Don’t act like being a liberal excludes you from anything.
If…
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827): Piano Sonata in...