August 2011
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“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche - Ecce Homo - Section 10 - “Why I am so clever.” (via sjyoung)
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Essential Oils
sleepingsunchild:
Essential Oils -- are wrung --
The Attar from the Rose
Be not expressed by Suns -- alone --
It is the gift of Screws --
The General Rose -- decay --
But this -- in Lady's Drawer
Make Summer -- When the Lady lie
In Ceaseless Rosemary --
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JAMIE GANGEL: In your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation?
MR. DICK CHENEY: Yes.
JAMIE GANGEL: No regrets?
MR. DICK CHENEY: No regrets.
JAMIE GANGEL: Should we still be waterboarding terror suspects?
MR. DICK CHENEY: I would strongly support using it again if we had a high value detainee and that was the only way we could get him to talk.
JAMIE GANGEL: Even though so many...
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“Man is unhappy because he doesn’t know he’s happy. It’s only that.”
– Fydor Dostoevsky (via zenlikeme)
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I’m considering making a Fuckyeahredbeanbread Tumblr. Sooooooo good.
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The Beauty of Screwed-Up Art
One of the many Miles Davis quotes that frequently rings around my head is “Hell, just listen to what [Ornette Coleman] writes and how he plays. If you’re talking psychologically, the man’s all screwed up inside.” (Of course, Miles would later utilize many of Ornette’s screwed-up innovations in his Bitches Brew-period works.) What really struck me, though, is that...
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“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
– Jack Kerouac (via jennifercortlandt)
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“It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made, that...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Amor Fati
What a wonderful way to live.
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Damnit Spotify...
I don’t want to hear Victoria Justice right after I reach musical nirvana listening to Bartok. Wouldn’t it be a better business model to tailor the ads to the user’s musical tastes? Also, your payment policy is royally screwing jazz and classical musicians. Money should be paid based on total time streamed, not on the number of streams as it is now. The average pop song is 2-3...
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NPR: "Transit officials blocked cellphone... →
First Amendment of the United States Constitution - “Congress shall make no law respecting… the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
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“Christianity is Platonism for the masses.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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Thelonious Sphere Monk.
Thelonious Sphere Monk. Thelonious Sphere Monk.
Add me on Last.Fm or join my Turntable room!
http://www.last.fm/user/thisbringsusto http://turntable.fm/postbop_free_and_avantgarde_jazz This is a blatant plea for friends. Friends who enjoy jazz/classical music, “experimental” music of any sort, existentialism, beat poetry, modern and classical art, or anything at all really. I just want to make friends with people who have interests that go beyond reality television, video...
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“Only as an aesthetic phenomenon is the world justified.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
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“Find a place you trust, and try trusting it for a while.”
– John Cage (via bluewaterclouds)
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London Riots Continue →
“For nearly 40 years we have raised to prominence the idea of the class struggle as the immediate driving force of history, and particularly the class struggle between bourgeois and the proletariat as the great lever of the modern social revolution; … At the founding of the International, we expressly formulated the battle cry: The emancipation of the working class must be the work of...
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“In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the...”
– Leo Tolstoy, On Patriotism (via zenlikeme)
“Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five (via goodleftund0ne)
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