like tears in rain

I've seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

BBC doc Dangerous Days: On The Edge of Blade Runner

Joe Frank After Hours

Much of the plot setup and some of the dialogue in Martin Scorsese’s excellent 1985 film After Hours—a significant portion of the movie’s first 30 minutes, in fact—were brazenly lifted from “Lies,” a 1982 NPR Playhouse monologue by Joe Frank, the great L.A.-based radio artist.

read more @ Andrew Hearst Blog

listen to original Joe Frank story Lies

unofficial Joe Frank mailing list archives

Sleep Beauty, Sleep

In one of the very earliest versions of this classic story, published in 1634 by Giambattista Basile as Sun, Moon, and Talia, the princess does not prick her finger on a spindle, but rather gets a sliver of flax stuck under her fingernail. She falls down, apparently dead, but her father cannot face the idea of losing her, so he lays her body on a bed in one of his estates. Later, a king out hunting in the woods finds her, and since he can’t wake her up, rapes her while she’s unconscious, then heads home to his own country. Some time after that, still unconscious, she gives birth to two children, and one of them accidentally sucks the splinter out of her finger, so she wakes up. The king who raped her is already married, but he burns his wife alive so he and Talia can be together. Don’t worry, the wife tries to kill and eat the babies first, so it’s all morally sound.  
Disturbing Origins of Ten Famous Fairy Tales

The Kurosawa Method

“Perhaps you can write only one page a day, 

but if you do it every day, 

at the end of the year, 

you’ll have 365 pages.” 

- Akira Kurosawa

Andrew Sullivan and Self Criticism

I started reading Andrew during the run-up to the Iraq War and thus bore witness to one of the most amazing real-time about-faces in recent memory. But it was a sincere about-face and it taught me something about writing, and particularly writing on the Internet, which guides me even today—namely, that error is an essential part of any real intellectual pursuit. - Ta Nahesi Coates

Thomas Merton Centenary

Christopher Beha of Harper’s Magazine, novelist Colm Tóibín, and author Paul Elie discuss the writings of poet and activist Thomas Merton (1915–1968) whose works continue to influence critical thought on spiritual wisdom, non-violent activism, and meditation. A Trappist monk at the Abbey of Gethsemani for over 25 years, Merton wrote some of the greatest books on modern spiritual thought, including New Seeds of Contemplation and Gandhi on Non-Violence. New Directions, who published Merton from his earliest collection of poems to his posthumous work, co-presents this celebration of Merton’s centenary.

"All of humankind - all 6.5 billion of us - are in an in-phase dreaming circle and the dream mass consciousness has created for itself is a nightmare" - Elizabeth Lasser

from I want to grow more than I want to be safe

listen at: Sounds True

40 DAYS OF NICE

mean = funny? nice = boring? is this a question of hard v soft? 

do we need a new word for “nice”. why are all the words associated with niceness so uncool: generosity, openness, kindness, empathy, space… all these things associated with maturity. why isn’t maturity fucking awesome? it sounds it to me. but even the word mature is  equated with the flaccidity of a shoulder shrug. 

read more @ Could You Go 40 Days Without Being Mean? By Sarah Miller

what if anything will change?

BULLSHIT JOBS

The Special Patrol Group: posters go up on the Tube (picture credit: Strike! Magazine)

NOW GET BACK to WORK
Interview by Charlotte England / January 5, 2015

This morning, many sleepy, grumpy, bloated people across the country returned to their jobs for the first time since before Christmas. Some of those people in London – the country’s largest hub of early morning misery – were made to stop and consider the numb feeling inside of them by 200 posters that someone had plastered up in ad spaces on the tube, with depressing quotes such as: “How can one even begin to speak of dignity in labour when one secretly feels one’s job should not exist?”

The quotes were taken from LSE anthropology Professor and activist David Graeber‘s article On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs, which explained that much modern employment is pretty much pointless, and the toll having to do them takes on everyone’s mentality. The article went viral in 2013 and hasn’t lost its relevance since. The poster campaign seemed to be a re-run of the anti-police posters that went up before Christmas. Just like back then, the Bullshit Job posters were designed by STRIKE! magazine, which ran the original article. Nobody knows who put them up though, least of all Graeber, so I decided to call him up and chat about why everything I do is a meaningless waste of time.

read more @ spectrevision

                                 LESTER
(crafty)
      You think so, eh? Which comes first,
      L or... Glooph? 

     CRAIG 
      Glooph is not a letter, sir. 

     LESTER 
      Damn, you are good.

Being John Malkovitch screenplay

I like the idea that the story changes over time even though nothing has changed on the outside. What's changed is all in my head and has to do with a realisation on my character's part. And the story can only be told in a particular form. It can't be told in a painting. The point is: it's very important that what you do is specific to the medium in which you're doing it, and that you utilise what is specific about that medium to do the work. And if you can't think about why it should be done this way, then it doesn't need to be done. 

- Charlie Kaufman

walter benjamin's rules for writing: steam

 

Is Nightcrawler the male version of Showgirls?

Ambitious psychopath bottom feeders who crave success at all costs.

dude version sells violence; female version sells sex.

"I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud." - Stephen King, Danse Macabre

Joan Didion Doc

I 

I 

I 

Gogo: I can't go on like this

Didi: Oh that's what you think

you teach what you most need to learn - Richard Bach via Elizabeth Lesser

I really don’t like it, but I like it.

John Turturro on American Gigolo and Kabuki Acting

Richard Kelly on Ferdinando Scarfiotti's set design

and a comparison of American Gigolo to American Psycho

Spaceship Earth

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, 

adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." - Emerson (1841) 

Furry side face or evidence of man/machine?

goodnight, mr. ramis. thanks for paying attention and making it funny

white women black hair

oh holy night

"After years of marketing outer beauty, it looks like inner beauty is the hot new thing."

marketing conspiracy aside, I just think the conversation about “redefining beauty” is a misguided one at best. Because “redefining beauty” is still talking about beauty, and we need our girls to be thinking and talking about things other than the way they look. Making girls suddenly feel beautiful is all well and good for the purposes of selling soap and moisturizers, but it’s not real progress. Real progress would be if that conversation in the gym were  about climate change, not hair.


nice one Charlotte Alter @charlottealter

"Carmine, smell her nails!"-  Carmine to Roslyn

"Okay baby, let's go dancing" - Edith to Richie

"Don't put metal in the science oven, Roslyn! Don't put metal in the science oven!" - Roslyn to Irving

"You're nothing to me until you're everything" - Sydney to Irving

Is the sheik black?

He's Arab.

That's Black, isn't it?

I dunno - Carmine to Irving

"Yeah, I think the name of this fucking operation is offensive. Abscam. It's racist.

Are you fucking kidding me? What do you care, you're Mexican" Shiek and Irving

AMERICAN HUSTLE ALIVE WITH QUOTES AND PRETTY THINGS TO LOOK AT

“There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.”  — Salvador Dali

posture in the history of fine art painting... where to learn more about this?

renaissance v cubism v contemporary art v flemish etc

another great thing about glasses is that you can take them off

and the world is blurry. sometimes a blurry world 

is exactly the way it should be. 

especially during yoga.

sunday musings

When racing, one looks toward the destination, ignoring all the other elements coming at you - people, structures, the self, etc. One must know time well.

When not in a race, nor in competition, one may still be heading in the same direction with the same obstacles, the same distractions, the same distance. However, there is no point at the end to go towards, no destination. Only the projection/ strength/ will of the self.

The picture tells you how to arrange the words 

and the arrangement of the words tells you, or 

tells me, what’s going on in the picture. Nota bene.

It tells you. 
You don’t tell it.

Joan Didion

saturday vid

"you should be off pudding"

building art

singular

collective

if to look at every day

the walls of my apartment would like to hold these - a place for beauty with space to dream

myles bennett / touchstructures

interiors 101: LAMPS

decorative + functional

hell of a gem

Monday Quote

notes on creativity by richard diebenkom on brain pickings

Monday Quotes

"if you have a golf ball-sized consciousness and you read a book you will have a golf ball sized understanding" - David Lynch, Catching The Big Fish

stop doing... habits

realize

stop doing... scientology

difficult to leave

Monday Quote

the trouble with you is you think you have time

into apt, add

wood...

green...

and white

Monday Quote

“I don’t ask writers about their work habits. I really don’t care. Joyce Carol Oates says somewhere that when writers ask each other what time they start working and when they finish and how much time they take for lunch, they’re actually trying to find out, ‘Is he as crazy as I am?’ I don’t need that question answered.” — The Paris Review, 1984

Monday Quote

inspired by words

The closing shot of last week's Mad Men looks like the poster for Upstream Color

Upstream Color: A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.

Upstream Color = Mad Men, abstracted.

"Religion is what we do with moments of intense spirituality. Its whatever practice we have, whether its going to church, whether its how we integrate sacred texts into our lives.

Being religious or taking religious elements into our lives is not saying I agree with everything this religion says. What you are saying is I've had an incredible experience, either of intense suffering or joy, or both. And it has demanded some action of me. It has demanded some continuity from me. And this is the only way I know how, is to try to find some form in it and try to share it with people."

- Christian Wiman, from OnBeing 5/23/13

oh. the who's teenage wasteland is from a terry riley track. did you know that?

stop doing... academia

Keguro Macharia's intellectually heartfelt  thoughts on quitting academia:

I’m not sure this is “the life” I want to imagine. I worry about any life that can so readily be “imagined.” Where is the space for fantasy, for play, for the unexpected, for the surprising?

monday quote

"we think we are kind when we are only happy" C.S. Lewis

"what if you were re-written and could never know why" shane carruth

bookmark this

add link to iCal April 24, 2113

enjoy the moment your computer says
"oh how quaint you all were then"

wackademia

is twitter where the fun weirdos hang?

advertising zero minus

cole haan ad, "only the boring get bored." 

1. lady thought, vision king: boredom is a primary product of capitalist affective logic: ennui. confusion. numbness. However, "The malady of the modern soul is not boredom, it's overwhelm." e.g. cole haan ad. cole haan shoes. cole haan logo. cole haan brand: environmentally present, psychically irrelevant. 

2. labeling a person as boring. using a negative form of castigation, the foundation of the system of advertising: not good enough. 

instead the ad could say: only the inspiring get inspired. this on the other hand presents a cycle of presence, inspiration, and humanity, whether one is the giver or receiver of said inspiration, revising the ad's basic premise: people are not boring. but then, what would scratch the itch to make you want the stuff?

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same flick different economics

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