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i12bent: Arty type… No principles… Photo - Bryon Gysin: William...

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:21:54 -0500

Arty type… No principles…

Photo - Bryon Gysin: William Burroughs near the Beat Hotel (Naked Lunch Launch series, Paris, October 1959)

“What’s with the serum?”
I don’t know, but it sounds ominous. We better put a telepathic direction finder on Benway. The man’s not to be trusted. Might do almost anything…Turn a massacre into a sex orgy…”
Or a joke.”
Precisely. Arty type…No principles…”

― William S. Burroughs, Naked Lunch

a dispatch from the city of angels

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:54:14 -0500

2:00pm wheels down LAX
2:25pm retrieve baggage from carousel and stash coats inside
2:45pm board Flyaway bus headed for Union Station (coach style bus, comfy, fare $7)
3:20pm arrive at Union Station, retrieve luggage, buy metro TAP pass
3:35pm depart on Gold line train (light rail, above ground, fare $1.50) for Pasadena
4:00pm arrive Lake Station, Pasadena
4:20pm sitting in an outdoor cafe, drinking coffee, watching the people and the cars and the sunset, and sending dispatches…

"Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together..."

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:31:53 -0500

“Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on the river together and walk in the garden in the moonlight and come home late and have a bottle of wine and get tipsy, and I’ll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads — They won’t stir by day, only by dark on the river. Think of that. Throw over your man, I say, and come.”

- Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West (via brainpickings)

nevver: Happy Birthday HAL

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:06:15 -0500

nevver:

Happy Birthday HAL

i12bent: Birthday of Simone de Beauvoir - Jan. 9, 1908 - 1986 -...

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:17:45 -0500

i12bent:

Birthday of Simone de Beauvoir - Jan. 9, 1908 - 1986 - a frequent flyer on OF…

“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.” ― Simone de Beauvoir

My role model.

moviebarcode: Rare Exports (2010)

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:34:23 -0500

moviebarcode:

Rare Exports (2010)

beauvoiriana: Simone de Beauvoir et Jean-Paul Sartre. Paris,...

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:03:58 -0500

beauvoiriana:

Simone de Beauvoir et Jean-Paul Sartre. Paris, 1959. Photo: Georges Pierre.

(À gauche, Évelyne Rey, actrice, soeur de Claude Lanzmann, qui avait une relation amoureuse avec Sartre).

— Celui-ci est le dernier post de 2011. Mais les rencontres avec Simone de Beauvoir continuent l’année prochaine. Happy New Year! —

"It’s hard leaving money on the table, especially if you don’t know where your next project is coming..."

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:08:58 -0500

“It’s hard leaving money on the table, especially if you don’t know where your next project is coming from. It takes character to turn down a big project from a respected brand, even when you know it’s the right thing to do. However it’s usually worth it. The number of times I’ve seen agencies take on a mediocre project only to have to turn down their perfect client a week later because they are already committed is astonishing. Turning down a project which is under budget closes one door, but you’ve no idea how many other doors this will open in the future.”

- Why Designers Are Holding Themselves Back, Andy Budd

"Un jour, j’avais sept ans, mon grand-père n’y tint plus : il me prit par la main, annonçant..."

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:00:22 -0500

“Un jour, j’avais sept ans, mon grand-père n’y tint plus : il me prit par la main, annonçant qu’il m’emmenait en promenade. Mais, à peine avions-nous tourné le coin de la rue, il me poussa chez le coiffeur en me disant : »Nous allons faire une surprise à ta mère ». J’adorais les surprises. Il y en avait tout le temps chez nous. Cachotteries amusées ou vertueuses, cadeaux inattendus, révélations théâtrales suivies d’embrassements : c’était le ton de notre vie.”

- Les mots, Jean-Paul Sartre, 1964. (via beauvoiriana)

youmightfindyourself: Quote I found in the momofuku book (Taken...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:14:06 -0500

youmightfindyourself:

Quote I found in the momofuku book (Taken with instagram)

Photo

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 06:54:15 -0500

theartofhiding: INFJ

Sun, 30 Oct 2011 18:23:37 -0400

theartofhiding:

INFJ

"So therefore, I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances,..."

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 07:32:26 -0400

“So therefore, I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger - because I cannot dedicate myself to any human being.”

- jack kerouac (via theartofhiding)

"Good Lord! supposing she wasn’t beautiful—supposing she was forty and..."

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 09:43:43 -0400

“

Good Lord! supposing she wasn’t beautiful—supposing she was forty and pedantic—heavens! Suppose, only suppose, she was mad. But he knew the last was unworthy. Here had Providence sent a girl to amuse him just as it sent Benvenuto Cellini men to murder, and he was wondering if she was mad, just because she exactly filled his mood.

“I’m not,” she said.

“Not what?”

“Not mad. I didn’t think you were mad when I first saw you, so it isn’t fair that you should think so of me.”

“How on earth—”

As long as they knew each other Eleanor and Amory could be “on a subject” and stop talking with the definite thought of it in their heads, yet ten minutes later speak aloud and find that their minds had followed the same channels and led them each to a parallel idea, an idea that others would have found absolutely unconnected with the first.

”

- more from This Side of Paradise, F. Scott Fitzgerald, which I am finding so delightful

La Cumparsita

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 22:02:40 -0400

Monday. Wednesday. Thursday. Friday. Saturday. Sunday. I have danced the tango on all those days this week. I’ll dance it again tomorrow, Monday. And on Wednesday, too.

I’ve been attending various events at the Michigan Argentine Tango Club’s 10th Anniversary Celebration. Lots of new things to think about, many insights on how to be a better follower. But I’ve also just enjoyed milling around in the group, watching people - not just when they’re dancing, but just doing ordinary things, too.

Little things I don’t want to forget:

Sitting at the side of the milonga, watching couples move slowly around the very crowded floor, kind of like a big pot being stirred. At one point in the music there was a dramatic ending of a phrase, a fermata, and the whole mass of people rose up slightly, stopped completely, and then sank back into the dance, all at once. It was so beautiful I nearly burst into tears.
I got to dance with my very favorite leader several times. I’ll not name him here, but he is exactly the right height, leads delicately but decisively, feels the music and is quick with a laugh when we flub something and a little celebration when we get something new right.
One thing I am not liking about tango is that I find I need to pull my hair back, especially for workshop/class situations, to keep it out of the face/mouth/stubble of the leaders. Grumble. I think I look better with it down. Especially with the glasses on.
It was fun to watch the women at the fancy milonga last night. There were some seriously inappropriate dresses, mostly on women trying to dress 30 years younger than they should. On the other hand, this is a student organization and there were a bevy of incredibly lovely, lithe young things in vurrrry appropriately short skirts.
Interesting to spend so many days in a group of people who know how to move gracefully. The walking gaits are tall, confident, rhythmic. Even little things, like the way people sit or bend to use the water cooler (the women don’t bend straight at the waist, they delicately extend a leg as they bend, it’s delicious).
My spine feels as though it’s several inches longer. My hips feel loose and stronger. I’ve lost 3 pounds.
As with any group, it takes some time to feel at home. Volunteering tonight was helpful in that regard. I feel like people know my face if not my name, and seem to smile at me more. This pleases me.

Tomorrow night is the last night of the festival. I suspect that I’ve already discovered how much tango is too much tango, but it seems silly to skip going. Besides, I’ve yet to dance (ever) to La Cumparsita and that seems far too tragic for words.

The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men. Rosalind had been disappointed in man...

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 09:22:00 -0400

The education of all beautiful women is the knowledge of men. Rosalind had been disappointed in man after man as individuals, but she had great faith in man as a sex. Women she detested. They represented qualities that she felt and despised in herself—incipient meanness, conceit, cowardice, and petty dishonesty. She once told a roomful of her mother’s friends that the only excuse for women was the necessity for a disturbing element among men. She danced exceptionally well, drew cleverly but hastily, and had a startling facility with words, which she used only in love-letters.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

This is my current read from Daily Lit (which is an awesome service, just don’t try to read Proust using it). I am just adoring it, even if it is, so far, the story of a pretty and privileged boy. The prose is yummy and poetic and his descriptions of people often make me laugh out loud. Quite delightful, really.

"You know it’s not much to have a friend who knows all about you. But one who’s a friend..."

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 22:42:00 -0400

“You know it’s not much to have a friend who knows all about you. But one who’s a friend even though he’s not quite sure - that’s worth having.”

- Dr. Noah Praetorius (Cary Grant) in People Will Talk

currently reading update

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:04:02 -0400

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi: Oh! It’s two stories. Jeff in Venice was great. Loved it. Started Death in Varanasi and it’s like reading a completely different author. Hate it so far.

Have any of you out there read it? Worth plowing through?

currently reading

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:01:57 -0400

started

World Made By Hand, James Kunstler [so depressing, not sure how much farther I can go]

Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Geoff Dyer [this should really be bumped to the top - I do so want to get through it]

The Book of CSS3, Peter Gasston [must write review]

The Filter Bubble, Eli Pariser [scaring the pants off me, truth be told]

bridesmaids

Spending, Mary Gordon [recommended by Mrs. Vielmetti]

The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett [a bit afraid to read it since I like the movies so much]

The Long Emergency, James Kunstler [what a world, what a world]

recently finished

The Fall, Albert Camus [ohhhhhhh, so wonderful]

The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett [great story]

Mac Kung Fu, Keir Thomas [don’t laugh, it was full of totally useful information]

nevver: August, die she must.

Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:43:40 -0400

nevver:

August, die she must.