January 2010
“One of the most basic impulses behind art is the impulse to order the chaos of regular life, to transform it into something more perfect, more shapely and more satisfying, to turn it into something with a beginning, middle and an end.”
—Michiko Kakutani (via sunnycyl)
Help Yourself
Sad Brad Smith
Sad Brad Smith - Help Yourself
From the ‘Up In The Air’ soundtrack.
Making a difference →
ted.com
For those who have ever heard, “Those who can, do, and those who can’t, teach:” Taylor Mali, on behalf of educators everywhere, on what teachers make:
- I make kids work harder than I every thought they could.
- I make parents see kids for who they really are.
- I make kids wonder.
- I make them question.
- I make them criticize.
- I make them apologize and mean it.
- I make them write write write.
- I make them spell.
- I make them realize that if you have [intellect] then you follow [your heart].
He ends by asking, “Teachers make a difference, now what about you?” See also: “[I]f you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.”
“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn’t carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.”
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Stephen King
quote-book | katiespeachykeen | hazelweatherfield
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“[I]f we’re going to talk about the value of the open Internet, we have to ask what the opposite of ‘open is. No one is proposing a closed Internet. When it comes to the Internet, the opposite of ‘open’ is ‘theirs.’”
—David Weinberger [via] See also: the opposite of noise, do not disturb, and some free associations. (via bobulate)
Flume
Peter Gabriel
Flume by Peter Gabriel
originally by Bon Iver
(posted by bunkercomplex)yes, please.
Questions?
Ask me something and I might have an answer for you…
“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
—Mark Twain (via theremina) (via louobedlam)
