“I can’t do this,” I said. “I don’t know what to say.”
“Say anything,” he said. “You can’t make a mistake when you improvise.”
“What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?”
“You can’t,” he said. “It’s like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another.”
-P. Smith
I’m supposed to be doing something else right now. I can’t concentrate right now.
and counting.
“Every time I cried, my father would imitate me on his fiddle, just to drive me nuts. One day I got fed up and I knocked him out.”
“A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They’re just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.”
-Maude
Harold is my dream guy. Oddly attractive and super hilarious.
“The worst sickness of men tends to originate in the sentimental way they try to combat their sicknesses. What seems like an easy cure, in the long run produces something worse than what it’s supposed to overcome. Fake consolations always have to be paid for with a general and profound worsening of the original complaint.”
-Nietzsche
Him “Oh you should see your face.”
Her: “What’s the matter with it?”
Him: “It’s lovely.”
Her: “Oh…!”
Him: “Now what’s the problem?”
Her: “I’m not hungry anymore, isn’t it glorious?”
Girls are so easy.
From “Charade,” Hulu’s Valentine’s Pick for people who don’t have any plans.
“Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
–Carl Jung
“Why is it so hard to enjoy things?”
“Why deny yourself something good?”
Been on a Mad Men binge. Watching makes me want to jingle cocktails and chain smoke all day. People are such victims of their own devices and everything is so infectious, don’t you think?
“Cynics are only idealists with awkwardly high standards.”
-Alain de Botton
Photographs by Eileen Quinlan. Like magic, so enchanting.
http://butdoesitfloat.com/103200/In-spite-of-these-oscillations-the-link-has-never-been-broken
Works on paper by Jeesoo Lee. She also does these amazing installations with found materials. I can’t wait to visit her studio when she gets back to Brooklyn from her artist residency in Santa Fe.
The Book of Relationships told me I was secretive. This may explain why when I got a navy bean stuck up my nose for half a day in kindergarten, I never told anyone.
These lucite sculptures by Philip Low are fucking perfection. Want to touch badly.
