“You yourself had no cause and seemed, at times, to be simply the effect of something. Fixed, unstoppable. Existing by momentum only, but pretending always otherwise.”
—tao lin, CULL THE STEEL HEART, MELT THE ICE ONE, LOVE THE WEAK THING; SAY NOTHING OF CONSOLATION, BUT IRRELEVANCE, DISASTER, AND NONEXISTENCE; HAVE NO HOPE OR HATE — NOTHING; RUIN YOURSELF EXCLUSIVELY, COMPLETELY, AND WHENEVER POSSIBLE (from the short story collection BED)
April 2011
Our Time
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
yeah yeah yeahs, OUR TIME, from the YEAH YEAH YEAHS ep.
“it’s our time to be hated…”
How Your Journalism Sausage Gets Made, Part Five - Susannah Breslin →
blogs.forbes.com
“So, who cares? Who cares what the stupid page looks like? Well, I do. I care a lot. And here’s why. I’ve been going back and forth with a popular pop culture site for the last few days. They want me to write a “test post,” to see if I’m a fit or not as a regular blogger. I told them they had to pay me to do that, a “test post,” seeing as, it turns out, they are planning to publish it. What they want to pay me is very low. I have been doing this for a very long time, and at this time doing things for very little money is not what I want to do. But it’s not just that, right? What that tells me is that they haven’t hired me yet, but they have already made it clear that they think my work is of little value. And what I infer from that is that they are willing to pay very little because somewhere deep inside they know what they are doing is of no value.”
also: “…it sucks to create crap. Because it makes you feel like you are crap.”
“[DRM] is the sort of thing that drives honest people to piracy, because the pirates are providing a better end user experience…”
—wil wheaton: “I really, really, REALLY hate DRM. Especially when it screws honest people.”
“A new language is infecting the culture of American medicine. It is the language of the marketplace, of the tradesman, and of the cost accountant. It is a language that depersonalizes both patients and physicians and describes medical care as just another commodity. It is a language that is dangerous.”
—rashi fein, 1982, (via paul krugman, The Language of Medicine - NYTimes)
So Cruel
U2
u2, SO CRUEL, from the record ACHTUNG BABY.
“the men who love you you hate the most…”
“He walked out into the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of an intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”
—Cormac McCarthy. The Road (Submitted by tophersaurus)
“I should have known. If the riot forecast says ‘fine’, dress for armageddon.”
—alan moore, THE BALLAD OF HALO JONES (1984)
Burgundy
Coal Chamber
coal chamber (feat. aimee echo), BURGUNDY, from the record CHAMBER MUSIC.
“…we can watch it together decay.”
[so long ago: cheap booze, drunken make outs with girls in cradle of filth tee-shirts, and elbows to the face.]
“I started to realize we create the stories of our lives. I started to think about characters, and how we become legends, archetypes, and characters in those stories.”
—Warren Ellis » GUEST INFORMANT: Katelan Foisy
“…the only question worth asking was: What kind of person do you want to be? Do you want to be a chicken shit, or do you want to go for it? Because that moment was one of those defining moments — not the moment when you are there, but the moment you are choosing you will be there — in which you prove who you are as a human being. So, I decided I would go. Because that’s who I wanted to be. The person who would go. Not the person who would not. After that, everything else was easy.”
—How Your Journalism Sausage Gets Made, Part One - Susannah Breslin - Pink Slipped - Forbes
[spider jerusalem would LOVE susannah breslin.]
[spider jerusalem would LOVE susannah breslin.]
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