March 2011
1 post
June 2010
2 posts
oldhollywood:
Anna Karina - Sous le Soleil...
March 2010
1 post
fuckyeahclassical:
christielouwho:
Samson and...
February 2010
1 post
Note to self:
“One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.”
-Sir Arthur Sullivan
January 2010
10 posts
Bessie Smith - Empty Bed Blues
Destroy Everything You Touch - Ladytron
Yahoo UK...
Filth and old age, I’m sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.
There’s never a new fashion but it’s old.
Forbid us something, and that thing we desire.
Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
-Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), father of English Literature, and call me crazy, but could this guy...
“I know your works. You are neither cold nor hot. So because you are lukewarm, I will spew you out of my mouth. You can build your filthy world without me. I took the father. Now I’ll take the son. As for you, Mr. Tammany-fucking-Hall, you come down to the Points again, and you’ll be dispatched by my own hand.”
— Bill the Butcher, Gang of New York
Replace “the Points” with the “L-train” and...
“Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer… its anti-intellectualism… its puerile hymns… and its faith-healing… are made to order for King Kid America.”
-Florence King
In honor of the New Year, I have decided to get on tumblr and thus make an unproductive year a foregone conclusion.