“‘A man grows old; he feels in himself that radical sense of weakness, of listlessness, of discomfort, which accompanies the advance of age; and, feeling thus, imagines himself merely sick, lulling his fears with the notion that this distressing condition is due to some particular cause, from which, as from an illness, he hopes to [...]
“‘We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters. We are God’s property. Is it not our happiness thus to view the matter? Is it any happiness or any comfort, to consider that [...]
“Selection and combination are learned from nature herself, who constantly presents us with compositions of her own, far more beautiful than the happiest arranged by human skill”
The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate [...]
“It’s about girls who sleep in abandoned cars and set things on fire. It’s about the great things in life. The stars in the sky and lots of malt liquor.” Harmony Korine
“All I know is what the words know, and the dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning, a middle and an end as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying [...]
“Far from the world, its clamours, frenzies, bitterness and dingy light, I pass judgment on it an on those, like me, who are plunged in it beyond all recall, and on him who has need of me to be delivered, who cannot deliver myself. All is dark, but with that simple darkness that follows like [...]
The dude(s?) over at hrstudioplus have ventured into a physical iteration of their visual aesthetic we all know and love. The magazine is called Them Rag and the second issue has just come out. More Information
I wouldn’t know what to write because I don’t know where to start. Or where to end. Or what’s really important. I know the lock on the bottom of the door scratches loudly along the tiles when you open and close it. We all know that, but we don’t do a thing about that. We [...]
“He knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He know’s there’s a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girl friend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but [...]
Recently I have been thoroughly enjoying pulp novels by Lionel White. Suggestions so far: Obsession, Night of the Rape many more covers
“This world…belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak. We must face up to this. No more than right that it should be this way. We must learn to accept it as a law of the natural world. The rabbits accept [...]
“Do beautiful women ever get bored?” Sara Cwynar is a number of things: more talented than you are the new love of my life a complete stranger a girl who lives in Toronto Her website Her blog
Bret Easton Ellis Has written a new book I was skeptical at first, but after reading an interview, I’m excited
