February 2012
15 posts
history/honesty
i am reading the sense of an ending by julian barnes. i bought it from shakespeare and co which always adds a mythic dimension to book purchases (history, all that chaos, the joy of FINDING). i may have already talked about this purchase. i remember it was a portentous summer day of rising cloud and imminent storms, notre dame staring blank-eyed at the sky. i like this book.
i still read a lot...
“what are we longing for? where does all this yearning come from?”
– pina bausch
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passage
as he walked along the hot road toward the walls of Bou Noura he kept his head down, seeing nothing but the dust and the thousands of small sharp stones. he did not look up because he knew how senseless the landscape would appear; it take energy to invest life with meaning, and at present this energy was lacking; he knew how things could stand bare, their essence having retreated on all sides to...
“…and here we maunder on, in the aching, breaking cold…”
January 2012
22 posts
“i saw only two and they were infinitely small but they *were* snowflakes. paris...”
See what a little moonlight can do to you?
The moon is a gondola. It has stopped rocking. Yes. It’s stopped now. And to this high plateau its stunning influence on surge and loll of tides within us should somehow not go unremarked for want of breath or oxygen. And if I to that magic micro-second instant involuntary arms reach out to touch……detain then surely it is because you are so good: so very good to me. - hone tuwhare
“you come from far away with pictures in your eyes
of coffeshop and morning...”
– gipsy - suzanne vega
forgetlings:
Song of Love, read to you by me.
...
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"you don't need embellishing"
i loved the man who told me that. i had loved him for a long time, i hadn’t thought he’d even noticed me - ah life and it’s cruel habit of bad timing - and loved him for a long painful time after. i kept this close to my heart though.
for a long time i have lived according to a maxim i picked up from a new zealand poet: see what a little moonlight can do? what i gleaned was that...
“I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open...”
– Mary Oliver, from “Lead” in New and Selected Poems, Volume Two (via proustitute)
“open up your eager eyes coz i’m mister brightside”
– the killers indeed
tagged: ten things about me
i was “tagged” by ninewhitetulips to post 10 things about myself.
1) i love cryptic crosswords inordinately but am not that good at them (but keep trying)
2) although i’m outgoing, my favourite pastimes are often solo activities
3) i think bodies are simply amazing, aesthetically and physiologically
4) i have a terrible terrible memory
5) the first time i saw the full moon rise...
December 2011
18 posts
shockfusion asked: Rear Window- Hitchcock/ Amores Perros- Iñarritu/ All the king's men (1949)/ Buffalo 66- Vincent Gallo/ The Conversation- Coppola/ A Streetcar named Desire- Elia Kazan Call me over if you wish to watch it together : )
shockfusion asked: For many different kind of evenings. For many different wines: Play It Again, Sam - Herbert Ross/ La vie reve des anges - Eric Zonca/ Dersu Uzala - Akira Kurosawa/ The 25th Hour - Spike Lee/ Out of Africa - Sydney Pollack/ The Sheltering Sky- Bertolucci/ The Sting- George Roy HillCool/ Hand Luke- Stuart Rosenberg/ Das Leben der Anderen- Von Donnersmarck/ Festen - Thomas Vinterberg/ Breaking the...
“star-far from the person right next to me, but
closer to me than my bones you...”
– Franz Wright, from “Flight” in Walking to Martha’s Vineyard (via ahuntersheart)
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how long
has it been since i really looked at myself?
i was struck today by the thought that, although i give a lot of energy to this world and often pour it into others, i tell only a few of you about the things that really matter to me: who i really am. i realised it with a start (biking over the jagged cobblestones in front of the porte de st denis (two quick thoughts: wow i’m so lucky to live...
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to marionblank
…. i cannot leave you a message and i’ve been trying for over a week (is it tumblr is it my home pc or is it the firewall at work???): i have been loving your photos, and i mean loving, so thank you. En plus your film recommendation. dead on arrival, i’m watching it this weekend. merci!
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