February 2012
12 posts
“If a maiden sits on the ground in a clearing in the forest where a unicorn...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Fates Worse Than Death. 1991
: THINGS EVERY YOUNG ARTIST IN PHOENIX SHOULD KNOW →
nxoeed:
1: THIS CITY IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. It will claim to be. Don’t trust it. Anything positive happening in this community is occurring in spite of the city’s efforts, not because of them. You can’t even sell your art on the sidewalk if you want. There are some cities in Maricopa County that recognize…
running low on brick walls to run into, fueled by...
“Destruction is an important force in change. Without destruction of the self, there wouldn’t ever be room for improvement, or space for new self.” (:::::::::: quoted from an old journal entry - linked between the lines)
back before i did this whole tumblr thing, i was a pretty avid “blogger” over the previous 9 years. i wrote really regularly, and felt the need to get...
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tension! attention!
a week or two ago a close friend told me that I dug any woman that gave me any attention. tonight i admitted to him how much that statement bothered me, not because it was in any way inaccurate, but instead because of how ridiculously accurate it was.
somehow the idea of “game” has translated to a game where patience is both the goal and the failure of the game itself.
books, paper, scissors: ARE YOU AN ARTIST??? →
bookspaperscissors:
In browsing the ‘everything’ stream on the new Artists on Tumblr tag today to find new artists to feature, I noticed that not many posts are being tagged with this yet (it did not take me long to browse through several days worth of posting) …………I know that a LOT of my followers, and the…
January 2012
20 posts
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“Of course you have always been an idealist, and filled with optimistic dreams;...”
– Margret Atwood - Alias Grace
“Most of us, no matter what we say, are walking in the dark, whistling in the...”
– James Baldwin (via laurasangria)
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“I was so thankful to her that I wanted to cause her just a tiny bit of harm and...”
– From the diaries of Lenny Abramov
Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shyeyngart, 2010
his message has been preemptively edited post thought but pre sending. Thank you for your time.
infinite loop.
i can’t really explain it, but there is a part of me that feels more alive when i don’t sleep well or don’t get enough sleep. eventually that part takes a nap, which makes me want to start all over again.
New Tag: Artists on Tumblr →
hydeordie:
Hey everyone, new tag alert! Artists on Tumblr is to highlight the best Tumblr has to offer as a wonderful platform to show off your work. Artistsontumblr.tumblr.com is a great jumping off point for your exploration.
In the meantime, I don’t actually run the above blog, so if you are an artist, tag your pieces (mass tagger anyone?) with Artists on Tumblr so all of the new editors...
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Buy original art from Daniel Liepold →
Totally found 3 bucks & some change on my PayPal account and can afford to list more than 15 pieces on my Etsy page! I’m listing some more smaller pieces because they are more affordable. Almost everything here has BFF prices built in. Go tell your friends! BFF prices for total strangers.
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l.n.f.
I love the smell of last night’s fire.
Always.
We talked about mania. Swings. Polarity. The power of the dollar. Disparity. Friends. Bands. Sounds. Music. We told old stories and made new ones. We sat around the fire and celebrated its warmth and drank and were merry.
I love the smell of last nights fire. It’s still covering all of yesterday’s clothes.
“Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1)...”
– C. S. Lewis, in a letter to Sarah, his godchild, on 3 April 1949 via Stan Carey (via bobulate)
How you gonna thrive if you're out there on your...
Sometimes, a piece of lost data isn’t all that bad.
I wrote for a while tonight. About abandonment, with undertones of futility and lonliness, and then about accomplishment, with undertones of joy, adventure and contentment.
Then I switched tabs, forgetting that safari would loose the writing in this tab if I left to go look at a Wikipedia article on Plato’s Apology. Sometimes...
December 2011
4 posts
everyone wants to ask the same questions, but i’m tired of them.
no.
dolphin.
i just want to talk about good sci fi.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Vampire Weekend (56)
Marilyn Manson (41)
Arcade Fire (18)
Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s (14)
Type O Negative (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC...
Bold those books you’ve read in their entirety.
Italicize the ones you started but didn’t finish or read only an excerpt.
1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series 5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials –...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-4) →
Jaymay (59)
Fiona Apple (16)
Doomtree (12)
Front Line Assembly (11)
Deftones (9)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
November 2011
31 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27) →
Doomtree (77)
Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s (71)
Ben Folds (47)
Bright Eyes (15)
Guster (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via nezartdesign)
WatchGenesis Breyer P-Orridge Spoken word 4/8/11 NYC Captain Beefheart symposium
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-20) →
Margot & The Nuclear So And So’s (62)
Front Line Assembly (32)
Punchline (25)
Paper Tiger (20)
The Dillinger Escape Plan (13)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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my girl gave me a bolt cutter. →
absolutely f!@#$%^& nothing but doomtree. no kings comes out tomorrow, but for now here is another taste
today's to do list:
convince every one (including myself) that i’m not worn out, jaded, tired, or just reading from the screenplay notes of a tired script from a film i wouldn’t enjoy
take a gosh darn shower
put a brush to canvas
write more (while still continuing to convince everyone [this won’t be easy])
listen to Margo & the Nuclear So & So’s’ Bookworm at least 10 more...
“Without knowing the whole background, I’ll even assume for purposes of argument...”
– Pepper-Spray Brutality at UC Davis - James Fallows - National - The Atlantic (via robot-heart-politics)