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“ your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you. The Laughing Heart, Charles Bukowski. 1920-1994.
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you. The Laughing Heart, Charles Bukowski. 1920-1994.
“ Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience open to individuals who may, as women, be aggressive, as men, tender; it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.
Toward a Recognition of Androgyny, Carolyn G. Heilbrun. 1973.
via Jenna Kraus.
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All I Need, Clams Casino. 2011.
via Vivian Caccuri.
The Re’Search, Ryan Trecartin. 2009-2010.
On exhibit at PS1 until 3 September 2011.
Put headphones on, play this in the dark, watch the whole thing. Put headphones on, play this in the dark, watch the whole thing. Put headphones on, play this in the dark, watch the whole thing.
I Want To Be the One To Walk In the Sun, Laurel Nakadate. 2006.
“ Edible: good to eat and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm.
Ambrose Bierce. c. 1900.
via Lapham’s Quarterly.
(Source: laphamsquarterly)
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I don’t want to snake you
I just want to copy and paste you
Take you and bathe with you, taste of you
Wait, are you able to give of the flesh like Abel do?
Not able? Cain’ll do
Amazing, Das Racist. 2010.
via Andrew Cornett.
(Source: newyork.neighborhoodr.com)
Seen this before?
Surface Detail, Tom Beddard. 2011.
Coronal mass ejection as viewed by the Solar Dynamics Observatory on June 7, 2011.
“The sun unleashed a massive solar storm today (June 7) in a dazzling eruption that kicked up a vast cloud of magnetic plasma that appeared to rain back down over half of the sun’s entire surface, NASA scientists say.”
