August 2009
67 posts
“Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter-faction, the vegans, are a...”
– Anthony Bourdain
“Miss Kubelik, one doesn’t get to be a second administrative assistant...”
– C.C. Baxter
“All things truly wicked start from innocence.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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Imagining Defeat by David Berman
She woke me up at dawn, her suitcase like a little brown dog at her heels. I sat up and looked out the window at the snow falling in the stand of blackjack trees. A bus ticket in her hand. Then she brought something black up to her mouth, a plum I thought, but it was an asthma inhaler. I reached under the bed for my menthols and she asked if I ever thought of...
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“It is the terrible deception of love that it begins by engaging us in play not...”
– Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
Albert Brooks: I think we're very much alike. See that's why we can get into these kind of debates. I think you'd be surprised at much alike we really are.
Dr. Ted Cleary: I'd be more than surprised. I'd be suicidal.
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Ego Ideal and Superego: Lacan as Viewer of...
The question that immediately pops up here is, of course: what happened in between, during the 3 1/2 second shot of the airport - did they do it or not? Maltby is right to emphasize that, as to this point, the film is not simply ambiguous; it rather generates two very clear, although mutually exclusive meanings - they did it, and they didn’t do it; the film gives unambiguous signals...
“In history as in nature, decay is the laboratory of life.”
– Karl Marx
“Cameron told the audience each frame of finished film takes 30-50 hrs to render,...”
– AVATAR MOTHERFUCKER
“Can anyone remember love? It’s like trying to summon up the smell of roses...”
– Arthur Miller
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The difference between Camus and Sartre
fuckyeahexistentialism:
It’s a matter of emphasis:
Sartre: life is meaningless, SO HUMANS CREATE MEANING. Camus: LIFE IS MEANINGLESS, so humans create meaning.
Vomit Express - Bob Dylan & Allen Ginsberg
After You’ve Gone - Joe Venuti with Eddie...
