.: September 2009

9.21.2009

85.

photo margo ducharme

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Giuseppe Logan

is still alive

84.

finding a smile inside old books.

One million things to do and not a single bit of motivation.

"In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up."

-a tree grows in brooklyn

9.20.2009

83.

5 things

1. Take something away and give something back

2. There is a difference between being a loner and wanting to be alone.

3. Make up as much as you want.

4. Always Fascinate yourself.

We knew the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

5. Listen to The Cloudy Compilation

Mogwai I know you are but what am I?

Spacemen 3 Drive/ Feel so bad

Grizzly Bear Merge

Great Lake Swimmers Moving Pictures Silent Films

Badfinger Walk out in the Rain

Boards of Canada Turquoise Hexagon Sun

The Walkmen Thinking of a Dream I had

Animal Collective Banshee Beat

Grizzly Bear A Good Place

Mum The Ballad of the Broken Birdie

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds The Ship Song

Yo La Tengo Tears are in your eyes

Crystal Stilts The City in the Sea

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hot toddy time.

9.09.2009

82.

If I could sit down over coffee with anyone it might be nice if it was one of these three.

Lillian Bassman at 92

Her photos are full of softness, fragility and the personal problems of the feminine world

Luigi Ghirri

surreal and strange

Jean Prouvé
makes me feel peaceful

9.08.2009

81.

collected

a collection of bikes

beijing

a collection of dishes

heath

a collection of type

someday i'll own a set

a collection of fabrics

a collection of chairs

bauhaus

You lose whatever you don't hold, so keep what you find. Forever.

9.06.2009

80.

Just as there was a first instant when someone rubbed two sticks together to make a spark, there was a first time joy was felt, and a first time for sadness. For a while, new feelings were being invented all the time. Desire was born early, as was regret. When stubbornness was felt for the first time, it started a chain reaction, creating the feeling of resentment on the one hand, and alienation and loneliness on the other. It might have been a certain counterclockwise movement of the hips that marked the birth of ecstasy; a bolt of lighting that caused the first feeling of awe. Contrary to logic, the feeling of surprise wasn't born immediately. It only came after people had enough time to get used to things as they were. And when enough time had passed, and someone felt the first feeling of surprise, someone, somewhere else, felt the first pang of nostalgia.

It's also true that sometimes people felt things and because there was no word for them, they went unmentioned. The oldest emotion in the world may be that of being moved; but to describe it must have been like trying to catch something invisible.

(Then again, the oldest feeling in the world might simply have been confusion.)

Having begun to feel, people's desires to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite how much it sometimes hurt. People became addicted to feeling. They struggled to uncover new emotions. It's possible that this is how art was born. New kinds of joy were forged, along with new kinds of sadness. The eternal disappointment of life as it is; the relief of unexpected reprieve; the fear of dying.

Even now, all possible feelings do not yet exist. There are still those that lie beyond our capacity and our imagination. From time to time, when a piece of music no one had ever written, or a painting no one has ever painted, or something else impossible to predict, fathom, or yet describe takes place, a new feeling enters the world. And then, for the millionth time in the history of feeling, the heart surges, and absorbs the impact.

-from "The History of Love"

one of my most favorite books in the entire world.

Thinking about rooms in far away places. Sunlight and Firsts.

Sometimes getting from A to B is a blur.

You wake up one day a realize that you got there and you don't really know how but that it's ok.

Sometimes knowing you will survive is the hardest part and while you were worrying about moving on you didn't realize how much fun you were having trying to get there.