February 2012
169 posts
“I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my...”
– Rainer Werner Fassbinder
in some ways, WORLD ON A WIRE might represent Fassbinder’s most focused expression of that sentiment, at least to the positive. for more of that “oppressive type of relationship,” methinks MARTHA takes the cake.
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That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
Earthoscope: Observation. →
earthoscope:
The recent media frenzy over the death of Whitney Houston has only made me want to reread American Psycho. Here is my favorite scene from the novel:
But when I sit down something strange on the stage catches my eye. Bono has now moved across the stage, following me to my seat, and he’s wearing…
“Whitney Houston. Aren’t we all implicated? Didn’t we all aid in her demise?...”
– Bret Easton Ellis (via pb-less-than-zero)
Watchsanamgoli:
Justin Timberlake as Bon Iver - this is glorious!
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“Learn to love solitude – to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with...”
– Andrei Tarkovsky
what he said.
this quote jumped out at me after coming home from a screening of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s beautiful new film I WISH, in which there are at least 5 little kids after whom i should pretty much remodel my entire worldview. more on that one tomorrow.
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Occupy Wall Street Objects to the Occupy Wall... →
see-the-galaxy:
anticapitalist:
The formation of an Occupy Wall Street super PAC by an activist in Decatur, Alabama is sparking a backlash from the movement’s organizers in Washington, D.C. and New York City.
This week activist John Paul Thornton opted to fight fire with fire, filing paperwork with the FEC to establish The Occupy Wall Street Political Action Committee, allowing it to raise...
