(Source: boohooboo)
"I think the most common cause of insomnia is simple; it’s loneliness."
—
Heath Ledger (via ssilverspoon)
Ooh, ouch.
(Source: eventuallyeveryonewillleave, via imathers)
"It’s monolithic and needy at the same time, like a godlike being who just wants a shoulder to cry on."
— Dave Bloom on Tim Hecker’s Ravedeath, 1972
pica
n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.
I still have some of these that happened years ago, stored away in areas of memory that I even sometimes remember to go looking in at the right times.
Reminds me of something John Darnielle said once that has also stayed with me. I don’t remember the source, but I think it may have been a radio interview?
“Loneliness is something you carry with you, it’s not something you experience because you’re alone.”
(via cleversimon)
"She reads a book about Zen and she writes down on a piece of paper the eight parts of Buddha’s eightfold path and thinks she might follow it. She sees that it mainly involves doing everything right."
— Lydia Davis, Five Signs of Disturbance
"She cries and may be crying only because it is raining outdoors and she has been staring at the rain coming down the windowpane, and then wonders if she is crying more because it is raining or if the rain made it possible for her to cry in the first place, since she doesn’t cry very often, and finally thinks the two, the rain and the tears, are the same."
— Lydia Davis, Once A Very Stupid Man
We Need To Talk About Skyrim
So I was all like “Oh get a life you people, who gets excited about looking at video game sunsets” and who’s laughing now? It’s not me. Definitely not me.
Having spent I don’t know how many hours of my life playing Morrowind back in the day, it seems pretty inevitable that I’ll get into Skyrim eventually. But I resisted buying it during the Steam sales at the end of last year, and I’ll keep resisting. At least until the next time it goes on sale.
"… a mad person not helped out of his trouble by anything real begins to trust what is not real because it helps him and he needs it because real things continue not to help him."
— Lydia Davis, “Liminal: The Little Man”
Twins of Destiny - opening theme
A show about twins born in China from different parents, one Chinese, one English but whose real parent was the Goddess of the Moon. And they have magical powers when they hold hands.
There was a lot of kidnapping and magic and fighting authority in this, which is probably why I loved it so much.
Also it was really bloody weird.
OH GOD I REMEMBER THIS SHOW
I USED TO BE SO OBSESSED WITH IT AS A KID
JULES AND JULIE NEVER GIVE IN
THE TWINS OF DEEEEEESTINY KEEP FIIIIIGHTING
(I remember feeling a bit weird and uncomfortable about the Asian Stereotype Bonanza when I watched this as a kid, but that song!)
Pre-ordered the new Shearwater album.
About to start my fourth listen-through of the demos you get for preordering from Sub Pop.
Happy days.
