"‘Maybe everything bad that happens to you makes you weaker,’ said Giovanni, as though he had not heard me, ‘and so you can stand less and less.’"
— James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"And this was perhaps the first time in my life that death occurred to me as a reality. I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I wondered how they had done it—it, the physical act. I had thought of suicide when I was much younger, as, possibly, we all have, but then it would have been for revenge, it would have been my way of informing the world how awfully it had made me suffer. But the silence of the evening, as I wandered home, had nothing to do with the storm, that far-off boy. I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine."
— James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"‘Somebody,’ said Jacques, ‘your father or mine, should have told us that not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour—and in the oddest places!—for the lack of it.’"
— James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
on seeing the Prometheus trailer yet again
- Me: … :/
- Lap: Well, it'll be better in 3D.
- Me: Why, because I won't be able to see or understand anything and I'll get a headache and have to leave?
- Lap: … yeah.
"But people can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and friends, anymore than they can invent their parents."
— James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I may be drunk by morning but that will not do any good. I shall take the train to Paris anyway. The train will be the same, the people, struggling for comfort and, even, dignity on the straight-backed, wooden, third-class seats will be the same, and I will be the same."
— James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room
"I have this probably-dumb-but-what-the-hell mystical sense that if even one small detail of my life had been changed, then everything would be different now, and who’s to say that the things most dear to me wouldn’t have to be traded away in the bargain?"
—
John Darnielle (via practicallywalkingonair)
I said almost exactly this to someone just the other night. Causality is complicated.
I love that song, but come on.
Not only is there always one person who yells for Golden Boy, it always sounds like the same dude.
Cut it out, that dude.
music for dinner parties
- me: hm
- me: should I put a song called "christfuck" in this playlist
- me: probably not
megachiropteran replied to your post: Saw the Mountain Goats last night and the night…
Is that when it’s going to come out????
Pretty much! JD said it would come out “in the fall”, so of course the crowd pointed out that it’s fall here right now and so he had about twenty days left. Then he said Octoberish. SO EXCITED.
