dreams and inspirations

ambition

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:10:33 +1100

At work yesterday there was a brief interlude in which I was privileged to experience a small taste of what may well be my ideal job: getting paid to restart my computer and talk crap with co-workers.

At least now I have a goal to aim for.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7)

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:17:28 +1100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-3-7):

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"All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only..."

Sun, 07 Mar 2010 07:12:10 +1100

“All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, that mortals realize the silent, subtle, everpresent perils of life.”

- Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

fuckyeahthemountaingoats: (via valerie2776) This is going to...

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:19:26 +1100

fuckyeahthemountaingoats:

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This is going to be weird, but here goes anyway.

When I saw this photo I flipped out. You could say it set a switch off in my brain. I went to Flickr, downloaded the photo, and put it straight onto my phone as desktop wallpaper.

(How crazy is it that telephones have desktop wallpaper now? And how long is it since “desktop wallpaper” was a completely meaningless concept? Living in the future is amazing.)

Now every time I go to use my phone it reminds me to be awesome and also makes me grin a big stupid grin. And all those split seconds of joy really add up over the course of a day.

There’s not really a conclusion here. I’m just happy.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28)

Wed, 03 Mar 2010 14:36:43 +1100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-28):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21)

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:02:34 +1100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-21):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14)

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:47:13 +1100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-14):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7)

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 13:37:20 +1100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-2-7):

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31)

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:31:26 +1100

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-31):

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Then, suddenly, almost ecstatically, he felt sleepy.

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:46:04 +1100

I don’t understand why people are leaping about and crowing that Salinger’s work and/or mythos are overrated. Or maybe I do understand, and that’s why it makes me so sad.

He wrote things that people, including me, loved reading. Then he stopped, because that was what he wanted to do, and I like to imagine that that made him happy.

A Perfect Day for Bananafish and For Esmé, with Love and Squalor, in particular, packed the kind of gutpunch that leads me to flail around and use the word “perfect”. Thank you, J.D. Salinger.

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24)

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:24:36 +1100

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underwater peacocks on the front lawn

Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:20:17 +1100

The National’s next album is coming out on 4AD.

I don’t know how I am going to cope with such a convergence of awesomenesses. I can only dream of the kind of cross-pollination that could theoretically occur.

Never mind that, though. I have set the countdown timer for May and will proceed to be excited.

Photo

Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:30:58 +1100

"… when I have that teenaged feeling about an artist and their music, those thoughts start..."

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:15:08 +1100

“… when I have that teenaged feeling about an artist and their music, those thoughts start popping up - this desire to feel one’s way into the singer’s own personal thoughts and motivations, because the identification is so huge - you feel (don’t you think?) that the artist is you, but a bigger and shinier you, who’s saying what you want to say but aren’t gifted enough to articulate.”

- Zoilus

"For some reason, there is this liberal myth that jokes about rape, violence, abuse and torture, or..."

Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:56:22 +1100

“For some reason, there is this liberal myth that jokes about rape, violence, abuse and torture, or jokes which mock and deride disabled people, children, Black people, lesbians, disaster victims, or jokes which call upon racist or sexist or homophobic stereotypes, are ‘transgressive’ and break taboos. But it is the opposite. They reinscribe power and privilege, a world in which rape, violence, torture and abuse happens daily; where power and privilege mean that the sufferers of this are disproportionately female, Black, lesbian, disabled, or children; where there is no justice.”

- Georgina Bruce

"You have a responsibility to play your part. Sometimes you encounter a bell that needs to be struck..."

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:18:45 +1100

“You have a responsibility to play your part. Sometimes you encounter a bell that needs to be struck in order to manifest itself as a bell. If you are too wrapped up in a carefully cultivated image of yourself as a person who would never strike anything, even a bell, then you may ultimately cause greater harm by not taking the action that is necessary.”

- Brad Warner

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17)

Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:13:08 +1100

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"Making a mixtape is the opposite of indifferent. It’s heartfelt, purposeful—often a subtle form of..."

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:19:28 +1100

“Making a mixtape is the opposite of indifferent. It’s heartfelt, purposeful—often a subtle form of flirtation. And it’s downright embarrassing if these collections aren’t treasured or at least paid a little mind, because the mixtape is a way of making yourself known, an interpersonal form of show business, of making news, of replicating sounds and words you find important. It’s like poetry because poetry is what you can’t say in any other way. At its most essential level, a mixtape is a way of getting through.”

- David Dark

"I’ve got little time for drugs and the nightclubs near me aren’t the kind of places where you can..."

Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:11:08 +1100

“I’ve got little time for drugs and the nightclubs near me aren’t the kind of places where you can worship beats at the pulpit of the DJ, lose yourself in an acid bassline and find God in a filtersweep, so I have to get my kicks a different way. I think it’s a natural instinct to want to feel overwhelmed, to feel the presence of something greater than yourself, and if you have no truck with God or Allah or any of the innumerable pantheon of deities that some choose to worship, then music and nature together are as good a way as any that I have found.”

- Nick Southall

My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10)

Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:48:59 +1100

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