Lie to Me

We looked at each other, for a long strange moment that I’ve never forgotten, actually, like two animals meeting at twilight, during which some clear, personable spark seemed to fly up through his eyes and I saw the creature he really was – and he, I believe, saw me. For an instant we were wired together and humming, like two engines on the same circuit.
- Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxCN5o_fi98

Give the world what it wants - the capacity for desire.

Old Priest and a Young Priest

"They're two, they're four, they're six, they're eight,"

From: http://www.allthelyrics.com/lyrics/thomas_the_tank_engine/thomas_and_his_friends_tv_theme_song-lyrics-526221.html

Quirk

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=quirk

Grey Gardens x Robert Frost

 

“It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple; one must be woman-manly or man-womanly. … Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated.”

— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

"The event is sense itself"

http://abc11.com/news/suspect-wanted-in-durham-murder-arrested/485130/

Zig Zag Zigalar

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22429983.200-shell-art-made-300000-years-before-humans-evolved.html#.VIdb8THF-Sp

http://excdus.tumblr.com/post/84271039184/yayoi-kusama-im-here-but-nothing-yayoi-kusama

http://33.media.tumblr.com/698bba1a93b34c44b922c3687ef6e4fc/tumblr_nepi8hemQo1qz7lxdo1_400.gif

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/tameimpala/feelslikeweonlygobackwards.html

We Will Go Around the Horn

Steeple

"Even in Paris, in one of the ugliest parts of the town, I know a window from which one can see across a first, a second, and even a third layer of jumbled roofs, street beyond street, a violet bell, sometimes ruddy, sometimes too, in the finest 'prints' which the atmosphere makes of it, of an ashy solution of black; which is, in fact, nothing else than the dome of Saint-Augustin, and which imparts to this view of Paris the character of some of the Piranesi views of Rome."

"It was always to the steeple that one must return, always it which dominated everything else, summing up the houses with an unexpected pinnacle, raised before me like the Finger of God, Whose Body might have been concealed below among the crowd of human bodies without fear of my confounding It, for that reason, with them."  - From Swann's Way, Marcel Proust

Bacall

"It was quite a terrifying experience for me," Bacall told Fresh Air's Terry Gross in 1994. "I was this kid and I was scared to death of all these pros around me. ... My head would shake and my hands would shake, and I discovered if I kept my head down and looked up, my head would not shake, so I started to do that when I could, when it was appropriate in a scene."

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/15/340632455/in-acting-and-in-life-lauren-bacall-loved-the-idea-of-adventure

http://38.media.tumblr.com/52b7c7d2a4a3bc57630bf2958b678942/tumblr_na54z5fzFn1qz7lxdo1_500.jpg

"I think Kafka was right when he said that for a modern, secular, non-religious man, bureaucracy, state bureaucracy is the only remaining contact with the dimension of the divine."  -- Zizek

http://brandsandfilms.com/2013/07/hersheys-in-mad-men-the-currency-of-affection/

Clouds

Net Neutrality

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEhuUOuSMSRBvFUIgL2-CFMwdlLcpPWooUGir6CPkCY854L41sIsy-8bmeLKdydGIxIOdaZC_eMRQpxn6J-QH8j95qe9jK8GlYH6cRsrOe7-Y5xXZiF07zeT9KsBaC00AiioX-ZQjf2V8A0XDoklEjmDfBH4_jIrZy_09ku628WrqheccwGHYeNpZ2DEqZEQtN8exHJLLQHLQC7F7A=s0-d-e1-ft

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/ProductSpotlight/Tone-Tips/albert-king-his-10-best-422/

http://25.media.tumblr.com/72274a2b6e92cdff0fe655ee5279d4ae/tumblr_mvz8dpuwj11qlbnsco1_500.jpg

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lfr62icQv91qzdeblo1_400.jpg

Eris

Something Rotten in the State of New Jersey

"It's a facsimile of life for those who hold fast to it..."

The Blue Note

Amen

http://www.constructingtheuniverse.com/Amen%20Break%20and%20GR.html

https://www.google.com/search?q=imponderabilia&oq=imponderabilia&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.2644j0j4&sourceid=chrome&espv=210&es_sm=93&ie=UTF-8#es_sm=93&espv=210&q=imponderabilia

This GOP debt ceiling/default debacle makes me think of a man (esp. Speaker Boehner) beholding the sight of his own anus.

"We are going to fail and within those failures, that's where the flavor lies." 

-- David Chang on cooking. 

from: http://www.heritageradionetwork.com/episodes/4612-Taste-Matters-Episode-97-David-Chang

http://awesomepeoplehangingouttogether.tumblr.com/post/45591225981/gilles-deleuze-jean-paul-sartre-et-michel

Logistic Map

Via MP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_of_Fermat%27s_little_theorem#Proof_by_counting_necklaces

"I felt like I gave the world a piece of me that I didn't know about." 
-- CL Smooth on the making of "T.R.O.Y.".

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425601942/192/joel-sternfeld-a-blind-man-in-his-garden-homer-alaska-july-1984-from-american-prospects-series.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixto_Rodriguez

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2013/06/12/herald-the-crack-of-bats/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyfn_Pripetshik

"Ruins, Emblems, Things"

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1978/oct/12/the-last-intellectual/?pagination=false

http://academiccoachtaylor.tumblr.com/image/23346989259

http://www.laduree.fr/

The Immanent Egg

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/09/05/050905fa_fact_bilger

“It’s entirely conceivable that life’s splendor surrounds us all, and always in it’s complete fullness, accessible but veiled, beneath the surface, invisible, far away. But there it lies —not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If we call it by the right word, by the right name, then it comes. This is the essence of magic, which doesn’t create but calls.”

- Franz Kafka

http://rapgenius.com/Nas-halftime-lyrics#note-3778

You mean Jared?  You know I had an eerily similar thought not that long ago.  The last commercial where they honor him for like 10 years of weight loss he looks like a marrionette (sp) whose only purpose is having lost weight. (NB -- what is the moment where he was larger than he once was but  smaller than he will become).

> what's up man?  i think the new pioneers should do a story on jerry the subway guy.  his weight loss story has been so commodified that every time he appears in ads now it seems like his personhood has been stripped away.  like he is spot the budweiser dog now.
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http://revolvver.tumblr.com/post/40143934421

http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/#/?part=to-the-peak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=TJ64ZWy6B-I

Twice we have been wrapped up in some kind of national drama and a catastrophe has come in from out of our collective blind spot, swept away the import of the previous discourse, and laid bare a "true" problem.  In the case of the 2012 election, Superstorm Sandy displaced the petty bickering between the two candidates, illustrating that the ongoing cataclysmic global warming is more important than any domestic squabbles.  Secondly, all the b.s. around the "fiscal cliff" (December 2012) was pushed into the background by the Newtown elementary school shooting, demonstrating the need for adequate gun control laws in the U.S.

No Man is

The Best Parody of the Events of May 1968?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4616099768327171653

You Don’t Know Jack: Kerouac Biographer Joyce Johnson and ‘The Voice Is All’ - The Daily Beast:

Finally, after years of suppressing his French-Canadian lineage in his writing, Kerouac experimented with writing openly about his Franco-American heritage in the blunt, plainspoken joual of his youth. This experiment in his native language, which occurred shortly before he sat down to write On the Road,gave his writing a certain intimacy. “It was a very direct first-person voice,” said Johnson, “frank and open—not the self-conscious literary voice he was using before. It was a voice that would lure an ardent legion of Kerouac disciples for decades to come, with unremitting lines that build momentum like freight trains:

'55

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WiK74i0bms

"Of this image of time, Deleuze retains (in L'image-temps) the continuity of "sheets of past" with the "peaks [pointes] of present," implying the cone is a vortical continuum; each sheet is a disk but also a winding stair continuing up and around in the "next" one, according to the Bergsonian formula of the flux, "interpenetration without succession."

Peter Canning, from Gilles Deleuze and the Theater of Philosophy, p.80.

"What demons do is jump across intervals, and from one interval to another." (Dialogues, p. 40)