I’m wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, ‘I am my musical taste,’ ” she said. “I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that’s a thing that people romanticize: ‘Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.’ I’ve definitely learned that you can easily get stars in your eyes. I’ll meet directors and they’ll be like, ‘I love Godard!’ And they love screwball comedies and they love all these things I love, and then it’s, like, ‘Wait a minute, that doesn’t mean they can make movies.’
Just because somebody likes something doesn’t mean … anything, really.
I have to point out that I am not reblogging this to toot my own horn, but because I need as many people as possible to see this quote that made me so explosive. And, thanks for the blog love, Ashley!
From the new Summerzine
(via cellar door)
Parecon’s antidote to corporate divisions of labor imposing class division is that if you work at a particularly unpleasant and disempowering task for some time each day or week, then for some other time you should work at more pleasant and empowering tasks. Overall, people should not do either rote and unpleasant work or conceptual and empowering work all the time. We should each instead have a balanced mix of tasks.
Then there is the question of which watch he puts on in the morning, a question he delicately sidesteps. “Thank goodness I have two wrists.
Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.
// Let me teach you about technology.//
“…[I] then head into the living room and put the new Talking Heads in the CD player, but it starts to digitally skip so I take it out and put in a CD laser lens cleaner. The laser lens is very sensitive, and subject to interference from dust or dirt or smoke or pollutants or moisture, and a dirty one can inaccurately read CDs, making for false starts, inaudible passages, digital skipping, speed changes and general distortion; the lens cleaner has a cleaning brush that automatically aligns with the lens then the disk spins to remove residue and particles. When I put the Talking Heads CD back in it plays smoothly.”
– Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Wonderful George Perec quote via Russell Davies.
There are four things you have to do in life:
Show up.
Speak the truth.
Do what you do with intensity.
And do not get attached to the results.
longer thoughts here.
