January 2012
27 posts
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“If you don’t know what your passion is, then you’re in luck…because blogging...”
– blogging is good for you: why, for the love of the gods, you should start your author blog today | Justine Musk
I also like this, because I feel like one of the things we just never learn is the process of introspection. I’m not entirely sure, but it seems to me that living is as much about...
“Shaping your own cultural identity - and having it recognised by others - is...”
– François Matarasso
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“People need to hear the things you think about, dream about, and worry about....”
– SpeEdChange: Changing Gears 2012: reconsidering what “literature” means
(via RGreco)
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“But as he grew older, he learned that a word was a powerful thing. An insult...”
– Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle (via teachingliteracy)
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“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings...”
– Bene Gesserit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ah, the Bene Gesserit litany against fear. I recently finished reading ‘The Winds of Dune’. I have fond memories of watching the movie adaptation of Frank Herbert’s original Dune novel (which is where I remember the litany from,...
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“…if we didn’t have that means of communication, in fact, we’d still be...”
– from A Conversation with B.H. Fairchild - RATTLE: Poetry for the 21st Century » RATTLE: Poetry for the 21st Century
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“I have been a Buddhist long before I started writing poems and I think as far as...”
– Ocean Vuong | Ocean Vuong: The TNB Self-Interview | The Nervous Breakdown
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“Essentially I believe that everybody’s life involves this sort of dualism....”
– Andrea Galvani
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“I believe that the most complex and profound truths are usually arrived at when...”
– How a Poem Happens: Corrinne Clegg Hales
WatchJacaszek - Dare Gale (by Ghostly International)
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“I keep a hotel room. I have everything taken off the walls, and I bring in...”
– Writers’ Routines: Maya Angelou
Two things here.
a) For a while, I developed a (bad?) habit of munching while working. Almost incessantly. Mostly healthy stuff (though I’m pretty sure I could have a reasonably decent conversation with Bill Herbert about decadent delicacies and bad...
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“Oh, yes,
let’s bless the imagination. It gives
us the myths we live by.”
– ‘On the Meeting of Garcia Lorca and Hart Crane’— Philip Levine.
I listened to a lot of Philip Levine and Robert Hass while pulling Breaking Silence together. At one point, I had a playlist of various readings on rotation. Now that Breaking Silence is out, I’m easing back into a...
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“As for technique, I was “playing it by ear.” I wanted to make the...”
– How a Poem Happens: John Drury
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Night Truths Stephen Dunn
I’ve known an edginess, come evening, when I haven’t chosen to be alone, but am, the necessity of music, the implacable silence of the telephone, when my faith is faith in the provisional, wild, no consolation in it, and deeply, late at night, in the peaty, musk-scented, moon-driven dark I’ve felt so singular, so importantly sorry for myself, or so exquisitely stilled,...
“Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...”
– William Faulkner (via creationoftheday)
WatchWant! WAAAANT!! Don’t know how I’ll use it yet, but WAAAANT!!
Birthday’s in June, guys. Just saying.
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something,...”
– Buckminster Fuller, via Sarah B. Nelson
“Every time I’ve made writing mistakes it’s been because of one significant...”
– Roger Robinson » 1 Minute Lecture: Is Your Writing In Service?
December 2011
15 posts
Most Listened To (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Boards of Canada (46)
The Cinematic Orchestra (17)
Abimaro & The Free (11)
4hero (8)
The Mattson 2 (7)
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“Some things
you know all your life. They are so simple and true
they must be...”
– Philip Levine, “The Simple Truth”
Most Listened To (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Dorian Concept (24)
Dimlite (19)
Bibio (13)
Machine Drum (12)
Abimaro & The Free (11)
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It’s been almost a year since I last ran Last.FM. Started up again a week ago, and hey presto! I’d forgotten this automated Last.FM scraper was listening. Nice little reminder that the web is watching…
“My advice is always to make a lot of art; to make a lot of art, then look at...”
– DAVE HICKEY, Art critic, Educator, Curator. »jon-garcia: “I saw this on Tumblr some time ago but I can’t find it. So here it is again. Those last two sentences are just… prophetic.” (via tobia)
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“To comprehend a man’s life, it is necessary to know not merely what he...”
– John Hall Gladstone
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ArtStack →
From the about page: “ArtStack lets you discover, collect and share art.”
“You can’t keep a great piece of art to yourself. By linking you with the people and things you’re interested in, ArtStack gives you a continually updated feed of relevant and inspiring artworks and commentary. When you see something you like - on the site or anywhere on the net - you can easily add it to...
<a href=”http://resonate.bandcamp.com/track/shiwasu-mix” _mce_href=”http://resonate.bandcamp.com/track/shiwasu-mix”>Shiwasu mix by Ichiro</a>
Saturday afternoon soundtrack provided by Shiwasu. All systems blazing in Jsamlarose towers…
“Pound (that rat) says somewhere that it is incredible to him that so many...”
– David Remnick
Question from the students I worked with from Tampines Junior College today: what do we need to do to be writers?
Answer (from me): Read. Of course, you need to cultivate your voice. You need to explore what you want to say and why you want to say it. And yes, you need to develop a...
“there’s a point just a few steps beyond belonging that is perhaps even more...”
– Represent / from a working library
“We should be ‘reading for the sake of reading’ rather than ‘reading for the sake...”
– Alan Jacobs from The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction
via @solle
(via ableparris)
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WatchCDR KNOWLEDGE - CREATE MUSIC MOBILE - TRAILER (by CDR)
Making electronic music is something I’ve toyed around with for years, with all the intense focus of a cat chasing string (i.e. lose focus quick and move on to something else). Now that my 2009 MacBook Pro is back on it’s virtual feet, I’m considering ways of putting it to use; setting it up as a portable digital creative...
“Don’t just go through the motions. Don’t accept dogma. Look for ways that you...”
– John Gruber @ Daring Fireball
November 2011
14 posts
“Fortunately, these two disciplines—focus and endurance—are different from...”
– Haruki Murakami: Talent Is Nothing Without Focus and Endurance - via The 99 Percent
francine j. harris, "Between Old Trees"
there’s a rain formed. it has a face that reminds you
of hills. it has a country you could name if you were smarter. it has a kind of mouth. it seems wrecked from all the commotion of a windstorm. it has tear ducts, and what does that say about you. it lives by the hope that someday again, there may be bluing in a backyard wash, so far off the sky. this is why children chalk suns on the...
“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but thought about it. Be...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via light-essence)
“But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and...”
– James Victore — via The Brooks Review
“And that’s why we must push ourselves to ask the harder question. Not...”
– Op-Ed: In The Particular Lies The Universal (via The 99 Percent)
