For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside
That it ain’t no sin to be glad you’re alive.
I wanna find one face that ain’t looking through me
I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these
Badlands…
“Badlands” - by Bruce
Maybe It's All OK
Nov 08
The Swell Season, from their wonderful new record, Strict Joy. It’s the followup to their movie/soundtrack ONCE. Beautiful record.
“ … But it’s hard to stay mad, when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much, my heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst… And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.
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American Beauty
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John Irving
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Nov 07
Google Earth alphabet - The Netherlands - capitalsGoogle Earth Alphabet (capitals) using only locations in The Netherlands.
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Nov 06
“ What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.
» How Junot Diaz, Kazuo Ishiguro and Orhan Pamuk Write
“Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Pulitzer-prize winning novel “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao,” shuts himself in the bathroom and perches on the edge of the tub with his notebook when he’s tackling a knotty passage. Hilary Mantel, whose Tudor drama “Wolf Hall” claimed this year’s Man Booker Prize, jumps in the shower when she gets stuck. “The number of pages I’ve got that are water marked, I can’t tell you,” Ms. Mantel said.”
“Here is how a range of leading authors describe their approach to writing—a process that can be lonely, tedious, frustrating and exhilarating.”
