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“To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish”
DFW

"The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day."
DFW

bookmarks:
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fromblownspea... books (1001 Books You Have to Read Before You Die)
books (that i read in 2024)
music (concerts i have been to)
  • Do we have to understand the author's history/background in order to analyze, in full, a work of literature? Or any form of art?
  • Is contemporary culture (literature, movies, etc.) actually less meaningful than classic culture?
  • Plan, everything built on an idea vs. "Gradual and accidental accumulation," illustrated in the remodeling of the Vermont room in The Pastures of Heaven--which is better? Add: the description of New York City in The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
  • Why do people actually seem much more attractive in uniform (especially work-related uniforms)? Is it the genderedness of the "working man" in a suit?
  • Are RPGs, or games that have a set ending, more meaningful/artistic than recent games that don't have an end, and encourage the illusion of freedom?
oct 19 2014 ∞
oct 21 2014 +
  • Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit (1.5/5)
  • Dan Ariely - The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone, Especially Ourselves (3/5)
  • Amber Sparks - May We Shed These Human Bodies (2.5/5)
  • Michael Cunningham - A Home at The End of The World (2.5/5)
  • H.G. Wells - The Time Machine (4/5)
  • Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (4/5) ★
  • Joan Bauer - Hope Was Here (2.5/5)
  • Raymond Carver - Cathedral (4/5) ★
  • Lynne Rae Perkins - Criss Cross (5/5) ★
  • Immanuel Kant - Religion Within The Bounds of Bare Reason (3/5)
  • Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch (4.5/5)
  • Cormac McCarthy - The Road (3.5/5)
  • Paul Auster - The Man in The Dark (2.5/5)
  • Rebecca Stead - When You Reach Me (2.5/5)
oct 19 2014 ∞
dec 3 2014 +

of 2014

  • The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) ★
  • 千と千尋の神隠し (2001) ❤︎
  • La Belle et La Bete (1947)
  • Snow White (1937)
  • かぐや姫 (2014) ❤︎
  • Her (2013) 12.9.14 ❤︎♬
  • Interstellar (2014) ❤︎
  • Nightcrawler (2014)
  • Boyhood (2014)
  • The Hunger Games: Mockingjay (2014)
  • Gone Girl (2014)
  • Before I Disappear (2014) 12.24.14
  • Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) 12.8.14
  • Only Lovers Left Alive (2013) _12.24.14_ ♬
  • Gravity (2013)
  • Sun Don't Shine (2012) 12.23.14 ❤︎♬
  • チョコレートドーナツ (2012) 12.10.14
  • It's Such a Beautiful Day (2012) 12.11.14
dec 3 2014 ∞
dec 19 2015 +

July 2016

  • Stars
  • Beach House
  • Waxahatchee
jul 21 2016 ∞
jul 21 2016 +
  • Depression Cherry - Beach House
  • Art Angels - Grimes
  • Divers - Joanna Newsom
  • Beach House - Beach House
  • Illuminate - Lydia
  • Souvlaki - Slowdive
  • Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
  • Our Love - Caribou
  • Songs To Break Up To - Ta-Ku
  • Honeymoon - Lana Del Rey
dec 13 2015 ∞
dec 19 2015 +
  • Designate a book notebook (small, black) and in it write: Title, Date Finished, Meaningful or Not, Key Themes and Metaphors, What It Made Me Think About (Questions That It Raises).
  • Make real efforts to improve my Japanese. [DOABLE]
    • Read short Japanese novels (not anything that I've read in English before, because I'll get bored, and not while also reading an English book, because I won't read it very carefully).
    • Create a notebook on 敬語, on writing Japanese emails, on the grammatical/stylistic differences between English and Japanese and how these shape the way the languages are understood.
  • Create artwork based on the play counts of songs on music players--analyze for themes, symbols, allusions, dualities, and s...
oct 19 2014 ∞
oct 23 2014 +
  • Cultivate yourself while he's gone, and share the cultivation with him too. Set aside time for him. 甘えすぎない.
  • Settle into discomfort, anxiety, when it is unavoidable. It only seems terrifying when you run away from it. On the other hand, never say yes to anything for any other reason than your actually being interested.
  • Shape your own time, shape your energies . Read, write, think, play games, travel alone. Take baths often, wear warm clothes.
oct 19 2014 ∞
oct 19 2014 +