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  • aristotles rhetoric
  • history of the Internet
  • Douglas riva and impressionist piano
  • Aztec mythogy
  • Howard zinn books
  • look up film references
  • Silent film history (Charlie Chaplin and buster Keaton)
  • practice grammar
  • speech skills (rhetoric)
  • how to read a book - Charles van doren
  • Langston Hugh's poetry
  • troubadours
  • cave paintings in Mexico
jul 3 2013 ∞
jul 3 2013 +
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Alfred Hitchcock
  • Orson Welles
  • Howard Hawks
  • John Ford
  • Sergio Leone
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • Louis Malle
  • Luis Bunuel
  • David Lynch
  • William Friedkin
dec 18 2012 ∞
dec 20 2012 +
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  • dont be stupid
  • stand up strait, sit straight too
  • prioritize - and remind yourself of the ranks
  • always make eye contact
  • ask questions
  • the people that you want to spend time with are the ones that dissolve your limits
  • know where you are in time
  • grab opportunities
  • see education as a lifestyle
  • know that you're an encapsulated entity of brilliant passion
  • when you focus, you focus
  • listen to your body
  • step back and dive forward for perspective
nov 24 2012 ∞
dec 18 2012 +
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  • philosophy (aristotle's artistic proofs, marxism, hegel, bertrand russel, modernism, adorno)
  • 60's interests (allen ginsberg poetry, beatniks, mod culture)
  • semantics
  • cognitive psychology, moral psychology
  • sociology (socialism, marxism)
  • linguistics
  • philosophy
  • history of sexuality & gender
  • poetics
  • prosody
  • cioffi critique against freud
  • contemporary poetry
  • dream-visions
  • long body language
  • transatlantic puritanism
  • heresy and dissent
  • the Scientific Revolution
  • Prynne
oct 14 2012 ∞
oct 17 2012 +
  • 12 Angry Men (1957)
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
  • The 400 Blows (1959)
  • 8 ½ (1963)
  • A Hard Day’s Night (1964)
  • The African Queen (1952)
  • Alien (1979)
  • All About Eve (1950)
  • All About my Mother
  • Almost Famous
  • Annie Hall (1977)
  • Apocalypse Now (1979)
  • The Battle of Algiers (1967)
  • Best In Show
  • The Bicycle Thief (1948)
  • Blade Runner (1982)
  • Blazing Saddles (1974)
  • Blow Up (1966)
  • Blue Velvet (1986)
  • Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
  • Breathless (1960)
jul 31 2012 ∞
mar 16 2015 +
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  • daguerréotypes
  • cave of forgotten dreams
  • this emotional life
  • the buddha
  • revolution
  • life after django reinhardt
  • dragon slayer
  • zeitgeist the movie
  • all joseph campbell movies
  • Robert Thurman on Buddhism
  • the quantum activist
  • beautiful losers
  • double take
  • the september issue
  • eames: the architect and the painter
  • i like killing flies
  • religulous
  • wasteland
  • etoiles
  • cinévardaphoto
jun 5 2012 ∞
mar 16 2015 +
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  • Ernest Becker
  • Alan Watts
  • Bertrand Russel
  • Sigmund Freud
jun 3 2012 ∞
jun 3 2012 +
  • working in groups
  • guided reading questions
  • people tossing pens to me
  • capitalized handwriting
  • being watched by stalker men
  • when habachi cheifs throw food at me
  • walking in tour groups
  • following directions
  • sudden loud noises
  • time gap when computer screens are loading
  • pencils without erasers
  • dripping faucets
  • fake smiles when uncomfortable
  • loud MWAH air kisses
  • man-made lighting
  • dusty rugs
  • fingernails scratching rugs
  • questionnaires with lines for answering
  • bubbling in my name on documents
  • role playing in class
may 2 2012 ∞
may 9 2014 +
  • Hispanic/South American
    • Lhasa de Sela - La Llorona
    • Celso Pina
    • Redhot & Rio CD
    • LoCura
    • Bebo & Cigala
    • Lila Downs
    • Carla Morrison - Aprendiendo A Aprender
    • Orishas
    • Buika
    • Mercedes Sosa - 30 Anos
    • Dan Zanes - Nueva York
    • Estrella Morente - My Songs & A Poem
    • Bebe - Y.
    • Tango Jointz - Palermo Nuevo
    • Ojos de Brujo - Techari
  • Folk/Country
    • The Goat Rodeo
    • Leftover Salmon - Aquatic Hitchhiker
mar 28 2012 ∞
dec 18 2012 +
  • Christophe Honoré
  • Federico Fellini
  • Wes Anderson
  • Billy Wilder
mar 5 2012 ∞
dec 29 2012 +
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  • grass in the morning
  • well-made leather shoes
  • warm vanilla sugar cookies
  • lemony cleannn
  • damp soil in the forest
  • crunchy damp leaves in october; crisp
  • cinnamon desserts in spain
  • bananas & coconuts
  • chai tea
  • fresh baked bread
  • old books with crinkly spines
  • breezes, with sun
jan 19 2012 ∞
jun 4 2012 +
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  • reading books
  • siting in very large leather chairs
  • waking up before everyone else
  • looking at maps
  • being treated like a queen
  • kissing smart men
  • saying inappropriate things at inappropriate times
  • listening to scientists talk
  • sitting on the floor
  • staying away from screens
  • taking showers in pitch black darkness
  • looking at the ceiling
  • breathing
  • hiding from no one
  • feeling skin
  • sitting behind couches
  • studying and studying focused
  • looking at people in the eyes
  • being modest
  • creating crafty
sep 25 2011 ∞
dec 18 2012 +
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  • willow trees (their branches hang like quiet reveries)
  • japanese maples (they look violent and romantic)
  • yellow roses (they remind me of butter)
  • monarch butterflies (for their amazing habits and connection with lightning storms)
  • cold water cupped in puddles
  • birch trees (so skinny and peeled, inky layers underneath the milky ones)
  • warm wet grass after the rain, surprise
jan 16 2012 ∞
jun 4 2012 +
  • Autumn Spice Applesauce (73 cal) 1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce with 1 tablespoon dried cranberries and 1/8 teaspoon nutmeg
  • Cinnamon hot cocoa (74 Cal) 2 teaspoons Godiva Milk Chocolate Hot Cocoa mix with 1/2 cup heated fat-free milk, 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon, and 1 cinnamon stick
  • 5 Mary's Gone Crackers Chipotle Tomato Sticks & Twigs (50 Cal)
  • 4 Slices of Crystalized Ginger (72 cal)
  • 10 Maisie Jane's Orange & Spice Almonds (70 cal)
  • 1 cup air-popped popcorn tossed with 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder and 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan (56 cal)
  • For each bite: 1 teaspoon blue cheese on (fresh) fig half, drizzled with 1/4 teaspoon honey (72 cal)
  • 1/2 ounce Brie cheese melted on thin baguette slice, topped with 1 small strip roa...
jan 16 2012 ∞
jan 16 2012 +
  • Jonathan Safran Foer
  • Paul Bloom
  • Elizabeth Eaves
  • Kathryn Schulz
  • Dan Gilbert
  • Laura Kirar
  • Jonah Leher
  • Elaine Sciolino
  • Tyler Brûlé
  • Aimee Mullins
  • Shalom Auslander
  • Jenny Allen
  • Steven Pinker
  • Harold Bloom
jan 8 2012 ∞
jun 10 2012 +
  • the compete honesty and goodness displayed by the actor of che in the motorcycle diaries. not suffocating, learned goodness, but action based off of truth and the understanding of other's emotions/needs. humble qualities, combined with erudition.
  • communists against franco in france mid 70's.
  • gathering of beatniks in small apartments. bold colored walls and intellectual poetic prose consumed with wine and oranges. bears and clean colors.
  • anything that promotes liberal values, thought-provoking experience, life of education
  • simple, well fit, colorful, well-made clothes of travelers
  • south american revolution
  • religious studies and looking for the nature and purpose of religion
dec 22 2011 ∞
jan 15 2012 +
  • chocolat
  • entre nos
  • the secret of keels
  • The violin
  • dead man
  • beasts of the southern wild
  • the awakening
  • trainspotting
  • the colors
  • the rebound
  • gigante
  • rainman
  • donnie darko
  • in the loop
  • the imperialists are still alive
  • charlie chaplan gold rush
  • 1981
  • 8 miles high
  • live in maid
  • autumn spring
  • madeinusa
nov 13 2011 ∞
may 21 2013 +
  • Le déjeuner sur l'herbe- Édouard Manet
  • White and Red Plum Blossoms- Ogata Korin
  • A Mermaid - John William Waterhouse
  • Lilith (1892) - John Collier
  • Lady Godiva - John Collier
  • The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb- Hans Holbein
  • Mary Magdalen with the Smoking Flame - Georges de La Tour
  • Still Life with a Watch - Pieter Clasez
  • Procris - Henrietta Rae
nov 9 2011 ∞
feb 13 2012 +
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  • Dianne Von Furstenburg
  • Alexandra Golovanoff
  • Francoise Hardy
  • Marina Muñoz
  • Giovanna Battaglia
  • Aurora Sansone
  • Phoebe and Annette Stephens
  • Nadia and Hassan
  • Julia Sarr-Jamois
  • Tracy McCarty
  • Uzoamaka Maduka
  • Fatima Robinson
  • Dynasty & Soul
  • Ralf Adelberg
  • Angela Matina
  • Lucy Chadwick
nov 9 2011 ∞
nov 18 2013 +
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  • cryptic
  • elusive
  • labyrinth
  • mystic
  • translucent
  • mist
  • son
  • willow
  • skin
  • choleric
  • nebulous
  • shiver
  • effervescent
  • diaphanous
  • erudition
  • piquant
  • ruminate
  • escapism
  • cosmic
  • lypophrenia
  • drapetomania
may 25 2011 ∞
jan 16 2012 +
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  • brown poncho (like eastwood's in the good, the bad and the ugly)
  • Little black dress
  • aviator jacket
  • high waisted denim shorts
  • a-line skirts
  • big Aztec style sweater
  • Duluth Pack Bison Leather Sportsmans Tote Bag
  • colorful socks
  • big wool hat
  • loose cotton button downs (from south america)
  • leather jackets
  • massive leather sack (for everything)
  • leather gloves
  • wool fingerless gloves
  • oliver people's turtle-shell sunglasses
  • black boiled wool overcoat (an academics)
  • hot red button-down (south west)
dec 18 2012 ∞
mar 16 2015 +
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  • the unquestioned lifestyle of sun-colored characters in gabriel garcia marquez books. i do what i do because it's what i do
  • busy people in ivy-coated buildings realizing their own fascination with life and dedication to making their secrets surface
  • the eyes of artists
  • being quiet enough and aware enough to realize that the sounds can please you. that being alive does not require other action within itself
  • befriending people who have nothing in common with me
oct 13 2012 ∞
oct 13 2012 +
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  • Sergey Rachmaninov
  • Franz Listz
  • Frederic Chopin
  • Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns
  • Claude Debussy
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • Frank Bridge
  • Frederic Devreese
aug 8 2012 ∞
sep 6 2012 +
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  • the stratum of clouds
  • geography
  • the seven wonders of the world
  • the moon's cycle
  • the most expensive foods
  • types of flowers
  • the variety of plants
  • most powerful women in history
  • spirit animals
  • the chinese new year
  • how carbon dating works
  • how hot air balloons work
  • how bikes came about
jul 12 2012 ∞
jan 8 2013 +
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  • the reader
  • mozart's sister
  • pride and prejudice
  • vicky cristina barcelona
  • a good year
  • the notebook
  • an education
  • adam
  • somersault
  • adrift
  • cheri
  • young goethe in love
  • a beautiful mind
  • the virgin suicides
jun 1 2012 ∞
oct 23 2013 +
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  • The Collection de l'art brut (is a museum dedicated to outsider art and located in Lausanne, Switzerland.)
  • Positivist Temple in Porto Alegre, Brazil ( Benjamin Constant Street, 74 - Rio de Janeiro)
  • Town hall of Kolašin, Montenegro
  • Kazan Cathedra in Russia
  • Devils Tower, Wyoming
  • Petra, Ma'an Governorate, Jordan
may 18 2012 ∞
jan 8 2013 +
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  • NOVELS
    • Fathers and Sons (Ivan Turgenev)
    • Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)
    • Metamorphoses (Kafka)
    • Slaughterhouse Five (Kurt Vonnegut)
    • Clockwork Orange
    • Horros of german langauge
    • Misbehavior of organism
    • Aesthetics from classical greece to the present monroe c. beardsly
    • Absolute Beginners
    • The Savage Detectives (Bolanos)
    • Dreaming in Cuba
    • Leaving Atocha Station
    • The Dead Poets' Society
    • Little Birds (Nin)
    • Naked (Sedaris)
    • Reading Lolita in Tehran
    • Lolita (Nabokov)
    • American Psycho
apr 10 2012 ∞
jun 2 2014 +
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  • Being thankful
  • Reading "A little history of the world"
  • Learning about all religions
  • Teach them how to be good friends
  • Never eating processed food
  • Going to art museums, ballets, operas, science lectures, music festivals
  • Items of excellent quality, that last a lifetime
  • Meditation
  • Send them off in museums with a notebook and a pencil
  • Wine at dinner
  • For girls: how to flirt & be a woman of high value
  • For boys: how to charm & be humble
  • Playing an instrument for years/ being artistic
  • Learning to cook simple but excellent meals
  • Not watching cable
apr 8 2012 ∞
may 21 2013 +
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  • ruminate about dreams & decisions
  • watch art 21
  • listen to german records
  • marvel at my vintage art history textbook
  • watch animated/ claymation film (fantastic mr. fox, max & mary)
  • listen to duke ellington & swing jazz
  • lay outside in a tree
  • sit in patches of sunlight
  • take bubble baths
  • look at the ocean
  • read poetry by cummings
mar 26 2012 ∞
jun 3 2012 +
  • yahoo/gmail
  • listography
  • blogspot
  • tumblr
  • pinterest
  • whole living
  • vimeo/ youtube
  • grooveshark/ pandora/ spotify
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • wordnik
  • last fm
  • goodreads
  • netlflix
mar 17 2012 ∞
dec 11 2012 +
  • the seven year itch
  • breathless
  • black orpheus
  • the sting
  • the lady eve
  • monkey business
  • marriage italian style
  • the bicycle thief
  • the African queen
  • some like it hot
  • all about eve
  • sunset boulevard
  • les bonnes femmes
  • how to marry a millionaire
  • butch cassidy and the sundance kid
  • citizen kane
  • a streetcar named desire
  • bringing up baby
  • bonnie and clyde
  • the good, the bad & the ugly
  • harold and maude
feb 19 2012 ∞
jul 10 2013 +
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  • celebrate the solstices
  • make large vegetarian meals
  • live to be an intellectual academic
  • seduce everyone
  • don't give a fuck about how others perceive me
  • go hiking
  • collect figureheads of old sail ships
  • rebel from tradition
  • hide secrets in little bits of paper in tree trunks
  • let my senses guide me
  • forgive
  • always stay organized
  • never let anyone outsmart me
  • make people wonder about what planet i came from
  • make crafts and mobiles
  • watch great films
  • always be different
  • never stress
jan 16 2012 ∞
jun 25 2012 +
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  • full moons in crisp darkness
  • grasshoppers chatting at night
  • old photos with people you don't know looking confused
  • scars (and the stories behind them)
  • foggy, golden, cool mornings
  • wind chimes
  • scary children's stories
  • morbid comedy
  • touching wet moss
  • small delicate hands
  • the way distant mountains blur together
  • birds chirping
  • the coarse feel of african congo drums
  • rib cages
  • heat from the fire place
  • magical south american passion
  • deer in a dark natural landscape
  • collar bones
  • very old persian rugs
  • calligraphy with black ink
jan 16 2012 ∞
jul 11 2012 +
  • The Glamour of Grammar by Roy Peter Clark
  • The Elements of Style
  • What to say and How to Say it -Belson
  • Garner's Modern American Usage
  • Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
jan 3 2012 ∞
apr 10 2012 +
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  • worn wooden floors; creaky
  • space for easel and type writer
  • giant french windows with diaphanous curtains
  • marble claw foot bath tub, white
  • old forest green leather couch
  • many nooks to hide in
  • organized mosaic near mirror for many many soaps, body oils and lotions
  • big white ceilings with wooden beams that have carved animals on them
  • massive television room that can go completely black
  • glass ceiling for star gazing
  • built-in bookshelves
  • brick walls
  • mobiles made from twigs and origami birds
  • lots of gold trinkets laying around to play with on rainy days
  • a white sheep skin rug to walk across bar...
dec 22 2011 ∞
dec 18 2012 +
  • (My thematic interests include linguistic and media ideologies; discourse, circulation, and publics; semiotics; theories of modernity; and historical consciousness, knowledge production, and the negotiation of social belonging. I)
  • (assess the role played by ideologies of language in the constitution of Buginese transmigrant identities and diasporic imaginaries in Malaysia and South Sulawesi.)
  • functional morphology, mammalian phylogeny, and early primate evolution. My primary goal in paleontological research is to improve our understanding of how morphological features functioned in the past, and what role they played in the interaction between mammals and the selective demands of their environments. I gather morphological and functional data by comparing the skeletal anatomy of fossil mammals wi...
dec 16 2011 ∞
jan 15 2012 +
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  • mary and max
  • wasteland
  • frida
  • dans la maison
  • beats of the southern wild
  • the artist
  • the good, the bad and the ugly
  • Thelma and Louise
  • trainspotting
  • basquiat
  • the Mexican suitcases
  • some like it hot
  • mozart's sister
  • the Trotsky
  • withneil and I
  • it
  • in the loop
  • american beauty
  • eames
  • the woodmans
  • the queen of Versailles
nov 13 2011 ∞
mar 16 2015 +
  • alain
  • mikku
  • inali
  • raphael
  • sol
  • nico (girl)
  • elodie
  • naomi
  • esme
  • willow
  • oliver
  • luz
  • alexander
  • max
  • leonardo
nov 13 2011 ∞
mar 14 2014 +
  • Blowup (1966)
  • Darling (1965)
  • The Knack …and How to Get It (1965)
  • Alfie (1966)
  • Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
  • Georgy Girl (1966)
  • Modesty Blaise (1966)
  • Casino Royale (1967)
  • Smashing Time (1967)
  • Bedazzled (1967)
  • Up the Junction (1968)
nov 9 2011 ∞
nov 9 2011 +
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  • Salma Hayek
  • Maribel Verdu
  • Talitha Getty
  • Uschi Obermaier
  • Renee Perle
  • Evelyn Nesbit
  • Brigitte Bardot
  • Josephine Baker
  • Francoise Hardy
  • Camille Clifford
  • Lauren Bacall
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Diane von Furstenburg
  • Theda Bera
  • Edie Sedgewick
  • Natalie Wood
  • Melanie Laurent
  • Gloria Swanson
  • Anne St. Marie
  • Mia Farrow
nov 9 2011 ∞
may 29 2012 +
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  • Jean Michel Basquiat
  • Ewen McGregor
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Gael García Bernal
  • Pierre Bonnard
  • Louis Garrel
  • Ben Whishaw
  • William Holden
  • Buster Keaton
  • Clint Eastwood
  • Eddie Redmayne
  • Ricky Fitts
  • Buster Keaton
  • Johnny Flynn
  • Peter Pan
  • Robbin Hood
  • Robert Redford
  • Dorian Gray
  • Anton Yelnich
  • Paul Newman
  • Bram Vercamer
may 25 2011 ∞
dec 29 2012 +
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  • Regina Lampert in Charade
  • Betty Lou Spense in It
  • Blondie in The Good, The Bag and The Ugly
  • Isaac Davis in Manhattan
  • Patricia in Breathless
  • Laurent Chevalier in Murmur of the Heart
  • Frida Kahlo in Frida
  • Werther in Young Goethe in Love
  • Eve in The Lady Eve
  • Betty Shaefer in sunset boulevard
  • Schatze in How to Marry a Millionaire
dec 20 2012 ∞
may 21 2013 +
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  • go to the 7 wonders of the world
  • learn how to play Chopin's Minute Waltz & Nocturnes
  • have a daughter
  • perform at a poetry slam
  • grow my hair down to my butt
  • volunteer at an orphanage
  • be fluent in spanish and french
  • compete in a marathon
  • build a tree house
  • write an article for the new york times
  • become a connoisseur of wine
  • see more balets
  • belly dance
  • learn how to french braid
  • go to an oliver sachs speech
  • learn how to play poker
  • get very good at riding horses
  • paint a self-portrait
  • go to presidential inauguration
  • design my own house
nov 21 2012 ∞
oct 23 2013 +
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  • be busy
  • feel in awe
  • wake up early
  • work to get it done
  • don't wait
  • don't assume
  • write it down
  • what is the most important thing? are you remembering that?
  • ask it
  • stick with it.
  • make a time for it.
  • find people you want to be
  • who do you tell people you are? are you?
  • stop to touch it
  • know what you can and can't do
  • why not
  • laugh
  • surround yourself with people to learn from
  • never wish
oct 13 2012 ∞
oct 14 2012 +
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  • expanding vocabulary range by memorizing phrases
  • starting projects and working on them
  • memorizing literary quotations
  • learning about cinema and its influence/ meaning
  • finding favorite philosophers
  • searching for travel destinations with wild histories
  • discovering favorite wines
  • memorizing lines of poetry
  • researching the best professors and their publications
  • learning about how to listen and learn from classical music
  • reading about the lives of composers, poets, writers
oct 8 2012 ∞
oct 8 2012 +
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  • Music: Ways of Listening by Elliott Schwartz
  • The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution
  • Magic Hours by Tom Bissel
  • How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One
  • The Stuff of Thought by Steven Pinker
  • Harlot by Jill Alexander Essbaum
  • The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (must)
  • In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World by Stewart
  • The History of Jazz by Gioia
  • A Brief History of Time by Hawking (must)
  • The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (must)
  • The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
  • The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (must)
jul 18 2012 ∞
jun 2 2014 +
  • Seymour Glass
  • Jake Barnes
  • Sal Paradise
  • Colin Craven
jun 21 2012 ∞
jul 6 2012 +
  • 1. Style Icons

“I think the best dressed people are those crazy, eccentric old ladies. … And the gypsies that live out in the desert. They spend the whole day dancing and smiling. They wear these amazing dresses and they don’t get dressed for anyone, except for themselves.”

may 29 2012 ∞
dec 18 2012 +
  • Ernest Hemingway
  • Sylvia Plath
  • J.D. Salinger
  • Franz Kafka
  • George Orwell
  • John Cheever
  • Anthony Burgess
  • Mark Twain
  • Anne Sexton
  • Dorothy Parker
  • Hunter S. Thompson
  • Ayn Rand
  • William S. Burroughs
  • Ken Kesey
  • Ezra Pound
  • Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Yukio Mishima
  • Martin Amis
  • Orson Scott Card
  • Gertrude Stein
  • Jonathan Franzen
apr 16 2012 ∞
apr 16 2012 +
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  • Jacques-Henri Lartigue
  • Claire Pestaille
  • Annie Leibovitz
  • Felix Nadar
  • HUgo Cifuentes
  • Irving Penn
  • Henri Cartier-Bresson
  • Arthur Fellig
mar 29 2012 ∞
may 31 2013 +
  • Sierva Maria (Love and other Demons): laconic and devious, the mystical badass who causes chaos in a christian sanctuary, draws inherent passion from the ferocious stomp of african celebrations, reserved and secure with a lightly pulsing core of rabid mischief.
  • Legs (Foxfire): The maverick, coldly aware of the possible brutality, overwhelmed with excitement concerning her own power, her own effect on the world, cruel yet decisively loving to few, inquisitive and seeks the transcendental knowledge from worn homeless priests.
  • Oscar (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close): Oddly precise in his lengthy examinations of the world, the kind of boy who seeks to study life and passion through the book, innocent enough to begin a relationship with a stranger without doubt, somewhat of a pedant, but charmingly odd.
mar 28 2012 ∞
dec 18 2012 +
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  • emerald tones, rich color, clean shapes and golden shadows
  • lovely kisses
  • uncontrollable laughter
  • activism, changing society, fighting for beliefs
  • intellectual, witty banter
  • art EVERYWHERE. studying it, learning from it, making it.
  • comfort in the self
  • lots of wild prints, contrasting texture
  • small meals of crunchy, spicy, sweet food
  • constant tangible and intangible stimulus, but also: time for peace
  • meditation
  • honesty, brutal and unreserved, said to the eyes
  • reading about beliefs, buddhism, bahai, hinduism - to find some kind of answer
jan 19 2012 ∞
jan 19 2012 +

The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely anyone at all escapes. (2) Now and then, in the course of the century, a great man of science, like Darwin; a great poet, like Keats; a fine critical spirit, like M. Renan; a supreme artist, like Flaubert, has been able to isolate himself, to keep himself out of reach of the clamorous claims of others, to stand ‘under the shelter of the wall,’ as Plato puts it, and so to realize the perfection of what was in him, to his own incomparable gain, and to the incomparable and lasting gain of the whole world. These, however, are exceptions. The majority of people spoil their lives by an un...

nov 15 2011 ∞
jun 12 2012 +
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  • Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une Femme (1973)
  • Et Dieu Créa La Femme
  • À Bout De Souffle (1960)
  • Plein Soleil (1960)
  • Le Mépris (1963)
  • Les Parapluies De Cherbourg (1964)
  • Les Demoiselles De Rochefort (1967)
  • Belle De Jour (1967)
  • La Piscine (1969)
  • Peau D'Âne (1970)
  • César et Rosalie (1972)
  • Le Sauvage (1975)
  • L'Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes (1977)
nov 13 2011 ∞
nov 13 2011 +
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  • Folies Bergère
  • French New wave cinema
  • Rimbaud poetry
  • Irving Penn photography
  • Swinging london phenomena
  • Beatniks
  • Picasso's sketches
  • Chalices
  • Stalactites
  • Rhinemaidens
  • Demon Lust theory
  • Hieros gamos
  • Lilith female demons
  • Incubus demons
  • Pre-Raphelite movement
  • Nazca Lines
  • Reasoning event in Rastafarian movement
nov 9 2011 ∞
dec 16 2011 +
  • robert rauschenberg
  • williem de kooning
  • diego rivera
  • wallace berman
  • fridah kahlo
  • picasso
  • Gustav klimmt
  • john collier
  • dante gabriel rossetti
  • william bliss baker
nov 9 2011 ∞
jan 23 2012 +