- Greil Marcus - "That’s what art does, that’s what it’s for — to show you that what you think can be erased, cancelled, turned on its head by something you weren’t prepared for — by a work, by a play, a song, a scene in a movie, a painting, a collage, a cartoon, an advertisement — something that has the power that reaches you far more strongly than it reaches the person standing next to you, or even anyone else on Earth — art that produces a revelation that you might not be able to explain or pass on to anyone else, a revolution that you desperately try to share in your own words, in your own work...What’s the impulse behind art? It’s saying in whatever language is the language of your work, “If I could move you as much as it moved me … if I can move anyone a tenth as much as that moved me, if I can spark the same sense of mystery and awe and surprise as that sparked in me, well that’s why I do what I do.”
- Robert A. Heinlein - “It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.”
- psychology of how names shape our thoughts
- god is good vs it shouldn't be this way
- hayao miyazaki talk
- "the railroad yard" by bukowski
- Politeness has become so rare that some people mistake it for flirtation
- Feast of the Gods summary: "this drama is full of failed parents"
- "There are two things that are infinite: The universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the universe" -Albert Einstein
- True intelligence is not measured by how much one knows, but how much you are capable of learning
- of course all white people are racist
- casting practices in hollywood
- There's something about romanticizing real-life roles and jobs in movies that I really hate
- Nothing is more empowering than '90s/early '00s songs
- ga in's "bloom" and female empowerment
- double standards: hyuna and ga in
- lana del rey and modern female performance
nov 9 2012 ∞
feb 8 2014 +