December 2009
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“Certain people you just can’t trust, you know Luke? Never trust anyone who...”
– Dr. Squires
“I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make...”
– Olivier Messiaen (via mollylucymaryjane)
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“Here we sit as evening falls
Like old horses in their stalls.
Thank you,...”
– Table Grace by Gary Johnson
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St. Vincent - Landmines
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Blake Henson - My Flight To Heaven
The...
youcancallmeali & danielgarrick know how to throw...
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“Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He...”
– Robert Frost
WTF is with the Holy War on my Dashboard?
“At Christmas, my sisters and I
learned to sing carols in German:
Grandpa would...”
– Peter Meinke (via The Writer’s Almanac)
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“Why does a dog wag its tail?
Because a dog is smarter than its tail.
If the...”
– Wag the Dog
“I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger
who approached his...”
– Henry David Thoreau
“I have a great deal of company in my house;
especially in the morning, when...”
– Henry David Thoreau
David Simon on the American Oligarchy
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southpol:
DAVID SIMON (interviewed in Vice Magazine):
Why does reform seem so impossible?
We live in an oligarchy. The mother’s milk of American politics is money, and the reason they can’t reform financing, the reason that we can’t have public funding of elections rather than private donations, the reason that K Street is K Street in Washington, is to make sure that no...
Ladies, I apologise in advance for insulting your...
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When he was hired as Chief of Staff all the articles and talk was about what a badass he was.
But where’s the arm-twisting when it’s needed?
Why isn’t Rahm in a windowless room with Joe Lieberman right now telling him “if your wrinkled ass doesn’t vote for a public option I’m going to ram your committee chair up your dick!”? I’m afraid the dude is less a true arm-twisting...
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde (via demurecure) (via lunarmission)
I'm not afraid of silence anymore.
Nico Muhly - New Things and New Tidings
I posted...
“My Girls”, the catchy, gloriously harmonized highlight of Merriweather...”
– Amanda Petrusich (via Pitchfork)
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Vince Guaraldi - Christmas...