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that i use to organize the daily advice i receive from literature and music.

at the moment:

dead bloggin'. the riaa says no to me posting these songs here. the quotes are still viable, though.

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Saturday, November 28, 2009

innumerable pains and sorrows



"man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief, and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another." /joseph addison

man man - poor jackie

Friday, November 27, 2009

too finely woven



"of what use is genius, if the organ is too convex or too concave, and cannot find a focal distance within the actual horizon of human life? of what use, if the brain is too cold or too hot, and the man does not care enough for results, to stimulate him to experiment, and hold him up in it? or if the web is too finely woven, too irritable by pleasure and pain, so that life stagnates from too much reception, without due outlet?" /r.w. emerson

queens of the stone age - sky is fallin'

Thursday, November 26, 2009

so much food



kid congo & the pink monkey birds - pumpkin pie

"q: why does nobody get laid on thanksgiving?
a: all the coats are on the bed."


/george carlin

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

find the way



"each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself." /hermann hesse

them crooked vultures - warsaw or the first breath you take after you give up

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

solitary men



"only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything." /willa cather

spacemen 3 - big city (everybody i know can be found here)

Monday, November 23, 2009

let every eye negotiate



"friendship is constant in all other things,
save in the office and affairs of love:
therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues;
let every eye negotiate for itself,
and trust no agent."


/bill shakespeare

ariel pink's haunted graffiti - can't hear my eyes

Sunday, November 22, 2009

clay in my ten fingers



"but we, o blockhead, with dogged spite and armored love
shall force those deaf dark powers to grow ears and hear us!
i know that god is earless, eyeless, and heartless too,
a brainless dragon worm that crawls on earth and hopes
in anguish and then in secret that we'll give him soul,
for then he, too, may sprout ears, eyes, to match his growth,
but god is clay in my ten fingers, and I mould him!"


/nikos kazantzakis

city center - this is how we see in the dark (first version)

Saturday, November 21, 2009

look out



"two men look out through the same bars:
one sees the mud, and one the stars."


/frederick langbridge

animal collective - i think i can

Friday, November 20, 2009

feel the music



"we feel the music and love the music and give the music." /christian lorenz

yeah yeah yeahs - heads will roll (willy joy sex dream club)

Thursday, November 19, 2009

you can do everything



"i don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest.' let other guys claim to be the best. i just want to be known as a clown because to me, that's the height of my profession. it means you can do everything — sing, dance and, above all, make people laugh." /red skelton

j dilla - circus (cover by brabe)

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

just last thursday



"dayvan cowboy: an individual who boldly parachutes from the stratosphere down onto a surfboard in the ocean.

ex. bobby became a dayvan cowboy just last thursday.


/urban dictionary

boards of canada - dayvan cowboy

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

the value of skill



"what is chiefly needed is skill rather than machinery. the flight of the buzzard and similar sailors is a convincing demonstration of the value of skill and the partial needlessness of motors. it is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. this i conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery." /wilbur wright

flaming lips - the sparrow looks up at the machine

Monday, November 16, 2009

mistakes



"experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes." /oscar wilde

johnny cash - i heard the lonesome whistle blow (apparat remix)

Sunday, November 15, 2009

sweetness and light



"the pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. he who works for sweetness and light, works to make reason and the will of god prevail. he who works for machinery, he who works for hatred, works only for confusion. culture looks beyond machinery, culture hates hatred; culture has one great passion, the passion for sweetness and light." /matthew arnold

kurt vile - blackberry song

Saturday, November 14, 2009

morning bliss



"morning bliss has gold in its mouth." /norwegian proverb

beach house - norway

Friday, November 13, 2009

nature never



"nature never deceives us, it is always we who deceive ourselves." /jean-jacques rousseau

le loup - canto i

Thursday, November 12, 2009

the first death



"after the first death, there is no other." /dylan thomas

antony hegarty & the roma sinfonietta orchestra - nessun dorma

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

my method



"my method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

anouar brahem - for no apparent reason

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

love speaks



"as sweet and musical
as bright apollo's lute, strung with his hair;
and when love speaks, the voice of all the gods
makes heaven drowsy with the harmony."


bonnie "prince" billy - strange form of life

Monday, November 9, 2009

a kiss



"what is a kiss? why this, as some approve:
the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love."


/robert herrick

devendra banhart - woman

Sunday, November 8, 2009

the season of hope



"if youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us." /george eliot

the zombies - time of the season (my morning jacket cover, september 2003)

Saturday, November 7, 2009

your changing face



"how many loved your moments of glad grace,
and loved your beauty with love false or true,
but one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
and loved the sorrows of your changing face."


/w.b. yeats

the association - never my love

Friday, November 6, 2009

the moon and i



"ah, pray make no mistake,
we are not shy;
we're very wide awake,
the moon and i!"


/sir w.s. gilbert

panda bear - mich mit einer mond

Thursday, November 5, 2009

faintly sweet



"but fair the exil'd palm-tree grew
midst foliage of no kindred hue;
through the laburnum’s dropping gold
rose the light shaft of orient mould,
and europe’s violets, faintly sweet,
purpled the mossbeds at its feet."


/felicia hemans

mort garson - ode to an african violet

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

the only place i can meet you



"in the heart,
in the heart,
where the truth shows
where the mind knows
where the love grows
that is where,
that is where,
i complete you
it's the only place
i can meet you"


/michael andrews

kurt vile - space forklift

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

pleasure in the pathless woods



"there is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
there is a rapture on the lonely shore,
there is society, where none intrudes,
by the deep sea, and music in its roar:
i love not man the less, but nature more."


/lord byron

swervedriver - never lose that feeling (jatun remix)

Monday, November 2, 2009

kiss the sky



"'scuse me while i kiss the sky." /jimi hendrix

black chow - purple smoke

Sunday, November 1, 2009

lift and drop



"there will be time, there will be time
to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
there will be time to murder and create,
and time for all the works and days of hands,
that lift and drop a question on your plate;
time for you and time for me,
and time yet for a hundred indecisions,
and for a hundred visions and revisions,
before the taking of a toast and tea."


/t.s. eliot

burial - in mcdonalds

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