December 2011
25 posts
Currently reading The Doors of Perception. My first and only new year’s resolution is to take mescaline. Maybe see a new country.
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Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from the same point, take mankind in mass, and for the most part, they seem a mob of unnecessary duplicates, both contemporary and hereditary.
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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I love to read. It keeps the noise of the world at bay.
- Art Garfunkel
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I’m generally not caught up with music but this year was full of consistently great releases. First time I’ve ever done this but this was 2011:
1. This Will Destroy You – Tunnel Blanket
2. Beirut – The Rip Tide
3. A Winged Victory For The Sullen – S/T
4. Iron and Wine – Kiss Each Other Clean
5. Algernon Cadwallader – Parrot Flies
6. Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972
7. La Dispute – Wildlife
8. Zola...
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Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from behind with the thought of annihilation, when beholding the white depths of the milky way?
- Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image, we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the...
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The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It’s dismissive, ‘I don’t understand this person so they’re crazy.’ It’s bullshit. Those people are not crazy they’re strong people. Maybe that environment is a little sick.
- Dave Chappelle