December 2011
3 posts
I Can’t Make You Love Me by Bon Iver...
“Sometimes I feel like a tiny little piece of flint skimming across the surface...”
– Mary Anne Hobbs, interviewed for TimeOut London.
November 2011
5 posts
This Is How It Feels - The Inspiral Carpets
“In your life, you meet people. Some you never think about again. Some, you...”
– C. S. Lewis (via troubled)
The greatest Amazon review of all time. →
October 2011
2 posts
Ophelia - Royce Wood Jr.
September 2011
9 posts
At Last - Etta James
The recovery is on...
5 tags
If by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream - and...
He Was A Friend Of Mine - Bob Dylan
“Look upon things as if it is the first time you had laid eyes on them”
– via SomeoneOnceToldMe
August 2011
6 posts
“But you can’t be depressed! You’re so... →
and 9 other things not to say to a person with depression.
Followed by 10 alternatives.
July 2011
5 posts
“It makes me angry to think after years of being a punching bag in the press that...”
– Ryan Adams (via letitride)
If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed; A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam, A body of England’s, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.
And think,...
June 2011
3 posts
“It’s my belief that history is a wheel. ‘Inconstancy is my very...”
– Boethius (Anicius Manlius Severinus)
May 2011
7 posts
I want you in my life. I don’t want to lose you. But lately I feel like you are slipping away and I feel like you aren’t even trying to stay a part of my life, like you don’t care and I don’t matter anymore. It’s like you have given up on the idea of me, like it would be easier if I wasn’t here. So forgive me if I’ve been a little cold towards you and rather distant lately.
(via likewhatyousay)
CALM →
This is a wonderful charity that I became aware of (indirectly at least) by an old school friend who ran events in aid of their work. This is a reminder for myself to check their site more often.
“Things used to be, now they not.
Anything but us is who we are,
Disguising...”
– Blame Game by Kanye West
Talk Tonight - Oasis
WatchHigh Tech Soul (via dangerousminds).
Described as the first documentary film on the creation of Techno Music, High Tech Soul is also an examination of the cultural history of Detroit, its birthplace.
(via the-junes)(via cargohoo)
April 2011
11 posts
“False friends are worse than open enemies.”
– Proverb (via bitchville)
Independent record stores increase for the first...
Robin Bennett, director and founder of new independent record store Truck. Photograph: Sam Frost
Small retailers buck an industry trend that has seen the closure of mainstream chains such as Zavvi and Borders
(via guardian)
1 tag
“It made him miserable that he couldn’t smash down the wall around him now....”
– A Folklore For My Generation: A Prehistory of late-stage Capitalism by Haruki Murakami
“This is the way life happens, although we don’t want to admit it. We build...”
– Scorcese on Ingmar Bergman (via sipuedevolar)