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Int. Trailer Night directed by Jim Jarmusch, from the collection...

Mon, 06 May 2013 14:48:00 -0400

Int. Trailer Night directed by Jim Jarmusch, from the collection of short films Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet.

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Mon, 06 May 2013 12:53:42 -0400

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Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:46:34 -0400

you’ll be different in the spring, i knowyou’re a seasonal beastlike the starfish that...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:47:34 -0400

you’ll be different in the spring, i know
you’re a seasonal beast
like the starfish that drifted with the tide, with the tide
so until your blood runs to meet the next full moon
your madness fits in nicely with my own, with my own
your lunacy fits neatly with my own - my very own
we’re not alone

Robert Wyatt, Sea Song

Where do I begin? It has been a little over a month since we...

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 08:40:36 -0400

Where do I begin? It has been a little over a month since we stopped filming. In a way, it seems like years, and in another, only yesterday. As I sit down now to write this, so many emotions arise. The gift and the experience that you gave me are beyond expression of words. I am aware that your death also allowed an old part of myself to finally die… a very self-destructive part. Through you, I came face-to-face with my own dark side. I feel as if I have lived a whole lifetime in those two short months of filming. I will never forget how, the week after we finished, I suddenly became aware that my thoughts were my own again. My mind and my life had been completely occupied by you. You came to me morning, noon, and night—especially night. That was your time, the darkness of midnight. You continually wove your spirit into my dream world, revealing bits and pieces of yourself, myself, and our fears and struggles. The thing I remember most about you, though, Laura, is your loneliness. That loneliness haunted me. Walking back into my empty hotel room by myself each day, left to deal with the fragmented pieces of my own life, your loneliness would still fill my room. My prayer is that you are now someplace where you are truly loved and at peaceful rest.

Much love and gratitude,
Me

— Sheryl Lee’s personal diary, 1992

Meghan Howland

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:34:00 -0400

Meghan Howland

free-parking: The first page of Vladimir Nabokov’s English copy...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 10:30:58 -0400

free-parking:

The first page of Vladimir Nabokov’s English copy of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

haunting, daunting, beautiful.

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:14:51 -0400

haunting, daunting, beautiful.

Nikander & Ilona, Varjoja Paratiisissa, 1986.

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:10:32 -0400

Nikander & Ilona, Varjoja Paratiisissa, 1986.

picturesofkaurismaki: The first date ends in a catastrophe....

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:07:11 -0400

picturesofkaurismaki:

The first date ends in a catastrophe. Ilona doesn’t have fun at the bingo hall. After she leaves, Nikander crookedly crosses the street like a lame dog.

Hua yang de nian hua, a film collage by Wong Kar Wai, as...

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 18:30:00 -0400

Hua yang de nian hua, a film collage by Wong Kar Wai, as inspiration for Fa yeung nin wa (In the Mood for Love).

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Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:29:59 -0400

natgeofound: Many methods were tried, some unorthodox, in an...

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:24:55 -0400

natgeofound:

Many methods were tried, some unorthodox, in an effort to lure the Loch Ness monster into camera range. Here brave divers execute a baiting using cow’s blood and a bait basket trolled at a 60-foot depth.
Photograph by Emory Kristof, National Geographic

"Perhaps what was Caravaggio’s most important contribution to art was that he discovered darkness."

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 14:24:36 -0400

“Perhaps what was Caravaggio’s most important contribution to art was that he discovered darkness.”

- Fr. Javellana, SJ (via mirroir)

The Electronic Circus, Direct Lines (1981) + Sommaren med Monika...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 16:38:00 -0400

The Electronic Circus, Direct Lines (1981) + Sommaren med Monika (1953)

Jimi Hendrix with his favourite guitar he named ´Black...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:06:00 -0400

Jimi Hendrix with his favourite guitar he named ´Black Betty´

photograph by Monika Dannermann

natgeofound: A milkman and his terrier pose at the back of a...

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:03:21 -0400

natgeofound:

A milkman and his terrier pose at the back of a milk truck, May 1948.
Photograph by Melville B. Grosvenor, National Geographic

"I I was born in the gut of Blackness from between my mother’s particular thighs her waters broke..."

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:00:16 -0400

“

I
I was born in the gut of Blackness
from between my mother’s particular thighs
her waters broke upon blue-flowered linoleum
and turn to slush in the Harlem cold
10 PM on a full moon’s night
my head crested round as a clock
“You were so dark,” my mother said
“I thought you were a boy.”

II
The first time I touched my sister alive
I was sure the earth took note
but we were not new
false skin peeled off like gloves of fire
yoked flame I was
stripped to the tips of my fingers
her song written into my palms my nostrils my belly
welcome home
in a language I was pleased to relearn.

III
No cold spirit ever strolled through my bones
on the corner of Amsterdam Avenue
no dog mistook me for a bench
nor a tree nor a bone
no lover envisioned my plump brown arms
as wings nor misnamed me condor
but I can recall without counting
eyes
canceling me out
like an unpleasant appointment
postage due
stamped in yellow red purple
any color
except Black and choice
and woman
alive.

IV
I cannot recall the words of my first poem
but I remember a promise
I made my pen
never to leave it
lying
in somebody else’s blood.

”

- Audre Lorde, To the Poet Who Happens to be Black and the Black Poet Who Happens to be a Woman (via grammatolatry)

peachykeencollective: “Bad Girls” Rachel Thornton

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 12:55:16 -0400

peachykeencollective:

“Bad Girls”

Rachel Thornton

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Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:04:51 -0400