January 2012
"And then I pass the front door, and all these... →
"...woman so destitute her only possession was her... →
(thanks Angel!)
“For me the ultimate luxury is to be alone, to have time for myself, not look at...”
– Karl Lagerfeld
“When a genius appears in the world, you can know him by this sign: that all the...”
– Jonathan Swift
"In the days before Photoshop, this was Goude's... →
"Just as Communists managed to destroy Communism,... →
“A Pew Research Center poll in December found that only 50 percent of Americans reacted positively to the term “capitalism,” while 40 percent reacted negatively. Among Americans ages 18 to 29, more had a negative view of capitalism than a positive view, the survey found. Those young Americans actually viewed socialism more positively than capitalism. In other words, America’s grasping...
"I think this is what should be happening. The old... →
Susannah Breslin
“A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.”
– Martin Luther King Jr
"There is an inherent contempt that the economic... →
“Lay down all thought surrender to the void. It is shining, it is shining.”
– The Beatles
On Giving and Receiving
“The gift moves toward the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns toward him who has been empty-handed the longest, and if someone appears elsewhere whose need is greater it leaves its old channel and moves toward him. Our generosity may leave us empty, but our emptiness then pulls gently at the whole until the thing in motion returns to replenish us. Social nature abhors a...
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
– Frederick Douglass
Why 2012 will be year of the artist-entrepreneur →
"Wobbly lingo is a collection of technical... →
“It’s a new year. You can be anything you want. You can do anything you...”
– Twitter / @claytoncubitt
Did I Dream You Dreamed About Me?
My favorite 11 versions of ‘Song to the Siren’
01. This Mortal Coil
02. John Frusciante
03. Sinead O’Connor
04. Brendan Perry (live)
05. Bryan Ferry (Somerset & Monkman version)
06. George Michael (live)
07. Robert Plant (live)
08. Tim Buckley (original)
09. David Gray (live)
10. The Czars
11. Damon and Naomi (live)
"We have more and more ways to communicate, as... →
December 2011
"The vagina is the problem, the great burden. It... →
“This is a raw and unsettling sexuality, raw because it isn’t controlled by intellect. And because it is raw, it is primal, and because it is primal, it is animalistic, it is dirty, and by dirty I mean not sanitized, and because it is not sanitized it has a scent, as all adult vaginas do. Any woman knows that the scent she now produces differs from the one that wafted up on the day she...
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“UNWRAP YOUR PRESENCE.”
– Twitter / @claytoncubitt
"The iPhone people are going to be there when the... →
“I have art, science, sex, and love. What do I need religion for?”
– Twitter / @claytoncubitt