General Public - Tenderness (1984)
“I don’t know where I am but I know I don’t like it / I open my mouth and out pops something spiteful / Words are so cheap, but they can turn out expensive / Words like conviction can turn into a sentence”
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Nerve: The Daily Siege
Katrina: Operation Eden
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See also:
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Nerve: The Daily Siege
Katrina: Operation Eden
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"Most of the time, when I receive emails like yours, I delete them, leaving them ignored and unanswered. Now 12 years into a little-rewarding writing career, I have grown bitter, jaded, and tend to see bright-eyed, bushy-tailed upstarts such as yourself as little more than potential competition. Why would I help you?"
(Susannah Breslin is a razor of crazy truth. I say crazy, because to be honestly bare in this world is the domain of insanity. But also genius. If you’re an aspiring artist: read this. If you’re an established artist who’s sought out by aspiring artists: read this.)
James Pomerantz, ‘Agua Sagrada’ (via Rachel)
Ten words to make you sound smart in a book discussion
(via The Reverse Cowgirl)
I beg to differ. If you use these words in a conversation that’s happening outside of a college classroom you will sound like an insufferable bore. You will be the intellectual equivalent of the guy with the tiny penis who tries to compensate by being an aggressive asshole. In fact, outside of a tiny clique of useless vat-brained Skeksis in Manhattan who need to use such words because they haven’t figured out how to acceptably wear their useless parent-paid college degrees on their lapels, no one worth knowing or talking to or breathing air with gives one flying fuck about any of these words, or whether or not you know them.
They don’t make you sound smart, they make you sound like a parrot with an Encyclopedia set mommy and daddy bought you. The look people give you when you use these words and they don’t “get” it? It’s not them thinking you’re smart, it’s them thinking you’re an intellectual snob fart, and they’re holding their breath until the air clears.
The writer of the piece has it right: “Warning: With the wrong audience, you might end up punched in the face or wearing your underwear outside your pants involuntarily.”
Must watch: Good Will Hunting bar scene.
See also: Never write “visage” when “face” will do. Which is always.
Found slip of paper on the sidewalk, Brooklyn
Weathered, handwritten in pencil.
“Subject: Former student 2013
1. be in college
2. have a good job
3. live by myself
4. bring my mom from D.R.
5. to be with my father in till he died.”
“ Just wait till tomorrow. I guess that’s what they all say, just before they fall apart.
New Order
Tomas Saraceno, ’galaxies forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider’s web’, elastic ropes installation at the Venice Biennale, 2009 (as often here, click image for more)
Tomas Saraceno, ‘Untitled (solar balloon)’, 2005
Ministry - Revenge 1983
To the youngins following, you might not know that Al Jourgensen once sang with a British accent and used lyrics like “fare-thee-well” and wore a New Wave Amish hat while playing First Ave, and went on Phil Donahue with teased Robert Smith hair. Also, whenever I see a Goth I still automatically think “Bop Bop” because of this classic Ministry song.
Now you know.
“ I have seen the future and it is good. We will wipe away the religions of old and start anew.
Joseph Stella
Paul Strand, ‘Wall Street’ 1915
“Precisionism, also known as Cubist Realism, was an artistic movement that emerged in the United States after World War I and was at its height during the inter-War period. The term itself was first coined in the early 1920s.”
Long portrait of Graciella Longoria, on the first anniversary of her father’s death in a car accident. Photographed on my terrace, Brooklyn. June 2009 (HD version)
See previously: ‘Fixed His Eyes Upon Her, as the Saint of His Deepest Devotion’
and ‘Forth From the Folds of a Cloud, and One Star Follow Her Footsteps’