Le loup est un mammifère comme les autres

"When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:20:03 +0200

“

When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work when he didn’t drink, then he drank himself to death and blew his head off with a shotgun. Someone asked John Cheever, “What’d you learn from Hemingway?” and he said “I learned not to blow my head off with a shotgun.” I remember going to the Michigan poetry festival, meeting Etheridge Knight there and Robert Creeley. Creeley was so drunk—he was reading and he only had one eye, of course, and had to hold his book like two inches from his face using his one good eye. But you look at somebody like George Saunders—I think he’s the best short story writer in English alive—that’s somebody who tries very hard to live a sane, alert life.

You’re present when you’re not drinking a fifth of Jack Daniel’s every day. It’s probably better for your writing career, you know? I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist.

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- In an interview with The Fix, Mary Karr debunks the toxic mythology that it is necessary to be damaged in order to be creative. My own vehement defiance to that mythology is what led me to choose Ray Bradbury – the ultimate epitome of creating from joy rather than suffering – as the subject of my contribution to The New York Times’ The Lives They Lived.

Pair with Karr on why writers write.

(via explore-blog)

Sssshhhh. / Tim Buckley - Song to the siren

Fri, 10 May 2013 23:57:26 +0200

Sssshhhh. / Tim Buckley - Song to the siren

2headedsnake: Fritz Trautmann ‘Galaxy’, 1942 oil on canvas

Tue, 07 May 2013 06:40:23 +0200

2headedsnake:

Fritz Trautmann

‘Galaxy’, 1942

oil on canvas

mercurialblonde: Barron Storey (via Dave Moninger)Barron Storey...

Tue, 07 May 2013 04:20:23 +0200

mercurialblonde:

Barron Storey (via Dave Moninger)

Barron Storey is at the top of one of those Job begat Steve begat Margret charts in comics.

"Jacques Lacan reminds us, that in sex, each individual is to a large extent on their own, if I can..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 06:40:15 +0200

“Jacques Lacan reminds us, that in sex, each individual is to a large extent on their own, if I can put it that way. Naturally, the other’s body has to be mediated, but at the end of the day, the pleasure will be always your pleasure. Sex separates, doesn’t unite. The fact you are naked and pressing against the other is an image, an imaginary representation. What is real is that pleasure takes you a long way away, very far from the other. What is real is narcissistic, what binds is imaginary. So there is no such thing as a sexual relationship, concludes Lacan. His proposition shocked people since at the time everybody was talking about nothing else but “sexual relationships”. If there is no sexual relationship in sexuality, love is what fills the absence of a sexual relationship. 

Lacan doesn’t say that love is a disguise for sexual relationships; he says that sexual relationships don’t exist, that love is what comes to replace that non-relationship. That’s much more interesting. This idea leads him to say that in love the other tries to approach “the being of the other”. In love the individual goes beyond himself, beyond the narcissistic. In sex, you are really in a relationship with yourself via the mediation of the other. The other helps you to discover the reality of pleasure. In love, on the contrary the mediation of the other is enough in itself. Such is the nature of the amorous encounter: you go to take on the other, to make him or her exist with you, as he or she is. It is a much more profound conception of love than the entirely banal view that love is no more than an imaginary canvas painted over the reality of sex.”

- Alain Badiou, In Praise of Love (via heteroglossia)

File under: Alain Badiou is right about everything.

…except cinema.

(via thesoviette)

jakiiiro: Photographs taken inside musical instruments making...

Mon, 06 May 2013 04:20:19 +0200

jakiiiro:

Photographs taken inside musical instruments making them look like large and spacious rooms.

mierswa kluska.

Dirty three - Sometimes I even forget you’ve gone

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:40:26 +0200

Dirty three - Sometimes I even forget you’ve gone

rebel6: by FakeScenery

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 04:20:22 +0200

rebel6:

by FakeScenery

psuedonam: logoside: Tips and homespun for the apocalypse that...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 04:20:18 +0200

psuedonam:

logoside:

Tips and homespun for the apocalypse that sooner or later will end up coming. So, keep well this post.

"So if only to stick it to the man, isn’t it worth fighting back in some small way? So write..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 01:43:38 +0200

“So if only to stick it to the man, isn’t it worth fighting back in some small way? So write your damn book. Learn a Chopin prelude, get all Jackson Pollock with the kids, spend a few hours writing a Haiku. Do it because it counts even without the fanfare, the money, the fame and Heat photo-shoots that all our children now think they’re now entitled to because Harry Styles has done it.”

- James Rhodes - The Guardian | “Find what you love and let it kill you” (the title is from Bukowski)

littleorphanammo: chakarotis: Courage Wolf remains my...

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:46:23 +0200

littleorphanammo:

chakarotis:

Courage Wolf remains my favourite meme of all time. I will unironically read them for a boost when everything sucks. :)

I needed this today more than any other day. I’m going to print these out and paste them all over my room.

Sachal Studios - Take Five (Dave Brubeck quartet cover)

Sat, 27 Apr 2013 12:31:47 +0200

Sachal Studios - Take Five (Dave Brubeck quartet cover)

fuckyeahvintageillustration: ‘Amoroso’ by E. M. Lilien for...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:37:37 +0200

fuckyeahvintageillustration:

‘Amoroso’ by E. M. Lilien for ‘Jugend’ magazine nr. 50, 1900.

Source

likeafieldmouse: Tomas Saraceno - Galaxies Forming along...

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 11:31:51 +0200

likeafieldmouse:

Tomas Saraceno - Galaxies Forming along Filaments, Like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web (2008)

Stereophonics - Violins and tambourines

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:16:44 +0200

Stereophonics - Violins and tambourines

James Blake - Overgrown

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 22:26:56 +0200

James Blake - Overgrown

Here’s to knowing when to pull the plug. / Macklemore...

Mon, 08 Apr 2013 23:10:00 +0200

Here’s to knowing when to pull the plug. / Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Neon cathedral feat. Allen Stone

Fink - In bloom (Nirvana cover)

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 20:55:33 +0200

Fink - In bloom (Nirvana cover)

Par les créateurs de Homeworld : voici Hardware

Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:50:00 +0200

Par les créateurs de Homeworld : voici Hardware

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop feat. Wanz

Sat, 30 Mar 2013 23:50:00 +0100

Macklemore & Ryan Lewis - Thrift Shop feat. Wanz