September 2008
52 posts
“The printed word is ideal for ideas; film is made for images, and images are...”
– Ebert on “8 1/2”
“Once a character is dead, they’re never speaking as that character,...”
– “Waiting”
“He’s a zombie — why am I thinking about him?”
– Zombies
“Sports is to war, as pornography is to sex.”
– via Siege
FIGHTER →
“For me, the physical hacks so often chronicled here serve not only as models or...”
– Rushkoff
“She is gambling that he is good.”
– “Good People,” David Foster Wallace
“It doesn’t matter what place you get; what matters is the sport in your heart.”
– Benny, age 8
“You’re afraid to do it.”
– Unicorn
“Say what you will about pornography, objectification and exploitation, the...”
– Quite possibly the stupidest, most ignorant, dull-headed thing I’ve ever read on the subject of pornography
This is obscene. →
“[M]y theory is that if you go to a place and see how people are relating...”
– Paul Theroux
David Foster Wallace has killed himself. →
“[A]fter all, if Kilroy could leave his mark there, who knew where else he could...”
– Kilroy Was Here
“The city is my phantom godmother, the city of the undulating, heaving, infinite...”
– Autumn Sonnichsen
“Where’s your spaceship, girl?”
– Luxurious Vulgarity
Watch
“I’m falling asleep in the uncanny valley.”
– Xeni
“maybe I learned from you that it takes time to understand porn.”
– Email
Veruschka →
Painful inspiration →
(via Kottke)
“I was in love with New York. I do not mean “love” in any colloquial way, I mean...”
– “Goodbye to All That,” Joan Didion (via Scott Lamb)
Finally, a name for what I am. →
Otto; Or, Up With Dead People →
“He was lean and intense, and had chest hair in which one could lose a...”
– “Why Me?”
“Gimme a stage where this bull here can rage.”
– “Raging Bull” 