December 2009
19 posts
“A noiseless, patient spider,
I mark’d, where, on a little promontory, it...”
– Walt Whitman
Voyager Golden Record →
This may be one of the coolest things I have ever heard of, and my friend just got a copy! Wonderful!
More chromatic mysteries
“Purple - royalty, positive personal growth”
“May symbolize mystery and therefore represent, in psychological terms, deep intuition or awareness of some type as yet unexplored dimension of the self.” “Purple = Combination of red and blue. The highest vibration (fastest frequency) of the visible light spectrum. Denotes knowledge of the spiritual in conscious...
"Blue moon" not actually blue... Disappointing. →
I felt pretty ridiculous when I read this article about the “blue moon” on New Year’s Eve. I thought it would actually be blue. Alas, just a misnomer—the term refers to a numerological, not a chromatic, rarity. Also, I heard blue moons only happen every twenty years, but they actually happen every two-three years. It’s just that we haven’t had one on NYE since...
As seen on my Korean souvenirs
On a sweater: “THE BEST GIFT Love The best gift to for joy to love life is I liked bear the moment I laid eyed on bear” (features a cute bear with a bandana and lots of hearts) On notebooks: “The story like magic that be a pretty friendship in the nature” (features a curious white rabbit on a cloud looking up at a smiling carrot spaceship) “Jack and the Beanstalk: one...
“Each moment and whatever happens thrills me with joy.”
– Walt Whitman
(New Year’s Resolution? I think this is a good one)
Kimchi mandu Kimbap Dongas Dak galbi Budae jigae Kimchi fried rice Bulgogi Yukgaejang All the delicious Korean recipes I have found and will soon try out as soon as I drive to the Lotte Oriental Food Market in Doraville to get a kimbap mat, seaweed, spices, yellow beets, rice cakes, and of course kimchi! Anybody care to join me for some green tea, Korean food, and ice cream (a must after the spicy...
UGA English student receives diploma at 71 →
“I started to invent future homes for us, I’d type through the night and...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (209)
[Another book I gobbled up this week, this one for the second time. Overflowing with heart and imagination. This is one of the most romantic things I have ever read; I think Foer is probably a great lover. Also, I love having read...
“Billy couldn’t read Tralfamadorian, of course, but he could at least see...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five (88 in my copy)
[I was a little late in reading this masterpiece, but I just gobbled it up a few days ago. I love this passage because it describes the kind of poetics I would like to have if I had a poetics. I wrote in an old journal, “I want to write...
There are over 1.3 trillion different ways to...
ohyeahfacts:
PERMUTATIONS!
I will never think about my bookshelves the same way.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13) →
Camera Obscura (10)
Sufjan Stevens (9)
Pilar Diaz (3)
Rainbow Arabia (2)
The Submarines (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Watchmmmccc:
“IRM” charlotte gainsbourg stop motion vimeo
Mimms and Bronwyn made the most beautiful stop motion video for “IRM.” I’m in awe.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-6) →
Beirut (13)
Beach House (11)
Discovery (6)
Tilly and the Wall (2)
The Album Leaf (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
elizabeth gilbert on nurturing creativity | video... →
(via mmmccc)
This is amazing. What an inspiring speech about an inspiring novel. Love love love!
Surprised Kitty →
Want. this. cat.