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February 20, 2013 at 8:40pm
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Seven BathersPaul Cézanne, c. 1900

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Seven Bathers
Paul Cézanne, c. 1900

8:37pm
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Frank Zappa had a more extreme reaction: “When I heard ‘Like a Rolling Stone’, I wanted to quit the music business, because I felt: ‘If this wins and it does what it’s supposed to do, I don’t need to do anything else …’ But it didn’t do anything. It sold but nobody responded to it in the way that they should have.

— Like a Rolling Stone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

6:22pm
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I’m unable, for some reason, to read books from beginning to end. I have to go to what interests me most in the book. And if I like that, I start going backwards and forwards. And it starts to become a really complicated endeavor of just reading the parts of the books once and not sort of overlapping. I don’t know why I have to sort of re-edit the books myself. I don’t know why I can’t read a prologue and read a first chapter.

— Whit Stillman: What I Read - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire

February 12, 2013 at 10:19pm
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January 9, 2013 at 12:40am
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Another notable example of this eccentric behavior was reported to Johnny Marr of The Smiths by Karl Bartos, who explained that anyone trying to contact the band for collaboration would be told the studio telephone did not have a ringer, since during recording, the band did not like to hear any kind of noise pollution. Instead, callers were instructed to phone the studio precisely at a certain time, whereupon the phone would be answered by Ralf Hütter, despite never hearing the phone ring.

— Kraftwerk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

January 2, 2013 at 11:36pm
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Tarantino’s attempt to craft a hero who stands apart from the other men—black and white—of his time is not a riff on history, it’s a riff on the mythology we’ve mistaken for history. Were the film aware of that distinction, “Django” would be far less troubling—but it would also be far less resonant. The alternate history is found not in the story of vengeful ex-slave but in the idea that he could be the only one.

— How Accurate Is Quentin Tarantino’s Portrayal of Slavery in Django Unchained? : The New Yorker

December 5, 2012 at 11:15pm
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8:37pm
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More than 90 of Smith’s poems from the mid-1960s Unitarian workshop — along with nearly 70 of Bukowski’s — were discovered in 1994, not long after Bukowski died of leukemia, in a gold-painted metal file box that had been left on a trash heap at a Los Feliz curb.

— FrancEyE dies at 87; prolific Santa Monica poet - latimes.com

October 5, 2012 at 9:38am
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BUSKING GHOSTS: Like the idea of travelling by foot? Here are Nick Papadimitriou’s 6... →

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Like the idea of travelling by foot? Here are Nick Papadimitriou’s 6 top tips to kickstart your deep topography experience…

  1. Go walking. Stay away from bright lights.
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August 17, 2012 at 9:46am
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