December 2011
Goodnight, 2011
Whether I was going out or staying in, I’ve always made sure that I was aware of the transition. Living in the present and baring witness to that particular moment of change. New Years countdown has been something of a personal tradition.
This year, however, instead of saying goodbye, I’ll be saying goodnight.
2012, I promise to bare witness to you for the entire year, not just...
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via abbyisnotgabby)
“Please don’t be depressed: nothing is sad about you except your sadness and the...”
– Love letters of Zelda Fitzgerald (via elliptical)
“…I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m part of it-tiny, to be sure, but...”
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via fuckyeahtheuniverse)
To be resolved in 2012:
To hold a genuinely good attitude towards as many people and for as many moments in life as possible.
I can’t be nice and easy going because acts of socially accepted “niceness” fundamentally make me feel uncomfortable. And performing these acts embarrass me and brings out all the awkward rage in me. So I can’t be nice. But I think I can be good. And I think there’s...
Things I want for you: →
drinkyourjuice:
… Anyone could fuck you, but you get to be you. Love that shit holistically. Respect it and revel in it and enjoy it as a separate experience. Literally anyone could love you at your most successful or sexiest, but you get to love you when you’re hungover and insecure and peering into a mirror at 5 AM wondering what the hell you’re doing with yourself. The latter is a...
“People say better man. Nonsense. You don’t want to be better. You want to...”
– Philip Johnson
Public Announcement: I stay in bed, eat chocolate,...
a week before important assignments are due
a day before important assignments are due + lost of faith in producing something excellent and/or on time.
rainy day
rainy day + period
rainy day + sickness
getting dumped (1-6 days, depending on depth of emotional/time investment and the frequency with which I check his fb).
when i get fat.
to piss off my mom
(The last two really...
WatchIn Memoriam of Philip Johnson on Charlie Rose.
Let’s assume you’re gonna give one last lecture, what are you gonna say? (35:50)
scout:
Wye Oak - We Were Wealth
“I fell in love and my eyes couldn’t read.”
– Columbia University English professor Julie Crawford’s answer to “What’s the craziest student excuse/extension story you’ve heard?”
(via Bwog)
“Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via aleatorio)
“Something else an academic education will do for you. If you go along with it...”
– Mr. Antolini, The Catcher in the Rye, pg. 190 (via iamaplainjane)
林徽因: 窗子以外
话从哪里说起？等到你要说话，什么话都是那样渺茫地找不到个源头。
此刻，就在我眼帘底下坐着是四个乡下人的背影：一个头上包着黯黑的 白布，两个褪色的蓝布，又一个光头。他们支起膝盖，半蹲半坐的，在溪沿 的短墙上休息。每人手里一件简单的东西：一个是白木棒，一个篮子，那两 个在树荫底下我看不清楚。无疑地他们已经走了许多路，再过一刻，抽完一 筒旱烟以后，是还要走许多路的。兰花烟的香味频频随着微风，袭到我官觉 上来，模糊中还有几段山西梆子的声调，虽然他们坐的地方是在我廊子的铁 纱窗以外。 铁纱窗以外，话可不就在这里了。永远是窗子以外，不是铁纱窗就是玻 璃窗，总而言之，窗子以外！ 所有的活动的颜色、声音、生的滋味，全在那里的，你并不是不能看到， 只不过是永远地在你窗子以外罢了。多少百里的平原土地，多少区域的起伏 的山峦，昨天由窗子外映进你的眼帘，那是多少生命日夜在活动着的所在；...
“怎样确定一个职业是否适合自己？我认为应该符合三个条件：第一，有强烈的兴趣，甚至到了不给钱也一定要干的程度；第二，有明晰的意义感，确信自己的生命价值借此得到了实现；...”
– 周国平
“It’s always like this.
I catch their scent and
old feelings come around.”
– Xue Tao, excerpt from Peonies, translated by Jeanne Larsen (with thanks to pleasebebrave)
