if i didn't care

Can a creative person
have no trauma in his past?
Does head trauma count?
Or a toxic river?
I learned to swim in sludge.

What doesn't kill you
makes you stranger.

Nov
8th

Sun

The Decline and Fall of the Bachelor Pad

This piece is slightly more obtuse than it is ridiculous. It’s like Mamet: no one to like.

That said, it satisfies the New York addiction to comparative studies in real estate.

Nov
7th

Sat

Rescued from Vanderbilt Ave. Welcome home, big guy!

When you hear that a mountain was moved, believe it; but when you hear that someone changed his character do not believe it.

— Arabian proverb

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Fiona Apple - Why Try To Change Me Now

florencio:

homero japones

JOIN ME OR DIE. CAN YOU DO ANY LESS?

To live for some future goal is shallow. It’s the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

— Robert Pirsig

nevver: Jeremy Tinder - The Search for Eugene

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Fleet Foxes - Blue Ridge Mountains

veronicles: winesburgohio:

Karl Selim Lemström worked a quiet miracle in 1882: He strung conducting wire over the summit of a Lapland mountain and watched it draw down a shaft of light from the night sky — poetic proof that the aurora borealis is an electrical discharge from the upper atmosphere.