January 2011
“The sound of dead cell phones and oil rigs, the sound of empty parking lots and...”
– Beck, introducing the White Stripes at the 2004 Grammy Awards (via sweetheartblues)
“I’m glad when they arrive and I’m glad when they leave. I’m glad when I hear...”
– excerpt from Scarlet by Charles Bukowski (via churchofkatemoss)
“The secret of it all is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the...”
– Walt Whitman (via paperlover)
how kids dance today...
shakingtambourine:
How I danced when I was their age:
How I dance now:
Pretty much.
oh my god
“BEANE: You know, there’s a theory going around.
MOLLY: People will talk.
...”
– Love Song by John Kolvenbach (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I like the idea of managing to get wit in with the idea of seriousness, and...”
– Sylvia Plath, from a 1958 interview (via awritersruminations)
Dedicated to Henry Charles Bukowski: now, if you... →
henrycharlesbukowski:
I’d tell them to have an unhappy love affair, hemorrhoids, bad teeth and to drink cheap wine, avoid opera and golf and chess, to keep switching the head of their bed from wall to wall and then I’d tell them to have another unhappy love affair and never to use a silk typewriter …