“ There is no torture so narrow as to be bound and beset in a dark cavern without food or music, without the bestowing of gold on bards. To be chained by night in a dark pit without company of chessmen - evil destiny! Soothing to my ear is the shout of a hidden blackbird, the squeal of a troubled mare, the complaining of wild-hogs caught in snow.
— At Swim-Two-Birds, Flann O’Brien

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Vall de Núria, December 2011

Vall de Núria, December 2011

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Vall De Núria, December 2011

Vall De Núria, December 2011

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-27)

  1. Bill Wells (15)
  2. Pipas (10)
  3. Sambassadeur (9)
  4. Bracken (7)
  5. Times New Viking (6)

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I am now on Instagram. My username is girlunderglass, if you feel like following. Here are two pictures I took at Happy Pills (candy shop) and Cup & Cake (cupcake shop), respectively. I was briefly contemplating uploading a picture of genital warts or something equally disturbing at the end just to balance out all the cuteness but it’s been a good day and I’m feeling generous so… relentless cuteness it is.

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Thursday at the CCCB. I love Julia Pott’s Illustrations and now I have an animated short to look forward to as well. Hurray! 

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“ What is meaningful about the hipster moment, 1999 and after, is that it seems to be an effort to live a life that retains the coolness in believing that you belong to a counter-culture, where the substance of the rebellion has become pro-commerce. Instead of “doing art” the cool kids were now, in Greif’s words “doing products”.
— Why Do People Hate Hipsters

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-11-6)

  1. Akron/Family (21)
  2. The Antlers (11)
  3. Rilo Kiley (6)
  4. Future Bible Heroes (5)
  5. We Show Up On Radar (5)

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Paris in October

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“ Your shortpiece writer’s time is not Walter Lippmann’s time, or Stuart Chase’s time, or Professor Einstein’s time. It is his own personal time, circumscribed by the short boundaries of his pain and his embarrassment, in which what happens to his digestion, the rear axle of his car, and the confused flow of his relationships with six or eight persons and two or three buildings is of greater importance than what goes on in the nation or in the universe. He knows vaguely that the nation is not much good any more; he has read that the crust of the earth is shrinking alarmingly and that the universe is growing steadily colder, but he does not believe that any of the three is in half as bad shape as he is.
— something E.B. White said about essayists - it seems to me to describe not what writers are like, but what humans are like.

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-30)

  1. Bodies of Water (13)
  2. Trouble Books & Mark McGuire (8)
  3. The Electric Pop Group (7)
  4. Jens Lekman (4)
  5. Sambassadeur (3)

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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-10-23)

  1. M83 (25)
  2. Molasses (11)
  3. Nadadora (6)
  4. DestroyER (6)
  5. The Field Mice (6)

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Architecture in Helsinki - playing Wednesday at Razzmatazz (Barcelona). I’ve been waiting to see them for more than 5 years now (since 2006) and still can’t quite believe that I’m about to. 

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“ I’m not afraid to compete. It’s just the opposite. Don’t you see that? I’m afraid I will compete — that’s what scares me. That’s why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I’m so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else’s values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn’t make it right. I’m ashamed of it. I’m sick of it. I’m sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I’m sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash.
— Franny & Zooey, J.D. Salinger (via effyeahliteraryquotes)

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“ Lust is almost the only emotion that movie professors ever express toward their students. In the rare scenes in which these teachers actually teach, the point is to exhibit the classroom or office hour as a locus of sexual tension. The popular mind can’t seem to imagine what other kind of relationship, let alone what other kind of intimacy, a professor and student could share. And it certainly can’t imagine what other sort of gratification a person could derive from teaching in a university.
— Love on Campus by William Deresiewicz

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