March 2011
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February 2011
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because missoni manage to make long things look... →
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Dr. Seuss - The Lorax
But those trees! Those trees! Those Truffula Trees! All my life I’d been searching for trees such as these. The touch of their tufts was much softer than silk. And they had the sweet smell of fresh butterfly milk.
I felt a great leaping of joy in my heart. I knew just what I’d do! I unloaded my cart.
In no time at all, I had built a small shop. Then I chopped down a Truffula...
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter,...
– Dr. Seuss
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because you might feel like ranting →
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because this is what food should be like →
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just so you know →
“a simple progress report on the deteriorating health of the 85-year-old”
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Madhur Jaffrey - KHATTE CHHOLE (Sour Chickpeas)
2-1/4 cups dry chickpeas, picked over, washed and drained 7-1/2 cups water 3 medium onions, peeled and very finely chopped About 2-1/2 teaspoons salt (adjust this to your taste) 1 fresh, hot green chili, finely chopped (I used about 1/4 of a jalapeno) 1 Tablespoon very finely grated fresh ginger (grate after peeling) 4 Tablespoons lemon juice 6 Tablespoons vegetable oil 2 medium tomatoes, finely...
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because you can get really fucking close →
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Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence....
– Murakami
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blu - walking (2007)
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The woman has too much skin for her bones and too many wrinkles for her years,...
– Johnathan Safran Foer
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John Cage - III. Communication
NICHI NICHI KORE KO NICHI: EVERY DAY IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY
What if I ask thirty-two questions?
What if I stop asking now and then?
Will that make things clear?
Is communication something made clear?
What is communication?
Music, what does it communicate?
Is what’s clear to me clear to you?
Is music just sounds?
Then what does it communicate?
Is a truck passing by music?
If I can...
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There are people living in the world who build bridges out of strangler figs.
(skip to 1:29, the man’s initial bollocks is unnecessary)
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Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
– Philip K. Dick
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If I Can Be In Yours →
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Places you've been →
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Because this man understands lyrics →
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marc knows what polka dots are about. →
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Miranda July - It Was a Romance
This is how we are different from other animals, she said. But keep your eyes open so you can see the cloth. We all had white cloth napkins over our faces and the light glowed through them. It seemed brighter under there, as if the cloth actually filtered out the darkness that was in the rest of the room. The dark rays that come off of things and people. The instructor walked around the room as...
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Destiny. My destiny! Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of...
– Conrad
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I let him run on, this papiermache Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I...
– Conrad
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The grass looked wet green and pleased. Happy earthworms frolicked purple in the...
– Arundhati Roy