January 2010
66 posts
Tea Party - The New Yorker →
The Tea Party movement, identified by some commentators as the first right-wing street-protest movement of our time, may be a reflection of how far populist sentiment has drifted away from the political left in the decades since the New Deal. Read more: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/02/01/100201fa_fact_mcgrath?currentPage=4#ixzz0eChhvbm2
We never know how high we are
by Emily Dickinson
We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies—
The Heroism we recite
Would be a daily thing,
Did not ourselves the Cubits warp
For fear to be a King—
J.D Salinger →
Intro - The XX
I hear this song everywhere I go.
I would very much like to scream.
Thom Yorke - ERASER
A kind of Dignity →
“She’ll only break your heart, it’s a fact. And even though I warn...”
– Ms. Nora Digger Dinsmoor - Great Expectations
I want this now. →
Then take me disappearin’ through the smoke rings of my mind Down the foggy ruins of time, far past the frozen leaves The haunted, frightened trees, out to the windy beach Far from the twisted reach of crazy sorrow Yes, to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free Silhouetted by the sea, circled by the circus sands With all memory and fate driven deep beneath the waves Let me...
Barack Obama 1 Year In. →
Gavin Esler presents a Newsnight special looking back at the drama and battles of Barack Obama’s first year in office
Without Sanctuary →
I Think Your A Contra
Vampire Weekend
PRADA - first spring movie - Yang Fudong →
Heart Skipped A Beat - The XX
“You’re not friends. You’ll never be friends. You’ll be in love ‘til it kills you...”
– Spike
“But how to do feelings? All very well to write, She felt sad, or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.”
Atonement - Ian McEwan
