December 2010
3 posts
October 2010
3 posts
September 2010
12 posts
August 2010
1 post
Of Exactitude in Science Jorge Luis Borges
…In that Empire, the craft of Cartography attained such Perfection that the Map of a Single province covered the space of an entire City, and the Map of the Empire itself an entire Province. In the course of Time, these Extensive maps were found somehow wanting, and so the College of Cartographers evolved a Map of the Empire that was of the same...
July 2010
4 posts
June 2010
1 post
May 2010
2 posts
“In France there seems to be a great film making mentality, think of a simple story, work hard, and make it breathe.”
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For the first time in almost exactly a year, I made the trip to Leeds on the train. I have tended to make this trip every year around my birthday since I left University. The city promises me a life away from a humdrum job and the boorish citizens of my local town, an alternative universe where I finished University a young go-getter and hopped straight into a high-paying creative job. The city...
April 2010
1 post
A lot of people these days don’t even go to a movie once. There are alternatives. It doesn’t have to be the movies, but we must somehow dream. If we don’t “go to the movies” in any form, our minds wither and sicken.
Roger Ebert
February 2010
1 post
“in the end, all i am is a man sat at the end of the world listening to clair de lune on a old walkman”
January 2010
1 post
http://drawingpixels.blogspot.com/
October 2009
15 posts
L’etranger
Albert Camus
translated from the french.
Mother died today. Or maybe it was yesterday. I don’t know. I received a telegram from the home «mother deceased. burial tomorrow. best wishes.» There is nothing to say. Perhaps it was yesterday.
The old-peoples home is in Marengo, eighty kilometers from Algiers.
videogame covers as if they were part of the criterion collection.
classy motherfuckers
September 2009
8 posts
japancakes’ cover of my bloody valentines’ when you sleep - almost kitsch enough to be easy-listening but with just enough pedal steel guitar to be pretty wonderful.
from japancakes’ cover of the entire album of loveless appropriately titled loveless.
music from mother 3’s nowhere islands
(the best goddamned rpg going quite frankly)