July 2012
53 posts
“From time to time it’s fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to...”
– Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story
Watchfamily band - night song
Jonny and I wrote “Night Song” on a cassette four-track in our cabin last summer. He came up with a sampled beat and an ornate guitar riff, and I kept the lyrics and melody very stoic and mysterious. The repetitious beat always suggested a slideshow to me; that’s where the vision for the projected drawings came from.
I usually make extremely detailed...
“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a...”
– Happy 195th birthday, Henry David Thoreau – the iconic transcendentalist on defining your own success. (via explore-blog)
theparisreview:
Listen to William Faulkner read...
“A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.”
– William Maxwell, quoting Saul Bellow (via austinkleon)
high-five yourself!
I was feeling inexplicably joyful as I walked to my seat down my first flight’s narrow aisle, trying to make eye contact with as many people as possible. Call it a habit, a good deed, an impulse, when I’m in a good mood, I like to share it. But before I reached my seat, something caught my attention. There was a person a few rows ahead pulling at her cuffs, fixing her bracelet, shrugging her...
“if you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want...”
– ray bradbury
