One of many circles.

- since feeling is firstwho pays any attentionto the syntax...

Wed, 11 May 2011 23:46:00 -0400

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;

wholly to be a fool
while Spring is in the world

my blood approves,
and kisses are a far better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. Don’t cry
—the best gesture of my brain is less than
your eyelids’ flutter which says

we are for eachother: then
laugh, leaning back in my arms
for life’s not a paragraph

And death i think is no parenthesis

E.E. Cummings

(via ana-ng)

- “‘In the beginning there was absolutely nothing,...

Sun, 08 May 2011 23:53:00 -0400

“‘In the beginning there was absolutely nothing, and I mean nothing,’ he said. ‘But nothing implies something, just as up implies down and sweet implies sour, as man implies woman and drunk implies sober and happy implies sad. I hate to tell you this, friends and neighbors, but we are teensy-weensy implications in an enormous implication. If you don’t like it here, why don’t you go back where you came from?’”

- Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

- Pretend this is by the Cold War Kids, plz. Thnx. oh,...

Sat, 07 May 2011 20:37:00 -0400

Pretend this is by the Cold War Kids, plz.

Thnx.

oh, let’s get rich and buy our parents homes
in the south of France
let’s get rich and give everybody nice sweaters
and teach them how to dance

Alleyway by Life in Film - God this is so amazing. The awkward...

Wed, 04 May 2011 23:05:00 -0400

Alleyway by Life in Film

God this is so amazing. The awkward introduction makes it even better. I can’t stop smiling. (via summerinsalvador)

what time is it
when the whole world stops?

- Song of the day every day. On the last episode of 30 Rock, a...

Tue, 03 May 2011 22:32:00 -0400

Song of the day every day.

On the last episode of 30 Rock, a newly single Liz Lemon was reluctantly dragged out to a hip new nightclub by Jenna, and until she met a handsome, attentive Star Wars fan who may have been a Swiss prostitute, she was having a miserable time there. Part of her agony was due to the treacly, Joni Mitchell–style ballad called “Paints and Brushes” playing at the club, but it wasn’t until the Internet isolated that song from the rest of the scene that we all discovered something startling: Tina Fey wrote and sang the song herself. Of course she did! Have a listen to Fey doing her best Joni as she sings very meta lyrics like, “And I’m not gonna stop, not gonna stop doin’ / Not gonna stop / I’m not gonna stop doin’ jokes / About tampons.” Annette Bening is so ready to sing this out loud at her sperm donor’s awkward dinner party.

- My I’m-still-stuck-in-last-late-lazy-Sunday-afternoon...

Mon, 02 May 2011 22:42:00 -0400

My I’m-still-stuck-in-last-late-lazy-Sunday-afternoon music.

did all your true things
begin to seem so false?

- Favorite humans.

Sun, 01 May 2011 01:17:00 -0400

Favorite humans.

- The Heart Sutra (religion is so fascinating on so many...

Thu, 28 Apr 2011 20:37:00 -0400

The Heart Sutra
(religion is so fascinating on so many levels)

When the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
was coursing in the deep Prajnaparamita,
he perceived that all five skandhas are empty,
thereby transcending all sufferings.

Sariputra, form is not other than emptiness
and emptiness not other than form.
Form is precisely emptiness and emptiness precisely form.

So also are sensation, perception, volition, and consciousness.
Sariputra, this voidness of all dharmas
is not born, not destroyed,
not impure, not pure, does not increase or decrease.

In voidness there is no form,
and no sensation, perception, volition or consciousness;
no eye, ear, nose, tongue, body, mind;
no sight, sound, smell, taste, touch, thought;
there is no realm of the eye
all the way up to no realm of mental cognition.

There is no ignorance and there is no ending of ignorance
through to no aging and death and no ending of aging and death.
There is no suffering, no cause of suffering,
no cessation of suffering, and no path.

There is no wisdom or any attainment.
With nothing to attain, Bodhisattvas relying on Prajnaparamita
have no obstructions in their minds.
Having no obstructions, there is no fear
and departing far from confusion and imaginings,
they reach Ultimate Nirvana.

All past, present and future Buddhas,
relying on Prajnaparamita, attain Anuttara-Samyak-Sambodhi.
Therefore, know that Prajnaparamita
is the great mantra of power,
the great mantra of wisdom, the supreme mantra,
the unequalled mantra,
which is able to remove all sufferings.
It is real and not false.

Therefore recite the mantra of Prajnaparamita:
Gate, Gate, Paragate, Parasamgate, Bodhi Svaha.

Download here. - “Also in Raissa, city of sadness, there...

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 02:15:00 -0400

Download here.

“Also in Raissa, city of sadness, there runs an invisible thread that binds one living being to another for a moment, then unravels, then is stretched again between moving points as it draws new and rapid patterns so that at every second the unhappy city contains a happy city unaware of its own existence.”

-Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

- I’m looking for this moment, but all I see at the crest...

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 01:55:00 -0400

I’m looking for this moment, but all I see at the crest of anticipation and nostalgia is foam.

#oneteenagerwhohasn’tseenthesocialnetwork

- I know that it’s platitudinous to even mention, but I...

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 02:47:11 -0400

I know that it’s platitudinous to even mention, but I really do forget. I am so, so, ridiculously, absurdly, terribly, painfully lucky.

As the fortune cookie said, my fortune is on its way.

Time to start looking back.

- Going to college. Whoa. (Catch-up: I accidentally deleted this...

Sun, 17 Apr 2011 17:50:00 -0400

Going to college. Whoa.

(Catch-up: I accidentally deleted this blog, so I was sad. Then I realized that I’m still addicted to the internet, so I continued. Don’t mind me, world.)