January 2010
46 posts
“We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns...”
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via loveyourchaos)
“Don’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‘infinitely’ when you mean...”
– C.S. Lewis (via idareyoutoclickthis)
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
stereo type
calikid:
If you’re stuck chatting up a mumbler at a cocktail party, lean in with your right ear. It’s better than your left at following the rapid rhythms of speech, according to researchers at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. If, on the other hand, you’re trying to identify that song playing softly in the elevator, turn your left ear toward the sound. The left ear is better at picking...
“Sound is never created, only discovered. These vibrations have always existed...”
– (via zeroh)
“You look like the songs that I`ve heard my whole life coming true.”
– The Rocket Summer (via gatekeeper) (via singbacklouder)
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via normajeanbaker) (via loveyourchaos)
Impermanence
oceanofmind:
Nothing remains the same for two consecutive moments. Heraclitus said we can never bathe twice in the same river. Confucius, while looking at a stream, said, “It is always flowing, day and night.” The Buddha implored us not just to talk about impermanence, but to use it as an instrument to help us penetrate deeply into reality and obtain liberating insight. We may be tempted...
“Greater indeed than the creation of humankind is the creation of the heavens and...”
– Qur’an 40:57 (via constantflux)
“Learning ourselves in reverse made
the universe converse in rapid adverse
of...”
– (via peachdrug)
Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets « silent... →
(via roomthily)
unbelievable.
“The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.”
– Woody Allen (via smut-to-go) (via hatred-and-powerchords)
your voice turns me on
buddhabrot:
(via kingofpriderock)
in a good way.
acoustic levitation →
beauty in the unseen.
“Allah does not belong to us, but we belong to Allah. If we understand the value...”
– peachdrug, (also here on tumblr)speaking out against the recent riots in Malaysia over Christians using the word Allah to refer to God.
Thank you, peachdrug, for putting this forward so eloquently and peacefully.
(via sisterpearl)
well said. :)
“I fucking love it! Not the song, but the fact that this Grammy nominated piece...”
– David Cross, regarding Soulja Boy’s “Crank Dat” (via syntheticpubes)
“The knowledge that the atoms that comprise life on earth - the atoms that make...”
– neil degrasse tyson. (via sunday-morning)
“To be calm is the highest achievement of the self.”
– Yogi Bhajan (via oceanofmind)
science arose from poetry - goethe
for the bona fide sense of humor, for those rare perspectives, logical symmetries, right formulas and for being such a great subliminal best friend for almost 3 years, thank you for existing.
happy birthday Afi.
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable...”
– Calvin (from Calvin & Hobbes) (via hunsonisgroovy)
Independent Music Manifesto →
cubicle17:
So, if things are so great for the indies, does that mean loads of people are making loads of money? Not at all. But the false notion there is that any musicians were before! We haven’t moved from an age of riches in music to an age of poverty in music. We’ve moved from an age of massive debt and no creative control in music to an age of solvency and creative autonomy. It really is...
64 photos by 64 photographers →
(via hunsonisgroovy)
