Verbatim Citation: November 2009

15 November 2009

Meow | Collect favourites

I've been cruising through my friend Laura's blog on tumblr: Collect. I'm not alone in adoring this blog.

{ ps. check out on tumblr: Collect }

14 November 2009

Fashion nugget

Eclectic mix of music and designers from 2009 Paris Fashion Week, brought to you by Sans Artifice (legend).

01. RODARTE | THE CICCONE YOUTH – INTO THE GROOVEY

02. MARC JACOBS | SPINNERETTE – VALIUM KNIGHTS

03. PROENZA SCHOULER | THE COCTEAU TWINS – GARLANDS

04. RAD HOURANI | SUICIDE – GHOST RIDER

05. STELLA MCCARTNEY | THE BEATLES – THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD

06. JOHN GALLIANO | HANS ZIMMER – WHY SO SERIOUS?

07. CHRISITAN LACROIX | THE VITAMIN STRING QUARTET - LITHIUM

08. JASON WU | NICK DRAKE – CELLO SONG

09. NINA RICCI | MAX RICHTER – ICONOGRAPHY

In my room

The above is amazing. But if you want to see something ridiculously amazing, look no further than Karl Lagerfeld's library:

08 November 2009

Modern times

BOB DYLAN | NETTIE MOORE

What is it about this song? It's not amazing, but it's just so easy. Big fan.

07 November 2009

Apathy towards exams has swept over me, and I feel the need to write compulsively about my activities/interests/self love/etc.

Moving on, the Paris Review has elicited some of the most revelatory and revealing thoughts from the literary masters of our age, and today I've been reading:

{ The Paris Review Interviews, Vol. 1 }

Picked it up on a 5 hour study break at folio books. It is fantastic. It contains seventeen interviews from the celebrated magazine, and answers the age old question: how do writers do it? For more than half a century, the magazine has spoken with most of our leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, and the interviews themselves have come to be recognized as classic works of literature. What's so great is that this book steps behind the facade of literature, and breaks these writers down into real people. Real flaws. Real perfections. I can't get over what a twisted bitch Dorothy Hewett was.

Ahh, such sweet digital release, now back to summarizing caveats and other folklore.

Question 3. Why are there no mini bites left?

06 November 2009

Duality

Is there an irreconcilable duality of body and soul? Man was once unable to understand himself with so alien and unfamiliar an object as the body - it was a cage. Today however, the body is not so unfamiliar and the soul has been seen to be nothing more than grey matter in the brain. The old duality of body and soul has become surrounded by scientific terminology and we can laugh at it as merely an obsolete prejudice. Scientifically I'm a rationalist, and philosophically I'm a materialist. But overall those outlooks are unbearably bleak. Try to make someone who has fallen in love to comprehend their stomach rumbling or heart thumping, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science instantly fades away.

The Saboteurs

My friend Chelsea and I have started a new blog called The Saboteurs: or everyone worth knowing to create profiles of people who blow our minds.

05 November 2009

Playlist series

I'm in the middle of exams. Blogging has become more important. I sent myself to stay at my parents place without internet. Then I discovered tethering. Blogging is still important.

And I rediscovered my love of the "If I were a soundtrack" series by a favourite blog: the playlist. A lot of this music has dominated my iTunes for the last year.

Some most played from the series:
Paris 1919, John Cale

Whipping and apologies, Sparks

Same old scene, Roxy Music

Consolation prizes, Phoenix

Cedric's War, the Besnard Lakes

The world (will soon turn our way), the Autumn Defense

The most horrible quote

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."