OPPOSITE SIDES OF WANTING TO BE GOOD
Japanese Breakfast, Slide Tackle // Mary Oliver, Wild Geese // Patti Smith, Woolgathering // Andrea Dworkin, Our Blood // Saul Bellow, Herzog // Mitski, I Will // Florence Welch, Useless Magic // Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star // Mary Oliver, Dogfish // John Steinbeck, East of Eden.
do you ever think about this quote by mary lambert because i think about it all the time
Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
natalie wee, our bodies & other fine machines
sam sax, hydrophobia
1. herakles, euripides 2. the triumph of time, charles algernon swinburne 3. amores iv, ee cummings 4. we should be well prepared, mary oliver 5. a tale of two cities, charles dickens 6. like the new moon, my mother drifts throught the night sky, charles wright 7. mystic union, john gould fletcher 8. the night circus, erin morgenstern 9. for island fires and family, dermot kennedy 10. detail of the woods, richard siken
when whitman said “i contradict myself. i am large… i contain multitudes” and wilde said “what are you? to define is to limit” and sumney said “i insist upon my right to be multiple”
and ashbery said “accept yourself as numerous”
and when mahmoud darwish said “I am besieged by contradiction” and when lewis carroll said “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then”
@frenchtoastlesbian / @peachpdf / portrait of a lady on fire / new york times tiny love stories / @fairycosmos / @peter1rose
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simmer - hayley williams / the bell jar - sylvia plath / cop car - mitski / judith slaying holofernes - artemisia gentileschi / fast as you can - fiona apple / animal- aurora / salome - jean benner / tonight i am someone else - chelsea hodson / wishbone - richard siken / ride - lana del rey
MAURICE (1987)
ten love letters, clementine von radics / supercut, Lorde / in the mood for love / Chelsea hotel no. 2, Leonard Cohen / one last poem for Richard, Sandra Cisneros
richard siken, crush / benjamin alire saenz, aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe
in the words of the great Elizabethan wordsmith William Shakespeare, in Hamlet Act IV Scene V, “When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” or, in the words of the great Twitter wordsmith @Horse_ebooks,
this is 1947 Cincinnati Enquirer erasure
please do not forget your smash mouth
Gustave Moreau - Study for Lady Macbeth (1851) Brian De Palma - Carrie (1976)
White Oleander (2002) / Clarice Lispector, from “The Buffalo” / Lady Snowblood (1973) / Marlon James, from The Book of Night Women / Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) / Kiki Nicole, from “A Lot to be Mad About”
“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him — I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”
— Miranda July, The First Bad Man
“after all the terrible things I do how amazing it is to find forgiveness and love not even forgiveness since what is done is done and forgiveness isn’t love and love is love nothing can ever go wrong”
— Frank O’Hara, from “Poem [light clarity avocado salad in the morning]”
“How good it is to love live things, even when what they’ve done is terrible” — Ada Limón, from “The Long Ride”
THE WITCHER (2019– ) I SHREK (2001)
i thought you were making shrek and the witcher argue with each other and i hardly batted an eye tbh
Heathers (1988) dir. Michael Lehmann The Cabin in the Woods (2012) dir. Drew Goddard Ready or Not (2019) dir. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett
the front bottoms, everyone but you // s.j. watson, before i go to sleep // of monsters and men, little talks // little women (2019) // lorde, ribs // frank ocean, ivy // fleetwood mac, landslide // ladybird (2017) // adele, when we were young // john marsden, checkers
Portrait of a Lady on Fire / Sarah Ruhl, The Clean House
