“Which is why the only hope for rock’n’roll, aside from everybody playing nothing but shrieking atonal noise through arbitor distorters, is women. Balls are what ruined both rock and politics in the first place, and I demand the world be turned over to the female sex immediately. Only hope.”
—lester bangs, 1981
January 2012
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In 1943, physicist Erwin Schrödinger delivered a series of lectures at Trinity College, Dublin. In these he argued that the metabolism of any organism feeds upon its environment in order to free itself as far as possible from consistent entropic decline. The entropic decline is expressed in the equation: S1 – S ≥ 0.
This might be the most depressing thing the human species has ever said to itself.
” —happy new year.December 2011
“One possibility: the speed of light can be broken and Einstein was wrong. Another: the particles, as they made their trip, crossed into some extra dimension or two, beyond the four dimensions of reality that we know, which comprise three of space and one of time.”
—let’s see. there’s up, down …
“In the beginning of “Madame Bovary,” when they’re writing about Charles Bovary, Madame Bovary’s husband, writing about him as a schoolboy, the book begins with we, meaning all us schoolboys. This we describes Charles Bovary as a kid. And then on page eight the we disappears forever. It doesn’t, like, come back at the end. It disappears forever. I’ve always liked the audacity of that …”
—philip roth
“Google to Bring Out iPad Killer in 6 Months Reveals Eric Schmidt”
—yeah yeah yeah yeah
“Lost friend, lost child, lost parent, sister, brother, husband, wife, we will not so discard you! You shall hold your cherished places in our Christmas hearts, and by our Christmas fires; and in the season of immortal hope, and on the birthday of immortal mercy, we will shut out Nothing!”
—maureen dowd quotes dickens
“You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can sustain it, God is on your side and everything comes easily and even the waiters smile.”
—wilfred sheed
“I find I can paint pretty young girls,” De Kooning remarked, “yet when it’s finished I always find they are not there, only their mothers.”
—via slate
“In essence, its free movement becomes impeded by the abrupt appearance of an engulfing substance with which it interacts very strongly.”
—particle physics and love
“I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, “You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly.”
—george harrison, or could be any artist
“And worse, the wandering, lonely rehearsal vibe struck Penn as Cirque du Soleil; in other words empty, pretentious, ponderous crap.”
—new adjectival phrase
“… we live in a totally corrupt system, everybody knows this, everybody, but the punditti — as norman mailer called them once …”
—wait, he did?
“This time, sad to say, it also reminded me of stretches of the second season of Twin Peaks: familiar characters do familiar things, with the expected measure of weirdness, but David Lynch has squabbled with the network and left the show.”
—the lrb reviews 1q84/a>
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… yet, a few decades later, all this seems buried … under heaps of chicklit and Supernanny and I Don’t Know How She Does It, and the collected purées of Annabel Karmel.
How has what went before been so thoroughly forgotten?
” —jenny turner continues, in the lrb
“… the male mind has always been haunted by the force of the idea of dependence on a woman for life itself, the son’s constant effort to assimilate, compensate for, or deny the fact.’”
—adrienne rich, 1976
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FALLING IN POLLS, ROMNEY CONSIDERS ADULTERY
Huddles with Advisors About Possible Affair
” —who else but
“Dalai Lama tweets: With inner strength or mental stability, we can endure all kinds of adversity.”
—what’s with the “or,” guy
“Putin Condemns Protesters’ ‘Mercenary Agenda’”
—pot atempting to smear kettle
