Bas bleu

The Big Lie About the 'Life of the Mind'

(via Andy Crouch)

Mary I (1553-1558) by Martin Rowsen for the Guardian

Sunday afternoon multiplication with the nephew

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“While My Guitar Gently Weeps” - The Beatles, covered by Derek Webb

February 28, 1957, Same As It Ever Was: Buddy Holly tries to reason with his label boss. (via derekwebb)

Hipster Puppies

an entire album of Beatles songs mashed up with Wu Tang instrumentals

“I have not had many mornings like this. If every day was like this I’d wake up at five in the morning every day. It’s pretty amazing. My wife and I grabbed the computer and crawled into bed and watched the stream online. It’s kind of surreal sitting there in the dark and hearing your name called out over the internet. For us, [the film getting a Best Picture nomination] means Hollywood thinks of our movie the way we do, as a film. It has the same responsibility as any film. And it’s a pretty banner year for animation, just great work all around, very stylistically different.” Pete Doctor’s reaction to today’s Oscar nominations for Up (via allthingspixar)

“You should approach Joyce’s Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.” William Faulkner

INTERVIEWER: You’ve talked before about trying your hand at poetry in this period. In an essay on writing, you said, “My poetry had the same functional origin and the same formal configuration as teenage acne.”

UMBERTO ECO: I think that at a certain age, say fifteen or sixteen, poetry is like masturbation. But later in life good poets burn their early poetry, and bad poets publish it. Thankfully I gave up rather quickly.

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nsomn:

What else is there to do on the last Saturday morning in January but sit in the sun and read?

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