December 2011
77 posts
4 tags
2 tags
“The sickness of our times for me has been just this damn thing that everything...”
– Norman Mailer (via substancem)
3 tags
1 tag
“Yo no tenía ningún interés. No tenía interés en nada. No tenía ni idea de cómo...”
– La senda del perdedor. Charles Bukowski
2 tags
2 tags
Strauss' riddle
“A woodwind player approached Richard Strauss and said ‘Dr. Strauss, this passage may be possible on the piano, but not on my instrument!’, to which Strauss replied ‘Oh, it’s impossible on the piano too’.”
The questions are:
1. Is it true or false?
2. And if it is true, it is as to what piece?
2 tags
I know what the problem is I know you I know what...
2 tags
2 tags
“Te mentiría si te digo que no pienso en cómo será otra vida, cómo será estar...”
– La vida de los peces (2010)
1 tag
3 tags
“The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive...”
– Albert Camus (via substancem)
2 tags
2 tags
2 tags
“quiero seguir, ir más allá, y no puedo:
se despeñó el instante en otro y otro,...”
– Fragmento de Piedra al sol de Octavio Paz
1 tag
1 tag
“If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time,...”
– Sylvia Plath
(via tealeighf)
1 tag
1 tag
“You’ve got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And...”
– Charlie Parker
via brainyquote
(via gpweblr)
1 tag
1 tag
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...”
– Jack Kerouac (via moccasingrooves)
1 tag
2 tags
‘The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady’
1 tag
Don't give up
henrycharlesbukowski:
I was laying in bed one night and I thought ‘I’ll just quit — to hell with it.’ And another little voice inside me said ‘Don’t quit — save that tiny little ember of spark.’ And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.
23 tags
2 tags
3 tags
Klangfarbenmelodie
classicalliterature:
(German): “tone-color-melody”, distribution of pitch or melody among instruments, varying timbre
1 tag
“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still...”
– Hermann Hesse, Demian, trans. Michael Roloff and Michael Lebeck (via proustitute)
2 tags
5 tags
“Seventy-two percent of the World drive on the right. Britain, together with...”
– Driving on the left. Mirror, signal, mano… swerve, swear, signal with fingers. From ‘Best of British’.
3 tags
2 tags
1 tag
“Me diste la intemperie,
la leve sombra de tu mano
pasando por mi cara.
Me...”
– Quizá la más querida. Julio Cortázar
4 tags
1 tag
“The poet is, etymologically, the maker. Like all makers, he requires a stock of...”
– Aldous Huxley
1 tag
1 tag
I'd be a good secretary
Maybe a job like that would allow me to live the simple and quiet life that I so deeply desire.
A quite and simple life… It seems so incredibly difficult, unachievable.
1 tag
“Simplemente no soy de este mundo… Yo habito con frenesí la luna. No tengo...”
– En extrañas cosas moro. Alejandra Pizarnik
1 tag
2 tags
1 tag
I just asked 10 questions to an online Magic Eight Ball (hey, I’m bored, ok?) and the answers were all consistent. Freaky.
1 tag
1 tag
Suicide note generator
onthesuicidenote:
It’s amazing what computers can do these days…
1 tag
The piano exam went great! And honestly, after listening to the other pianists that also played today, I feel more confident of my performance. The only detail is that now I have to wait until January to know my grades.
1 tag
1 tag
“Sometimes people put up walls, not to keep others out, but to see who cares...”
– Banana Yoshimoto (via fleshscars)
1 tag
1 tag
“Es inconcebible cómo se renuncia inconscientemente a todo. Yo, sin darme cuenta,...”
– Alejandra Pizarnik (via cristinaserrano)
1 tag
1 tag
5 tags
“ Liberty is the most precious possession of all mankind. Food and water are...”
– Victor Hugo (via substancem)