February 2011
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“The permanence of even the most frivolous item of architecture and the...”
– Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York (via bouwkunst)
January 2011
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"There is more binding force in a name than you...
I saw Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman last night and found it to be incredible, not the least reason being the exceedingly strong cast including veterans Shaw, Rickman and Duncan, but also the stunning set design and its (accidental?) affinity with the ruinous Harvey Theater at BAM.
From the reviews I’ve read, the histrionics of characters in this production are difficult for critics...
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empirevalley asked: "(!!!) I actually took part in this study while living in Montreal a few years ago, was one of the test subjects monitored with PET while listening to music that I found deeply effecting… I chose the first movement of Górecki’s Symphony #3, Op. 36, “Symphony Of Sorrowful Songs” sung by Dawn Upshaw. I’m glad to see the researchers published and are being...
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Excerpt from Franz Kafka's Diaries 1910-1913
blizzardsneverseenthedesertsand:
“I write this very decidedly out of despair over my body and over a future with this body. When despair shows itself so definitely, is so tied to its object, so pent up, as in a soldier who covers a retreat and thus lets himself be torn to pieces, then it is not true despair. True despair overreaches its goal immediately and always, (at this comma it became...
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“The effort to mold the incoherent and vertiginous matter dreams are made of was...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Labyrinths, “The Circular Ruins” (via blizzardsneverseenthedesertsand)
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“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a...”
– Ann Druyan, talking about her dead husband Carl Sagan (via fuckyeahexistentialism, savagemike)
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The Neuroscience of Music (Frontal Cortex) →
psychotherapy:
Why does music make us feel? On the one hand, music is a purely abstract art form, devoid of language or explicit ideas. The stories it tells are all subtlety and subtext. And yet, even though music says little, it still manages to touch us deep, to tickle some universal nerves. When listening to our favorite songs, our body betrays all the symptoms of emotional arousal. The...
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empirevalley asked: I heart your new theme!
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“We’d always thought that preservation was somehow anti-modernist, an opposite,...”
– Rem Koolhaas via the Financial Times
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new year(ish), new styl(ish)
Please bear with me for a little while as I tweak my new theme…
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“Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down.”
– Ray Bradbury (via liquidnight)
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