Apidae
“The Odyssey charges the domestic world to which its hero returns with the same danger and enchantment found in the larger, wilder realm of warfare and seafaring. Seen from the perspective of his wanderings, Odysseus’ home becomes at once more precious and more precarious. As he struggles to reestablish himself in a place that has been changed by his twenty-year absence, we are made to reconsider, along with him, the value of the familiar and the danger of taking it for granted.”
—Sheila Murnaghan, Introduction to Stanley Lombardo’s translation of The Odyssey
March 2012
February 2012
“So much for the deep complexity of the human condition. Give the world a little sun and it’ll shine right back atcha.”
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Where It's At
Beck
2 am vinyl this and risotto are [sometimes] all I want out of cawledge, man.
“Our thoughts are shackled by the familiar. The brain is a neural tangle of near infinite possibility, which means that it spends a lot of time and energy choosing what not to notice. As a result, creativity is traded away for efficiency; we think in literal prose, not symbolist poetry. A bit of distance, however, helps loosen the chains of cognition, making it easier to see something new in the old; the mundane is grasped from a slightly more abstract perspective. As T. S. Eliot wrote in the Four Quartets: ‘We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.’”
—Jonah Lehrer, Why We Travel
Play
Toothpaste Kisses
The Maccabees
In the pseudocity, light pollution makes the morning more real than the night and I rerealize for the 156th time in as many days as a collegiate that coffee is not and will never be the answer.
“She’d been sleeping under her bed lately, wondering if the thing that kept her human was taking up the space above.”
—Izaak Neabaez
I Don't Want To Set the World On Fire
Ink Spots
idon’twanttostartaflameinyourheart-
ijustwanttosettheworldonfire
“The nostalgic desires to obliterate history and turn it into private or collective mythology, to revisit time like space, refusing to surrender to the irreversibility of time that plagues the human condition.”
—Svetlana Boym, “The Future of Nostalgia” (via whenbearleftbear)
For You Blue
The Beatles
because you’re sweet and lovely
“Culture is the locus of the search for lost unity.”
—Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle
Mirror, Mirror
Dr. Dog
Oh man oh man Dr. Daaaaawg.
