Discovered while buried in research: once, and some words
I have come to the conclusion that the musical Once has made it up to the top of my list of favourite films. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend it. I feel that it was amazing to the point of being life changing - I have seen it twice already and am ready to see it many more times, which is unheard of for me; I hardly ever see a movie even twice. Amazing characters, songs, and depth - it’s hard to describe why it is so effective, but, well… I recommend it. Since I had trouble embedding one of the title tracks in this entry via my server - “Falling Slowly” - you can check it out via 5 Acts. The CD on ITunes is only $9.99 - I just purchased it.
As I’ve mentioned in the title - I am currently mired in piles of research for the CGS Application. It’s going well - in fact, I think my entire project is now steering toward museums and the use of folksonomies - it actually has a viable focus! Anyway, I thought I would share some miscellaneous quotes I’ve come across recently that I think are interesting.
Via Jeanette Winterson:
A favourite writer of mine, an American, an animal trainer, a Yale philosopher, Vicki Hearne, has written of the acute awkwardness and embarrassment of those who work with magnificent animals, and find themselves at a moment of reckoning, summed up in those deep and difficult eyes and for many the gaze is too insistent. Better to pretend that art is dumb, or at least has nothing to say that makes sense to us. If art, all art, is concerned with truth, then a society in denial will not find much in use for it.
Via Slart, a quote by Karen Schreiner:
I’m still unhappy with the notion of “reproduction” when it’s applied to digital art. Someone has yet to tell me where the original exists in order for it to be reproduced. No doubt this argument has already taken place many times but I’ve obviously missed it. If there is no “original” then I’m perplexed how there can be a “reproduction”. It’s beginning to seem to me we have to re-examine the whole model because we’ve shifted to an entirely different paradigm. Perhaps the terms “original” and “copy” no longer have relevance in this context. There may even be good reasons to consider *any* rendering of any image that’s been entirely produced by digital means as the “original”. This seems a little more satisfying than saying we have reproductions (or copies) without an original.
Via Suburban Bliss:
Inspired by Jim’s idea to wear an eye patch and when someone asks if you’re a pirate you say, “No, what the fuck?” I laughed about that all day and was going to do it but then I saw the mustache and I forgot how much I love fake mustaches.
Via Caterina:
Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are — chaff and grain together — certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
-George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans), novelist (1819-1880)
Via Rawmodel:
For me, it was more about veganism at first. How could I truly love someone that would consciously eat the dead flesh of a drugged, stressed, tortured, and murdered animal? An animal that did no harm to anyone…an animal that had feelings and could feel pain. I couldn’t give my unconditional love to someone that could support that. Despite this SERIOUSLY limiting the available field of potential mates, I really didn’t mind. I felt that solitude was better than the former option.
Via MightyGirl:
Prompt on page 6 of
No One Cares What You Had for Lunch: 100 Ideas for Your Blog.My favorite pieces of advice:
To choose a spouse, find someone who is flawlessly kind but has an incredibly strong backbone. See also: Marry him only if you will be proud when your child turns out just like him.
Don’t make assumptions, and don’t take things personally.
What you give is what you get. When you predict that negative things will happen, they do. The opposite is also true.
Via Grouchetta in her comments section, a poem by Jeffrey McDaniel:
In an effort to get people to look
into each other’s eyes more,
and also to appease the mutes,
the government has decided
to allot each person exactly one hundred
and sixty-seven words, per day.When the phone rings, I put it in to my ear
Without saying hello. In the restaurant
I point at chicken noodle soup.
I am adjusting well to the new way.Late at night, I call my long distance lover,
proudly say I only used fifty-nine today.
I saved the rest for you.When she doesn’t respond,
I know she’s used up all her words,
so I slowly whisper I love you
thirty-two and a third times.
After that, we just sit on the line
and listen to each other breathe.
And finally, one of my favourites:
To be nobody but yourself -in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
~ E.E. Cummings
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