ouch!

proustagain

... for one cannot change, that is to say become another person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one no longer is.
~Swann's Way

swann's way

"Poor Swann," said Mme. des Laumes that night to her husband; "he is always charming, but he does look so dreadfully unhappy ... I do feel that it's really absurd that a man of his intelligence should let himself be made to suffer by a creature of that kind, who isn't even interesting, for they tell me, she's an absolute idiot!" she concluded with the wisdom invariably shown by people who, not being in love themselves, feel that a clever man ought to be unhappy only about such persons as are worth his while; which is rather like being astonished that anyone should condescend to die of cholera at the bidding of so insignificant a creature as the common bacillus.
~ Marcel Proust

your calling in the real world ...

self-described 'lazy author' Fred Gratzon has an inspiring perspective:

I see squandering the better part of one's day when one is most energetic, most alert, and most creative on some "tolerable" job as a tragic waste of one's gifts and time. Far better is to identify, develop and enjoy those gifts ...

... instead of obsessing over money, I stay true to myself. I just do what I want to do and learn what I want to learn and enjoy what I want to enjoy and sometimes I get so wonderfully and powerfully caught up in some project and I start dreaming expansive daydreams and I go for it with every ounce of energy and enthusiasm and love that I can muster ...

overheard ...

... now you're speaking in third-person inanimate? that can't be a good sign

right?
everyone
love
just
you

oh, yes

there are worse things than
being alone
but it often takes decades
to realize this
and most often
when you do
it's too late
and there's nothing worse
than
too late.

~Charles Bukowski

conan o'brien vs. the bear?!

this is hilarious ... a site which invites users to submit drawings of conan o'brien fighting a bear!



("send us your artwork! do it and we'll be your friend! we might even give you free napkins and toothpicks!")

file sharing - a childrens book

click for the full story ... quite amusing

my plight?

today's word-of-the-day is ...

wonderfulsad

and now ...

BrokeBack Mountain in 30-seconds re-enacted by bunnies

did you know ...

don't get a lifestyle, get a life!

"Conformity through consumption is the name of the game these days. What is a hipster, after all, other than a successful slave to the dictates of the pop culture police? A ponce like that isn't going to stick his neck out for anything. What? And risk having some baton-wielding cop break his iPod? I mean, how annoying is that?"

~ a call to action from the Luddite

coogle? caloogle? convergle!

did you know that Google is also a conversion calculator?!

it can tell you how many teaspoons are in a quarter cup
(quarter cup in teaspoons), how many seconds are in a year
(seconds in a year), or how many Euros you'll get for that 20 dollar bill (20 CAD in Euro). there's also binary converstions (28 in binary) and regular calculator functions (5+2*2), including fun with Pi (pi / 2) ...

:. mixtape mon trial (june)

seven years in tibet; david bowie
undo; björk
cautioners; jimmy eat world
medication #3; gris gris
maps; yeah yeah yeahs
chocolate; snow patrol
life is a pigsty; morrissey

like a monkey with a miniature symbol ...

thanks to jenna for introducing me to Hot Chip!

resonance salt dance

The anatomy of a leak: The Eraser

tracks from Thom Yorke's new album "The Eraser" can be found here