THE LITERARY PIANO:Scrapbook Edition

“2009 was a good year for Tumblr. Synecdochally speaking,...”
— Rex Sorgatz, Best New Blogs of...

Dec 16th

“… [O]ur thoughts are shackled by the familiar. The brain is...”
— Jonah Lehrer on the creative...

Dec 16th

Moleskine 2010 Pocket Weekly Notebook - Red Hard Cover

Dec 15th

The Top 10 'Everything' of 2009 - TIME

Dec 15th

“Exposing politically controversial topics for public debate...”
— Google Australia comes out...

Dec 15th

turnofthecentury:liquidnight: Gustave Doré - Illustration...

Dec 15th

"Dov Charney is not only a fascist, he's the...

Dec 14th

Morning, Questions

Your fingertip ponders my shoulder and my own name tickles my ear when you breathe, asking me again...

Dec 14th

Badlands (via)

Dec 14th

“I’ve been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl...”
— Groucho Marx (via simko)

Dec 14th

Miranda - The Tempest by John William Waterhouse (1916) (via...

Dec 14th

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back...”
— Final line of The Great Gatsby...

Dec 13th

CAL/Meanjin essay: Is the Carnival Over?

Dec 13th

(via sabino)

Dec 13th

“First, try to be something, anything, else. A movie...”
— Lorrie Moore, “How To Become A...

Dec 13th

“This country has been a sea of voices for so long, a melting...”
— Conan O’Brien, Make...

Dec 12th

Death poems

buyhercandy: riazm: A death poem (辞世の句 jisei no ku) is a poem written near the time of one’s own...

Dec 12th

Adrien Brody and Rachel Weisz in The Brothers Bloom (2009)

Dec 12th

“For the sake of a single poem, you must see many cities,...”
— Ranier Maria Rilke, The...

Dec 11th

“Deep reading — the kind that you engage in when you get lost...”
— Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy - The...

Dec 10th

“You’ve come a long way.”

Dec 10th

(via beatonna)

Dec 10th

“I don’t think she’s a fashion sage, I think she’s a novelty...”
— Huffington Post’s longtime...

Dec 10th

(via audreyhepburncomplex)

Dec 10th

“Well, fashion isn’t an obviously brainy thing to write about...”
— New York Times “Critical...

Dec 10th

“How do you rank yourself among writers (living) and of the...”
— Nabokov’s interview. (11) The...

Dec 9th

Brisbane bridges, from the State Library of...

Dec 9th

The Redhead and the Gray Lady - How Maureen...

Dec 8th

“You know, never be fooled into thinking that the family...”
— Sound advice from a friend.

Dec 8th

“Sometimes a critic’s aesthetic judgment is impossible...”
— Slate Magazine’s Dana...

Dec 8th

“A writer is a person who writes. So, this is the answer in...”
— Zimbabwean writer Petina...

Dec 8th

Jeunes et Limit s (via lookbookdotnu)

Dec 8th

…Ku Klux Klam (via eyeonspringfield)

Dec 7th

Wild things: 16 films featuring Manic Pixie...

Dec 7th

“The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog...”
— Michael Chabon, The Yiddish...

Dec 7th

GETTING OVER WOMEN From A Lesson Is Learned But The Damage...

Dec 7th

A Year’s Reading : The New Yorker

Dec 7th

“Not so long ago I was in a writers’ room when a joke...”
— The Guardian’s Charlie...

Dec 6th

The Scrivener's Fancy - Lowbrow commentary in...

Dec 6th

Sexism is a long way from a final bow in Oz...

Dec 6th

A woman walks through Shinji Ohmaki’s installation,...

Dec 6th

i12bent: A young Joan Didion (b. Dec. 5, 1934)...

Dec 5th

(via modernmoons: pencilplanetes: any day now)

Dec 4th

“I am trying to harmonise that which is mythical with that...”
— Federico Garcia Lorca

Dec 4th

String

me: Today I got tangled in a room of floor-to-ceiling string with the mother of my estranged ex-boyfriend. More or less, by accident.
J: That was a fucking beautiful sentence. You could never build something like that by trying.

Dec 3rd

"A boxer with an unbroken nose"

Dec 3rd

David Claerbout, still from Shadow Piece, 2005. Shadow...

Dec 3rd

“There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy...”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great...

Dec 3rd

Exterior view of Lennons Hotel, Brisbane, Queensland, 1965. ...

Dec 2nd

Breakfast being served in guest room in Lennons Hotel,...

Dec 2nd

Reception area of Lennons Hotel, Brisbane, Queensland,...

Dec 2nd

Guest room in Lennons Hotel, Brisbane, Queensland, 1965. ...

Dec 2nd

(Rant-Blogs)

W: (I hate rant-blogs)
me: (LOATHSOME, aren't they)
W: (god yes. like peering down at someone else's vomit.)

Dec 2nd

Child of Light (Lichtkind) 1972 by Gottfried Helnwein (via...

Dec 1st

“Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged...”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room Of...

Dec 1st

From The New Yorker

Dec 1st

Muss es sein? Es muss sein!

Dec 1st

“WHAT is the dominant note of Australian Scenery? That which,...”
— Marcus Clarke,...

Nov 30th

madmenfootnotes: “When you look at it, you feel...

Nov 30th

Ich lerne Deutsch...

Last night, a substitute teacher asked her temporary (primary level, beginner, amateur, basic...

Nov 30th

SAM AND FUZZY: THE ORCHARD. From A Lesson Is Learned But...

Nov 30th